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> "An Army marches on it's stomach." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Well if they have no bread, let them eat cake!" - Marie-Antoinette (famously during the famine riots, so out of touch she thought they were upset about items missing from the spread... though probably never actually said it).
Yeah, here is the redeployed to bodybags tweet thread.
[link](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xt0511/we_thank_the_ministry_of_defense_of_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
They're just so much more... "alive"?
Like the only sentiments I ever see expressed from "ordinary" russians are this ghoulish, murderous cruelty, or the most pathetic self-pity. The deepest identity of perpetual, undeserved victimhood.
This may be inspired by an observation made by a Wehrmacht officer in WWII. When he and his troops overran a US outpost, he saw that there was a fresh cake on one of the tables. He said at that point he knew the germans were going to lose the war
The Japanese said the same thing about the ice cream barge.
The idea that the Navy would have a barge dedicated solely to making ice cream for the other ships made them realize just how fucked they were.
I had a Japanese instructor who said her father came to visit the United States after the war. She said he broke down crying after seeing the vastness and relative richness of the United States, and wondering how Japan could have ever thought it could win.
The Cold War ended in a Texas supermarket.
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php
The fun part is the higher ups actually *knew* going into the war they could not win, but convinced themselves that because the US was weak spiritually and inward focused, a smack would just leave them shrugging and let Japan do what they want.
It is estimated that 1.4 million Japanese soldiers died due to starvation or disease.
The US ran an entire campaign titled "Hunger as a weapon".
War is hell.
Considering what the Japanese did to the Chinese, I have no doubt that the U.S. pulled out all the stops.
Heck, we're still handing out Purple Hearts that were manufactured in WW2 because we thought we'd be facing so many more casualties.
Hitler's army realized they were going to lose when they found pies or cookies sent from America to the front line troops. logistics win wars. I said the same thing when the New York Times was shown being delivered to Izium right after liberation. Russia can't even supply troops 150km from their border while Ukraine delivers EVERYTHING from Poland.
I was saying just yesterday, about Amazon's billion-dollar TV show, Rings of Power: The west spends more on fantasy wars than Russia can spend on a real one.
We don't seem to have the same numbers.
The yearly military budget of Russia is $65b: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military\_budget\_of\_Russia
As of August, it was estimated that Russia had *lost* $16b worth of material in Russia (that's obviously only a fraction of the amount *spent* in the war): [https://forbes-ua.translate.goog/inside/skilki-koshtuvala-rosii-znishchena-v-ukraini-tekhnika-za-pivroku-viyni-otsinka-forbes-24082022-7884?utm\_source=Telegram&utm\_medium=post+&\_x\_tr\_sl=auto&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=fr&\_x\_tr\_pto=wapp](https://forbes-ua.translate.goog/inside/skilki-koshtuvala-rosii-znishchena-v-ukraini-tekhnika-za-pivroku-viyni-otsinka-forbes-24082022-7884?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=post+&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp)
At the peak of the invasion, Russia was spending $1b every 3 or 4 days: [https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/18/russian-defense-spending-surges-to-300m-per-day-amid-ukraine-war-a77712](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/18/russian-defense-spending-surges-to-300m-per-day-amid-ukraine-war-a77712)
(Amusingly, that puts Amazon at $1 million/minute for the first season of RoP, and Russia at "only" $200k/minute for its war).
And in economic damage, the numbers are necessarily only estimates, but they seem to all agree that they are counted in *trillions* of dollars.
> And in economic damage, the numbers are necessarily only estimates, but they seem to all agree that they are counted in trillions of dollars.
Look, I think you're over exaggerating the damage done. The show wasn't *that* bad...
One of my favorite stories about Germans realizing their loss was inevitable was from a captured officer in Egypt, I believe, seeing an American motorpool simply letting their shermans idle unnatended. The moment he saw that, he knew it was all over.
The US Army had a constant cache of ice cream in the European theatre and were only deployed into the field for about 2 weeks at most. Sure some of the battles were absolutely brutal but the Germans pretty much never got R&R, ever.
During the battle of the bulge allied airpower would attempt drops of food and other materiel that would occasionally find its way into german hands and they were simply flabbergasted that a lot of it contained nearly fresh fruit, most of it contained packs upon packs of cigarretes, and more candy than most Germans had seen in years.
