Private McGillicuddy: Native Food

[@stevekaczynski3793]

A Japanese officer who fought in Burma was interviewed for "The World At War", broadcast in 1973. He said the Japanese watched what monkeys ate, reasoning that if monkeys could eat something without problems, so could humans. The Japanese also ate monkeys as a "very good curry" could be made from them.

[@jimboblordofeskimos]

They also ate people and starved to death a lot, so the japanese military may not be the best ones to take advice about diet from in that time period

[@vondantalingting]

@@jimboblordofeskimos only happened because the IJN kept throwing supplies in the water. They wouldn't have eaten people if even a single sack of dried fish managed to make it home.

[@jimboblordofeskimos]

@@vondantalingting Nah, the supply problem with the japanese was pretty endemic during the island campaign. The IJN can be blamed for it in some places, but in others the japanese just pretended there wasnt an issue and ignored it with pretty obvious results.

[@Kelnx]

@@jimboblordofeskimos USN submarines definitely put a dent into Japanese supplies by sea once they got past all of their early problems. Over 5 million tons sunk.

[@jimboblordofeskimos]

@@Kelnx Again, that would have hurt them a bit, but probably not as much as the overall plan for the war in the pacific logistics wise was a combination of 'FIGHTING SPIRIT CONQUERS ALL' and 'YOLO'

[@toyotatacoma1616]

I like how all of this guys problems could be solved with a pot of boiling water.

[@Zachomara]

Even the beech apple could be processed into a diuretic if they needed to use it for some reason.

[@letsplaybaby8098]

Boil out ecoli? Most people cook things. They don't boil them to death. But sure eat it.

[@frankfurt3729]

@@letsplaybaby8098 ...it’s not that hard to kill E. coli through boiling, geez. “To kill or inactivate E. coli 0157:H7, bring your water to a rolling boil for one minute” - CDC That’s probably the easiest recipe I’ll ever see.

[@nathhenn8966]

@@frankfurt3729 I'll remember to start a fire and boil a pot in an active warzone with the enemy in the air.

[@oogityboogity6644]

@@nathhenn8966 “enemy is in the air”?

[@goneutt]

I remember a radio interview with a man who did a book on barbecue around the world. Fully cooked, meats are generally safe, even from unhygienic facilities. He reported he wouldn't have survived a book of salads from the third world.

[@teslashark]

Salads! Boil every questionable vegetable and throw out the water for good measure. Don't try to make a soup too fast.

[@whereswaldo5740]

I worked as a nurse in a VA. We had many foreign doctors. Many worked in many other countries. One in particular worked in China. He said he almost died. All he could eat was peanut butter. Otherwise he would vomit or diarrhea or both. He was there months. I told him about pictures of a Walmart there in China. I showed him the pictures. Bins of frogs and turtles. To eat. Stacks of small gators about 5 feet long. Yup. To eat. And a pyramid of bull dongs. He said. Yes is like that. As he walked away looking queasy. I guess I reminded him of being there.

[@davidgrim5990]

People in the third world are smart enough not to eat salads although I'm sure they would sell one to a foreigner.

[@alexbloddrunk1875]

Book of salads?? Wtf is that?

[@daviddionne8296]

@Egg T and yet people hold there's noses as SPAM... served us well thru many a War... just sayin.

[@crimsondynamo615]

Feel like labeling the belt loops on my belt to determine my hunger level. “Hungry” “Damn Hungry” “Starving!”

[@TheWatchfulWolf]

Mine tends to get tighter when I'm hungry due to bloating from digestive gasses. IDK, maybe your stomach isn't where it should be? It's supposed to be up near the heart - near your chest.

[@sudokuacrobatics]

@@TheWatchfulWolf maybe you should fart more

[@dehydratedwater4803]

This is awkward after the National Guard was given food poisoning from undercooked chicken in Washington DC

[@NUFIGHTER]

Don't forget the metal shavings and raw beef! Someone's overstayed their welcome for sure...

[@theactionman8403]

Government: okay boys uh everyone hates us and wants to overthrow us so protect us Soldiers: okay I guess.. good soldiers follow orders Government: oh but you’re not republicans are you Soldiers: most of us are is that a problem Government: ew gross republicans... here have some inedible food Soldiers: you want us to hate you too?

[@NUFIGHTER]

@@theactionman8403 He's been making a lot of enemies ever since day 1. That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.

[@theactionman8403]

@@NUFIGHTER Yeah like why be so dumb. There’s HR1 the Great Reset, and all this other stuff but it’s so stupidly executed. Evil villains in movies and tv and even books are far more scary and even respectable. The real life super villains not so much they’re just So cartoonishly stupid.

[@NUFIGHTER]

@@theactionman8403 Megamind would no doubt to a better job! On the bright side, at least they're inept which will hopefully wake up the normies. Job losses and shut down businesses, rising gas prices, illegals passing across the border. It all adds up to one big red pill. Now the American people have to act to save this great nation!

