[blam]

"I was also brought up on (Kentucky style - meal, butter milk, baking soda, and salt baked in a greased cast iron skillet) corn bread. But we also had butter, fried chicken, fried ham and red eye gravy, greens, and potatoes to "round out" the nutrition. "

Yup. Exactly the same as me. That's the setting I'm talking about.

[katana]

Great food. But it sort of requires you to lead a hard working farm life or have a hyper drive metabolism. Otherwise, the “round out” makes you truly round. My great aunt and uncle led that life and were the ones we stayed with when we visited. What I described was a typical meal. Both lived into their mid nineties. The rest of us raised on that food? Not even close. But, heh, malnutrition was never an issue.

[katana]

And in the context of this article, the real point is if those starving soldiers and their officers think gleaning and eating raw field corn is going to improve their condition they’re “bark”ing up the wrong tree.