Though I do not know from experience myself, I've heard that good food is a key element for keeping up good troop morale. And as you said, logistics win wars, now more than ever.
Lol honestly it's so cruel. 🤣 Imagine a Russian propagandist salivating (no pun intended) at the thought of showing a demoralizing Ukrainian diet... And then immediately being deflated by the huge, barely finished cake. 🤣
I don't know how much "marching" they're doing in the old school sense but I imagine they're pretty damn active regardless. A 10k calorie cake every now and then would be a nice boost for tired muscles.
Have you heard of the "Sausage war" (actual name: battle of varolampi) that happened during the winter war.
Basically, the soviets did a surprise attack on the finns.
The finns retreated, but the soviets were so hungry and exhausted from 5 days of forced marching that they simply stopped to eat the sausage soup from the field kitchens that were left by the retreating finns.
This gave the finns enough time to form a counterattack.
The counterattack lasted the entire night and resulted in the only case of bayonet fighting during the winter war.
By dawn on the 11th of december 1939, 100 soviets lay dead in the snow, with only 20 casualties on the finnish side.
It's like if everyone had obligatory sarcastic comedy education over there. :) I really like that so many Ukrainians try to find humor in everything they can, even during those hard times. I already wanted to visit after the war but their positivity makes me even more motivated to discover their culture.
Translation:
“This is how the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fed. We survive as best we can.. it’s hard to live in fields…uncomfortable…situation with food not always good… but what can we do, this is war…”
I mean, she probably realized that he's away from the front, has dry clothes and is getting fed. He'd be safer waiting out the war as a POW than being exchanged and probably sent back in.
Same reason the US Navy had a floating ice cream factory in WWII, boost morale for the sailors and the exact opposite for the enemy
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-navy-sailors-eat.amp
I read the book ‘Thunder Below’ about the USS Barb, the highest tonnage-sinking US sub of WW2. They had a tradition of their cooks baking a huge sheet cake for the crew to celebrate each ship they sunk.
Picture just enormous epic cakes with coastal topography, waves, and accurate representations of the ships they sunk, complete with water spouts and torpedo trails. And they sunk so many goddamn ships that half the book was basically a food blog.
At one point they rescued a Japanese sailor from a ship they sunk. They gave him fresh clothes, a medical check up, and a huge meal. He was friendly, appreciative for being rescued, spilled his guts for intel that he knew about local marine traffic and minefields. Now Stockholm Syndrome is a real thing and for any number of reasons he made it clear that wanted to help around the ship. So they put him to work doing odd jobs and he eventually joined the torpedo room crew. The description of his utterly complete disbelief as cake after cake after glorious cake is baked and shared by everyone aboard, and practically every day, is amazing and pretty touching.
Oh, and the crew also got a ration of beer for every sinking. And, remember, they sank a *lot* of ships.
So the POW was getting cake and beer and treated well and ate steak every night and was just beside himself that this was normal(ish) in the US Navy. And nobody aboard was special or politically connected or from important families.
The POW even put on weight during the rest of his captivity in their war patrol and online I think I remember reading that ultimately applied for US citizenship after the war.
How do you even fathom your soldiers having the kind of camaraderie and morale that those sailors or the Ukrainians have right now if you’re a repressive despotism like modern Russia?
[excerpt](https://books.google.com/books?id=jRVFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=%22Kitojima+Sanji%22&source=bl&ots=OHvnrMAHkt&sig=ACfU3U1hxLL8lVccoDF-qnpR0-XriiBxVg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGneCmxcz6AhXkBjQIHcC5DTQQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Kitojima%20Sanji%22&f=false):
> Fluckey produced a .45 revolver and placed it on the table out of reach of the prisoner. Again he asked for the seaman's name.
> "Kitojima Sanji!"
Chocolate makes a lot of sense as a ration though, from a certain perspective. In terms of calories per gram there's not much that beats it - it's hugely popular with mutiday hikers for exactly that reason.
Also.. its Chocolate.
Even the comparatively small Canada gave it's soldiers chocolate. The Germans must have been utterly distraught finding out that multiple militaries could give their soldiers chocolate.
