Not covered in the article are the snack bars which to this day tend to be an oat and chocolate base with added protein and vitamins. This persisted far past the time it was possible to make something better tasting and better for you. I wound up researching this quite heavily while developing mealsquares.
jameslk 2 days ago||
Cool article, but I’m curious why the National Park Service is posting content about WWII history on their website?
kleton 2 days ago||
The canned meats, "tushenka", also became a USSR thing after the US sent massive amounts of it as lend-lease food.
euroderf 2 days ago|
Same as Spam ? The US sent boatloads of it via the Pacific. I've seen it credited with supplying something like 15% of all Soviet wartime calories consumed.
dron57 2 days ago||
The Soviet and now post-soviet "tushenka" is 100% derived from American WW2 spam. But I think it actually tastes better, try some if you have an Eastern European store around.
dn3500 2 days ago||
One small correction, WWII rations included instant coffee, but it wasn't freeze-dried, which was invented after the war.
veunes 2 days ago||
I wonder if there's a similar effect happening now with food technologies developed under today’s pressures
whoomp12342 2 days ago||
Hold on, how did kraft macaroni and cheese get made in 1937, whereas powdered cheese was invented in 1943 ??!?!!!?!
jhbadger 2 days ago|
It originally used grated cheese according to this article from the Canadian magazine The Walrus (Canada has/had a love affair with Kraft Mac & Cheese or Kraft Dinner as they call it there -- think of the BNL song "If I had a million dollars".)
What an absolutely exceptional and fascinating article and presentation. From our National Park Service! My heart swells with pride; this is the web I want to return.
dotcoma 2 days ago||
M&M’s are considered’food’ in the US ?
swiftcoder 2 days ago|
Measured purely against their original goal of efficiently getting calories into soldiers during deployment in tropical* climates, M&M are quite good at their job.
*: northern chocolate products usually melt if you take them to the tropics. The candy shell is highly effective at addressing this issue.
1oooqooq 2 days ago||
it's just usual corruption to limit purchases to Mars' products. in theory if you used the sugar for the coating into regular cheap milk chocolate it would hold as well as m&ms. you cannot compare premium chocolate with m&ms.
thoronton 2 days ago||
Cigarettes for breakfast ....
That definitely were different times.
Gibbon1 2 days ago|
Friends mom said her mother and father in law would wake up at 2am to smoke and go back to sleep. Neither one made it to 65.