He drove into Shepperton, broke a window of the supermarket, and collected several cartons of canned meat and vegetables, rice, and sugar.

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Hosted on Oahu, the Waikiki Spam Jam, this year held 27 April, welcomes more than 25, 000 people to sample restaurant dishes featuring the canned meat.

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The following year complaints began to trickle in from victualling yards in the UK and from British seamen around the world that other parts of animals were being found in canned meat.

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But it continues to invest in developing the taste for its own brands of palm oil, condensed milk, tinned meat and canned fish in a hinterland market that has often been a dumping ground for leftovers from elsewhere.

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