Spam At Heart Of South Pacific Obesity Crisis

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-11-2008 | Nick Squires

[ChocChipCookie]

My husband spent 20 years on Guam and LOVES Spam.

[peggybac]

Canned horsemeat?

[HiJinx]

We had our fair share of it in Germany, too - but, from military sources, not civilian. They did a fairly good job of resisting that bit of Americana.

[bboop]

lol. I thot it was Bush’s fault they were going for the Spam. Well, as long as someone else is responsible.

[eleni121]

I hate the junk...I read it years ago in an anthropology article..then again it was written up - in Paul Theroux’s Happy Isles of Oceania, one of his travel books.

That is 2 sources

[eleni121]

See my post in 105

[OCCASparky]

Ah, hell no! Spam and fried eggs, spam fried rice, spam musubi...it's all good.

Damn I miss Hawaii (and very rarely Guam).

Plate lunch, anyone?

[OCCASparky]

My husband spent 20 years on Guam

Oh my God--I'm so sorry.

[allmendream]

Good one!

[TADSLOS]

Typical Hawaiian Plate Lunch (breakfast and dinner are similar):

[Nakota]

“Spam has been popular in the Pacific since WWII”

Spam and sweetened condensed milk, another island favorite.

[Nakota]

“Spam has been popular in the Pacific since WWII”

Spam and sweetened condensed milk, another island favorite.

[CORedneck]

Kind of funny. I watched a movie "South Pacific" (1958) and the Pacific Islander women were cute and attractive. About a year ago, I was in New Zealand. On the flight from Auckland to Christchurch, I sat next to a couple. A Frenchman and his wife who is a Samoan. Looks like she had some weight on her though. Her face was more than filled. You would see videos where the young girls are skinny and pretty where the older women are "heifers".

I know our food supply is getting poisoned with corn syrup which permeates a lot of foods, hydrogenated oils which are in the process of "disappearing". Like Wal-Mart, I am no fan of McDonald's either. I look at the Lipton Green tea, loaded with corn syrup. I order import Japanese green tea which doesn't have the corn syrup in it.

[ChocChipCookie]

LOL He loved it! His dad worked for Continental Airlines because Guam is/was their Pacific hub. He got to go water skiing and scuba diving anytime he wanted, LOVED Chamorro food, and had lots of friends among the locals. Well, I guess he himself WAS a local! I don’t think he’d want to live there again, but he loved it while he was there. I haven’t been able to break him of his Spam habit, though. :o)

[LottieDah]

My sister saw a can of spotted dick at the supermarket not long ago. She left her cart in the aisle and ran out to call me. She was laughing so hard she almost wet herself. Sis had no idea what it was. I had to explain to her that it was pudding and the “spots” were raisins.

[gathersnomoss]

OMB, I was raised on this delicacy as a child. And when the budget got tight, we would feast on “Treat”

[mass55th]

LOL!! I believe I first heard about it from the Monty Python shows. Then I saw it being offered from a catalog selling British goods. I cracked up because up until then, I had no idea what it was either.

[Squantos]

Indeed !

Love that stuff !

Stay safe !