After a nice lunch at The Manago Hotel, we noticed a "farmer's market" across the street.
It was the Sunday South Kona "Green Market".
There weren't too many produce stands, but lots of health food and "new age-y" type booths.
It was quite amusing. I turned to the Missus and told Her; "the sixties never ended, it just moved to South Kona". Seeing the all health products made me feel kind of guilty having eaten that nice pork chop across the street, but that didn't last very long…….
We jumped in the car heading toward Kona. But instead of stopping there we ended up all the way in Kawaihae and the Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company. The reason I remembered the place was because of the last photo in this post.
Part store, part factory, part tour, samples galore.
Like the sign says…."welcome to the nut house"………
After sampling just about everything they had out and chugging some samples of Kona coffee, I pretty much decided that the best items were plain nuts, the Spam flavored(more like bacon), and some of the glazed stuff.
All hail the shrine of Spam nuts……
There's a production line behind the window…….
you can even get your, ahem, nuts cracked…..
We had the whole place to ourselves and the nice ladies working here were a hoot!
As we paid for our stuff a minivan of tourists arrived and they were organizing a short "tour"….our que to hele on.
Hamakua Macadamia Nut Company
61-3251 Maluokalani St
Kawaihae, HI 96743
fun times!
Lots of fun Kat!
I love macadamia nuts…..but idk about these spam flavored nuts!
ooh, I must visit the macadamia nut company whenever I get to go to Hawaii next.
Hail SPAM!
Got my costco value pack of spam
I need to come here! I like plain nuts too.
Hi JS – Try it, you might like it?
Hi Kirbie – Mauna Loa is also on the Big Island as well.
All hail Spam Billy!
Hi TFD – Then you’ll need to head on over to the Big Island.
The Spam nuts are all right. I was gifted a can a few years ago…they had a faint Spammy flavor.