[@bobfognozzle]

I spent a year on South Vietnamese river boats as an advisor....we ate what they ate...sometimes from US mess facilities and most times whatever the crew caught from the river or bought in the villages. Yes I have a very personal understanding of dysentery.😂

[@bobbofly]

Soldiers in Vietnam would often eat as the locals did in order not to be discovered on account of their waste - so it would smell & look the same.

[@furrtakuXD]

gotta boil the crap out of anything especially if you're a traveler. we can handle our own native bugs because we grew up on them :/

[@DonnaBarrHerself]

My husband got the collywobbles in Vietnam. Then when he got back to the States, he got them again. Because Native gut bacteria get replaced over time - you have to regrow a new crop wherever you’re eating.

[@paklaselt2198]

@@bobbofly they were inspecting people's feces? wtf sick bastards

[@vladstefan5216]

@@paklaselt2198 If hunters sometimes do it for prey, why not soldiers. At least they were interested in differentiatimg bewtten local civilians and enemy soldiers.l, unl8ke someone.

[@TheOfficialBacon]

well anyway, it BURNS THE HELL OUT OF YOUR TONGUE

[@TheSteam02]

when you can no longer explain something in a nice-sounding way

[@teslashark]

Manchineel, or beachapple is that thing

[@IsaPodrasky]

teslashark Yep, plus that is one of the most dangerous plants in existence.

[@SuperMrCRAZYMAN]

@@IsaPodrasky even burning them is even dangerous.

[@zeppelinwarscommunity9969]

Lol

[@tobybartels8426]

Wait, at the end there, is the Navy really saying that the Vienna sausage in their K-rations is made of horse meat?

[@notsoancientpelican]

The Naval Services slang for sliced bologna or any kind of sausage is “horsecock.” That neighing sound was an inside joke.

[@jnewcomb]

@@notsoancientpelican OKAY, cause I completely though the same as OP

[@krb5292]

You've heard of "don't ask, don't tell"? It applies to military food, too.

[@sarahgray430]

It probably was...and horse meat is actually quite delicious. I ate it when I was in Austria.

[@winterborn82]

@@notsoancientpelican My grandfather was in the south pacific during the war. He grew up on a farm, somewhat poor, so nothing went to waste. He swore up and down that most of the meat they were served was horse meat.

[@frogisis]

As a cartoonist, I think it's incredibly interesting how this tone of military communications has changed in the last 70-odd years. All this stuff from WW2 has a really avuncular, casual, whimsical tone that's unimaginable nowadays. Like I was reading one of the original instruction manual for a P-51 Mustang some years ago (I play too much DCS World), and even there the first line of the intro is something like "Diving on an enemy tank is an awful lot like shooting the craps table at Las Vegas." Can you imagine the modern army commissioning, say, Pixar or the Chapman Brothers to make a short where talking rifle parts do some sketches and sing a song showing you how to keep your weapon in top condition? Or like "Riflemen Tim & Eric" getting into surreal situations defusing IEDs and attempting to befriend villagers? Granted, the current missions of the military are much less uncontroversially accepted, but even if every studio would be willing to cooperate, I can barely imagine someone even pitching that idea in a policy meeting, let alone the leadership approving it. Obviously soldiers always have been and always will be funny and casual and creative with each other (Roman soldiers carved messages on their sling stones exactly like people write messages on bombs and shells today), but it's something entirely different to see the entire chain of command participating in it on some level. I'm not saying it's some terrible loss that it went away (especially not the cringy racial caricatures, holy fuck), I just think changes like this are fascinating. Maybe they're even still producing equivalent stuff I'm just not aware of, or are actually having soldiers produce it themselves in the age of social media & Patreon (as opposed to the military esports teams and Twitch channels, which are more like the equivalent of like war bond drives). It wasn't just the US and Allies, either: A German fighter pilot guide called "Horrido!" used drawings of pretty girls in increasing states of undress to explain various concepts like evasion and gunnery tips, and Japanese soldiers & sailors saw popular cartoon dog Norakuro become "Pvt. 2nd-Class Norakuro" and continue his hapless adventures in Manchuria and at sea, as well as being surrounded by postcards & posters showing guys like them getting into and out of scrapes (or advertising uppers) and drawings of their warships anthropomorphized as pretty girls, foreshadowing things like "Kancolle" by close to a century (also check out "Momotaro's Sea Eagles" where the eponymous fairytale is recreated by animals flying a Kate torpedo bomber who reunite a lost bird with his mother and then bomb an "Onigashima" Pearl Harbor manned by Bluto from Popeye, but that was more intended for civilian kids. Seriously though watch it, it's really interesting as historical war propaganda and just charmingly weird in its own right, and it's almost completely wordless so you'll understand it fine), but the US definitely lead the field in this kind of whimsy (don't forget the pinup calendars, either). Where do you suppose it came from (it doesn't seem like there was much of this during the Civil War, but then the 19th Century was a rather unfunny time. Could it have started with the Depression & Prohibition making people feel closer through shared experience and puncturing the seriousness of American institutions?) and where do you suppose it went? And what forces do you suppose were behind the shift? It seems like by the time of Vietnam, that tone had largely disappeared (although the official promotional video for the F-14 Tomcat included cute "Tom & Jerry" cartoon segments where a cat tries to get the best of a bear and is repeatedly clobbered until he trains in all the analogous ways to how the F-14 is also supposed to be strong). Was it all just the technology, with its acronyms and jargon, and perhaps caught from arms manufacturer consultants? Was it the Red Scare bringing in self-aware corporatization? Was it the related corporatization of the larger culture simply changing people's perceptions of what "professionalism" looked like? Was it the budding counterculture changing ideas of what young soldiers found likeable & funny and they started rolling their eyes at this stuff? Was it the more "insidious" nature of the wars the military was now fighting (or the newly looming shadow of mushroom clouds) making this lighter tone seem inappropriate, or its self-conception change in such a way that they didn't want to be a bunch of wholesome farm boys giving the fascists the old what-for, but cold-blooded badasses? All of the above? Other things I didn't even think of? What do you think? ...Holy shit, this got a lot longer than I intended. Like I said I'm a cartoonist and so I guess I have a lot of thoughts on the matter. If you stuck with me this far... I'm sorry. Treat yourself to something nice, you've earned it.

