Having spent a year on the island of Guam, and visited the Hawaiian Islands on many occasions, the idea that a people would love Hormel's Spam is no stranger to me. It is quite simply spiced pig-in-a-can, and canned pork is much tastier than canned beef.
A BBC News Asia article reveals that Spam is also popular in South Korea. So much so that Hormel has a canning plant in South Korea and packages the meat as a luxury treat.
My favorite Spam story is from my year on Guam. The Spam plant in the States was threatened with a strike. This became front page news on the Pacific Daily News, Guam's newspaper. Within a day Chamorros (native Guamanians) cleared the supermarket shelves of every can on the island.
