Last year in my “stores”, I found 2 cans of Progresso Beef Veg w/ Barley Soup from 1998, and both were fine. No dings, dents or bulges, no problem.
Rush went in the completely wrong direction on this, the preppers and people of common sense have been trying to educate those people who are throwing away fresh good food for no reason.
It isn’t intelligent to look at a can of corn you want to use for dinner, and see that it says best by March, 2015, so you throw it out.