[wildrosegirl]

[ShepherdsDog]

Better hope the Psychlos don't take you captive

[wildrosegirl]

Meh.. Anything that took me captive would be guaranteed to return me by morning. I'm not worried.

[DrCaleb]

Reminds me of one of my favourite books/movies. "King Rat" by James Clavell. Only way to get fresh meat in one of those nasty Japanese POW camps, was to breed rats.

[martin14]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Reminds me of one of my favourite books/movies. "King Rat" by James Clavell. Only way to get fresh meat in one of those nasty Japanese POW camps, was to breed rats.

The book was soooooo much better than the movie.

[Jabberwalker]

One hundred years ago ... trench rats ... when protein was hard to come by ...
(Our soldiers had Bully Beef ... lots and lots of Bully Beef)

[saturn_656]

Rats are vermin. I don't eat vermin.

[Hyack]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

One hundred years ago ... trench rats ... when protein was hard to come by ...
(Our soldiers had Bully Beef ... lots and lots of Bully Beef)

One of the few things I still remember about my grandfather, who served with the PPCLI in WWI, was his "fondness" of bully beef. He also told great stories of his time overseas while showing me his wounds and scars. Unfortunately he passed while I was still too young to appreciate what he was talking about.

[DrCaleb]

Hyack Hyack:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

One hundred years ago ... trench rats ... when protein was hard to come by ...
(Our soldiers had Bully Beef ... lots and lots of Bully Beef)

One of the few things I still remember about my grandfather, who served with the PPCLI in WWI, was his "fondness" of bully beef.

I suppose it's like Andouillette. You develop a taste for it it or you puke at the thought of it. Bully Beef is just disgusting.

[ShepherdsDog]

Bully beef is no more

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Bully beef is no more

Corned beef hash? I'm confused. I thought 'Bully Beef' was that salted mostly fatty stuff you get in buckets?

I like Corned beef hash. With cabbage.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

anglicized version of French bouilli, from boeuf bouilli boiled beef

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

$1:

anglicized version of French bouilli, from boeuf bouilli boiled beef

Right. The crap in buckets. You boil it till it's not shoe leather anymore, and try to eat it. Not even similar to Corned Beef, except they were both once part of a cow.

[ShepherdsDog]

Canned corned beef and a corned beef brisket are about as dissimilar as canned ham or spam and a real baked ham. I actually prefer pastrami over corned beef(which I like ) which is smoked before pickling...that's the main difference between the two.

[Jabberwalker]

Hyack Hyack:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

One hundred years ago ... trench rats ... when protein was hard to come by ...
(Our soldiers had Bully Beef ... lots and lots of Bully Beef)

One of the few things I still remember about my grandfather, who served with the PPCLI in WWI, was his "fondness" of bully beef. He also told great stories of his time overseas while showing me his wounds and scars. Unfortunately he passed while I was still too young to appreciate what he was talking about.

The soldiers said that they had so much bully Beef that they dug cases of it in under their guns, to give them a firm platform in the Flanders mud.

I wonder if any Belgians are killed when plowing into unexploded Bully Beef tins?