Hawaii man's love for SPAM gets him stopped at TSA

Oahu native and singer Joel Libed was on a Midwest tour in May with his dance company and their first stop was in Austin, Minnesota - home of the Spam Museum.

[ACholland-jq]

Spam company should give him a sponsorship, he is a good ambassador of spam.

[chochosan]

Was leaving for Las Vegas with friends and family from Honolulu, I bought 8 spam musubis for everyone. At the security check point the staff just laughed and said that I should share. Everyone in our group was so happy to eat it on the plane.

[-old-Forthischet]

Don't forget, Spam fed our military in our victory.

Never forget the greatest generation!

[rac]

My mom first tasted Spam in Holland after being liberated from N*zi occupation in 1945. We always had it in the house growing up and I still have it in my cupboard to this day....Love the stuff!😋😋😋

[djcarlomusic]

Got to visit the spam museum as part of a work trip, the merch store is heaven.

[chewie]

Airport security- "Whoa sir, THAT IS WAY TOO MUCH SPAM. We can not let you have all the SPAM. You are having WAY TOO MUCH FUN."

[GoonieLord]

I heard Hawaii has ultra rare flavors not found anywhere else

[SaitoHimea]

So he really is a Filipino-Hawaiian wow 😂😂😂, Spam really does travel thru his veins 😂😂😂😂

[sggarnasianchoice]

I love the Tocino spam.😘😋 Growing up in the Philippines our nanny would make our lunch boxes. She would cook sandwiches with spam cooked with sugar coating and lady’s choice sandwich spread and chocolait milk drink.💜

[The.Hawaiian.Kingdom]

When I was younger I used to write to the Spam headquarters in Minnesota asking them to move their headquarters and manufacturing plant to Hawai’i because we consume more Spam than anyone and have brought Spam FAR more publicity than anyone or any of their commercials/campaigns. I also added that people in Minnesota don’t even like Spam and the most famous food person who resides in Minnesota, Andrew Zmmern, who is known for eating crazy, gross foods that others would never eat. has publicly declared his hate for Spam multiple times. I told them that Hawai’i would be a better fit not only because it would provide jobs here for people who have been loyal to them, but it would save them on shipping costs since most of their Spams gonna come here anyways 🤭😆.
I never heard back from them & they clearly didn’t agree because they didn’t move here. Oh well I tried. 😆

[diveanddine]

TSA was like Sir this is over the pork limit we gotta confiscate these and go have musubi for lunch

[livefree_with_vinnie]

I grew up eating spam, egg, rice & banana ketchup for breakfast; sometimes for dinner too. Oh my grandma used to locked them up inside a glass cabinet for display.

[lollyv]

I got stopped at TSA for having 3 SPAM musubis wrapped in foil. I had to open them up for the agent. I guess he had to make sure it wasn’t a bomb….however it was “Da Bomb” as we still enjoyed them for our breakfast.

[marilyndee]

This is hysterically funny! The best part was the guy himself. So cheerful and friendly and full of fun. I loved this video! I have never had Spam. Maybe I should try it? It seems like I am missing something. Certainly, the fun this guy has, if nothing else.

[bradbutcher]

I flew to Washington DC valentines day 2015 and had my 1/16 Traxxis Slash RC truck and a can of Trappley's jalapeño pinto beans. They pulled me after xray and I said "I figured you'd be searching my bag." He then pulled out the can of beans and put it by his ear and shook them. Put it back and said "ok you're good." I said "you're not going to check the car." "Nope you're good". I thought as I walked off "damn I should've kept the lithium batteries in it".

[merryhunt]

After decades of not eating Spam I discovered the reduced-sodium line, and now I'm back to enjoying it. I had no idea there were ten varieties.

[IMRROcom]

loved it when I lived in Hawaii, you could go to Zippys, A Spaghetti place, a Mexican food joint or a Top Tier Steak house and nine times out of ten you would get a small slice of spam with your meal :)

[BUZZKILLJRJR]

That's so awesome! I'm not a Hawaii boy but I grew up poor and spam was something we got quite a bit now they have so many different flavors the Teriyaki is bomb, turkey is pretty Rad too.

[ShieldAgentBrad]

I was expecting a lot more spam, that’s not even that much. Lol.

[michelleb]

That’s funny. My son loved the large variety of Spam available in Hawaii. When we went there on his Make-a-Wish trip we ended up bringing home about 20 cans. But we put it in our checked bags, so maybe that was to our advantage. Also, they’ve probably seen that a lot in the Hawaii airports.