(BTW, I remember those radio programs.)
Here's another 
Posted on 10/22/2017 11:10:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Cans of Spam have become a common item that's being stolen from Honolulu stores and then sold on the streets for quick cash, according to authorities.
Ra Long, who owns a convenience store in the city, said shoplifters have typically targeted alcohol in the past, but recently more cans of Spam have gone missing, Hawaii News Now reported . Related Searches Best Buy HonoluluSpam EmailSpam RecipesSpam Musubi
"I mean you try to keep an eye on it, but if they run, you just can't leave the counter and chase them," Long said. "So you just got to take the hit."
Honolulu police said they took a report of a man lifting a case of the canned meat from a store earlier this month.
Kimo Carvalho, a spokesman for the Institute for Human Services, said people are stealing Spam because it's easy to sell. "It's quick cash for quick drug money," Carvalho said.
Hawaiians eat millions of cans of Spam a year, the nation's highest per-capita consumption of the processed meat, which is cobbled together from a mixture of pork shoulder, ham, sugar and salt.
The state's love affair with Spam began during World War II, when rationing created just the right conditions for the rise of a meat that needs no refrigeration and has a remarkably long shelf life (indefinitely, the company says).
Ann Kondo Corum, who grew up in Hawaii in the 1950s and has written several Spam-inspired cookbooks, has attributed Spam's popularity partly to Hawaii's large Asian population. "Asians eat a lot of rice. Spam is salty, and it goes well with rice,"
Here's another
What! the hawaiians can culturally appropriate? We can’t?
Discount gigolo service uses that same slogan from what someone told me Marco Rubio said.
I used to make spam omelettes. Good, believe it or not.
Now that’s just....WRONG!
I have to agree with you-——good lord,what were they thinking?
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Spam is SALT adulterated.
Over salty food is generally so you don’t taste the spoilage. Adulterate.
Burns and Allen: A Hole in the Carpet
GRILLED CHEESE WITH VELVEETA and SPAM
‘’There’s Spam, egg , bacon, sausage and Spam. It ain’t got much Spam in it’’.
During the Carter years, we prepped up with three cases of SPAM. About five years later we went on a four-week trip “boxing the Union”** and decided to use them up.
We had SPAM for breakfast, lunch and supper almost the whole time. My boys were in the 5-7 year old range and after about a week of that diet, they started to cry when they saw the wife break out yet ANOTHER can.
Neither one will touch the stuff today, so naturally I send them these articles when they pop up. They are not amused.
It’s 1 pm PST as I write this and damned if I don’t feel like whipping up a SPAM sandwich now.
** Oceanside, CA to Calgary, Canada; to Prince Edward Island via their transcontinental route; re-entered at Niagara Falls, NY; down to Disney World in FL, then U.S. 20 back home.
When I and the wife were in Hawaii many years ago, a bellhop explained to us that SPAM was the state food of Hawaii. They couldn’t get enough. We laughed at the notion until we got to the local Walmart for some economically priced food, and found that they had whole SPAM endcaps in the store.
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