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Spam At Heart Of South Pacific Obesity Crisis
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-11-2008 | Nick Squires

Posted on 02/11/2008 6:54:44 PM PST by blam

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61 posted on 02/11/2008 7:50:54 PM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: HiJinx

Actually all this started during WWII with the Navy and Marines’ bases in the South Pacific. Pacific islanders became a Cargo Cult, paid off with canned rations and rice. Spam was a favorite.


62 posted on 02/11/2008 7:53:42 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul politicians. The Ship of State needs a good scrubbing!)
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To: blam
some light reading whilst enjoying your spamwich:


63 posted on 02/11/2008 7:55:39 PM PST by ZinGirl
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Holy crap! 3 1/2 grams(!) of cholesterol. That’s insane.


64 posted on 02/11/2008 8:02:40 PM PST by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: STONEWALLS
...that’s how Spam got started in our family...she and I ate it while my Dad was overseas in the Pacific..

A friend of mine who served in the Pacific during WWII always says that Spam won the war, not the Manhattan project:~))

Think about it. All those GIs wanted some meat --- any meat, and canned meat was the only way to do it.

My friend George is 84 years old now. He still eats Spam and likes it, (and still drinks Jim Beam ... and likes that even better, along with a good cigar).

But he says their ain't nearly as much lard in the Spam now as in the old days when he was flying off the deck of the USS Wasp to fight the Japs.

I love that guy. He's a national treasure.

65 posted on 02/11/2008 8:05:06 PM PST by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: squidly

We ate Spam regularly when I was a kid and the whole family was rail thin. This article is just more BS blaming everything and everything except the porkers that can’t push back from the table. It is simply hard to argue with calories in and calories burned.


66 posted on 02/11/2008 8:07:47 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Laissez les bons temps roulez!)
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To: yarddog
"I remember Nikita Krhuschev (I have no idea how to spell that name) said he would have starved to death during WWII if it had not been for Spam."

The Soviet Army survived on Spam during WW2.

67 posted on 02/11/2008 8:10:41 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: billorites

68 posted on 02/11/2008 8:11:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Anti-Bubba182
(Thin mints are better)
69 posted on 02/11/2008 8:13:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: blam

Spam fritters, yum !


70 posted on 02/11/2008 8:13:30 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: coconutt2000
You might want to check the expiration date on those cans. :-)

I didn't know Spam could expire. We were eating leftovers from the Korean War in 66.

71 posted on 02/11/2008 8:13:46 PM PST by Vietnam Vet From New Mexico (Pray For Our Troops)
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To: blam
Low-sodium Spam is pretty good - for Spam, anyway.
72 posted on 02/11/2008 8:15:37 PM PST by decal (Sign over DNC headquarters: Please Check Common Sense And Morals At The Door)
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To: ARE SOLE
Good excuse to go to Waikiki in May.
73 posted on 02/11/2008 8:17:21 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: bboop
"Would it be Spam or OVEREATING? just a thot."

It does not matter it's still your fault. (Isn't that the tone of the article? They have no responsibility for themselves what-so-ever)

74 posted on 02/11/2008 8:19:08 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Pure Bull! When we first got to Nam, we had spam every other meal (alternating with canned Salmon). I lost weight!


75 posted on 02/11/2008 8:19:55 PM PST by Vietnam Vet From New Mexico (Pray For Our Troops)
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To: BIGLOOK
"Actually all this started during WWII with the Navy and Marines’ bases in the South Pacific. Pacific islanders became a Cargo Cult, paid off with canned rations and rice. Spam was a favorite."

Like this one:

In John They Trust

"South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he'll one day shower their remote island with riches"

76 posted on 02/11/2008 8:22:54 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: expatpat; TrueKnightGalahad
From The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux:

"It was a theory of mine that former cannibals of Oceania now feasted on Spam because Spam came the nearest to approximating the porky taste of human flesh. "Long Pig" as they called a cooked human being in much of Melanesia. It was a fact that the people-eaters of the Pacific had all evolved, or perhaps degenerated, into Spam-eaters. And in the absence of Spam they settled for corned beef, which also had a corpsy flavor."

As quoted by Oliver Sacks in his book The Island of the Colorblind.

I should also note that Dr Sacks is a bit sceptical about this.

77 posted on 02/11/2008 8:27:00 PM PST by decal (Sign over DNC headquarters: Please Check Common Sense And Morals At The Door)
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To: blam; Travis McGee

Mo’bettah ono brah !

Island-Style Loco Moco

Serves One

One grilled hamburger patty

Two scoops steamed rice

One scoop homemade macaroni salad
(mix some potato cubes to your usual mac salad recipe,
substituting low-fat mayo, if desired)

One fried egg
(save calories and fat by poaching egg)

½ cup prepared brown gravy
(fat-free gravy tastes rich and delicious!)

In a shallow soup bowl or deep dinner plate * (see note below), arrange two scoops of hot steamed rice. Over the steamed rice, place a hot grilled hamburger patty.
Center fried or poached egg on hamburger and ladle as much VERY hot brown gravy over portion as your taste dictates. Spoon macaroni salad to one side.
Break up egg and hamburger, mixing into rice while eating.

Serve with plenty of paper napkins.


78 posted on 02/11/2008 8:27:09 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: pops88

I agree with you. Spam has been popular in the Pacific since WWII. It can’t suddenly be causing a health crisis.


79 posted on 02/11/2008 8:31:45 PM PST by 04-Bravo
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To: blam
“The single-island nation of Nauru, which faces economic disaster in the wake of its Australian-run refugee detention centre closing down last week...”

Refugee detention centres and guano-mining - if you were a Nauruan and this was almost the entire source of your country’s wealth, wouldn’t YOU commit suicide-by-Spam?

80 posted on 02/11/2008 8:31:48 PM PST by decal (Sign over DNC headquarters: Please Check Common Sense And Morals At The Door)
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