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...they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food." One of them suggested that they draw lots to see who should be eaten...
...cannibalism trial. A Mrs. Ma was being tried for eating her little girl. Parts of the baby's flesh were brought in as evidence. The state charged she killed the child and ate it. Her plea was that the baby had died from hunger first and then was eaten...
...Quickly housewives discovered how hard are the facts of rationing: with his 48 points a month, each civilian could buy only three or four cans. Rationing also meant a leveling of U.S. diets: upper-income groups had once eaten the bulk of the nation's meat, low-income groups the bulk of canned goods. Now meat would soon be shared & shared alike-and even beans ("the poor man's food") now had high point values. Precious few foods (examples: olives, mincemeat, popcorn) remained unrationed. Cook books, vegetable gardens and a knowledge of dietetics became more highly...
Neglected Mussels. The edible mussel, points out the Industrial Bulletin, is a much-neglected food source. Europeans have always preferred mussels to clams-kitchen middens of the Old World contain no clamshells. Fried or frittered, roasted or chowdered, mussels may be eaten, like oysters, during the "R" months. But while oysters are not harvested during the summer because they are propagating, summer mussels are not harvested because they are dangerous if they have been feeding on a variety of plankton (Gonyaulax catenella), which contains a powerful alkaloid poison. Diggers should pass up the long, purplish-yellow mussels, tough and poor...
...first holiday. When it came, he found that the regiment did not let the holiday interfere with the regular day's work. Reveille was at 3 a.m., and before the usual breakfast time the men had worshipped dead Japanese in three separate ceremonies, dueled with bayonets, eaten some dried flounder, shouted "Banzai!" and marched up & down a mountain. Then they trained as usual...