Civil War writings show that some starving people would clean unbroken corn kernels from horse droppings to boil and eat! There were also “clay eaters’ usually in Tennessee that would add dirt to there meals for it’s minerals.
Prisoners of the Japanese during WW2 lived on very meager rationing and enjoyed finding worms in their gruel,sometimes.
When a person is starving , like N. Korea, people will eat anything and everything.
My Dad Born 1899, on a Hardscrabble farm. living through the Depression and WW2 said when/if starving, a person would consider a skunks a$$ a banquet
I pray to God that our great country never sees that come to pass.
FUBO
“I pray to God that our great country never sees that come to pass.”
People think these hardships are from long-ago. The young gal that cuts my hair is from South Vietnam. When the North Vietnamese took over they asked her dad (former ARVN officer) to come down to the police station to ask him some questions.
Two years later they finally heard that he was still alive, but in a re-education camp. After another year they were able to write and receive letters. I think it was four years until they saw him.
She said her brothers would get a big ball of rice in the morning and I think at dinner. Then they would go find work in the fields. Her mom and her would get medium sized balls of rice and would spend the days begging. Her little sister would get food if their begging went well. Her little sister died of starvation. She said they had been a fairly wealthy family before the North took over.
Hard to imagine that at the same time I would come home from school and eat a bowl of Captain Crunch watching Hogan’s Heros after school.