SC - food and bug bites

[Nisha Martin]

At 11:00 PM -0500 9/10/00, Morgan Cain wrote:

>The problems with period foods are (1) many of them are not appropriate to
>feed to hot, hungry, salt-deprived fighters,

And, of course, precisely the same thing is true of modern foods. If 
you pick any particular purpose (desert, say), most period foods, and 
most modern foods, are inappropriate for it.

>and (2) many of them are
>difficult to convey to a far distant war, especially in the quantities
>needed for a week, with refrigeration and preparation problems.

Ditto.

In each case, what you need are not most foods but some foods.
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