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To: rktman
And this sustainability led to ersatz bread:

In World War II, Ersatzbrot (replacement bread) made of potato starch, frequently stretched with extenders such as sawdust, was furnished to prisoners of war. This practice was prevalent on the Eastern front and at the many Nazi labour and death campshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersatz_good

13 posted on 04/23/2016 7:58:02 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

We eat sawdust too... they call it ‘cellulose gum.’


15 posted on 04/23/2016 8:03:21 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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