2006-10-17 21:55:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
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2006-10-17 22:01:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I asked my veteran father that once, and was told it was "Ham that flunked the physical". It is popular here in Korea as well- in fact they give each other Spam gift packs for the holidays. It's three times the price it is in the States, and they put it in all sorts of things. I understand it gained popularity after WW2 because refrigeration and electricity, as well as meat were scarce commodities for the average person. SPAM was affordable, it sat on the shelf, and technically- it is meat. They acquired the taste, and it's just stayed on. It's just one of those foods you grow up eating as a kid. It's not currently in vogue, like bologna- but the supermarkets don't seem to have any problem moving it off the shelf and out the door, do they?
2006-10-18 06:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by The mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SPAM [supposed acronym for SPICES & HAM] is everything else that butchers don't usually sell in their shop. It's unwanted--though edible--meat that is grinded up and processed into that wonderful pink, canned meat.
I don't know why it's popular, my only guess is that it has been a part of the Aloha State even before it became a State, but I lived in Hawaii for more than 10 years and I loved eating Spam Musubi--Spam on top of rice and wrapped in seaweed.
Hawaii and Guam, I think, are the largest consumers of the cured meat.
2006-10-18 05:06:45 · answer #3 · answered by Bub 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spam is when people mass email a bunch of other
people to scam them into buying their product or going
to their website. It is popular in Hawaii because Japanese
people like it.
2006-10-18 04:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by PoohP 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Spam:
1. Trademark. a canned food product consisting esp. of pork formed into a solid block.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spam
2006-10-18 05:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one of those things that taste better if you don't think so much of what it is. It is delicious fried. Not so fond of it not cooked. My husband loves it anyway, with anything. I'll just continue to think of it as SPiced hAM, and believe it grows on trees. No animals were harmed in the making!
2006-10-18 08:19:31 · answer #6 · answered by Momma Jo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Soylent Green
2006-10-18 04:56:47 · answer #7 · answered by John Scary 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spam is a fusion of nasty crap you wouldn't otherwise eat in its original form. It is just like sausages, but they put a lot more lard and inedible parts because they are CHEAP BASTARDS. That's probably why you like it! Don't believe it when when they say it is just ham and pork shoulder! Don't forget testicles, scrotum, cartilage, and rectum!
2006-10-18 05:01:08 · answer #8 · answered by bug m 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its processed meat in a can. its really popular in Hawaii cause its cheap and easy. they fry it, cook it, grill it, all kinds of things.
2006-10-18 05:03:13 · answer #9 · answered by Duncan B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
meat loaf in a can
famous among asians
hawaii is filled with asians
do the math
2006-10-18 12:32:03 · answer #10 · answered by Nelson M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it came there in ww2 when the milatary out numbered the natives. its all pork butts . and i dont mean the butt holes . and there is so many ways to eat it . and it dont need to go in the frige
2006-10-18 04:59:08 · answer #11 · answered by james w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