Spam

Spam is really popluar here. I read that in Hawaii, more cans are comsumed per person than in any other state. We haven't eaten at a Burger King (off base) or McDonalds since we've been here, but I've read that they actually have Spam on the menu. There's a Spam Jam festival in Waikiki every spring. The grocery stores have huge displays of Spam. Target and Wal-Mart have large sections of Spam cookbooks and keychains and hats. We've even seen Spam sushi. Inspired by the myriad Spam products, Jarrod actually bought a can. And fried it up and ate it. He seemed to think it was alright, but I won't even eat meat from TV dinners or chicken bits from my Chicken Noodle O's soup, much less processed meat that's been in a can for who-knows-how-long. When we first got here, we were intrigued by the abundance of Spam and Googled it. Apparently Spam is popular in many of the Pacific Islands; it brought to the region by WWII soldiers as part of their food rations and it became an instant hit with the locals.