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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 by kasia on July 7, 2003 07:55 AM |

Comments

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

Posted by: Danne | July 7, 2003 09:49 AM

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

Posted by: Jason | July 7, 2003 10:17 AM

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

Posted by: Jeremy C. Wright | July 7, 2003 11:13 AM

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.

Posted by: Ben Langhinrichs | July 7, 2003 11:32 AM

Spam is not food.

Posted by: Paul | July 7, 2003 01:01 PM

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

Posted by: Steve Friedl | July 7, 2003 05:21 PM

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...

Posted by: Techie2000 | July 7, 2003 05:31 PM

Thanks for the link Steve!

Posted by: Danne | July 7, 2003 06:16 PM

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.

Posted by: Matt | July 8, 2003 01:48 AM

They like Spam because the only alternative is poi.

Posted by: Doug L. | July 8, 2003 06:35 PM

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Posted by: honestlythink@hotmail.com | July 28, 2003 12:27 PM