Food
Heroes Remember
Transcript
With little time to get over the shock of discovering an
unknown country, most of our men are sent directly to the
front lines. Once there, the first trouble many of them face
is not what one might expect...
Soldiers carrying their food containers and getting in line for their meal.
For the first five or six months, we ate a lot of British food. That was no good. But when we got some American rations. That was great! You got a little package and that was a day’s ration in the thing there’s things like weiners and beans, lima beans, stew.Men eating.
There was chicken and a pack of cigarettes in the rations. At night, we had a beer.Soldier having a beer.
There was ice cream and steak. It came out of a tin, but it didn't matter. It was good. Got to be boring after the first week.Men eating thier rations.
If you had to eat out of a tin in the winter time, you put a dentSoldiers gathered around a dinning mess table in winter.
in the tin with your riffle butt or whatever you had, threw it on the fire, and when the dent came out you knew it was safe enough to eat. Always eating rations caused problems, because we often hadTwo soldiers preparing thier food.
stomach pains, diarrhea . . . I ate British rations from the beginning of World War 2.Waiting for food to be ready.
And now, in 51 or '52, it was all coming back to us in rations. It wasn't too fresh, y'know. Meat that's been in a tin for 15 years doesn't taste very good. The infantry brought their kitchen up with them,Supplies for the field kitchen.
they ate fresh rations. In the armored corps we got one hot meal a day and we had toMore meal preparation.
go down and pick it up from the infantry. And he didn’t like us, because every time they missed us they’d hit his kitchen (laughs) One time, we were in a place where we didn't have rations. For some reason or another, they just hadn't got to us, so we ate chestnuts. A tangerine orange… over there, they grew like apples grow here… That's how it was. We ate a lot of them!Description
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- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- February 3, 2010
- Duration:
- 2:15
- Person Interviewed:
- War Korean
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Korean War
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