Golf, spam musubi, passion orange soda, and BO

[bigtree]

President-elect Barack Obama finished his afternoon golf game about 5:30 p.m. local time, five hours after arriving at Olomana Golf Links.

There is no word on Mr. Obama's score or any of the others in the foursome.

But half-way through his 18 holes, as he stopped by the snack bar, he unexpectedly bumped into the pool sitting outside the club house. Asked how his game was going, he smiled and conceded: "I'm not that good."

He chatted for a moment, telling the pool to have a beer and put it on his tab. No one took him up on the offer.

As for Mr. Obama and his group, a snack bar clerk later confirmed that he purchased two hot dogs, two spam musubi, two passion orange sodas, one Powerade and one coke, for a tab of $17.75.



The spam musubi, a local luncheon specialty, consists of spam and a fried egg on a bed of rice, all held together with a dried seaweed wrap. (Visualize a very big sushi role, slightly larger than a Hostess Ho Ho.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/21/obamas-hawaiian-holiday-s_n_152742.html

[Warren Stupidity]

1. spam musubi, a local luncheon specialty

consists of spam and a fried egg on a bed of rice, all held together with a dried seaweed wrap.

Ok, that is simply disgusting.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Its a $75869686049484.09 Industry.....without Spam, Hawaii is DOOOOMED

:toast:

[XemaSab]

3. Forget about Pastor Warren

If we ever needed a reason not to support the PE, that's it right there. x(

[MineralMan]

4. There's something just wrong about that food.

Rice is so boring.

[jpak]

5. It's really good

I had one with a slice of grilled pineapple and orange/pineapple/soy sauce-marinated grilled spam.

It was yummy...

:thumbsup:

[Kingofalldems]

6. He plays left handed I see

I knew there was something special about him.

[bigtree]

7. Spam Musubi

I can officially confirm that Barack Obama will be our first Asian Pacific American president. Not only does he have an Indonesian American half-sister, a Chinese Canadian brother-in-law, several APA staffers, many APA friends and years spent living in Hawai‘i and Indonesia, but he and his family also enjoy eating spam musubi.

Unfortunately, it will take the mainstream press a little while to catch up to Mr. Obama in his sophistication about Asian Pacific American cuisine. The food item described by the reporter was but one variant of spam musubi and, while it may have been the kind he ordered, a more thorough report would have mentioned that he got a spam musubi (the meat and dried seaweed on rice) with tamagoyaki (Japanese omelette) on top. To bundle all types of spam musubi together is like using the term “kim chi” to subsume the many variations of the Korean delicacy that can be made with cabbage, cucumber, radish and more.

With Obama in the White House, I can see the Asian-ification of American food accelerating. Hawaiian delis and convenience already carry saran-wrapped spam musubi as a take-out treat. Soon we will be able to enter a deli in downtown Omaha or St. Louis and see spam musubi on the shelf, with shoyu (soy sauce) and furikake (dried fish seasoning) on a counter nearby.



read more: http://www.asianweek.com/2008/12/22/spam-musubi/

[dana_b]

8. Spam and seaweed??

ewwwww... but I got to tell my kid about that. Maybe she'll try it on her trip.