Making Small Talk
The first time you ate military rations, the novelty often made them taste pretty good. The second time, thanks to that good first impression, they still seemed all right.
By the third time, though, something started to feel off, and they became hard to swallow.
By the fifth time, nausea and disgust set in, and you started to feel a strong aversion to them.
By the sixth time, the nightmare began... Every time your tongue touched the stuff, you couldn't help questioning your life choices. In severe cases, you even lost the will to live.
Who knew what those manufacturers were thinking when they made food this terrifying?
No wonder that during World War II, the Italians had hollered for steak, pasta, and red wine, while the Indians had cried for curry, claiming their combat effectiveness would otherwise drop below zero and they'd become a bunch of useless deadweight.
If military rations were all they had, even the Germans and Japanese would see their combat effectiveness plummet—not to mention the Americans and British.
As for the Chinese back then... Yeah, we mostly didn't have any!
So there was no need to worry about that at all.
Even today, you could find tons of domestically made Chinese military rations being sold all over Taobao, with land, sea, and air force varieties.
If you could really live on this stuff, what would you need a mess officer for? You might as well just shoot him.
Li Bai beckoned to the indigenous tribal warriors outside the tent, then had them carry over the boxes of military rations and bottled water.
Even with her extraordinary affinity, the sight of the boxes of standard-issue US military rations was almost too much for the blonde woman. Still, she forced herself to thank him.