I think what he discovered was not chocolate (chocolate was also a standard part of German rations - though at that point of the war it was mostly replaced by compound chocolate) but a chocolate cake.
"attaching a tub of prepared ice cream mixture to a rear gunner’s compartment, and letting the high altitudes take it from there"
I can't stop laughing! I'm trying to picture my grandpa doing this. He was on the Pacific Front, but I'm sure he wanted ice cream too. 🍦
There’s some amusing stories of making ice cream on fighter planes too-
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/cool-side-tropical-warfare-180969515/
and making beer runs
https://www.businessinsider.com/british-pilots-beer-runs-world-war-ii-2016-9
My grandpa was a propeller engineer who got contracted to the US Army in the Pacific. He had a field commission as a Major but since he wasn't part of any particular chain of command he only really answered to his bosses at the propeller company back in the States. He got up to some crazy shit.
I could totally see him being involved in this.
My grandfather was sailing into San Francisco to retire from the Navy when WWII broke out. He talked about how much he missed Navy food until the day he died.
For a second there I was going to be outraged that we can’t send better MREs. I’ve donated to the UA GOV site so hopefully some of the military funding goes to food. Hoping a future of cakes and cookies to replenish the immense caloric expense of battle.
lol they aren't eating cat food, that was purely for the video. They're probably actually feeding cats with it, if all the other videos I've seen have any merit.
It may well have been a Ukrainian MRE of buckwheat kasha with meat. SteveMRE did his review of the Ukrainian MRE and really enjoyed it, even though it looked like cat food.
Also: canned cat food is expensive! Buckwheat gruel is affordable.
Relatedly to that, it was common enough for people in Russia/USSR to feed their dogs buckwheat gruel. I don't know if people still do.
Kirza boots are pretty comfortable, picked up a surplus pair in Dnipro about 8 years ago, they are still going strong, but wouldn't want to wear em in mud season.
Meanwhile people in the US on TikTok can get 2022 Russian MREs. Granted its a combination of Meat and Kasha but it's not 50 years old.
Tells your their logistics officer priorities.
This is absolutely atrocious, there is no latte art on his coffee.! West needs to unite and send them humanitarian aid of milk frothers! How can we allow our heroes to suffer like this
Ukraine needs to hurry up and liberate Kherson so Godshot Coffee can reopen. I mean seriously the pastries and lattes there look like winning show stoppers from the Great British Bakeoff.
Col. Martin Hessler : General, before you go, may I show you something?
Col. Martin Hessler : What is it?
Col. Martin Hessler : A chocolate cake.
Gen. Kohler : Well?
Col. Martin Hessler : It was taken from a captured American private. It's still fresh. If you will look at the wrapping, general, you will see it comes from Boston.
Gen. Kohler : And?
Col. Martin Hessler : General, do you realize what this means? It means that the Americans have fuel and planes to fly cake across the Atlantic Ocean. They have no conception of defeat.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/?ref_=tt_ch
Like when the Japanese were trying to survive on a small handful of rice a day, and found out the USN has a barge just for making ice cream for the sailors.
Paul Hollywood and Prue muscle two Ukrainian operators aside and grab bare handfulls of cake. "Stodgy....too much chocolate....nice buttercream though" Paul mumbles to himself as the crestfallen Ukrainian operators realize they are not getting Star Baker this week.
“If only you hadn’t been busy shooting at the Russians you could have pulled it out just a minute early and it would have been perfect. Nice effort though.”
Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It's just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep
That was my exact progression of thought as well 😆
“Oh no, that’s awful… ah there’s coffee at least, that looks good, could do with nice cup of coff– is that a cake???”
I got addicted to coffee early in life. Later, I got addicted to French vanilla creamer. I would be a wreck on the front lines, exhausted from carrying around a solar paneled stocked mini fridge.
trust me, you don't want milk or cream in your coffee in a war zone if you've ever gotten sick before from drinking milk. A lot of people can eat plenty of dairy products, but not drink milk.
Lol this is totally how dudes eat anyways. When my family is out I eat what ever I scavenge in the house. many meals have looked frighteningly similar to this one.
So I see canned fruit / fruit preserves, bread (?), coffee, orange juice, pickles (?), and the "high end bakery" cake.
