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I sort of want to buy some SPAM to follow one of the many tantalizing recipes I see in my gmail.

I wonder, does SPAM have a chef on staff creating tasty(?) concoctions to make my folder of junk email more enticing? Must be.

I used to work for a company with a website, so I know a thing or two about search marketing and Google Ads. And there is some human out there lovingly creating those SPAM text ads. And that person is likely very underpaid.

As a former employee of an online marketer, I know that a lot of Ivy League smarts went into building the Google Ads algorithm. But I have to say that I seem to have outsmarted Google.

Google Ads thinks that I am planning a wedding in Dallas, TX.

I see ads for "Dallas Dream Wedding" and "Gowns Near Ft Worth" all the time. As a married New Yorker, it's a little disconcerting, yet kind of awesome. I feel like I am living a double life.

One as a bitter, 30-year-old New Yorker who is about to strangle tourists and FOBs on public transpiration, and one as a 21-year-old Texan about to marry and buy a 5 bedroom home for $100,000 where I can cook SPAM Vegetable Strudel.