Spam has Set Sales Records for Seven Straight Years

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They say it has undergone a Cultural Reinvention.

How Spam has undergone a cultural reinvention

Hormel has sold a record amount of Spam for seven straight years.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

 

[Panzerman45]

I am doing my part. Whenever the wife and I go to Costco or Sam's Club we buy a multi pack. Love the stuff in any form and prepared in any way.

 

[slip]

I am doing my part. Whenever the wife and I go to Costco or Sam's Club we buy a multi pack. Love the stuff in any form and prepared in any way.

The Portuguese Sausage is still our favorite, when we can find it.

 

[DaveNV]

The Portuguese Sausage is still our favorite, when we can find it.

I like that variety, too. But I never see it for sale on the Mainland. I see Spam at Costco a lot, but it's only the regular and often Low-Sodium versions. Better than nothing, I suppose. I've heard there's a Hawaiian grocery store in Las Vegas, so maybe they'll have something.

Dave

 

[slip]

I like that variety, too. But I never see it for sale on the Mainland. I see Spam at Costco a lot, but it's only the regular and often Low-Sodium versions. Better than nothing, I suppose. I've heard there's a Hawaiian grocery store in Las Vegas, so maybe they'll have something.

Dave

Yes, I thought the Portuguese Sausage flavor was only sold in Hawaii but you should check that Hawaii store.

Sadly, we don't have it here on Molokai either. I plan to buy some when we are on Maui in April.

 

[DaveNV]

Yes, I thought the Portuguese Sausage flavor was only sold in Hawaii but you should check that Hawaii store.

Sadly, we don't have it here on Molokai either. I plan to buy some when we are on Maui in April.

I didn't see it at either Times or KTA in Kihei. May have been the season - lots of tourists there when we were there.

Dave

 

[pedro47]

It much be that new blue bright color can. That the X Generation adore.
I have only found the regular Spam and the Low Sodium Spam, in Tidewater Virginia areas.

 

[amycurl]

The Portuguese Sausage has been sold out on their website for years.


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[DaveNV]

The Portuguese Sausage has been sold out on their website for years.

Last time I saw it on supermarket shelves was at the Kapa'a Safeway on Kauai about ten years ago. We bought a can and put together an "Aloha box" for our good friends from Hawaii who live in Virginia. The gift box had Hawaiian-themed treats and snacks, a bag of "School Kine" cornflake Hawaiian cookies, colorful postcards, fake leis, a can of Macadamia nuts, and whatever else that screamed "Hawaii." We mailed it to them in one of those "If it fits it ships" boxes. They absolutely loved receiving it.

Dave

 

[SmithOp]

Quite a few varieties on Amazon, I've tried Teriyaki and Tocino. I even bought the musubu slicer when I was fooling around watching YouTube videos making musubu and potato croquettes.

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[DaveNV]

Quite a few varieties on Amazon, I've tried Teriyaki and Tocino. I even bought the musubu slicer when I was fooling around watching YouTube videos making musubu and potato croquettes.

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How did that slicer work out?

Dave

 

[SmithOp]

How did that slicer work out?

Dave

works good, just take it slowly. It beats the single wire cheese slicer I was using.

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[DaveNV]

works good, just take it slowly. It beats the single wire cheese slicer I was using.

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Sounds like a plan. I have a mandoline I never use. Makes me wonder whether that would work?

Dave

 

[slip]

I have a slicer and it works great. Nice even and same size slices.

 

[easyrider]

works good, just take it slowly. It beats the single wire cheese slicer I was using.

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I'm old school using just a knife. Some of my cuts are a bit tapered but the spam cooks fine and no one complains. I tried a sushi rice packer which did make nice rice rolls for sushi but went back to the bamboo roller.

Bill

 

[daventrina]

How many cans of SPAM do two people need for 14 days considering that 7 of those days would probably be Vienna Sausage ?

We generally stick to SPAM Lite ... half the fat and half the salt.

 

[DianeG]

Teriyaki is our fave, but we found it pretty much impossible to find last winter - had to try several stores before we scored some.

 

[DaveNV]

Teriyaki is our fave, but we found it pretty much impossible to find last winter - had to try several stores before we scored some.

I wonder whether the Spam folks would increase sales if they offered some of the flavored varieties in mainstream stores on the Mainland. People on vacation to places like Hawaii get to try these flavored types, but then can't find them back home. All I ever see in my local stores are Regular and Low-Sodium versions. Nothing flavored, that I've seen.

Dave

 

[pedro47]

I wonder whether the Spam folks would increase sales if they offered some of the flavored varieties in mainstream stores on the Mainland. People on vacation to places like Hawaii get to try these flavored types, but then can't find them back home. All I ever see in my local stores are Regular and Low-Sodium versions. Nothing flavored, that I've seen.

Dave

Maybe Costco or Sam’s Club would try to stock Spam in some favors.

 

[DaveNV]

Maybe Costco or Sam’s Club would try to stock Spam in some favors.

Nope. That's where I've seen just one variety.

Dave

 

[Ken555]

Of all the various threads on TUG over the years, I think this may actually be the most enlightening and insightful about each of you.

And now for something completely different:

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[DaveNV]

Of all the various threads on TUG over the years, I think this may actually be the most enlightening and insightful about each of you.

Ken, care to elaborate? I never thought of Spam as anything enlightening. I'm fascinated.

Dave

 

[pedro47]

Is the Spam in Hawaii the same Spam shipped to the other 49 states in the USA other than the various SPAM favorites in Hawaii?

 

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Is the Spam in Hawaii the same Spam shipped to the other 49 states in the USA other than the various SPAM favorites in Hawaii?

Yep, all the same.