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Spam medal Slang 
the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, issued to all persons who volunteered for service in World War II, so called after a kind of processed pork that figured prominently in the diet of soldiers in the field.
- 1959 As all of us overseas at the time were volunteers, it meant that everybody wore one and so, in patronizing fashion, we tagged it the Spam Medal.
- 1959 As all of us overseas at the time were volunteers, it meant that everybody wore one and so, in patronizing fashion, we tagged it the Spam Medal.