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is a very important and delicious part of my life but sadly cereal doesn't always love your back
thanks to all of those sugars and calories and unnecessary stuff that you know eventually lead to
death from obesity i like cereal but rather will not weigh 200 kilograms anyway along comes a magic
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an army napoleon bonaparte once noted marches on its stomach no matter how past its ranks advanced
its weaponry or brilliant its commanders a military force full of hungry malnourished troops
is unlikely to be an effective one the central role of food in combat effectiveness goes beyond
merely supplying calories there is no quicker way to sow demoralization or even outright mutiny
than to supply one's troops with low quality feud few countries have understood this better than the
united states which over the years has gone to great lengths to provide its fighting men and
women with the best possible food no matter where they are deployed despite severe shortages of
staple food stuff such as sugar during the second world war the us government made such comforts
as chewing gum coffee chocolate and tobacco an essential part of every serviceman's rations but
few treats could match the morale boosting power of ice cream u.s forces were addicted to the stuff
consuming nearly 135 million pounds of it in 1943 alone so great was demand in fact that the us army
even built miniature ice cream factories just behind the front lines while the u.s navy spent
a million dollars on a floating ice cream factory capable of churning out over 500 gallons of cold
creamy goodness every single day america's obsession with ice cream goes all the way back
to its founding george washington spent the modern equivalent of five thousand dollars on ice cream
in a single summer while thomas jefferson returned from his time as u.s ambassador to france with a
hand-cranked churn and a handwritten recipe for vanilla ice cream over the next 100 years ice
cream became intimately associated with childhood seaside vacations and other comforting experiences
so much so that ice cream became standard fare for patients convoluting in hospitals
while starting in 1921 immigrants arriving at new york's ellis island were fed ice cream as part
of their introduction to american life but what really established ice cream as the cornerstone
of the american experience was the 1919 passage of the 18th amendment to the u.s constitution
which banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the country prohibition forced brewers such as
anheuser-busch jungling and straws to switch to ice cream making in order to stay afloat while
those citizens uninterested or unwilling to seek out speakeasies and other sources of
illegal liquor turned to soda fountains and ice cream parlors to fill the social need previously
provided by bars and saloons the navy had been hit even earlier in 1914 when general order 99
banned liquor aboard all naval vessels as a result between 1916 and 1925 ice cream consumption in the
united states skyrocketed by 55 percent and by the end of the decade americans were consuming
nearly 1 million gallons every single day curiously the 1929 stock market crash and
the onset of the great depression only drove up consumption as ice cream was among the few
comforting luxuries that almost anyone could afford to indulge in indeed the popular ice
cream flavor rocky road consisting of chocolate mixed with nuts and chunks of marshmallow was
introduced by ice cream manufacturer william dryer in 1929 as a metaphor for the hard times that
he and his fellow countrymen were experiencing when the second world war broke out in september
1939 shortages of sugar milk vanilla and other raw ingredients forced most allied nations to ban
or severely restrict the manufacture of ice cream and other sweet treats with the british government
even going so far as to recommend carrots on sticks as a patriotic alternative and for more on
that please check out our previous video how world war ii made everybody think carrots were good for
their eyes when the united states joined the war in december 1941 it initially followed suit and
declared ice cream a non-essential food however faced with vigorous lobbying by the international
association of ice cream manufacturers and the national dairy council the government reversed its
decision even going so far as to place ice cream on its official chart of seven basic foods the
precursor to the modern and hilariously bad for you food pyramids we actually previously talked
about this in our video the preposterous pyramid also worth checking out meanwhile the armed forces
doubled down on america's national obsession adopting a morale boosting policy of supplying its
troops whenever possible with as much ice cream as they could possibly eat the navy was particularly
keen on ice cream with secretary of the navy james forrestal assigning the dessert top priority
after one of his assistants reported that ice cream in my opinion has been the most neglected of
all the important morale factors nearly every ship in the fleet larger than a destroyer was fitted
with refrigeration and ice cream making equipment the sweet treat being served at all hours in the
guidance bar or canteen the origin of the naval slang gedunk is disputed with some historians
theorizing that it is an onomatopoeia derived from the sound of food falling out of a vending machine
others posit that it comes from the popular comic strip harold teen or from a chinese word meaning
place of idleness whatever the case the gedunk bar and the ice cream it served became a revered
fixture of navy life and an unlikely source of equality in an otherwise rigidly structured
system according to one likely apocryphal story one day two newly promoted ensigns aboard the
battleship uss new jersey flagship of the third fleet went down to the ship's kadunk bar to get
