The economy must be bad- people are eating SPAM!

Why not just eat beans? They're WAY cheaper than Spam and much healthier and tastier.

Or tuna...it's cheaper too.

Oh my! That's not Spam Sushi- though there is such a thing. That picture is of a Spam Musubi, "the main on-the-go snack at convenience stores.

To the untrained eye, the Spam Musubi looks like a perversion of culinary science. But in Hawaii, it's at the top of the snack food caste system. To create a Spam Musubi, take a big, fat, juicy slab of rectangular Spam meat. Fry it in teriyaki sauce. Plop it onto a rectangular bed of rice (the musubi). Finally, wrap it in a sheet of dried seaweed (nori) and eat it like a sandwich.

The more than 50 7-Eleven Hawaii stores sell hundreds of Spam musubis every day. According to one employee, each store regularly prepares at least 20 Spam musubis every day in two varieties: regular and deluxe, which adds an extra bed of fried egg sandwiched between the Spam and rice."

I am well-known to a an adventurous eater, and yet I am REPULSED by the Spam Musubi.

Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam

Spam kept many people in Hawai'i alive during WW2.
It is one of the favorite foods there, and more spam is sold in Hawaii than in any other state.

It is a staple there.

---

Fried Spam and eggs. Mmmmmm.....

---

You did? I was in Honolulu for a week...got to try ONO Hawaiian Foods...not bad....

SO much more to Hawai'i than Honolulu....I hope you got to see the other islands Lil, so much more enjoyable.

Nothing compares to a Molokai beach, with no one else around for miles...or the Big Island at night, watching the volcano and the magma, or the rain forest of Kauai, or upcountry Maui.

---