corned beef hash

I often regale my Irish friends with tales of the canned meat, American cheese or better still cheese from cans (cheez-whiz, beware of food that uses alternate spellings). No matter how poor they were, I don't think Irish people ever ate canned meat, such as Spam, as part of their daily diet like we did in Hawaii. Correct me if I'm wrong. This is one of the issues of hybridity I want to explore. Mytholgizing food. How we ate things that were incredibily bad for us (and not food as such) because it was the American thing to do. Cultural associations, and marketing. Try as I might to revile what I ate in Hawaii (mostly because my arteries are still trying to unclog), I still remember corned beef hash fondly, in all its salty, potatoey goodness.