At training camp for officers before WWI, my Great Grandfather noticed that the canned foods looked familiar from his experience in the Spanish American War (and they hadn’t been new then), so he got some guys to load up a belt fed machine gun (Colt Potato Digger?) and proceed to the nearby wetlands where he proceeded to hose down about 500 ducks at dawn.
TR claimed his men got tainted canned army beef in Cuba. If they then kept it until 1917 then it really would have been bad.
Nothing but the best for our troops.
/johnny