Spam At Heart Of South Pacific Obesity Crisis

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-11-2008 | Nick Squires

[BIGLOOK]

Yep, that’s one of many. Over here I’ve met many from Micronesia and some from Melanesia who’ve come to expect welfare from the US to this day. A lot of the cultural habits have been restored but a ‘Free Lunch’ attitude endures.

[SIDENET]

Miss Tonga is pretty darn cute!

[BlazingArizona]

Spam at heart of South Pacific obesity crisis

Instead of reading e-mails, they should be out there kayaking.

[SIDENET]

Armour TREET is much better than Spam. Try it.

Now I have to go get some for a taste test.

(curiosity and all that, you know)

[Gritty]

What's the shelf life of SPAM?...

What's the life of your shelf?

[Eaker]

Buy t-bone steaks and portabella mushrooms.

Saute mushrooms in red wine and butter.

Cook steaks on a very hot grill.

Eat.

[Old North State]

Horsemeat! You lucky, lucky, bastard, we had to eat horse hooves and horseflies and horesh$t.

[SIDENET]

Yikes. Spam Man creeped me out.

I didn't know that he spoke until the second time I looked at the site and it loaded correctly.

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if that is not the scariest site since mulletsgalore.com i don’t know what is. just horrible.

Whoa, I just found out that you can click on the people and they say things. The dog barks, too.

[SIDENET]

Potted meat is pure evil.

I still have flashbacks to getting potted meat sandwiches in my lunches as a kid.

(I was one SKINNY kid.)

[Tailback]

The Soviet Army survived on Spam during WW2.

I watched a show on the history channel about the T-34 in WWII. A T-34 crewman was talking about what they were given in rations. (I'm paraphrasing the amounts) 300 grams of bread per person, 1 litre of vodka per tank, canned vegetables, 100 grams of butter per tank, and canned meat. (the following is a direct quote from the Soviet tanker) "If we were very lucky, the canned meat given to us was SPAM from America, that was delicious!"

[Tribune7]

The video

[Tailback]

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

It's not the SPAM. It's the huge amounts of carbs in the form of RICE and high fructose corn syrup in soda pop and frozen juice concentrate.

[blam]

"If we were very lucky, the canned meat given to us was SPAM from America, that was delicious!"

They were happy to have it.

[pops88]

Loco Moco is my favorite dish. At Christmas I asked what the family wanted for Christmas dinner. The vote was unanimous for L & L Hawaiian BBQ here in Las Vegas.

[Sun]

“Now I have to go get some for a taste test.

(curiosity and all that, you know)”

Yes, compare by taste, and read the ingredients of both (and I bet Armour isn’t as liberal as Hormel, either).

[fish hawk]

Did you know that Alaska was also big with spam? Alaska and Hawaii were very military during the war and that is when spam got in the door. I once went to a night club in Anchorage and the menu was all spam. There were fifty ways to have it served. nothing else on the menu but spam. LOL

[matthew fuller]

This thread is absolutely obscene! Ewwwww.

[Ronin]

I wondered why there was Spam displayed so prominently at the local Okinawan food store in Kichijoji. Garlic Spam, regular Spam... four or five different kinds. Okinawa may be part of Japan, but they have a different culture, I suspect similar to the South Pacific Islanders.

Not totally fond of the stuff myself. I’ll eat it, but it’s not something I go shopping for.

[fish hawk]

I don’t care for it either but I love the canned corn beef.