Feeding The Troops was Big Business

It’s a big business running a war. You had two hundred men and all the meals and everything, everybody got the same stuff. You just send in to the ration stores the number of men you had and multiply them by all the things that were on there, 1/237th part of an ounce of salt and something like that and multiply that by a thousand and you got a couple of ounces of salt, that’s the way they ran it, you see. Every Canadian soldier in England or France or whatever it was would get the same supply of rations. Now what the cooks did with it was something different.