Military Ration Packs

They got some rations, old rations in cans, ration packs, military ration packs. And I know we had some US Army rations packed in 1942 and I was eating it in March of ‘57. I opened up a can of bread. It was like a large can, probably five inch diameter, about seven inch high, the size you say you buy tomatoes today in a can. It was bread and you couldn’t get it out. So you had to open up the bottom and the top and push it out and it came out like a mound of sugar, just flour, just dust and in order to use it, eat it, you’d open up a little tin, a small tin like you buy lobster paste or something, a little can of that was butter. You open that up, you take a chunk of it with your knife and pick up a handful and put it in. You make like a snowball and eat your bread and oh you’d have heartburn from it, doughy, you know, and the rations weren’t good. Some of it, ugh. Thank god they had like peaches or apricots or little cans of it, you know, survived on that. And our meals like I say even potatoes, there was never, never a fresh potato all the time I was in Egypt. It was all dehydrated, packaged potatoes, like you know, add water and stir them up and milk, never seen milk all the time I was over there it was just powdered milk. You couldn’t drink it, there was always lumps in it, you know, and you wonder I’m still alive some times.