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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular mystery meat in locked cases
Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular mystery meat in locked caseshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/19/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-mystery-meat-in-locked-cases/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-spam%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
These Spam snatchers are not hungry people desperate for Spam, said Tina Yamaki, president of the Retail Merchants of Hawaii. They are most likely part of a Spam black market thats taking off in a state where the demand for Spam knows no bounds.
Its a staple, Yamaki told The Washington Post.
The thefts have proliferated to the point that some businesses are putting Spam in plastic cases under lock and key, she said, along with the more conventional and more expensive shoplifting targets such as electronics, Gillette Power Fusion razor refills and, as it happens, canned corned beef, also popular in Hawaii.
To buy a can of Spam, you have to ask a salesperson to retrieve it.
As a former army brat, I can understand how one might get a craving for Spam every now and then.
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Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular mystery meat in locked cases (Original Post)
japple
Oct 2017
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samnsara
(17,640 posts)1. i love spam!!
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)3. Uggh.. to each his own, but I have a reflexive gag response when I smell it.
Fortunately my Mom realized that early on and never brought it into the house, even though it had not affected my older sister that way before I was born.. I was fine until I babysat for a woman who seemed to feed her kids nothing but spam and the nausea had me running to open every window.
I never understood why it didn't affect others the same way.
madokie
(51,076 posts)2. I love Jalapeno Spam
Breakfast food for the kings.
slowly fried up in butter with sliced potatoes and onions with fried eggs is a meal fit for kings
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)4. The
caviar of mystery meats!
HAB911
(8,916 posts)5. LOL! My dad was a SeaBee in the Pacific during WWII
Spam was about the only meat they had in New Guinea. He said they cooked it with coconut, papaya and mango, anything to change the taste and texture. Till the day he died, he would break out in hives when he got near any of those things!
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)6. We know a song about Spam !