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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.

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
    58·
    2 years 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
      11·
      2 years ago

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

      • elscallr
        1·
        2 years ago

        If you have it prepared correctly it’s actually quite good. But prepared badly and it’s really really bad.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
      4·
      2 years 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
      11·
      2 years ago

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

      • ares35@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years 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
          2·
          2 years ago

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

        • elscallr
          1·
          2 years 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.

      • elscallr
        3·
        2 years 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@kbin.social
    292·
    2 years ago

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

    • landsharkkidd@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 years 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.

    • okfuskee
      4·
      2 years ago

      I had a spam and eggs rice bowl that killed. So good

  • nomnomdeplume
    253·
    2 years ago

    Never thought I’d read the phrase “beloved canned meat” but here we are

      • ChronosWing@lemmy.zip
        10·
        2 years ago

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

        • Drusas@kbin.social
          9·
          2 years 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.

      • Telodzrum
        3·
        2 years ago

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

  • expatriado
    101·
    2 years ago

    they are spamming their product… for a good cause of course

  • tallwookie
    3·
    2 years ago

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