Japanese Rice Can
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Japanese Rice Can
I would say that you got a cabbage stew probably once or
twice every three or four months. Cabbage water we called
it with the rice of course, but basically I think the whole time
we were there we might have had a small bit of tuna threw in the
cabbage water, tuna fish. And I don’t know what kind of a soup
you called it, but it was tuna fish soup. Anything taste good
to us, anything!! The last rice can I had at Nagasaki, I wore out
two or three of them or rusted out. This the last issue that
they gave us probably six or eight months before the war came
to an end. And I saved this to bring it back to show people.
We’d get this full or rice in the morning for breakfast,
you’d get the same amount for your lunch and the same amount
when you came back in the evening for your evening meal
and lucky to get it! Lucky to get it.
You didn’t always get it full either. If the rations were cut
as I indicated later due to somebody sick, the rations would
be cut and you’d probably get 3/4 of a can.
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