Post World War II Food

Posted by paulpauper 10/24/2024

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kleton 10/24/2024|

The canned meats, "tushenka", also became a USSR thing after the US sent massive amounts of it as lend-lease food.

euroderf 10/24/2024|

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 10/24/2024||

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.

jameslk 10/25/2024||

Cool article, but I’m curious why the National Park Service is posting content about WWII history on their website?

moribvndvs 10/26/2024||

> During the war, Nestlé companies supplied both the Axis and the Allies. In 2000, the company agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle claims that a German company they purchased used forced labor during the war.

I didn’t think it would be possible for me to loathe Nestlé more.

gorkish 10/25/2024||

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.

dn3500 10/25/2024||

One small correction, WWII rations included instant coffee, but it wasn't freeze-dried, which was invented after the war.

whoomp12342 10/25/2024||

Hold on, how did kraft macaroni and cheese get made in 1937, whereas powdered cheese was invented in 1943 ??!?!!!?!

jhbadger 10/25/2024|

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".)

https://archive.ph/20130105114605/http://walrusmagazine.com/...

whoomp12342 10/30/2024||

that makes sense but this very article states: "The powder is a cheese sauce that has been partially defatted and dehydrated" in the section that they discuss happening in 1937.

Such an obvious contradicting makes me question the validity of this article

veunes 10/25/2024||

I wonder if there's a similar effect happening now with food technologies developed under today’s pressures

dotcoma 10/25/2024||

M&M’s are considered’food’ in the US ?

swiftcoder 10/25/2024|

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 10/25/2024||

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 10/25/2024||

Cigarettes for breakfast ....

That definitely were different times.

Gibbon1 10/25/2024|

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.

LarsDu88 10/25/2024|

Do tater tots count?

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