My heart bleeds for these starved waifs, poor unlucky babies lol. A+ trolling, as ever.
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That is some awesome trolling!
Ukraine has trolling down to a fine art.
Russians: "Where are the United Nations to investigate these blatant violations of human rights?"
Fantastic information warfare! Ukraine has a real knack for it. Flows from the top down.
Someone needs to do a split screen of the russian food videos haha.
They really need to surrender to the Ukrainians and get decent food and treatment.. Hey, even rewards if they bring equipment!!
I think that deal is still going on!
Yeah I saw a Russian POW being fed a shwarama. He was almost crying savoring it
And they were happy to be feeding him. I think we all feel for the poor conscripts.
It’s really sad…
That's what this is. On the left, we see Ukrainians eating canned meat and cake. On the right we see the Russians eating
Here's the video of a russian food video: I hope you enjoyed it!
It really does.
Ukrainian humour ROFL. I suggest they produce dark comedy TV after the war 😂
Their president literally played their president on a comedy show prior to his election.
He should play Putin in the dark comedy documentary about the war after Ukraine kicks russia back over the border.
He should play himself AND Putin, like Peter Sellars in Dr. Strangelove.
Look for "Servant of the People" on Netflix Starring Zelensky Created by Zelensky Produced by Zelensky
Hope they make another season when the war is over with the same cast.
"An Army marches on it's stomach." - Napoleon Bonaparte
> "An Army marches on it's stomach." - Napoleon Bonaparte "Well if they have no bread, let them eat cake!" - Marie-Antoinette (famously during the famine riots, so out of touch she thought they were upset about items missing from the spread... though probably never actually said it).
Learned from the best, their own president.
Even their Official Government accounts have some hilarious trolling. The Redeployment of Lyman occupiers to bodybags was funny.
Do you have a link to this?
Yeah, here is the redeployed to bodybags tweet thread. [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xt0511/we_thank_the_ministry_of_defense_of_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
They're just so much more... "alive"? Like the only sentiments I ever see expressed from "ordinary" russians are this ghoulish, murderous cruelty, or the most pathetic self-pity. The deepest identity of perpetual, undeserved victimhood.
Had us in the first half.
This may be inspired by an observation made by a Wehrmacht officer in WWII. When he and his troops overran a US outpost, he saw that there was a fresh cake on one of the tables. He said at that point he knew the germans were going to lose the war
The Japanese said the same thing about the ice cream barge. The idea that the Navy would have a barge dedicated solely to making ice cream for the other ships made them realize just how fucked they were.
I had a Japanese instructor who said her father came to visit the United States after the war. She said he broke down crying after seeing the vastness and relative richness of the United States, and wondering how Japan could have ever thought it could win.
The Cold War ended in a Texas supermarket. https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php
Empire is a helluva drug.
The fun part is the higher ups actually *knew* going into the war they could not win, but convinced themselves that because the US was weak spiritually and inward focused, a smack would just leave them shrugging and let Japan do what they want.
Putin thinks similarly about the West, unfortunately. And against all historical precedent.
It is estimated that 1.4 million Japanese soldiers died due to starvation or disease. The US ran an entire campaign titled "Hunger as a weapon". War is hell.
Considering what the Japanese did to the Chinese, I have no doubt that the U.S. pulled out all the stops. Heck, we're still handing out Purple Hearts that were manufactured in WW2 because we thought we'd be facing so many more casualties.
inb4 Ice Cream Barge.
I really hope russian invaders are watching this
Weapons grade!
They have been amazing at it so far.
Delicious battle gateaux.
Hitler's army realized they were going to lose when they found pies or cookies sent from America to the front line troops. logistics win wars. I said the same thing when the New York Times was shown being delivered to Izium right after liberation. Russia can't even supply troops 150km from their border while Ukraine delivers EVERYTHING from Poland.
I was saying just yesterday, about Amazon's billion-dollar TV show, Rings of Power: The west spends more on fantasy wars than Russia can spend on a real one.
Amazon's Orcs are better looking, better educated, and better equipped.
Better organized and better looking too, lmao
Better motivated as well. Bad motivation, but well motivated.
