Off topic, but the first ever spam I received was for 'frozen escargot' from some company in New York, which as a comparatively impoverished first-year student

Off topic, but the first ever spam I received was for 'frozen escargot' from some company in New York, which as a comparatively impoverished first-year student at university in the north of England in the 90s struck me as more than a little peculiar. I'd always prefer to see such random spam then the nth advert for the same item I happened to google last month (* to be fair, as I use Firefox ad-blocked to the hilt, I rarely see that sort of thing any more either).