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In 1987, Alvin Okami produced the first acrylic Spam musubi maker. It sold at Longs, Marukai, Holiday Mart and other stores for $3-$5. Corum said the creator may have been Mitsuko Kaneshiro, who first ...

When it comes to handheld snack food, the ballpark hot dog has nothing on the Hawaiian classic Spam musubi. Sticky rice is sprinkled with furikake, topped with glazed Spam, and wrapped in nori for a ...

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