Carl Hughes - Army Food in Korea - Segment 4

Chow in Korea

They must have had a ton of Spam, Dinty Moore's beef stew or corned beef hash to get rid of in the fifties because that's all we seemed to get. Pancakes, oh, did they taste good! They were only a mixture of flour, powdered eggs and powered milk. Some times you got the mixture right not always. The bacon in a can fried up good. That's where you got the grease to cook the pancakes. Walter Malloy still talks about those pancakes. The Cook brothers are still remembered for their varied menu of scrambled egg, pancakes, spam, or the many tastes of Dinty Moore's corned beef hash or beef stew. You can still find Dinty's products on the supermarket shelves. I may break down and buy some before I die just to see if my memory is still good. The cardboard containers that the seven man, seven days rations came in were excellent insulators to sleep on. In defense of the cooks they didn't have a whole lot to work with.