SPAM -- Is It Meat, or a Menace?

[daisyseesthesun]

I was watching a health documentary some years ago, and they said the cuisine in Hawaii before WW2 was mostly Mediterranean, with grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and low oil consumption. Apparently, the locals rarely ate meat, and they were healthier compared to today, so it must have been during WW2 that spam became popular.

 

[Tall_Timbers]

If you're not getting enough salt in your diet, then spam becomes an essential food for your health and well being.

If you're Hawaiian, you have to pretend to love spam even if you don't like it, and have to be seen purchasing large quantities of it at your local grocers, otherwise you're liable to be kicked off the island.

 

[tourist]

All I can say is thank God for MREs. Old vets know what I mean.

Meals Ready to Eat. Know all about them.

 

[Magenta]

As you may recall me saying, I have been watching a few K dramas recently... and in one, they kept mentioning kimbap,

Dang it.

Between this "special Spam" and the Vegemite... Now I'm REALLY curious

(Do Hawaiians somehow have a Monopoly on Spam that's actually, gulp, edible?!

Spam and pineapple .

 

[daisyseesthesun]

As you may recall me saying, I have been watching a few K dramas recently... and in one, they kept mentioning kimbap,
Spam and pineapple .

 

[Magenta]

Ah, I had forgotten I'd started a post about Spam kimbap LOL.

I was too distraught over being so derelict in my duty as a Monty Python "Spam" skit lover by neglecting to post it...

Thanks for the picture!