[@UFBMusic]

Just wanted to say that this was a damn fascinating comment.

[@imanin9972]

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[@jacobcooney1715]

I've recently become fascinated with old war propaganda/PSAs in general--how it was approached differently between nations and how it's evolved over time. This comment gave me about 10 different things I now want to research, thank you.

[@srtb001]

I always assumed it was partly the nature of the Army at this time - alot less formal and professional as they needed everyone they could get their hands on. They also needed dumbed down easy to remember lessons that could be delivered via a few videos they could actually get everyone to watch. The companies doing the animating were probably more keen to "do their bit" on the cheap given the nature of the conflict in ways they probably would need alot more fiscal reward to do for interventions against poor insurgent groups

[@myname604]

@@jacobcooney1715 How they used cartoons to lie to the people to get them to fight foreign wars in the most un-American tradition!

[@firebat36]

Even with modern MREs that "taste better" than the old rations, the military has always had problems with service members not liking certain things they are fed, but since the meal plan is designed to give you all the calories and nutrients you need, as long as you eat everything, people being picky over the course of weeks could be slowly losing out on overall calories and vital nutrients. Food is important as a fuel source, but tis also the biggest thing you have for morale, so you fuck up the food to often, and your soldiers are now getting malnourished, while also coming to resent the service more and more.

[@71tofu]

A part of the problem is quality expectation. They do expose soldiers to MREs and ration food early on in training, but the problem is they don't hammer home expectations, or just include a multivitamin pill with each MRE just in case. While multivitamin pills yield less that the total vitamins in them, they serve the purpose well enough that if an MRE is utter crap (looking at you, vomlet!) the soldier at least won't be dealing with total malnourishment over the course of a few lost meals in a week. Now, I have an iron gut. I can swallow just about any damn thing and aside from some squirts later if the food was particularly poor in quality, or high in dairy, I'll be fine. So food quality and taste doesn't matter as much to me as others, but for the people that do... Well, either train them hard enough that it doesn't, or give them a pill to eat with their bread and milk.

[@cooldud7071]

@@71tofu Better yet, don't force people to fight and die in some third-world shithole just so you can maintain your profits.

[@midshipman8654]

true and all, but you dont want uour soldiers eating anything helter skelter. and with mass amounts of men, its safer to say just eat the food we provide rather than risking potentially dangerous foods (and maybe more importantly, diseases).

[@Ofxzh]

@@71tofuI take it you also stumbled upon this video randomly? Anyway, it’s very interesting.

[@skipads5141]

Salt must be a vital nutrient, because they dump a ton of it in.

[@designator7402]

>Vienna sausage >"It's good food and it's good for ya" _Are you sure about that_

[@mobydickies8135]

I would eat it

[@FirstLast-uz6eq]

yeah its tasty

[@Vapor817]

it's good but i would probably go insane too if i had to eat it every day

[@andywap3]

Sure it's good, but is processed meat really good for you? Maybe they didn't think that in WW2.

[@bcubed72]

@@andywap3 It'll keep you alive long enough to do your job. Arteriosclerosis in your declining years isn't Uncle Sam's concern.

[@flyboymb]

This video has a lot of truth even in the modern military. There were frequent times in Afghanistan and Iraq where my buddies and I would be invited to eat with locals. You didn't want to turn them down since we were trying to keep them on our side against the Taliban or Al Quida, but you'd better bring a few doses of broad spectrum antibiotic because odds are you would be getting a nasty case of Shigella, or 'Mohammad's Revenge' as we called it, after their native bacteria made itself at home in your gut. A particularly popular restaurant named Aziz's existed on Bagram Airfield. Even under the inspection of Preventive Med, you'd still wind up catching a nasty case of 'Aziz's diseases' every so often.

