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The Spam Jam is Coming!

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Family, Food, Hawaii, Video

Mark your calendars and brace your palates: the annual “Waikiki Spam Jam” is returning on May 3, 2008. Hawaii residents consume more Spam per capita than any other state in the union: nearly seven million cans a year. So it makes sense that we celebrate everyone’s favorite brand of “mystery meat.” How? With a big [...]

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Spam Musubi, Loco Moco are Top Island Treats

October 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Food, Hawaii, Pop Culture

Betty Shimabukuro, food writer for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, has reached out to Mainland readers to educate them on Hawaii’s favorite foods. And they’re not coconut and pineapple. In a special to the Los Angeles Times titled, “10 Hawaiian culinary specialties to sample” (guess the headline writer missed the AP Stylebook update on ‘Hawaiian’), she urges [...]

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Catchy reCAPTCHA

October 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Hawaii Blog, The Web

The best part of blogging is getting comments. The worst part of blogging is getting comment… spam. Every escribitionist knows the crestfallen sensation of receiving a delicious morsel of feedback that turns out to be a crude pitch for pills, porn, or trading secrets the fat cats on Wall Street don’t want you to know.
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