July 07, 2003
Of all the silly complaints..
A site I help administer gets many, many complaints.. that's normal, it will happen whenever you have more than 2 users.. This one beats them all though..

Ready for this?


Using the image of a can of spam in relation to spam (as in UCE) is offensive because "spam is the official food of Hawaii"... and "it could be considered a direct insult to all citizens of Hawaii".

I'm still laughing..

Posted July 07, 2003 07:55 AM in Funnies
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On July 7, 2003 09:49 AM Danne added:

Why isn't sugar it's official food? Spam is officially recognized as food? And by a state? Good grief.

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On July 7, 2003 10:17 AM Jason added:

Oh lord...please tell me this is not real! Are people really this touchy? And it is really the 'official food of Hawai' ???

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On July 7, 2003 11:13 AM Jeremy C. Wright added:

And here was me thinking this was because of Homel being upset (they've recently gotten agitated by the use of the word "Spam" by companies).

This one's new to me :D

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On July 7, 2003 11:32 AM Ben Langhinrichs added:

LOL. A slightly more serious issue is the Hormel (makers of the SPAM product), have been fairly aggressively going after anyone using their product images to indicate UCE. Not likely to complain, but you should be aware.

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On July 7, 2003 01:01 PM Paul added:

Spam is not food.

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On July 7, 2003 05:21 PM Steve Friedl added:

Yes, Spam® is exceptionally popular in Hawaii for reasons that I don't think anybody is really sure about.

Ref: http://www.jsonline.com/entree/cooking/aug01/spam05080201.asp

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On July 7, 2003 05:31 PM Techie2000 added:

Yeah I have heard hormel is going after people for using that. It's probably mostly because they have to or they lose their trademark or whatever...

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On July 7, 2003 06:16 PM Danne added:

Thanks for the link Steve!

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On July 8, 2003 01:48 AM Matt added:

So, these Hawaiians have beautiful beaches, great surfing, scantily clad tourists... and they spend their time eating lots of Spam? Suddenly I don't feel so bad about living in Los Angeles.

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On July 8, 2003 06:35 PM Doug L. added:

They like Spam because the only alternative is poi.

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On July 28, 2003 12:27 PM honestlythink@hotmail.com added:

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