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Cans of "Spam" luncheon meat are displayed at a market in Naha on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa March 5, 2008. Spam, "taco rice" and A&W Root Beer - if you're looking to sample authentic Okinawan cuisine, these are musts for the menu. The southern Japanese island may be best known abroad for a healthy diet heavy on tofu and bitter-tasting vegetables called "goya", but Okinawans are just as likely to tuck into fast food burgers and other dishes first made familiar by American troops.

How Spam became cool again

Stanley Tucci Searching For Italy S2-Calabria

Why Stanley Tucci can't stay out of restaurant kitchens

From the puffy tacos of Tex-Mex cuisine to the fish tacos of Baja to food trucks slinging regional specialties, the taco contains multitudes.

Make every day National Taco Day with these tasty recipes

US writer Sandra Cisneros talks during the fifth literary festival "CentroAmérica Cuenta" dedicated to two great French authors of the twentieth century, André Malraux and Albert Camus in the French Alliance of Managua on May 22, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / INTI OCON (Photo credit should read INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images)