AUSTIN, Minn. – Austin-based Hormel Foods is shipping planeloads of its canned meat product Spam to disaster-struck Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Spam has been a Hawaii staple since World War II as an easily sipped and long-lasting K-ration item. It caught on throughout the islands morning, noon and night. Never heard of Spam-fried wontons/ oer Spam musubi? Then you haven’t been to Hawaii. Hawaiians buy 8 million cans a year.