[@yomomz3921]

flyboymb Aziz'z diseases!!! :'-D

[@mariokart8054]

flyboymb 3

[@thorveim1174]

Yup, just wished they also showed it's native bacterias that are harmful because our body isn't used to them. Even in the most sanitary conditions possible, native food can make you ill

[@aycc-nbh7289]

But eating with others doesn’t mean eating the same food as everyone else, no? And in the worst case scenario, couldn’t you just leave your food on for a little longer?

[@flyboymb]

@@aycc-nbh7289 Different people, different culture, different customs. If something is offered to you, you generally have to politely reject it 3 times before it will stop being offered. And in those times every Service Member was also a diplomat to a people who took honor and personal pride very seriously. Most food isn't generally prepackaged in that country and, one way or another, the local flora of bacteria gets in there and your body has no defense against it because it hasn't been exposed to those particular germs. I guess I worded my joke about Aziz's poorly. It's something that is likely to happen when you go to a part of the world that doesn't receive visitors from your home country frequently. Locals can do things that have no detrimental effect to them but will have you turned into a super soaker on both ends.

[@jackofalltrades6129]

Well, I'll be damned. Plantains are better cooked. I learned something.

[@antilogism]

Best cooked in turon.

[@savaialaddams6273]

No doubt. Thanks for saying so.

[@JayXIsSad]

Have you just been eating raw plantains?

[@kutter_ttl6786]

Only ever tried plantain chips, probably one of my favourite snacks.

[@scooblion9967]

@@kutter_ttl6786 welp, you traditionally fry them twice. They are basically tropical potatoes. Or you can make them in mashed form which is really delicious.

[@rileydavidson207]

Some tribes, villages and isolated groups are able to eat stuff that would usually send the people who have never eaten it to the toilet of the grave, knowing the local plant life along with the animals that live there is extremely important for survival. Eating stuff you know is safe is always the best option

[@illegallogger1250]

I think that’s the point of the film

[@lyrisio]

a.k.a. Point of the video

[@nade7242]

yeah cause their bodies built up resistance to the stuff and visitors don't have that

[@lennypayne4241]

@@nade7242 Nice Kirby Funko.

[@nade7242]

@@lennypayne4241 is it a funko

[@basedbattledroid3507]

So Snafu lets everything out of his mouth and McGillicuddy lets everything in.

[@Cassaelet]

U got it bud..lol they're bunkmates

[@bcubed72]

SNAFU has one hot mama back home!

[@Vexcenot]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@kharnifex]

That's alot of native cum

[@sudokuacrobatics]

The difference between Snafu and McGillicuddy is that we feel bad for Snafu but also have no sympathy for him, Mcgillicuddy unfortunately doesn't have that first luxury

[@Hengebobs]

Funnily, we were told the reason our ENTIRE battalion had disentary when we were in Baghdad was because we ate local food. Except, no one had at that point. We DID however get a water resupply that had been "processed" in country since the bottled water we were drinking up to that point was on truck miles and miles behind us, so "they" (pog brass) decided it would "make more sense" to push some rowpu unit up to the Tigris and just resupply us from there. Funny that.

[@retroinspect]

6 years in the navy, two tours in the Arabian gulf, the only case of food poisoning was when the knuckleheads in Portland hooked the potable water up to the fire main. Everyone on the ship got to enjoy that good old Willamette river water.

[@followingtheroe1952]

SteveMRE would love this

[@wartimeproductions335]

Myrdred Deceiver alright, let's get this out onto a tray... NICE!

[@bruhmachine7946]

N I c e hiss

[@willrobb2593]

nice hiss there

[@benjaproxdgamer703]

Hmm nice

[@TheWingedLing]

@@benjaproxdgamer703 Let's get this out onto a tray.

[@MTurner504]

damn my grandpa who was in WW2 used to always scare us by telling us that there was a ghost who lived in his basement and its name was McGillicuddy Galoo i wonder if this is where he got the name from 😆

[@williamjameslehy1341]

I totally thought the twist at the end would be that all the meat the natives were giving him was human.

[@mphays]

Mmmmmm, long pig.

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

Agreed

[@Rig0r_M0rtis]

I gues they were not THAT racist :D

[@theluftwaffle1]

@@Rig0r_M0rtis I mean they totally were, but probably didn’t think of it at the time. It WAS the 40s.

[@kademcarthur5362]

Mmmm human.

[@katsu-graphics5634]

in southeast Asia, It was called "Eating on the Economy" . . . you had better cook it long and hot. . .I now distrust rare and "Al-Dente". . .and you had to cover everything in tabasco sauce. to make it edible. I remember some guys eating Dog medicine for worms. And everyone hoarded packets of Kool-Aid . . . And you could sweat out 2 beers in an hour. . .and God Bless Gold-bond medicated powder in your shorts..

