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Old 12-22-2009, 02:04 AM   #35
casimendocina
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Originally Posted by wolf View Post
momwolf lived in Hawaii for three years in the 50s, while my father was in the Air Force (he had something to do with cloud sampling to figure out if the Russkies were doing atomic testing). She said Spam was a delicacy there, mainly because it was easier to ship cans of Spam than cows.
Ages ago when I taught a largish number of Korean students, they would occasionally invite me to make-it-yourself sushi parties. My favourite part was when they would pull out the can of Spam and say "this is traditional Korean food" as they added it to the ingredients. This still cracks me up.
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