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Happy Spam Musubi Day!
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Hah!
Hawaii also gets more flavors, yes flavors, of spam than anywhere else...bbq, Portuguese sausage, etc. You'll find a wall of different types on the shelves, even entire pallets in the aisles.
And then there is Tulip...some people actually favor it over spam.
There was an entire episode of the UU Aloha Friday Jam celebrating Figgy Pudding Spam, a limited-time only flavor (around Christmas) with special guest @Brittni Paiva. You can follow the time code to the specifics of them not just eating Figgy Pudding Spam, but carefully evaluating Figgy Pudding Spam, and discussing it at length.
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Remarkably enough, this was the culmination of a conversation that had in fact been going on for months across both the Jams and the UU podcast. Again, I don't eat spam anymore, and never will again, but it turns out that spam as a spectator sport is even more entertaining than eating it anyway!
I thought I had all the good national food days in my calendar, but I missed it. I love musubi. Making up for it, I just ordered a bunch from Rutts Hawaiian Cafe in Culver City to bring with me to my uke group for our Wednesday noon play along.
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That Spam was one of my favorites! I still have the second can that came in the two-pack -- I'm saving it for the upcoming holiday season.There was an entire episode of the UU Aloha Friday Jam celebrating Figgy Pudding Spam, a limited-time only flavor (around Christmas) with special guest @Brittni Paiva. You can follow the time code to the specifics of them not just eating Figgy Pudding Spam, but carefully evaluating Figgy Pudding Spam, and discussing it at length.
UU Live Jams - UU Aloha Friday Live Jams, Friday 1pm HST + Replays!
Every level of player can take part, thanks to onscreen chords, with Ukulele Underground founder Aldrine Guerrero offering strumming, playing, and soloing tips for everyone from the newest beginner to the most advanced ukulele masters! With the help of Aaron "The Voice" Nakamura (aka @anaka)...
Remarkably enough, this was the culmination of a conversation that had in fact been going on for months across both the Jams and the UU podcast. Again, I don't eat spam anymore, and never will again, but it turns out that spam as a spectator sport is even more entertaining than eating it anyway!
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Lots of other spam goodies available in Hawaii too.
At the spam museum there is supposedly a picture of local (international, as he says, lol) celebrity Lanai...he and his brother (an Oahu
chef) won the Food truck race and he also hosts the show Cooking Hawaiian Style, It's a Hawaii Thing podcast, guides food tours (highly recommended) and tours to Japan, does/did radio/standup comedy/acting, and a whole lot of other stuff.
At the spam museum there is supposedly a picture of local (international, as he says, lol) celebrity Lanai...he and his brother (an Oahu
chef) won the Food truck race and he also hosts the show Cooking Hawaiian Style, It's a Hawaii Thing podcast, guides food tours (highly recommended) and tours to Japan, does/did radio/standup comedy/acting, and a whole lot of other stuff.
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no... extrapolating from @TimWlson, this is HEALTH food!
agree, should be be mac nut-flavored spam...
sub the furikake for brown gravy and, voila! spam loco moco! spoco moco?
what else is new?
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Hormel sends hundred of thousands of cans of SPAM, other resources to Hawaii
The Minnesota-based company announced that it's sending more than 264,000 cans of SPAM to Maui, and designed a new t-shirt to raise money for relief efforts.
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Hormel sends hundred of thousands of cans of SPAM, other resources to Hawaii
The Minnesota-based company announced that it's sending more than 264,000 cans of SPAM to Maui, and designed a new t-shirt to raise money for relief efforts.
264,000 cans of Spam donated! Impressive, and I think will be especially warmly received. Here the Spam Loves Maui t-shirt and fundraising page mentioned in the article.
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I have seen here references to Alvin "Pops" Okami being the inventor of the Spam Musubi acrylic mold before he started making ukulele and starting KoAloha. I was speaking with Pops and asked if he could send a photo of the one he invented. it is attached. He is very proud of this because it is not seemed and glued like the ones from China. Pops is not done with his inventions. He is working on a Koa long-handle shoe horn called the "Shuke horn." Also, Koa kitchen utensils called "uketensils." Both of these will have ukulele designs. These ideas keep him going and I love it. Pops says of his musubi mold:
"notice that the ends of two
sides are curved so that after pressing the rice, lifting the maker is simply
done by keeping your two
thumbs on the pressor and
lifting the outer shell by using your finger slots on
both sides."
"notice that the ends of two
sides are curved so that after pressing the rice, lifting the maker is simply
done by keeping your two
thumbs on the pressor and
lifting the outer shell by using your finger slots on
both sides."
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THIS, my friend, is the very definition of Above and Beyond! Thanks so much!
And thanks for the update on Pops The Inventor, beyond the role we know him in as Pops The Innovator!
Did you ask him why his musubi mold is a different shape from the musubi sound holes in his ukuleles?
A family member went to Hawaii to help after the fire. She was on a little bit of the news a few days ago when she arrived. When they showed the food being delivered, there was a tall cart of every kind of spam on the market. I had to chuckle.Hormel sends hundred of thousands of cans of SPAM, other resources to Hawaii
The Minnesota-based company announced that it's sending more than 264,000 cans of SPAM to Maui, and designed a new t-shirt to raise money for relief efforts.
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