[@vsgfilmgroup]

Once read that a good cure for worms is to eat half a cigarette. Just half. Apparently it knocks the worms unconscious so hard they detach and just drop right out on the next bowel movement.

[@kubli365]

@fred McMurray damn you must think people there are savages

[@sorian_delorean3348]

@fred McMurray calm down. We cook our food down here, we also don't eat spoiled meat intentionally, unless some jackass wants us off.

[@sorian_delorean3348]

@fred McMurray before we get heated, which country are you talking about?

[@TheWatchfulWolf]

@fred McMurray Bruh. Why so hostile?

[@Sundaeys]

Fun Fact: Mel Blanc, the man who originally played Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, plays Private McGillicuddy.

[@meathead6155]

Aww, what's up doc.

[@mrnemo204]

And Private Snafu!

[@tanktank9924]

Mel sometimes voices Elmer Fudd, Before, sometimes with, and after Arthur Q. Brian and other voice actors as well.

[@noahboat580]

3:35 bugs bunny over here

[@TheVnator]

I knew I recognized the "Eeeeah!"

[@CAphotos]

I liked the Vietnam-era "C Rations" (actually called MEAL, COMBAT, INDIVIDUAL.) When my reserves deployed to Cam Pendelton for a two week exercise, it was decided we would live on the combat rations for the two weeks. Many of my shipmates went into town for McDonalds and other fast food. This meant more rations for me. I actually gained five pounds in that two week period.

[@dejavu666wampas9]

I always asked for the ham and Lima beans box. There was a bigger can of them than other options, and alway had peaches for dessert. The best. Plus, nobody else wanted them.

[@fbksfrank4]

We would turn it upside down and have a pick, spaghetti was top right, second box down. Miss the little cigs.

[@fbksfrank4]

@@dejavu666wampas9 with the other stuff in the box it was fine, although I’m 5’8” 170.

[@smc1942]

I grew up in the 70s and early 80s. Before we went camping, my cousins and I would go to swap meets, and buy all the C-rats we could find. They were dirt cheap, and good eating! We saved what we didn't eat for the next trip. When the MREs came out in the mid 80s, we were eager to try them... Until we did. 🤮 They were awful!! We went back to getting c-rats whenever we could find them. They were much better!!! Once we were at a yard sale, and bought 5 cases for $15! Not individual boxes, but cases! Those took care of us a long time! I wish we could still get those.

[@NoPantsBaby]

I like how they don't pretend the food is great. Or not made of questionable meat. But it's better than dysentery.

[@taddad2641]

Also that while..... still questionably representing the natives they don't put them down either, not entirely. Most said is 'they don't understand sanitation quite as well'.

[@generalrubbish9513]

That's the difference between training and propaganda. Propaganda would tell you that the rations are wonderful and if you don't like them, you're the problem. The issue with propaganda is that once people realize some parts of it are blatantly wrong, they start questioning everything else.

[@microbusss]

well these films were made for the military & didn't have to go by the Hayes Code Plus its real funny to hear Mel Blanc swear in cartoons 🤣🤣

[@dominicesquivel3901]

Interesting looking natives for the South Pacific Edit: Jesus fucking Christ the comment section is a war zone

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Most of the fighting was in Melanesia not Polynesia In Polynesia the natives generally got out of there once the Japanese started building fortifications

[@NathanDudani]

Got to push the divisive stereotypes to justify occupation and exploitation somehow

[@jjcoola998]

@@NathanDudani were many bases built long term in these islands , genuinely curious

[@FissileTube170]

@@jjcoola998 yes

[@lynkrig5635]

Just couldn’t pass up any opportunity to be racist

[@roverworld7218]

I lived part of my childhood in a third world country and ate salads and survived... but we made them at home. In the supermarkets they sold special dissifenctant drops to treat raw vegetables before consuming them, you would put a few drops in water, wait thirty minutes, rinse with potable water and then you can prepare your salad and you didn't just rinse your tomatoes you scrub them before using with soap and water, and the same with every food and vegetable. And yes when eating out you didn't eat the raw side vegetables, just the cooked food.

[@andrewluchsinger]

Very funny. There is nothing like a 1940's war cartoon.

[@ArashiOdayakana]

DONE LIKE It'S THE THIRTIES!

[@elishevacapobianco-s1960]

Yes. My father may he Rest In Peace fought in WWll. I myself enlisted in the early 80’s. These cartoons were actually created specifically to boost the morale of soldiers and as well to give a laugh to those who were fortunate enough to make it home. It helped my father deal with his shell shock as well.

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

When i was stationed in South Korea in the late 1960’s they were still 3rd world and recovering from the war and the whole country smelled of sewage, "honey wagons” collected all the human fertilizer in the cities and spread it on the crops outside the cities, so we were constantly warned not to eat locally because of all the bacteria 🦠 and e coli but the R.O.K. has progressed to very modern standards to rival all first world countries.

[@seronymus]

And now much of Korea is cleaner than much of America. :/ Cycle of civilizations

[@dorkmax7073]

They were cooking the meat. As long as the natives cooked it thoroughly, the food is sanitary.

