The makers of Spam, saying that their “special relationship with the Hawaiian community spans decades,” have donated over 264,000 cans to aid the disaster-relief efforts on Maui, the company said in a press release.

  • Flying Squid
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    5711 months ago

    Pacific Islanders are crazy about Spam. I believe it comes from WWII. But they have all kinds of Spam recipes and they’re way into it, so good for Hormel.

    • billwashere
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      1111 months ago

      I knew a lot of people from Hawaii love spam but I never knew why…

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      With the same idea country music is surprisingly very popular in some bar of the Caribbean island of St Lucia. But only country music from the 40-50s era.

      As you can guess there was a US military base on the island around this period. The military left but people continued to play the same music in the bars.

    • ryan213
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      1111 months ago

      How does one mess up Spam? Unless you eat it straight out of the can?

      • ares35
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        1111 months ago

        grab a spoon and eat it out of the can like it was a little tub of ice cream… wtf is wrong with that?

        • ryan213
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          211 months ago

          I usually eat with carbs - like bread or some sort of rice. LOL They have the “less sodium” version now.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Oh… oh god that sounds awful.

          Next time pop it out of the can. Slice into 1cm or so slices. Eat on a slightly toasted bun with cheese, a nice strong mustard, and onion.

          Or cut it into 1.5cm cubes. Toss in hot oil with some seasoning and stir fry rice into it.

          The secret to spam is to brown it up. It’s still salty, but that’s part of the point. Spam musubi is a common thing, too.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        I’ve met someone who swore it was terrible. They didn’t realize that people fried it up first. They’d been trying to eat sliced spam sandwiches straight from the can.

  • Poggervania
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    2611 months ago

    To all the mainland people: fry some Spam with shoyu and add some rice for the real ono kine grindz

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      I like to make fried rice with spam. But recently I found out that spam is $6.30aud it was cheaper to buy diced bacon than spam. Like… it’s spam! Come on.

      • @[email protected]
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        1011 months ago

        I have a Hawaiian BBQ place near me that has tons of meals that include fried spam. It’s freaking amazing.

        • Drusas
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          911 months ago

          Spam musubi (which is basically spam teriyaki in a flat rice ball) is delicious. I was surprised, as someone who had never had spam before but always heard it being ridiculed.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Korea, too. It’s a fatty processed meat full of salt; if it’s not ruined it’s pretty tasty.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    good on them - but there’s probably 4x more warehouses chock full of spam on that island alone. Hawaiians LOVE spam