Posted on 10/19/2017 7:05:07 PM PDT by markomalley
Spam heists are on the rise in Hawaii, so much so that stores are putting the fatty canned meat treat in locked plastic cases.
The black market for Spam is real in Hawaii because the price has been on the rise, along with other grocery goods. However Spam is a particularly popular food staple in the string of islands as it is used in a variety of dishes particular to the state.
Stores have started putting Spam under lock and key. The Honolulu Civil Beat found cans of Spam locked up in a case at a Walgreens this week, with a sign that says 'Items electronically monitored for theft.'
There have been at least three reported major Spam thefts in recent months, with one of the heists thwarted and another ending in a $1,000 reward to capture the suspects.
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Hawaii has like 15 kinds of spam, unlike the rest of the country that has just one. Hi Cory smoked spam, garlic spam, ....
I don’t remember the last time I ate Spam. 35 years at least.
after the plane landed you should have screamed ‘Oink Oink’ LOL
It must be an acquired taste.
Toasted, of course.
Multi-grain. Sprouted preferable.
With Red Devil hot sauce.
I’ve got a whole folder full of Spam. I generally check and empty it once a month. They’re welcome to it...just let me know where to send it.
sans hot sauce, I would agree. LOL
Spam is the acronym for Synthetic Processed Artificial Meat.
They were whining the other week that hair care products for black females were being put under lock and key since the products went to the top of most stolen items list of certain retail establishments.
SPAM Haiku
Blue can of steel
what promise do you hold?
salt flesh so ripe
Can of metal, slick
soft center, so cool, moistening
I yearn for your salt
silent, former pig
one communal awareness
myriad pink bricks
jelly for mortar
seven hundred tins and more
i build a Spam house
my friend pork shoulder
I return to you. this time
i’ve brought mayonnaise
above all others
porcine treat without equal
there is but one Spam
clad in metal, proud
no mere salt-curing for you
you are not bacon
and who dares mock Spam?
you? you? you are not worthy
of one rich pink fleck
Grotesque pinkish mass
In a blue can on a shelf
Quivering alone
Like some spongy rock
A granite, my piece of Spam
In sunlight on my plate
Oh Argentina!
Your little tin of meat soars
Above the pampas
The color of Spam
is natural as the sky:
A block of sunrise
Little slab of meat
In a wash of clear jelly
Now I heat the pan
Oh tin of pink meat
I ponder what you may be:
Snout or ear or feet?
In the cool morning
I fry up a slab of Spam
A dog barks next door
Pink tender morsel
Glistening with salty gel
What the hell is it?
More at http://www.pitt.edu/~blair1/spam-haiku.html
You know, during loading for that flight there was so much luggage they told us to load rows 2-3 with our carry ons. So, I threw my carry on into row two. Well, in row 1 was an Iraqi Sunni Muslim woman. I put my bag into row two, right behind her with some force. It/I knocked her in the seat back. She turned around and glared at me. Have you ever seen the movie Team America? In the opening there’s the scene of a little boy spilling his ice cream on an Arab Muslim cleric. In response he gives a ‘death glare’ to the boy. Well, that’s the look she gave me. LOL. To this day I still lol just thinking of that scene and the woman’s identical death-look stare she gave me. LOL. To this day I still lol just thinking of that scene and the woman on the plane. H#ll, by their rules just her looking at me was grounds for me to dominate her. And she was unaccompanied to boot! Fair game to me in her culture.
and they call us the barbarians!
That poem was so beautiful that it made me cry a little.
I have many cans of Spam saved up for the zombie apocalypse to flavor bland rice and pinto beans ... and the flesh of progressive neighbors. Yep, I’m goin’ cannibal.
A family friend lead a sniper team in Ramadi. I sent them care packages every so often and always included a can of traditional Spam. I said I didn’t expect them to eat it, but to dip their bullets in the grease. That way when they killed an insurgent, he would go straight to hell and never even get to wave at the 72 virgins on the way by. I also encouraged them to let the locals know, but not their officers.
My Daddy says potted meat is made of...
Spam and Tide laundry soap are major theft items.
Can SOMEONE explain this to me?
I like it!
“Spam and Tide laundry soap are major theft items.
Can SOMEONE explain this to me”
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OMG—that’s the best laugh I’ve had all day.
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