[@Longlius]

That's not even remotely true. Some bacteria produce toxins that linger on the food even after the bacteria themselves have been killed by cooking.

[@imapseudonym1403]

Except, when it's handled by them. Ever go to India? Don't. The whole country is just an open sewer. Literally.

[@Joannes808]

Why do I get the bad feeling that the conscript cooks at the mess hall were less than half a step better...

[@Hashishin13]

Proper food preparation includes washing your hands after touching the raw meat before then touching the cooked meat.

[@Sumschmuck]

well seeing as to how the natives are in a tribal fashion, it's safe to say that they don't have a method of properly washing their hands much less knowing to wash their hands. So by that standard just about everything they've touched will be carried onto the food and spread to the unknowing GI.

[@billd2635]

Love it! Mel Blanc's real voice and a surprise ending!

[@binder946]

I like the script narration and pace of video. hope I can learn to make such short instructional videos or documentaries. It's just awesome. It's easy to remember. I am sure most here are not soldiers but still ove watching these

[@Dingbobber]

The way that sausage screams at the end fucking gets me

[@sarahgray430]

From what I was told, the K-rations served by the Allies weren't particularly wholesome either, but supplementing one's rations with stolen local produce risked inciting the wrath of the natives...sort of like Farmer Maggot from The Lord of the Rings.

[@petepal55]

When Dad, and us, were stationed in Tripoli, Libya at Wheelus AFB, we ate native and endured the pain for the two weeks it took to get our guts acclimated, but then we were ok for the next 3 years. All the families that didn't do that got sick almost every month from whatever snuck into their food. We also had a rabbit hutch in the backyard, so we had plenty of clean meat, along with a Dane/Boxer mix that discouraged unwelcome visitors. And 22 Siamese cats... seems in Libya you can get a camel, goat, or horse doctor, but nobody spays cats. They ran in packs and ruled that poor dog. Made great bedwarmers in the cold desert night, though.

[@smc1942]

My Dad was in Libya in the early 60s. He was serving with the 64th Engineers at the time. He was among those who found the B-24 "Lady B Good" while they were looking gunrunners. I still have all his pictures of his time there.

[@definitelyjustcj4148]

My Great Uncle was a marine in WW2 he fought on Iwo Jima and actually got a Purple Heart when he was stabbed in the stomach by a Japanese soldier. I always remember they had to rely on their rations especially when they were literally on a volcanic island where there wasn't really a large surplus of native food only the us rations they had which considering how large the invasion was they had enough and on the Japanese side considering how low their resources were at that point they were very low. That made them even more fierce as they were literally fighting for their lives and their homeland.

[@okamijubei]

Ninjas are no joke when it comes to combat. Though thank you great uncle for his service.

[@12icedrop]

This video represents those of us who as kids only ate chicken strips & mac n cheese at any restaurant we went to

[@hiimryan2388]

"Thou shalt eat only the rations inspected, found fit and provided for thy use for verily, many native foods contain poison more treacherous than a Japanese warlord"

[@TheWatchfulWolf]

"...[Japanese]"*

[@hiimryan2388]

@@TheWatchfulWolf ya

[@HunterShows]

@@TheWatchfulWolf Maahaa, the Japs.

[@PlebNC]

"It's good food and good for you." Literally every soldier: laughs in MRE.

[@toaster9922]

“well, anyway..... it BURNS THE HELL OUTTA YOUR TONGUE!”

[@lorieharris2776]

The sausage neighing at the end. Lol! My uncle Teddy has been gone for 30 years, now I'm laughing because I get that joke thanks to him telling us kids his ole war stories.

[@st0rts11D4]

That belt joke really made me laugh. My grandpa calls that a spanish dinner. You drink some water and tighten your belt

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

In the Coast Guard while boarding and inspecting foreign freight vessels in U.S ports, we were often invited to eat in the ship's mess. Until one Coastie became seriously ill from it. Now it's expressly forbidden. I only took unopened cans of soda. At one time I had cans of Coke from 23 countries. Had to drink them after Hurricane Katrina

[@WanderSeth]

3:25 And spam. Man, I shouldn't have watched this, I'm getting hungry.

[@tr4nsg0th1ca]

spam is the shit, dude. slap that between a hamburger bun with some deli mustard and you've got LUNCH!

[@yogeebear2599]

rockergod789 dice the crap out of it then toss it in with hashbrowns. WOOOO BREAKFAST

[@richardkempton1894]

I'll have the spam, spam, eggs, and spam, not the spam, spam, spam, and eggs.

[@RickLowrance]

Spam can be good. But Vienna Sausage is the pits.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

@@RickLowrance There's a guy on here that does some great asian spam recipes. I tried spam fried rice the other day, it was great. I still prefer corned beef though. Brown that stuff in a pan, toss in chopped veggies. Mmmmmmmm delicious.

