Victor Smith said:Back when ... that's w-a-a-a-a-y back ... school used to feed us corned beef (the canned stuff) fairly regularly. Rumor had it that it was surplus war rations (this'd be about 20 years after the war in question). Anyway, we filed into dining hall one evening to be greeted by scrambled eggs, something that never happened outside breakfast ... inquiries revealed that the corned beef for the evening -- every can in the batch! -- was what would nowadays be termed hazmat. Some said this proved the truth of the rumor.
I think its just that can of Spam has been left open for too long...