The Humble Spam Meal That Quietly Became A Global Comfort Favorite - Chowhound

Rob Fuller/Shutterstock Spam, the canned meat introduced by Hormel Foods back in 1937, often gets a bad rap. It's no coincidence that unwanted emails are called spam, but this pork product is a key ingredient in a comfort food that can be found in a host of places stretching from the United States (especially Hawaii) to South Korea to the Philippines and elsewhere across Asia. It's Spam fried rice and there's a…