Austin's most famous product makes the New York Times today, in an article about President Elect Obama golfing excursion. The mid-round snack:
Via the Times, the LA Times says of this snack:
Musubi is a Japanese rice ball -- triangular and wrapped in a strip of nori, or roasted seaweed. Spam musubi is brick-like: rice on the bottom, a slab of Spam on top. It's salty, like Spam, but the rice absorbs the greasiness, and the seaweed wrapper provides that bit of umami.
It's a favorite at picnics and at the 19th hole on the golf course. Soccer moms make them by the dozens for post-game snacks.
Lots of recipes (and the inexpensive mold) online for those who want to try this for their next luau. Those who worry about the President sharing their values may think twice about that when they reached for the canned meat. We'll probably take a pass, lest we end up in the district's other famous institution.
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