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The makers of Spam, saying that their “special relationship with the Hawaiian community spans decades,” have donated over 264,000 cans to aid the disaster-relief efforts on Maui, the company said in a press release.

The makers of Spam, saying that their “special relationship with the Hawaiian community spans decades,” have donated over 264,000 cans to aid the disaster-relief efforts on Maui, the company said in a press release.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    58·
    11 months ago

    Pacific Islanders are crazy about Spam. I believe it comes from WWII. But they have all kinds of Spam recipes and they’re way into it, so good for Hormel.

      • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        I always assume it was one of the easier non-fish meats to get out there, as there aren’t too many shelf stable meat products that can deal well with being shipped to a place so remote, especially if we’re talking 80 years ago.

      • elscallr@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        If you have it prepared correctly it’s actually quite good. But prepared badly and it’s really really bad.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
      4·
      11 months ago

      With the same idea country music is surprisingly very popular in some bar of the Caribbean island of St Lucia. But only country music from the 40-50s era.

      As you can guess there was a US military base on the island around this period. The military left but people continued to play the same music in the bars.