The manufacturers of Spam has donated more than 264,000 cans to help with the disaster relief efforts on Maui, citing their “special relationship with the Hawaiian community spans decades”, the company said in a press release.
“Three truckloads of Spam products are on their way to the impacted areas with two more trucks following,” Hormel Foods, the company that owns Spam, said. “In all, the Spam brand has donated cash and product with a retail value of more than $1,000,000 to directly help those impacted by the wildfires.”
The business claimed that in order to get the cans to the places where they are most needed, it has teamed up with the charity Convoy of Hope.
“The fact that Spam doesn’t need refrigeration makes it a perfect item for Convoy to deliver to survivors,” Stacy Lamb, vice president, disaster services at Convoy of Hope, is quoted as saying in the press release.
More Spam is consumed per person in Hawaii than in any other state. It’s heaped on a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed to form Spam musubi, and sold in fast-food franchises like McDonald’s in Hawaii.
Hormel Foods said it has also developed a “Spam Brand loves Maui” t-shirt, and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Aloha United Way’s Maui Fire Relief Fund.
Spam was first brought to Asia-Pacific during World War II, a welcome substitute to meat that was quickly becoming pricey or just unavailable in the conflict-wracked region.
Source-CNN
