K-RATION MEMORY
We have, long since, used up all humorous materials concerning boxed K-rations we used in the armed forces many years ago.
I want to make a positive statement in regard to them and to pose a question or two.
There was one item in particular in those K-rations - not all of them - but at intervals, which I liked. I always felt it was a special treat when I cut open a waxy brown box and found therein a small can of food marked
“Pork With Apple Flakes” printed on a small label on top of the small can in generic white and black. I’ve been looking for a civilian version of the same delicious combination... well, since 1945, I suppose.
I even tried to interest a meat packing company in the area to give the recipe a try. We have an abundance of hogs in this Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and plenty more along the mountains to the east and
west on each side of us, and more apples than we can count. It seemed like good business to use up the less than top-quality pork critters and the less than perfect apples to be ground into a pork and apple flakes spread ... enough
meat to keep it on display in the meat sections at the supermarket, from which it could, logically, migrate in to the Deli and the Sandwich Makings areas.
No one there would even listen to me. It was commonly know, to them, it seems, that nothing good ever went into K-rations box or C-rations can and that, certainly, nothing good could ever be expected to come from any of
them.
Maybe some firm will see the potential for profits in such a simple food product and start producing it again. It may be that some already done so.
Do any of you readers know of such a product being on the shelves at our markets today? Maybe some of you people who work all day setting up grocery can displays - pyramids, circles, triangle towers, blocks or
whatever, which we then tear down bit by bit will understand the search I’ve been making.
If you do. E-mail me, please.
Just tell me where, and stand back outta my way!
A.L.M. August 29, 2002 [c-386wds]
