Never heard that before. I do know that the city kids (NJ, NY, LA etc.) wouldn’t eat C-rats, and actually wondered at us that ate whatever crap we opened up (Bangs & MF’ers were the worst.) We’d even ask the pussies for theirs when they set them down. Even today I like ham & lima beans if I have enough Tobasco and hot peppers. My girlfriend makes them and leaves the house.
Never heard that before.
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I just tried looking it up and the name of the product is McIlhenneys Tabasco
I saw nothing of the Camo bottle - maybe they provided a type of ‘holster’ so each guy could carry his own etc...
One of them did ‘something’ along that line - of course ‘we’ figured it was a great idea and naturally great ideas carry a lifetime....
I was from upstate NY - still considered city by the ‘Southern guys’ (most anything N of TN is City..<: <: <:)
I used to like the ‘ham and muvvas’ mainly cause no one else did and you get 2 for 1 if you had something different.
OTOH, I never had to really rely on K or C rations etc...
I remember people ‘raiding’ the Jeeps etc that were in the tank deck for ‘grub’ late at night....
Growing lads needed nourishment 24/7 .. hell they expected us to work at all hours of day and night so they should have fed us......
At least the big ships had mid rats we may have on occasion but I don’t remember it happening with any regularity...
But there was usually someone in the galley so a sandwich now and then wasn’t impossible but being in Communications had some access to the Ward Room .... (at least an ‘excuse’ to be in Officers Country when not ‘supposed’ to be)