The Hawaiian Snack That's Just Too Expensive At Costco, According To Customers - Tasting Table

"An iconic Hawaiian snack that's gaining traction stateside is spam musubi, an affordable take on sushi that consists of two thin slices of soy-marinated and fried Spam and a sticky sushi rice filling held together by a strip of nori. Spam is widely regarded as one of the cheapest ingredients, and Spam musubi is likewise a cheap snack that you can even find at convenience stores in Hawaii."

"Vegetarians will rejoice at the meatless spam patties, but ironically, Redditors think that "the meatless patty is probably at least twice as expensive as spam would be." Spam is, after all, one of the cheapest canned meat products you can find. One Redditor refers to spam musubi as "cheap 7-11 food," except, "7-Eleven uses actual spam in their spam musubi...so this is cheap knockoff 7-Eleven food.""

Spam musubi is a Hawaiian snack of two thin soy-marinated fried Spam slices and sticky sushi rice wrapped in nori. It is inexpensive and commonly sold at Hawaiian convenience stores. Costco introduced Kokoro frozen grilled musubi that contains a meatless soy-glazed Spam patty, a fluffy egg, and rice wrapped in nori, eight pieces for about $18. Online commenters note the meatless patty likely costs more than canned Spam and criticize the price compared with buying bulk Spam. Buying bulk Spam at Costco yields many more servings and homemade musubi can be made cheaply using soy, brown sugar, mirin, and oil.

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