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20-12-2019, 11:57 PM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

It was a bit before my time. I do read a lot of history though and I know that the American Soldiers who were in England during the time, and had to eat English rations, hated it. They claimed to have subsisted on mutton and Brussels sprouts. They were under the impression that Eisenhower was doing that to make them madder then hell and want to get out of England, back on American rations, and at the Germans.
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21-12-2019, 12:00 AM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

My FIL used to eat it regularly and I couldn't look at him as it made me feel
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21-12-2019, 12:09 AM
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I reckon Ted's just saying that so's we all don't descend on him for supper Christmas Eve.
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21-12-2019, 07:52 AM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

Yum yum yum !!! Maybe a bit more edible if it's in a stew with lots of chilli although I think I recall my dad occasionally eating tripe and you also need a clothes peg on your nose as the smell is something other worldly...I don't think anyone else in the house would eat it.


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21-12-2019, 10:02 AM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

My dad ate a huge plateful in front of us kids regularly, oh dear it still looks awful . I wonder if it has a nice taste , I suppose it must do

Yucky not for me
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21-12-2019, 10:06 AM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

I wasn't around during the war but I do remember my Granddad eating tripe...maybe this is a Yorkshire thing but it was eaten raw with salt and vinegar.
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21-12-2019, 02:19 PM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
Why not dig a couple of trenches under the table and fill them with mud so they can dangle their feet in them?
That is so funny!
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22-12-2019, 11:46 AM
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Re: Giving my lot a special Xmas Meal from WW2!

Originally Posted by Savvy ->
It was a bit before my time. I do read a lot of history though and I know that the American Soldiers who were in England during the time, and had to eat English rations, hated it. They claimed to have subsisted on mutton and Brussels sprouts. They were under the impression that Eisenhower was doing that to make them madder then hell and want to get out of England, back on American rations, and at the Germans.
I remember the American soldiers.

They were the ones with bars of chocolate and other luxuries.
 
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