"Ed Pawlowski" wrote:

It goes back to WWII when the soldiers introduced Spam to the
locals. It took off from there and has been a favorite since. You
can even get it in McDonalds and Burger King. They also have
different varieties such as Bacon Spam and Honey Spam. The fact
that it is a meat easily stored with no refrigeration helped too. In
much of the Pacific, power was non-existent or unreliable.


I suspected that WWII had something to do with it, especially since
Spam was a WWII developed product and Hawaii had such a large military
establishment.

Lew