How chocolate became one of the US military’s most important WWII rations

In 1937, the Army approached the Hershey Company with a blunt request: Create a high-calorie chocolate bar that's ...
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Some Of The Food In Your Pantry Was Originally Military Rations

Just as civilians can now purchase MREs to eat as emergency rations, some of the food in your pantry today was once field rations. Innovation in food processing and preservation methods that began in ...
Dallas Observer

Days Gone Bite: C-Rations, K-Rations and SOS

To the men of the 504th regiment, 82nd Airborne–“the Devils in Baggy Pants”–who crossed the Waal in Holland and battled Panzers in the Ardennes. My uncle ‘Highlee’ fought with them. And to Marines of ...
Wall Street Journal

Meet the People Who Eat 100-Year-Old Military Rations

Nathan Abernathy reviews all kinds of foods, but the meal he was about to dig into was special. It had been prepared in 1965. The Missouri resident had secured a U.S. military ration from the Vietnam ...