Topic: Army Rations
Army Rations for One Day
What Soldiers of Various Countries Have While on March
Morning Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, 2 December 1908
London Special to New York Times.
Herman Senn, the organizer of the Universal Cookery and Food Exhibition, which has just been opened here, has received, as one of the most interesting exhibits, specimens of the ideal army rations of the leading countries of the world. The exhibits present a day's rations for men on the march, and nearly every country is represented.
The Japanese dietary scale is the most frugal, and is as follows:
- Rice – 5.64 oz.
- Meat – 7.05 oz.
- Fish (which may be had Instead of meat) – 3.50 oz.
- Cabbage Or other vegetable – 5.29 oz.
- Biscuit – 20.00 oz.
- Tea. – .71 oz.
Great Britain's soldier gets in one day:
- Fresh moat – 1 1/4 lb.
- Or, preserved meat – 1 lb.
- Bread – 1 1/4 lb.
- Or biscuit or flour – 1 lb.
- Tea – 5/8 oz.
- Jam – 1/4 lb.
- Sugar – 2 oz.
- Salt – 1/2 oz.
- Pepper – 1/36 oz.
- Fresh vegetables – 1/2 lb.
- Or dried vegetable – 2 ox.
- Or preserved fruit – 4 oz.
- Lime juice (with 1/2 oz. sugar on days when fresh vegetables are not issued) – 1/20 gill.
- Rum – 1/4 gill.
- Tobacco (per week), not exceeding – 2 oz.
The scale of Germany is as follows:
- Bread – 26.60 oz.
- Or biscuit – 17.00 oz.
- Fresh or salt meat – 13.00 oz.
- Or salted beef or mutton – 9.00 oz.
- Or bacon – 5.70 oz.
- Rice – 4.40 oz.
- Barley or groats – 4.40 oz.
- Or peas, beans or flour – 8.60 oz.
- Potatoes – 52.80 oz.
- Salt – .70 oz.
- Coffee (roasted) 1.00 oz.
The French soldier on a march gets per day:
- Meat without bone – 8.40 oz.
- Bread – 35.30 oz.
- Or biscuit – 26.50 oz.
- Dried vegetables – 2.12 oz.
- Salt – .50 oz.
- Sugar – .70 oz.
- Coffee – .60 oz.
The Belgian dietary scale includes concentrated bouillon. Prunes, tomatoes and apples are among the American soldier's rations, and the Dutch army's diet includes horseflesh.
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Updated: Sunday, 24 July 2016 12:07 AM EDT
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