Need a spam recipe? Just check your Gmail spam box

How often have you found yourself with a can of Spam and no good recipe for Spam Breakfast Burritos, Spam Swiss Pie, or Spam Hashbrown Bake? It happens to us all the time. And while we could go search any of the thousands of recipe sites that populate the internet, Google's decided to make it easy to find all your Spam-related recipes in one place: your Gmail box box.

Now, we're well aware that the fine folks at Hormel don't approve of the practice of calling junk email messages "Spam." But since that's pretty much what everyone calls them, Google's making the best of a bad situation.

You see, there's a little space above the Gmail toolbar that Google typically uses to share "web clips." Typically web clips are links to news headlines and blog posts. You know, useful stuff. But the last thing you're usually looking for in your Spam filter are useful links. So Google had a choice: eliminate the space when you're viewing your spam filter or have a little fun. The Gmail team chose the latter.

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