some ice cream finding the line unacceptably long the entrance decided to pull rank and skip ahead
past all the ordinary sailors the moment they reached the ice cream bar a voice barked out
demanding that they get back in line the ensigns wheeled around to reprimand the insubordinate
sailor only to find their challenger to be none other than admiral william halsey commander of
the fleet waiting his turn in line like everyone else but perhaps the most dramatic demonstration
of the navy's obsession with ice cream came on may 8 1942 during the battle of the coral sea
at around 11 30 am the aircraft carrier uss lexington was hit by multiple bombs and
torpedoes dropped by japanese aircraft setting off a series of explosions and fires and completely
crippling the ship at 5 pm the ship's captain frederick sherman gave the order to abandon ship
the crew were paid but not before breaking into and consuming the ship's entire supply
of ice cream with some sailors filling their helmets and licking them clean before lowering
themselves into the pacific ocean by 1945 demand for ice cream had reached such proportions that
the navy spent a million dollars converting a concrete barge into a floating ice cream factory
in order to supply the needs of ships to small to carry their own ice cream making equipment
due to a shortage of metal early in the war the navy had contracted pennsylvania-based
firm mccloskey and company to build 24 6 000 ton concrete barges to transport supplies the
barges which had no engines and had to be towed by tiger boats were unpopular with navy crews and
most were fobbed off to the army's transportation corps the unnamed ice cream barge however quickly
became one of the most popular ships in the fleet a marvel of wartime engineering the barge could
churn out 500 gallons of ice cream every day and had a refrigerated storage capacity for nearly 2
000 gallons but the navy was not the only service with a sweet tooth throughout the war the army's
quartermaster corps provided american troops with the machinery and ingredients to manufacture some
80 million gallons of ice cream every year in 1943 alone it shipped out 135 million pounds
of dehydrated ice cream to the front lines given a sufficient source of refrigeration any soldier
could combine the mix with water and standard issue powdered milk to whip up a tasty frozen
treat right on the firing line but apparently this was not good enough for the quartermaster core who
in early 1945 as allied troops were advancing through germany built dozens of miniature ice
cream factories just behind the lines allowing half pike cartons to be brought right to the
troops in their foxholes even those without access to standard issue ice cream found ingenious ways
of improvising their own with some soldiers reportedly mixing snow and melted chocolate bars
in their helmets to create makeshift sorbet but the undisputed masters of battlefield ice cream
were pilots in november 1944 after three months of savage fighting american forces finally captured
the south pacific island of peleliu from the japanese this was followed by a brief lull in
the fighting which let the marine corps aviators stationed on the island with little to do hoping
to raise the morale of his men j hunter reinberg commander of a squadron of vougt f4u corsair
fighter bombers decided to turn his aircraft into a flying ice cream machine under his direction
maintenance crews cut an access hatch in the side of the aircraft's fuel drop tank and suspended a
metal ammunition can inside reinvert then filled the can with canned milk and cocoa powder and flew
his aircraft to an altitude of 30 000 feet where the freezing temperatures and the vibration of his
engine he hoped would turn the mixture into ice cream when he landed 35 minutes later the mixture
was still a sticky liquid mess realizing that the drop tanks were too close to the aircraft's
hot engine reinberg moved the ammunition cans further on board and tried again while this time
the milk and cocoa mixture froze it still did not have the creamy consistency that he was seeking
reinberg eventually solved the problem by rigging the cans with small wind-driven propellers to
churn the ice cream mixture directly as it froze army air force crews flying bombers like the b-17
flying fortress and the b-24 liberator over europe independently came up with the same technique
though like reinberg they too initially placed the ice cream mixture too close to the engines
eventually the perfect location for ice cream making was found to be the tail gunner's turret
which was simultaneously cold and turbulent enough to produce a perfectly smooth frozen
treat provided of course the aircraft and her crew returned in one piece the american military
policy of providing its troops with ice cream endured well past the end of the second world
war the only time it was seriously challenged was during the korean war when legendary marine
general louis chesty puller complained that ice cream was [ __ ] food and that american
troops would be tougher if supplied with beer and whiskey instead the pentagon disagreed and
issued an official statement guaranteeing that soldiers would be served ice cream a minimum
of three times a week while many factors contributed to final allied victory during
the second world war ice cream played a small but crucial role in maintaining the morale of american
troops and reminding them of the home that they were fighting for so the next time you dig into a
pint of ben and jerry's remember to take a moment and thank it for its valiant service so i really
hope you enjoyed today's video we mentioned the food pyramid as a video that we've done
previously the preposterous pyramid and how it's actually terrible for you that video is linked to
on the screen now so please do check it out and thank you for watching now just before you leave
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