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Re: Perishable food items aboard uboat?
Posted by: BHenderson ()
Date: September 04, 2011 03:15PM

There was a limited amount of refrigerated storage space on a U-boot but most of the food was designed to be stored without refrigeration. I've noticed frequent reference to bread being stored or supplied from "Milk-cows" in metal cans.
There is a listing of the menu items for a U-boot in one of the reports on "u-boat archive" dot-com. (Sorry, don't remember which one.) It was captured among a sailor's personal effects and included in the Intelligence Report on the sinking of a U-boot. It provides a complete list of each meal for about 45 days. An interesting aspect is that the last few days are pretty much "Breakfast - whatever is left"; "Lunch - whatever is left"; Dinner - whatever is left" but for most days the menu items are listed in detail.

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Perishable food items aboard uboat? swisster 09/02/2011 06:33PM
Re: Perishable food items aboard uboat? BHenderson 09/04/2011 03:15PM
Re: Perishable food items aboard uboat? Cape Crusader 09/04/2011 05:29PM


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