Diet of the Soldiers

In my opinion, I don’t know how one can obtain an appetite after seeing multiple dead bodies. From learning about wars in my previous classes in high school, I never took into consideration about what they ate. Probably because it was the woman of the house job to prepare the food. The most interesting food from their diet that interested me was hardtack. Hardtack was a type of biscuit made from unleavened flour and water, which was used to starve off hunger on both sides. Also their obsession with coffee. “The men held out tin cups, gulped the brew and started firing again.” Which meant that this was their source of energy. I also found it interesting that how they would make coffee anywhere either it was water from canteens and puddles, brackish bays, and Mississippi mud, liquid their horses would not drink. The food I can’t live without is a West Indian dish, Curry and Roti.