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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    581 year 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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      111 year ago

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

      • @elscallr
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        11 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year 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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      111 year ago

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

      • ares35
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        111 year 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?

          • @PlantJam
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            41 year ago

            No, a little spoon. Like the kind for ice cream samples.

        • @Tangent5280
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          51 year ago

          Sir, put the tub down and move away slowly or we will shoot!

          • ares35
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            21 year ago

            ookay, ookay… no need to get violent here. there’s plenty to go around! enjoy!

        • ryan213
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          21 year ago

          A little tub?! You need the big tub. You just messed it up.

            • VegaLyrae
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              11 year ago

              Try ovening some leftovers and you’ll feel like iron chef.

          • @javasux
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            11 year ago

            they’re good at steaming vegetables tho

            • VegaLyrae
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              11 year ago

              I do like the steam in bag option, but otherwise find rice cooker to be my normal steamer.

        • ryan213
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          21 year ago

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

        • @elscallr
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          11 year 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
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        31 year 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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    271 year 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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      51 year 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
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      41 year ago

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

  • @nomnomdeplume
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    221 year ago

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

    • @Pavidus
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      241 year ago

      It’s pretty popular in Hawaii.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year 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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          91 year 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
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        31 year ago

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

  • @aquarisces
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    171 year ago

    The Filipino in me is going crazy rn

  • @expatriado
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    91 year ago

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

  • @tallwookie
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    31 year ago

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