Well, it helped certainly
Though a lot of historians (probably British historians, admittedly) have pointed out that after he'd conquered the better part of Eastern Europe and was struggling with the Russian front, Hitler was seriously considering peace negotiations with Britain.

What's also interesting is walking around various parts of the country and seeing old disused fortifications (I don't know how far North they extend, but certainly up beyond London). It is thought that, even if the Germans made a successful landing, they'd really have struggled to conquer Britain.

Sorry, my flatmate is really into his history and likes to regale us with this sort of thing after he's had a few. And I must admit I'm grateful for the Spam. Ever tried making a curry with the stuff?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:04, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I can't eat the stuff. Have you ever looked at the ingredients?
Not good. (Also, my grandfather a a lot of spam in the Pacific in the war and it wasn't allowed in our house when we were growing up.)

I would like to see the old fortifications etc in Britain. You Brits certainly did amazing things in that time period. If Hitler had invaded Britian I don't think it would have turned out very well for him.

(We did win the war in the Pacific singlehandedly though. We won't mention Fortress Singapore.)
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Yup. I justify it on the Chinese philosophy of 'eating every part of the animal.'
The fact that it's already been ground up and reconstituted means I don't mind turning a blind eye to the bits of hoof and uterus that were used to make it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I don't mind the every part of the animal issue (I agree with it). It's the other stuff in there!
(Primarily salt and saturated fat)
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:15, Reply)

After reading Empire of the Sun
I don't think I could eat Spam. It sounds disgusting
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Mainland Britain
Is even now a complete logistical pig of an operation to invade. The Battle of Britain showed him that he'd have to bomb the entire country into the ground before he could get proper air superiority and without that, the world's largest navy at the time would have caused him some real problems in supplying his land army.

Southern England was actually not all that well fortified until the threat was effectively over, but even so there's only a few routes through the South up to London that a full scale army could take (my home town actually lies on one of them).

He'd have done better to try to starve us into submission, which would have been a damn sight easier without massive amounts of American Spam :)
( Kroney, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:27, Reply)