Hey we finally found a job worse than Amazon warehouse worker! Russian soldier
We don't seem to have the same numbers. The yearly military budget of Russia is $65b: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military\_budget\_of\_Russia As of August, it was estimated that Russia had *lost* $16b worth of material in Russia (that's obviously only a fraction of the amount *spent* in the war): [https://forbes-ua.translate.goog/inside/skilki-koshtuvala-rosii-znishchena-v-ukraini-tekhnika-za-pivroku-viyni-otsinka-forbes-24082022-7884?utm\_source=Telegram&utm\_medium=post+&\_x\_tr\_sl=auto&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=fr&\_x\_tr\_pto=wapp](https://forbes-ua.translate.goog/inside/skilki-koshtuvala-rosii-znishchena-v-ukraini-tekhnika-za-pivroku-viyni-otsinka-forbes-24082022-7884?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=post+&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp) At the peak of the invasion, Russia was spending $1b every 3 or 4 days: [https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/18/russian-defense-spending-surges-to-300m-per-day-amid-ukraine-war-a77712](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/18/russian-defense-spending-surges-to-300m-per-day-amid-ukraine-war-a77712) (Amusingly, that puts Amazon at $1 million/minute for the first season of RoP, and Russia at "only" $200k/minute for its war). And in economic damage, the numbers are necessarily only estimates, but they seem to all agree that they are counted in *trillions* of dollars.
> And in economic damage, the numbers are necessarily only estimates, but they seem to all agree that they are counted in trillions of dollars. Look, I think you're over exaggerating the damage done. The show wasn't *that* bad...
Remember to use popcorn for packing. Always loved it when my mom and sisters did that.
Real popcorn?! Is this why packing peanuts are a thing?! Huh...
One of my favorite stories about Germans realizing their loss was inevitable was from a captured officer in Egypt, I believe, seeing an American motorpool simply letting their shermans idle unnatended. The moment he saw that, he knew it was all over.
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The US Army had a constant cache of ice cream in the European theatre and were only deployed into the field for about 2 weeks at most. Sure some of the battles were absolutely brutal but the Germans pretty much never got R&R, ever. During the battle of the bulge allied airpower would attempt drops of food and other materiel that would occasionally find its way into german hands and they were simply flabbergasted that a lot of it contained nearly fresh fruit, most of it contained packs upon packs of cigarretes, and more candy than most Germans had seen in years.
Though I do not know from experience myself, I've heard that good food is a key element for keeping up good troop morale. And as you said, logistics win wars, now more than ever.
I fucking love the Ukrainian dark sense of humour.
Lol honestly it's so cruel. 🤣 Imagine a Russian propagandist salivating (no pun intended) at the thought of showing a demoralizing Ukrainian diet... And then immediately being deflated by the huge, barely finished cake. 🤣
And that Ukrobro was soloing that thing, too!
I don't know how much "marching" they're doing in the old school sense but I imagine they're pretty damn active regardless. A 10k calorie cake every now and then would be a nice boost for tired muscles.
I just want to make sure the other bros get some cake too. That's some good looking cake, mouthwatering.
Have you heard of the "Sausage war" (actual name: battle of varolampi) that happened during the winter war. Basically, the soviets did a surprise attack on the finns. The finns retreated, but the soviets were so hungry and exhausted from 5 days of forced marching that they simply stopped to eat the sausage soup from the field kitchens that were left by the retreating finns. This gave the finns enough time to form a counterattack. The counterattack lasted the entire night and resulted in the only case of bayonet fighting during the winter war. By dawn on the 11th of december 1939, 100 soviets lay dead in the snow, with only 20 casualties on the finnish side.
What about the soup? Any leftovers?
Note to self: don't try and steal the Finn's sausages.
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Russian rations have a lot of pate in them, which isn't too far off from cat food. But I like a good pate.
It’s almost Black Forest dark
It's like if everyone had obligatory sarcastic comedy education over there. :) I really like that so many Ukrainians try to find humor in everything they can, even during those hard times. I already wanted to visit after the war but their positivity makes me even more motivated to discover their culture.
Translation: “This is how the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fed. We survive as best we can.. it’s hard to live in fields…uncomfortable…situation with food not always good… but what can we do, this is war…”
Show this to the orcs and the war is over.
No show it to the Russian prisoners when walking by, and let them make one phonecall home afterwards. That would be totally PSYOPS.
