At Cerignola, the alternative to Spam was canned Vienna sausages. After a month of eating them, one of the men tacked a proposal on the squadron ready-room door, offering to stop bombing Vienna if its people would stop sending their sausages.
Source:
Ambrose, Stephen E. “Cerignola, Italy.” The Wild Blue: The Crews of the B-24. Simon & Schuster, 2002. 136. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Smith, Wouldn’t Change a Thing, 86.
AKA "scum weenies".