Post #187023 by Rum Numb Davey on Fri, Sep 16, 2005 1:50 PM

The Islands are nuts for Spam......

In case you don’t live in Hawaii, you may not have seen the new SPAM label showing up on shelves there. But the press has. It’s beautiful. We have pictures. This expert journalism has not only swept the nation with a quick human-interest story, but it has made SPAM all the more delicious. And it has let the world know about this most exotic SPAM confection called musubi.

So it might beg the question: What is SPAM musubi?

Well, you take a slice of fried SPAM, which has been marinated in a special sauce, place it on top of formed and sticky sushi rice and wrap a piece of seaweed, or nori, around it to hold it all together. It’s like sushi. Ok, it’s pretty much like sushi. Except it’s not fish. And the SPAM is fried. So you can’t call it raw. Which makes it not so much like sushi. But whatever. That’s not what matters here. Length is all that matters to some musubi enthusiasts. And those busy beavers have got themselves into the record books.

According to legend, the longest SPAM musubi was constructed at the 2003 SPAM JAM in Waikiki. Reports varied that it was between 125 and 132 feet long. Now that’s a lot of SPAM, and even more rice. But never fear, they keep building them longer and longer. Where will the madness stop? Possibly at the Vidinha Stadium field during the Kaua’i County Farm Bureau Fair. The Rotary Club of Poipu Beach worked for 59 minutes with an assembly line of eight teams to crush the previous record by spanning a football field with our favorite treat. That’s right, this new record is 100 yards. That’s an amazing 300 feet. Or 3,600 inches. Or even 14,400 quarter-inches.

When you think about it in those terms, it’s simply astounding. Good work, Rotary Club of Poipu Beach. May this crazy musubi race now come to an end. Before someone gets hurt.