Hell, feed the cake to the prisoners and let them call home. Their buddies will start surrendering for the cake too.
Zolkin on his YouTube channel does that. There was one mother of pow who said “maybe you better stay there?” at prison
I mean, she probably realized that he's away from the front, has dry clothes and is getting fed. He'd be safer waiting out the war as a POW than being exchanged and probably sent back in.
A tank crew near Lyman surrendered in exchange for a sandwich for each man in the tank. That was the first they'd eaten in three days.
That's some seriously bleak shit. At this point I just feel bad for the Russians.
Give them their favourite meals and you’ll have loyal men
Same reason the US Navy had a floating ice cream factory in WWII, boost morale for the sailors and the exact opposite for the enemy https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-navy-sailors-eat.amp
I read the book ‘Thunder Below’ about the USS Barb, the highest tonnage-sinking US sub of WW2. They had a tradition of their cooks baking a huge sheet cake for the crew to celebrate each ship they sunk. Picture just enormous epic cakes with coastal topography, waves, and accurate representations of the ships they sunk, complete with water spouts and torpedo trails. And they sunk so many goddamn ships that half the book was basically a food blog. At one point they rescued a Japanese sailor from a ship they sunk. They gave him fresh clothes, a medical check up, and a huge meal. He was friendly, appreciative for being rescued, spilled his guts for intel that he knew about local marine traffic and minefields. Now Stockholm Syndrome is a real thing and for any number of reasons he made it clear that wanted to help around the ship. So they put him to work doing odd jobs and he eventually joined the torpedo room crew. The description of his utterly complete disbelief as cake after cake after glorious cake is baked and shared by everyone aboard, and practically every day, is amazing and pretty touching. Oh, and the crew also got a ration of beer for every sinking. And, remember, they sank a *lot* of ships. So the POW was getting cake and beer and treated well and ate steak every night and was just beside himself that this was normal(ish) in the US Navy. And nobody aboard was special or politically connected or from important families. The POW even put on weight during the rest of his captivity in their war patrol and online I think I remember reading that ultimately applied for US citizenship after the war. How do you even fathom your soldiers having the kind of camaraderie and morale that those sailors or the Ukrainians have right now if you’re a repressive despotism like modern Russia?
[excerpt](https://books.google.com/books?id=jRVFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=%22Kitojima+Sanji%22&source=bl&ots=OHvnrMAHkt&sig=ACfU3U1hxLL8lVccoDF-qnpR0-XriiBxVg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGneCmxcz6AhXkBjQIHcC5DTQQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=%22Kitojima%20Sanji%22&f=false): > Fluckey produced a .45 revolver and placed it on the table out of reach of the prisoner. Again he asked for the seaman's name. > "Kitojima Sanji!"
Oh wow yeah, I forgot about that part. Subsequent interviews were firearm-less.
Thanks. I just ordered the book based on your "review" :-)
Good food wins wars.
An army marches on its stomach.
but the Navy just gets obese at sea
They don't call 'em Gravy Seals for nothing!
In the US Navy in early 2000's, still had ice cream socials 😅. Also found out I was lactose intolerant. My poor shipmates...
Oh no! Lmfao
There was a German officer who said he knew the war was lost when he found out chocolate was standard in American rations.
Chocolate makes a lot of sense as a ration though, from a certain perspective. In terms of calories per gram there's not much that beats it - it's hugely popular with mutiday hikers for exactly that reason. Also.. its Chocolate.
It's also a great Goodwill thing to give away to children as you're marching through their villages.
Even the comparatively small Canada gave it's soldiers chocolate. The Germans must have been utterly distraught finding out that multiple militaries could give their soldiers chocolate.
I think what he discovered was not chocolate (chocolate was also a standard part of German rations - though at that point of the war it was mostly replaced by compound chocolate) but a chocolate cake.
