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.

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    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.

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        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.

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