I got married in 72 and qualified for food stamps but wouldn’t take them, but I did collect C-rations from when we went out in the field, some intact boxes but mostly what the other guys wouldn’t eat, ny teen wife was not impressed and I couldn’t help but notice that while C-rations were OK when one is living outdoors and working hard and eating out of the can, they taste pretty bad when sitting in a carpeted living room and put on a plate.
And to think we would fight over the lima beans and ham. After a while we called them ‘ham and motherfuckers. There was one guy who would collect plants and cook this shit up in his helmut. UnGodly stuff, but he was from West Virgina, so we took that into account.