I lived on a tiny island in the South Pacific for a few years and became well aware of all the types canned meat including the dozens of varieties of Spam. Canned meat in general is usually really popular on these remote islands since dependable electricity, and therefore dependable refrigeration is relatively new.

Given our proximity to SE Asia and Australia (yeah, I know those two aren’t remotely close to each other, but they were both close to us), and having a solid trade with the US, we got Spam intended for all sorts of markets. One store had a solid 10-15 meter long aisle of canned meat (not including canned fish - that was a different aisle), Spam taking up a good portion of that. Among the various flavors, there were five different reduced sodium Spams available. There was 25% less, 33% less, 50% less, “reduced sodium” and “lower sodium”. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the numbers, but the percentage didn’t match the sodium content from one market to another. For example, if the 25% less had 600mg of sodium, the 50% less was like 500mg.

The most unique canned meat was whole canned chicken. It was a small chicken, stuffed into a tall and relatively narrow can. It wasn’t bad. It just tasted like Campbells chicken noodle soup without the noodles. There was also canned antelope, canned wildebeest (I think - could have been yak) and canned ostrich - those didn’t strike me as oddly as a whole canned chicken did for some reason.

I also remember when there was a recall on some corned beef (supposedly just a labeling error) that was evidently the favorite among many because there were people at the customer service counter demanding that they should be able to buy the recalled meat.