Okay, y’all, looks like it’s time for a change in diet...
Like, perhaps, dried fish and poi?
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.
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