[dsn_klr650] spam: truth or myth? nklr

[Bogdan Swider]

> A Hawaiian guy I knew used to eat the stuff like it was going out of > style.He'd make fried Spam sushi, and talk about how dam ngood it was. He > made the mistake of bragging about it in front of a Japanese lady that ran > an Oriental grocery, and when he said that she looked at me and gave me > "the look". Though I'd come into the store with the guy, when he was out > of earshot, she made a quite curt comment to me about Hawaiians. > > Chris Astier >

I spent 4 months in an Maya Indian village in Belize. The people loved Spam. The place was beautiful and still undeveloped. They didn't get many tourists but occasionally some adventurous types would drop in. I remember a group of English filmmakers there to record the debauchery surrounding the holiday honoring San Antonio, the patron saint of the village. Naturally the Indians treated the guests to the best, Spam fried in lard. It was crispy and delicious; I gobbled mine up and chased it with the local moonshine which they poured from old Clorox bottles. The film guys wouldn't eat theirs and kept asking for tropical fruit. The Indians got pissed. A woman approached me, looked approvingly at my clean plate and said " I no like English mon. Bogdan