"Hank Rogers" > wrote in message
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> Cheri wrote:
>> "Druce" > wrote in message
>>> When my grandmother would get her hands on some very rare white bread
>>> in the Japanese war camp, she'd put it in a jar, to let it go mouldy
>>> and double in size. Then she'd divide it and hand it out. Her children
>>> were only too happy to eat it.
>>
>>
>> I imagine if you're truly hungry anything would taste good.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> YES!
>
> I've heard folks say: Ewe ... I would never eat that!
>
> It is a phrase I will never say. I'll never say I won't eat a rat, for
> example. I've never had to, but the time could come.
>
> Fortunately, I was never in a Vietnamese prison camp, but if I had been, I
> imagine I would have eaten anything I could get.
>
> One of my uncles was a POW in north korea. He lived on a few fish heads
> boiled in a pot of rice for a long time. It was all they gave them, and
> damn little of that. He survived. Some didn't.

I have a cousin who was a POW in Vietnam for over 5 years, he would have
eaten, and did, just about anything he could get his hands on. Thankfully, I
have never known true hunger.

Cheri