Spam!
On cadet camp when I was but a spotty teenager we had been provided with some tinned army rations or "compo". These had some suprisingly tasty stuff in them such as squashed fly biscuits and fruit pudding, and you could do inventive things like mixing your hot chocolate or dried apple into your porridge mix to make something that, after a few days and nights running around covered in mud, was pretty heavenly. Plus the non-dairy whitener was always fun to pour onto your hexi burner.

One of the items that you got was called "bacon grill", which was essentially a tin of spam-like processed meat. Like everything in the pack this could be eaten cold or, if you had time, sliced into round bits and fried in your mess tin. I knew none of this. My approach, which in retrospect was plainly idiotic, was to open one end of the tin and place the whole tin, closed-side down, on top of a lit hexi stove. A few minutes later, when I judged it to be done I lifted it off (probably burning myself) and began to eat. Had it merely been luke-warm that would have been fine. But what had actually happened is that the bottom of the tin had got so hot that it had melted the lining of the tin, which had then permeated quite a long way into my block of spam-alike. The taste was indescribable... genuinely, like nothing I've tasted before or since... *ugh/shudder*
(flimflam_machine, Thu 17 May 2007, 15:22, Reply)