Stranded luxury cruise passengers fed Spam

A Navy Seahawk helicopter from the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier carries supplies towards the Carnival Splendour cruise ship during relief operations off Mexico's Baja Peninsula. The stricken vessel, with 16 Britons among the 3,300 passengers, suffered an engine room fire on Monday morning off the coast of Mexico Photo: AP
By Jon Swaine in New York
But the 4,500 passengers on the Carnival Splendor were on Wednesday fed chopped pork shoulder mixed with ham, modified potato starch and sodium nitrite in aspic – Spam.