An article at The Huffington Post notes that a New York Times reporter observed on Sunday that while on a golf outing in Hawaii, President-elect Obama ordered spam musubi.
Wikipedia describes spam musubi as:
a very popular snack and luncheon food in Hawaii made in the tradition of Japanese onigiri, also known as a musubi. A Spam musubi is composed of a block of salted (not vinegared; that would be sushi) rice with a slice of Spam (cooked or uncooked) on top, and typically nori (dried seaweed) surrounding it to keep it in shape.
In April, Serious Eats provided a tutorial on how to make spam musabi, and this short YouTube clip also gives you an idea of how it is made:
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1 soup // Dec 25, 2008 at 8:25 pm
[...] noraleah: In a confusing mix of elitism and white trash style, President-elect Obama ordered spam musubi while on a golf outing in Hawaii. Yes, that’s right. Spam sushi. (So Good). [...]
2 Nate // Jan 3, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Oh wow, I was just browsing your site when I saw that you had embedded our Spam musubi video! How cool is that.
In case you’re interested, our Secrets to Making Spam Musubi recipe is at
http://chezannies.blogspot.com/2008/07/secrets-to-making-spam-musubi.html
3 lenny // Oct 7, 2010 at 1:45 am
I live in Japan and though Japanese don’t eat that much spam, they’ve got cute commercials on TV for spam
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/japanese-spam-tv-commercial/
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