Hammunition (ham + ammunition)
“Hammunition” (ham + ammunition) was the “Fake Word of the Day” on the blog Dougtionary in 2008, where it meant “food thrown in a food fight.” In 2013, the company Jihawg Ammunition sold bullets laced with a pork coating, pitching the advertising slogan, “Put some Ham in MoHAMed.” Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report popularized the word “hammunition” in a segment on September 19, 2013.
Dougtionary
Fake Word Of the Day: Hammunition
August 20th, 2008
hām’yə-nĭsh’ən
noun
Officially refers to pork used as a weapon, but in common usage it can mean any food thrown in a food fight, used for self defense or used in an assault.
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Busy Mom
@Busymom
LOTS OF HAMMUNITION FOR JOKES, HERE, TONIGHT. #WEAREYELLINGABOUTHAM
10:25 PM - 23 Jul 11
Salon
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 04:11 PM EDT
Ammunitions manufacturer selling pork-coated bullets to fight Muslims
Jihawg Ammunition, an Idaho-based company, is marketing their product with the slogan “Put some Ham in MoHAMed”
By Ryan Lenz
This article was originally published by The Southern Poverty Law Center.
The advertising pitch says it all: “Put some Ham in MoHAMed.”
Jihawg Ammunition, based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, has recently begun selling bullets laced with a pork coating, promising “patriot” gun owners that the bullets “will strike fear into the hearts of those bent upon hate, violence and murder.”
Consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam. The idea behind the bullets is that a Muslim hit by them would be desecrated and unable to go to heaven.
This isn’t the first time Hatewatch has heard claims of pork-coated bullets from Muslim-bashing profiteers. In May 2011, we reported on a company called Silver Bullet Gun Oil, which said it had produced for sale a gun oil laced with pork fat.
The Colbert Report
Thursday September 19, 2013
Tip/Wag - Hammunition & George Clooney
An Idaho company creates pork-laced bullets to fight Muslim extremists, and George Clooney uses a spy satellite to track Omar al-Bashir’s army in Sudan. (03:55)
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TIP OF THE HAT: “Hammunition”. Company in Idaho selling anti-Islam bullets….out of pork. #ColbertReport
8:45 PM - 19 Sep 13
Eater
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Colbert also gives a Tip of the Hat to what he calls “hammunition”: ammunition that’s been laced with pork. Created by Idaho-based Jihawg Ammo, the idea is to make Muslim extremists “unclean” for heaven. Says Colbert: “Non-Halal bullets are the perfect way to send our enemy the message that we only hinted at when we killed then.” Go, watch: