Honolulu store owners say thieves are targeting cans of Spam

news ^ | October 21, 2017

[Oatka]

Be still, my heart. :-)

[Texan5]

I’m gonna have to be Debbie Downer-this “food” item was not served at home when I was a kid, but I grew up on a ranch-when I was in college, it was “dorm food” sometimes when I was really broke, but I never ate it after that-but I see that a lot of people here did/do like to eat it. To each their own preferences, but I still call the stuff what my 1st husband did-Sh** Posing As Meat...

[kaehurowing]

Honolulu’s streets are filed with thousands of the walking dead, brains burned out from drugs.

[JoeProBono]

[tbw2]

Somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if that was real.

[Albion Wilde]

[Rusty0604]

I know if I had to eat spam some drugs would help it go down. :-)

[Rusty0604]

True, but I just stalk up on tuna and salmon, and make beef jerky.

[Vision]

Well done!

[xrmusn]

Mom would buy spam, slice it up and put in baking dish with brown sugar glaze on it and bake in oven. Serve with mashed potatoes and green beans, not a bad meal.
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Put cloves in it, add pineapple if able and you have one fine

SPAM HAM

[JoeFromSidney]

Yeah. I grew up on SPAM, 1930s, 1940s. Still like it.

[Vaduz]

What is that jar of SPIC next to the can of Spam?punch lines to ensue but one would be kicked of FR.

[Tammy8]

Reporters do not want to go to the trouble to actually tell what is going on. Spam, other canned meats, liquor- basically anything non perishable that people will buy, are being stolen to be resold at small or “black market” stores. Pretty easy to make money with a store if you can get the items for free for resale. Spam is catchy in the title because no one can figure out why people would steal Spam, the truth is many things are stolen to stock the black market stores.

We have the same issues here on the mainland in many cities, except what is happening here is they get food stamps through fraud and use them to buy products for their stores.

If we had real journalists perhaps they could investigate and find out the need for black market stores.

[Texan5]

I’d forgotten about the ever-present ramen noodles-that were STILL dorm food when my daughter was in college...

[Tammy8]

Pretty sure that was when they were only on radio. Before my time too.

[bitt]

ASPIC?

my grandmother would make aspic salads; icky, whatever it is...

[Does so]

Trans-ocean sailors stock Spam, and there’s Hawaii—stuck out far from everywhere else.

[JoeProBono]

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