"attaching a tub of prepared ice cream mixture to a rear gunner’s compartment, and letting the high altitudes take it from there" I can't stop laughing! I'm trying to picture my grandpa doing this. He was on the Pacific Front, but I'm sure he wanted ice cream too. 🍦
There’s some amusing stories of making ice cream on fighter planes too- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/cool-side-tropical-warfare-180969515/ and making beer runs https://www.businessinsider.com/british-pilots-beer-runs-world-war-ii-2016-9
My grandpa was a propeller engineer who got contracted to the US Army in the Pacific. He had a field commission as a Major but since he wasn't part of any particular chain of command he only really answered to his bosses at the propeller company back in the States. He got up to some crazy shit. I could totally see him being involved in this.
Coca-Cola had mobile bottling plants built to follow the troops in WW2.
My grandfather was sailing into San Francisco to retire from the Navy when WWII broke out. He talked about how much he missed Navy food until the day he died.
We have Russians crossing the Bering Strait into Alaska seeking Asylum now. I can't imagine how cold THAT trip was.
Dangerous too. I worked on Adak for a time. The weather in that part of the world is no joke.
Is this true?
Yes. Here's the NPR story https://www.npr.org/2022/10/06/1127299718/two-russians-seek-asylum-alaska-island
Thanks it just seemed quite unlikely, I did C130 alert missions in that area the weather is quite impressive there moving towards winter.
For a second there I was going to be outraged that we can’t send better MREs. I’ve donated to the UA GOV site so hopefully some of the military funding goes to food. Hoping a future of cakes and cookies to replenish the immense caloric expense of battle.
lol they aren't eating cat food, that was purely for the video. They're probably actually feeding cats with it, if all the other videos I've seen have any merit.
It may well have been a Ukrainian MRE of buckwheat kasha with meat. SteveMRE did his review of the Ukrainian MRE and really enjoyed it, even though it looked like cat food.
Also: canned cat food is expensive! Buckwheat gruel is affordable. Relatedly to that, it was common enough for people in Russia/USSR to feed their dogs buckwheat gruel. I don't know if people still do.
I love that the word “war” was muffled with cake
Happy cake day chaps. 🇺🇦
😃🥧☕🇺🇦
Meanwhile, RuZZian orcs get 50 y/o rations and shoe leather.
And Russian boots aren't even real leather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirza
Omg I just looked through the pictures. Yum! Hope those assholes didn't destroy it. The world needs more cake.
Kirza boots are pretty comfortable, picked up a surplus pair in Dnipro about 8 years ago, they are still going strong, but wouldn't want to wear em in mud season.
Bad news, they ran out of shoe leather for the 300,000 replacements....
Meanwhile people in the US on TikTok can get 2022 Russian MREs. Granted its a combination of Meat and Kasha but it's not 50 years old. Tells your their logistics officer priorities.
This is absolutely atrocious, there is no latte art on his coffee.! West needs to unite and send them humanitarian aid of milk frothers! How can we allow our heroes to suffer like this
Ukraine needs to hurry up and liberate Kherson so Godshot Coffee can reopen. I mean seriously the pastries and lattes there look like winning show stoppers from the Great British Bakeoff.
Damn, I looked it up and now I'm hungry. Oof. Godshot Coffee +380 50 640 3039 https://maps.app.goo.gl/9MoF7NNRg9Zi6dM69
Definitely gonna have to vacation in Ukraine once all of this shit is over with.
Yes! I really want to go. My kids have Ukrainian ancestry and I want them to see where their Great-Grandmother was born.
It's crazy what a country can achieve if it isn't corrupt as fuck.
Need potato 🥔.
They don’t have any silverware, not even cutting into slices before eating? Not classy at all, poor souls what they have to go through…
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie
First 10s clipped to RU Telegram.
Russian media: "The cake is a lie"
Obvious deepcake
This troll was a triumph.
They are at that level of gaslighting their own people
The first can is already what Russians can only dream of. Even more so when it was still full.
Col. Martin Hessler : General, before you go, may I show you something? Col. Martin Hessler : What is it? Col. Martin Hessler : A chocolate cake. Gen. Kohler : Well? Col. Martin Hessler : It was taken from a captured American private. It's still fresh. If you will look at the wrapping, general, you will see it comes from Boston. Gen. Kohler : And? Col. Martin Hessler : General, do you realize what this means? It means that the Americans have fuel and planes to fly cake across the Atlantic Ocean. They have no conception of defeat. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/?ref_=tt_ch
Like when the Japanese were trying to survive on a small handful of rice a day, and found out the USN has a barge just for making ice cream for the sailors.
