Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire

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Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire | CNN Business
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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.

I knew a lot of people from Hawaii love spam but I never knew why…

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

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With the same idea country music is surprisingly very popular in some bar of the Caribbean island of St Lucia. But only country music from the 40-50s era.

As you can guess there was a US military base on the island around this period. The military left but people continued to play the same music in the bars.

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