At 07:33 PM 4/16/2020, you wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:16:57 -0400, Bill Rutherford <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
>wrote to Freelance Traveller:
>
> >Our games usually involve eating.  We're gamers and that's what we DO.
>
> >One time, to set the mood for an episode that involved a lot of
> >"eathing down ship's stores", the main food provided consisted of
> >ship's meat dishes.  Spam in a blanket.  Fried breaded Spam
> >sticks.  5 layer 3-meat Spam dip.  Spam puppies (no dogs were
> >harmed).  Spam crumbles and sour cream, eaten with tortilla chips.
> >Spam patties and rice.  Spam burger.
> >
> >We never did THAT again.
>
>It's pretty clear that you and your group aren't Hawai'ian - the (in)famous
>meat product is _quite_ popular there... If they don't have the highest
>per-capita consumption thereof in the world, they certainly do in the US.
>
>A few years back, when I was working 'the field' in Manhattan (I do remote
>support, now, instead of on-site), there was a Hawai'ian BBQ place around
>the corner from my 'base'. One of the items on their menu was SPAM(r)
>musubi.  Think nigiri sushi (the piece of fish on top of the little ball of
>rice), only grilled SPAM instead of raw fish, and the rice ball is big
>enough to support an entire slice of SPAM. Serve with Hawai'ian potato
>salad, which _looks_ like the familiar stuff, but has a wasabi-strong
>horseradish mixed in.
>
>I was very sorry when the place closed up after less than a year at the
>location...

Jeff,

Heh...  I spent most of my childhood in Wahiawa (by Wheeler AFB and
Schofield Barracks) and am very used to a slice of spam with, well,
pretty much EVERYthing.

But it IS possible to have too much spam, especially if badly
prepared (I was more enthusiastic than skilled, and yes, one CAN
badly prepare spam.  Or, at least, *I* can...)

Pineapple. That was the problem.  Or a lack of it was.  We didn't
have any in the house on game night so I couldn't serve fried spam
with pineapple rings or spam chunks in crushed pineapple...  THAT
would've been good... ;-)

- Bill

PS: I believe you're right about Hawai'ian spam consumption being the
highest in the US. I read somewhere Guam has the highest world
consumption, for mainly the same reasons...

Bill Rutherford
xxxxxx@comcast.net