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A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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> Hmm seems like you you have 5 comments in total and 3 out of those 5 are bashing vegans.

With all due respect, it's not like you've contributed much, if anything, to this community with your comment from your 49 minute old account.

Perhaps you could spend some time formulating a coherent argument as to why their comments are wrong instead of simply attacking them.

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> We’re sure bananas would be fine served as a vegetable, or with bacon, but this is certainly not the role we would assign to them today. At least in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand it's not unusual at all to find pancakes or waffles with banana + maple syrup and bacon together. https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/amp/

Prosciutto-wrapped cantaloupe is standard Italian fare (prosciutto e melone), I can't see bacon-wrapped banana unreasonably far from that. Going to try it tomorrow morning.

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I remember reading an account by a German soldier in WWI who had just taken an American trench and in it he found a fresh Apple Pie from Boston, and he immediately knew the war was hopeless.

Because the US troops were supported by super logistics? That's a lot to infer from a pie!

If you're eating 2000 calories a day of bread and a bit of sausage filled with sawdust (not a lot of food for a soldier), it means that your logistics systems are probably almost at their breaking point.

If you're eating 5000 calories a day of beef, potatoes, bread, and apple pie shipped from Boston, there's probably a lot that could be reworked to supply even more calories of bread instead - or the same calories to more people.

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My parents grew up in depression-era rural and small-town USA, and us siblings were really into milk as well, a lot of cold, cold milk. In Latin America where we mostly grew up we stood out, neighborhood friends thought it strange we'd buy four one-liter bags of milk every couple of days for four people (only two kids still at home at that time).

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Likewise for German forces in the second war. When they encountered the sheer richness and quantity of U.S provisions after the D Day landings, for many of them it really brought home how hopeless their situation was in ways that abstract ideas of military and economic balances couldn't. Of course this shouldn't necessarily be used to draw absolute conclusions. Soviet forces were basically pushed into battling the Ge…

Captured german defenders on D-Day famously asked their American captors where all their horses were.

Source?

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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I remember reading an account by a German soldier in WWI who had just taken an American trench and in it he found a fresh Apple Pie from Boston, and he immediately knew the war was hopeless.

Likewise for German forces in the second war. When they encountered the sheer richness and quantity of U.S provisions after the D Day landings, for many of them it really brought home how hopeless their situation was in ways that abstract ideas of military and economic balances couldn't. Of course this shouldn't necessarily be used to draw absolute conclusions. Soviet forces were basically pushed into battling the Ge…

>Soviet forces were basically pushed into battling the Germans while subsisting on what could basically be called starvation rations, but they managed to crush the Wehrmacht piece by piece.

But the Soviets lost more solders than the Germans.

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> Hmm seems like you you have 5 comments in total and 3 out of those 5 are bashing vegans. With all due respect, it's not like you've contributed much, if anything, to this community with your comment from your 49 minute old account. Perhaps you could spend some time formulating a coherent argument as to why their comments are wrong instead of simply attacking them.

Everyone has to start somewhere.

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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> We’re sure bananas would be fine served as a vegetable, or with bacon, but this is certainly not the role we would assign to them today. At least in Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand it's not unusual at all to find pancakes or waffles with banana + maple syrup and bacon together. https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/amp/

Not uncommon in the US to have bananas on pancakes, but the bacon -usually- is served as a side (unless you're getting an "Elvis", which would have peanut butter, bacon, and banana, which I have seen as a waffle or pancake option). But to the article, bacon wrapped bananas, standalone, aren't things any more.

Usually I see bacon on donuts. Now I’m craving a maple bacon donut.

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

#39

I remember reading an account by a German soldier in WWI who had just taken an American trench and in it he found a fresh Apple Pie from Boston, and he immediately knew the war was hopeless.

Wouldnt food rations have come via boat during WW1? I'm not sure how fresh a pie would be that was in transit for a week or more.

Re: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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> Women were left with the impression that one false move on their part meant their children would grow up with night blindness and bowed knees.

What is night blindness? People might masturbate more at night. Could this night blindness be the reason for the tales about masturbation making you go blind?

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