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i am going to buy a can of spam and try to figure out why that is comfort food for Hawaiians

It was just about the only protein they got from outside during WWII.

[Jane Long]

No fish, during WWII?

[Vermont Lt]

It was Vienna sausages in Italy. My FIL loved Vienna sausages. He was in Africa and Italy. His brothers and my Dad were in the Far East. They got spam.

It tainted their tastes for the next 60 years.