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.
Studies of POWs after WWII and Korea showed that POW groups from more backward nations survived better because they were more likely to incorporate weeds and available plants into their diets than the Westerners.