I have a hangover. I bought these little single slices of spam in a CVS on a trip to the US recently. You also need to get Pam imported from the states as you can’t buy it here. There were also frozen hashbrown triangles baking in the oven at the time of this photo, and a slice of sourdough bread in the toaster.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      One thing I miss to hell where I live now is a chain Asian supermarket named “H-Mart.” I’m trying to remember back whether they might have had this…

      At the same I see it’s actually a product of Holland?

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
        5·
        28 days ago

        A lot of Asian markets, at least around me, carry kind of a lot of spam and spam-like products (often called something like “luncheon meat”)

        I think a lot of it has to do with the US military having a big presence in Asia during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc. and still having sizable bases in Japan and Korea. They brought spam with them and it made its way into the local diet from there.

        It’s big in a lot of Pacific islands for basically that same reason.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          28 days ago

          I think a lot of it has to do with the US military having a big presence in Asia during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc. and still having sizable bases in Japan and Korea. They brought spam with them and it made its way into the local diet from there.

          Damn, that’s… kinda heavy. oO

      • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        yes, I stand corrected, looks like its made in holland, its popular in the phillipines, not made there.

        thats probably better for quality control, just a guess