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Originally Posted by Francis Morin
-- We tried to get Tabasco sauce for the k-rats "In country"- because, if you sprinkled it on anything in a can- then spread it on your "John Wayne" crackers- you knew it was OK to eat- as the heat "burned off" any bad microbes, etc. However, the Gooks had an item called "Nuke-Mon'-- canned fish gust and birds eyes I guess- you would have to cover that crap with an ocean of Tabasco to make it edible- maybe??  |
Today, or at least when they first came out, these new MRE's (Meals rejected by Ethopians) had a little bottle of Tobasco sauce in there. I used to put the hot stuff on C-Rats. They needed a kick. I can't recall if I ever ate a K-Rat or not. For those of us who survived in C's we recall that wonderful fruit salad. Came in a can. When they came out with MRE's they made the stuff freeze dried, so it was a cake that you had to add water in, in your canteen cup. Trouble was, the water often tasted like heck and had little things wiggling in it.
Yeah, nuk mon. It was made of fermented fish guts I think. Didn't they bury the stuff until it got "good". The Ancient Romans ate a similar sauce, they called it galloum. I was made of fermented fish guts. Historians think it was similar to the god awful goo they ate in Vietnam. Ever experience that Korean kempshe? Just terrible.
Now lets talk how to cook a duck! I do it very hot and put a sweet sauce on it. Still not my favorite meal however. In Kansas where the ducks were grain fed they were a lot better than here, where theyhave a diet of slugs and seaweed.