Are times really that tough? Okay, maybe if you work for Bearn Stearns. But the AP is reporting this morning that sales of Spam are up by nearly 11% over the past 12 weeks. Food costs and inflation are on the rise, and says Dealbreaker: "It is, as an economist would suspect, an inferior substitute good, the demand for which rises when the established good gets too expensive." Maybe they're referring to this? Anyone got an ideas for cheap food products that don't involve compressed meat in a can?