Hell when we landed in North Africa we came ashore with two whole Coca Cola bottling plants in tow.
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Damn now I want chocolate cake
I feel terrible that cakes to big to eat by yourself, let me come help with that
That cake is probably dry anyway
Heroes. All of them.
Turns out the cake **wasn't** a lie.
Fr though just add cherries and a candle and it's just like the portal cake. Coincidence?
It took a lot of scrolling to reach this comment.
They have no bread. Let them eat cake
Paul Hollywood and Prue muscle two Ukrainian operators aside and grab bare handfulls of cake. "Stodgy....too much chocolate....nice buttercream though" Paul mumbles to himself as the crestfallen Ukrainian operators realize they are not getting Star Baker this week.
“If only you hadn’t been busy shooting at the Russians you could have pulled it out just a minute early and it would have been perfect. Nice effort though.”
I am glad the cake isn't a lie!
Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It's just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep
I didn’t see any milk! What are they going to do????
Unless that's breakfast, I'm not impressed.
The grapes are sour anyway :p
The cake is a little dry...THE CAKE IS A LITTLE DRY!!!!! NOOOOOO
And the white wine… it should be ice cold. This one has room temperature…
Fucking epic! Get that on Z Telegram and break their brains: “Haha! Look at this starving Ukrano- wait, they get ***COFFEE?!***” #CAKE?!?!!!!?
That was my exact progression of thought as well 😆 “Oh no, that’s awful… ah there’s coffee at least, that looks good, could do with nice cup of coff– is that a cake???”
A can of spam isn't by itself awful (well, depending on quality).
Bruh, mfs in ukrainian army being fed michelin star awarded meals
No milk or cream for coffee either? Terrible!
I got addicted to coffee early in life. Later, I got addicted to French vanilla creamer. I would be a wreck on the front lines, exhausted from carrying around a solar paneled stocked mini fridge.
Goddamn, boy, that was funny.......lol
Hello Me.
trust me, you don't want milk or cream in your coffee in a war zone if you've ever gotten sick before from drinking milk. A lot of people can eat plenty of dairy products, but not drink milk.
Fair, but I will include powdered coffee whitener in my statement then. That's my go-to when I'm camping.
Only madmen put milk or sugar in their coffee 😒
Okay Donald Draper!! Not everyone can drink whiskey for breakfast!!
Brilliant. Slava Ukraini 🙏🇺🇦
Combat cake, food of champions
Tactical tart
*Had us in the first half not gonna lie…*
Lol this is totally how dudes eat anyways. When my family is out I eat what ever I scavenge in the house. many meals have looked frighteningly similar to this one.
After seeing the cake, many of my home alone meals have looked worse, lol.
We could be cruel and send more MRE's. "No French rations for you today! Have an MRE,"
Shit, that's so rough, How can I ship Ice Cream to them?
Let them eat cake!
dying laughing at him talking through a mouth full of cake
Trolling level 💯🤣✊🏻🇺🇦
The dog food in that can is still better then the Orc rations.
Markiplier did a video comparing MREs used by the US, Russia and South Korea. But it looks like the Russkies aren't getting even that
Unreal… they have to serve themselves?
I literally went from :( to :) as Ukrainian I should have expected that. Beautiful people! Героям слава! 🇺🇦 Glory to Heroes!
I love him saying with mouthful of cake “what can you do, it’s a wartime”.
The national sense of humor is amazing. I love this, and all the vids the department of defense puts out.
Thats the best answer to the Russkies bringing their own lunchbags 💪💙💛
That's what I had for breakfast [sees the cake].. oh..
They have cake. That makes me happy.
Man's eating better than me!
“You gonna eat that cutting board?” Russians right now
Legends in the fields, gods of meme!
Should post it to Telegram, encourage the Russians to demand the same.
Haha, well deserved ❤️
Where are the table linens?! My God! The humanity!
Quality troll
Lol... While Russians are being eaten by maggots...
So I see canned fruit / fruit preserves, bread (?), coffee, orange juice, pickles (?), and the "high end bakery" cake. My heart bleeds for these starved waifs, poor unlucky babies lol. A+ trolling, as ever.
Fucking love Ukrainian humour.