[@fren111]

That's a lesson even for tourist's... you just don't have the antibodies from the locals, there's always a new allergy, And your digestive system is usually not that open to new experiences...If it looks weird, unhygienic or overly seasoned just don't...

[@Vexxel256]

For the british just a sprinkle of salt is too much

[@joe-lq6jz]

Narrator: NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST EAT THE NATIVE'S FOOD!!! IT HAS GERMS AND BACTERIA!!!!! Private McGillicuddy: haha eating with the natives go brrrrrrr!

[@volk4523]

Always try new and foreign foods.

[@WanderSeth]

0:49 How the hell do you not like Vienna Sausage? That shit is amazing.

[@WanderSeth]

I did for a while. I was *really* poor. Vienna's (the little ones in a can) twice a day, some bread and cheese, a vitamin, with the occasional snack every few days.

[@awfullygenericname6783]

Myraseth I like all meat that’s edible

[@ferdinandluisbeltran]

phung tran same *high fives*

[@fan9775]

phung tran (Lenny face)

[@Z1269]

fan9775 oh boy long or thick

[@thatonecowpoke4794]

The random barking from the bacteria had me dying

[@CarlosArturoVelarde]

I grew up to age 15 in a third world country, Mexico. I can eat just about anything with no problems. Except for KFC and McD’s... they give me diarrhea for days at a time!

[@benbauer1257]

I think mexico is technically a second world country.

[@Milosz_Ostrow]

That's usually a temporary reaction to excess fat in the food when transitioning from a low-fat diet. After a couple of weeks of high-fat food the digestive system adapts.

[@riograndedosulball248]

@@benbauer1257 yeah, as most of Latin America, it counts as a developing country. True third world would be Africa, or some places in southeast Asia. Not that i don't have a tremendous dislike torwards american fast food lmao

[@practicaloccultist231]

Your not missing out lol

[@mysterymayhem7020]

that's because KFC and McD's really can't count as food

[@eleanorburns8686]

Private McGillicuddy clearly needs to put more points in his endurance or intelligence stats if he hopes to live long enough to be S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

Bottom line is: 5:17 the ration sausages contain MSG and Horse 🐎 Meat, Horse Knuckles & Hoof Meat 🍖

[@jonathanlocke6404]

"Don't eat those vegetables! Natives just shit on them!"

[@jlshel42]

Eat these government approved vegetables covered in chemicals!

[@lawrencelewis2592]

On my ship in the 1970s we had K rats and would eat them when the food served in the galley was inedible. We would take a can of whatever and put it on a steam pipe in the engine room to heat it up but you had to partially cut open the top to let the steam out. One day a guy heated up a can of beans and didn't open the top. The results were memorable and the chief wouldn't allow it anymore.

[@legoeasycompany]

I'd like to hear where all yall found those beans at afterwards because that's like a hand grenade

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@legoeasycompany I didn't have to clean up them beans, the idiot who did it cleaned them up. As I recall they were all over the one side of the engine room. We did find rotten beans in the smallest places for months afterward. Nasty!

[@kevinthefox]

Make sure you only eat the poisoned food that we provide.

[@volk4523]

Eat the goyslop approved by the Pentagon, Soyim!

[@MisterJeffy]

Was this ever shown in a double feature with a "how to survive" film that demonstrates how to survive by eating native plants?

[@Dazlidorne]

3:30 He nearly said "What's up, Doc?"

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar8923]

Guys I'm not kidding when I tell you that I just found a bunch of MRE and sit down to eat one and this was in my recommendations

[@laurabeane8862]

Someone left a bunch of MREs in the pantry of the Boarding House I was at. They couldn't have been more than ten years old. They weren't bad. It was vacuum sealed Chili Beans, Matzo type Crackers, and a Cookie that was mega Fortified with Vitamin A and C. If there was an actual Entree in this, someone already ate it and left the rest. Someone told me that if they were newer, the packets would be Sunflower Butter instead of Peanut Butter

[@vsgfilmgroup]

"We know it's monotonous. We just don't care. And it's your own fault for complaining, McGillicuddy. So we're going to mock you and everyone like you until you do what we want."

[@Sohave]

This reminds me of Shigeru Mizuki's experiences fighting on the other side on those very islands.

[@TnT_F0X]

You can eat raw Plantains... they're just starchier. I wait till they're super ripe, then fry them in butter, makes them taste like banana candy. Raw they just taste like a firmer less sweet banana.

[@ocass66]

Is anyone else being recommended these cartoons by KZbin for seemingly no reason?

[@jonathantan2469]

I'm on a binge watching 1940s cartoons so its obvious to me. Up next. Japanese WW2 propaganda cartoon starring Felix the Cat.

[@Turvaldeon]

maybe YT wants to prepare us LUL

[@darrellcook8253]

Their algorithms identified me as a veteran. That and how many cartoons I watch. Or maybe the algorithms are listening in. To me going Whoo hoo! Whoo hoo! Chance.

