December 22, 2008
We mainlanders seem likely to learn quite a bit about ordinary, non-postcard Hawaii, which Obama's vacations seem to inhabit.
From Jeff Zeleny's pool report on Obama's long afternoon golfing:
As for Mr. Obama and his group, a snack bar clerk later confirmed that he purchased two hot dogs, two spam musubi, two passion orange sodas, one Powerade and one coke, for a tab of $17.75.
Wikipedia describes the spam musubi as "a very popular snack and luncheon food in Hawaii made in the tradition of Japanese onigiri, also known as a musubi. A Spam musubi is composed of a block of salted (not vinegared; that would be sushi) rice with a slice of Spam (cooked or uncooked) on top, and typically nori (dried seaweed) surrounding it to keep it in shape."