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To: attiladhun2

Mostly beef. I actually didn’t hear they were getting any spam there. The Soviet specification for canned meat in their ration was beef pieces with bay leaf and salt. Lard was pored on top of the beef before sealing the can to isolate is from residual air which might have stayed in the can so it lasted longer. The specification was submitted to US and it was made under it. Pork wasn’t produced this way in USSR because it was only slightly more than a decade into Stalin’s anti-religious campaign and some troops could refuse to eat it. US actually started to produce canned pork under such specification too and the Soviets accepted it.


31 posted on 04/11/2020 8:35:00 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking
I remember reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago where he mentions this ration of American pork stew. One can for 4 men. Maybe the meat was beef. My dad thought it was pork too.
32 posted on 04/12/2020 8:51:50 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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