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spamtrap1888 > wrote:

> On May 22, 8:18*pm, Omelet > wrote:
> > Sorry, but I thought this was funny as hell. ;-)
> >
> > U.S. Military recipe for brownies and oatmeal cookies.
> >
> > It's twenty-six pages long and replete with such gems as:
> >
> > "3.2.4 Shortening, hydrogenated. *Shortening shall be a refined,
> > hydrogenated vegetable oil or combination of refined vegetable oils
> > which
> > are in common use by the baking industry. *Coconut and palm kernel oils
> > may
> > be used only in the coating. *The shortening shall have a stability of
> > not
> > less than 100 hours as determined by the Active Oxygen Method (AOM) in
> > Method Cd 12-57 of the MIL-C-44072C Commercial Fats and Oils chapter in
> > the
> > Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists Society. *
> > The
> > shortening may contain alpha monoglycerides and an antioxidant or
> > combination of antioxidants, as permitted by the Federal Grain
> > Inspection
> > Service (FGIS), and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and
> > regulations
> > promulgated thereunder."
> >
> > PDFhttp://liw.iki.fi/liw/misc/MIL-C-44072C.pdf
>
>
> Having been in procurement, I can appreciate that every line spelling
> out requirements was borne of bitter experience dealing with suppliers
> trying to make the most profit they can. (why prohibit use of rancid
> fats? Because experience taught them if it wasn't in the spec, people
> would use rancid fat.)

I see. I was unaware of that... Manufacturers of military food try to
poison the troops?
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