[Paulus Invictus]

How apout Cs left over from WW II?(OK, I'm from "that" generation). Even the starving Nips would not eat them. We wouldn't either. For a long while, we ate rice and fish, prepared by our Nip cooks. It was mainly awful stuff, but better than Cs. The only thing safe to drink in Japan was the coffee, boiled for days to kill all the germs, parasites and viruses in the so-called "pure" drinking water. Now that was strong coffee!

General MacArthur and company finally got some imported food to us, but it was cheese blocks and crackers. They tasted great! We took some along on a road trip north of Mt. Fuji and found some villagers who didn't know who we were or that the War was over. We gave them some cheese and crackers and they were amazed, having never seen or tasted either. They danced around laughing at us and our goodies. Ah, memories.

[Riley]

How apout Cs left over from WW II?(OK, I'm from "that" generation). Even the starving Nips would not eat them.

I remember an old Bill Mauldin cartoon (IIRC) with a war-weary looking Japanese officer saying to two bedraggled GIs, "We will surrender on condition that we be not required to eat honorable American delicacy named 'Spam'."