December 01, 2003
The Online Information Source for American Military Cooks and Bakers.
Pan-seared marinated buffalo stuffed with vidalia onions, shitake mushrooms and black tiger prawns, that's what we eat in the Navy.
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Fascinating link, T! The week after 9-11, panicky and unwilling to listen to my much more rational wife, I charged over to our local Surplus Store and bought about $75 worth of MREs," just in case". They sit under a case of Parmalat, untouched; I'll give them to my grandkids someday as party favors, I guess. My Dad, who was stationed at Midway Island years ago, still has the mimeographed menu for "Christmas Supper 1956" carefully preserved in his footlocker because he says that was the best meal he ever ate in his entire life. They started with "Seasonal Nut Cups" and ended with "Fresh Fruit Pie, Fresh Hot Coffee, as desired."
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I was most interested in the 1794 congressional bill that required navymen to have a pound of bread every day, turnip once a week and, on special days, 1/2 a pint of peas or beans. I wonder what the death-by-scurvy rate was in the US navy back then.
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Cedar tea is good for vitamin C and tasty if you like it, but very bitter.
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Oh great, you're planning on sticking with it for awhile, aren't you jb?
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To the bitter end. Maybe.
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I found some cotton candy and I'm happy again. Wait up, BearGuy!
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Rosehips have the highest density of Vitamin C, but are also very bitter.
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But when I was a child, I ate some wild rosehips and they were tasty! Like tart, hard tomatoes. I haven't had any in a very long time, though, and I never got to try the tea. I would love to.