[@sweeshaman]

yvan eth nioj

[@cole4783]

Well in my case, i think its because I cleared my advertizing tracking so all google knows about me is that I am a 18-35 male. I used to get advertisements for curiosity stream and videogames. Now i get adds for benshapiro and penis enlargement products. Sadly, it seems like that is the kind of people who seek out old cartoons like an anti-pc security blanket. Thankfully i personally enjoy these old cartoons as case studies for how far we have come.

[@CharliMorganMusic]

I wonder if McGillicuddy has any relation with LCpl Shmuckatelli.

[@Ratharian]

My mom called me Mcgillicuddy for years and I never actually knew why till now lol. She must have seen these as a kid.

[@gerdiopedacosta7416]

Wow very wholesome We're you foolish in any way back then?

[@Ratharian]

@@gerdiopedacosta7416 well, I was a kid, so yeah?

[@WeirdWonderful]

I feel the first two instances of the food being "wrong" here can just be solved by washing and then cooking them.

[@quantumshock6620]

I'm guessing Pvt. McGillicuddy was the navy's budget version of Snafu.

[@jaif7327]

this is a hilarious gem

[@Dantick09]

This would make a good kid show

[@Digitaldude23]

If you subtract the racism, sure.

[@4f52]

Digitaldude23 Did they claim superiority over the asians or natives? no, then there's no racism.

[@cancerousbullshitandallels6344]

Dantick09 the hell it would keep dat shit

[@WorshipInTruth]

No, the racism is good, the kids will need it for the coming Race War.

[@SpaghettiToaster]

547265626f72 that's not how racism is defined.

[@allennavas3830]

I feel like a very small minority of soldiers believed this and most probably knew that cooking or boiling these foods would have made all the "poisoned" foods edible.

[@andywap3]

In reality, while raw plantains (or plantins as this guy calls it) wouldn't be very tasty, they are safe to eat raw

[@richstex4736]

Fried plantains are tasty.

[@yeezet4592]

The starch can make people sick

[@smokingjoe9864]

Sprinkle a little hunger on that army chow. It is better than salt.

[@darrellcook8253]

I heard that phrase in the navy in '73 only it was navy chow.

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@darrellcook8253 I thought we ate like kings in the military. Army reserves 84, marine corps 1986. Loved the vegetable added jello. Some guys said it was the worst. I dont get it.

[@TooFewSecrets]

@@smokingjoe9864 Aspic? I think the texture throws some people off, or they're just expecting sugar from a gelatin.

[@faerieSAALE]

G.I. beans - G.I. gravy - gee I wish I was in the NAVY - sound off, I - 2, sound off 3 - 4 Hup 2 - 3 - 4....Hup 2, 3, 4.

[@McHeisenburger]

Man the narrator just sounds hella fed up with McGillicuddy’s shit.

[@pakijetli]

"WooWooWoo" - South Pacific carrot bacteria, circa 1945

[@jessiejames7492]

i find american and british food totally unimaginative and i wont eat it if i can. i am asian and we have totally mouth watering simple dishes or more elaborate ones. my husband was american . he woudnt try some of our dishes and i coulnt eat american food. i became so thin when i came home to my hometown . my father asked me' what happened to you? you not eating? typical asian worry. in fact i didnt . as much as i could i tried to cook asian dishes or what my mother taught me.butwhere i lived spices werent always available. those american GIs who were stationed in the east I tell you are damn lucky.! food wise if htey could get their hands on it. My father said during the war one camp was near his home. they had indian and punjabie cooks. even jagas. watchman. sometimes the jaga would sneak food to him andhis sister . they were children at the time.

[@Darknimbus3]

3:10 Didn’t realize Manchineel (the beach apple) was in the South Pacific. I thought it was just a Caribbean tree....

[@edloki3057]

The spaniards and portuguese brought them over when they colonized.

[@got2kittys]

Those will do alot worse than burn your tongue. They will burn skin, blind you, or kill you if you eat it.

[@SI-ln6tc]

Can it be use as medicine?

[@got2kittys]

@@SI-ln6tc it's deadly poison. I have touched it, and gotten blisters .

[@edloki3057]

@@SI-ln6tc No, it isn't good for that. But if you handle it carefully and dry the lumber in the sun, you can burn it indoors to kill insects.

[@BorisTheShashlikKing]

The problem here is that you don’t have an immunity to the local pathogens. People in third world countries also won’t have an immunity to foreign pathogens. So if you travel anywhere, you do have a chance of getting food poisoning, but the chances are higher in the tropics

[@prowlus]

Next episode Private Mcgillicuddy gets covid 19 from eating bat

[@practicaloccultist231]

Lmao

[@dingo23451]

"It's just a coof" he thought to himself

[@daniellap.stewart6839]

Private mac is dead pal may he rest in peace

[@NiquidFox]

Lmao the sausage neighing at the end killed me

[@teslashark]

Horsemeat for Bronies!

[@jonathantan2469]

Be careful of the local food... but our talking & moving sausages are totes ok!

[@egg5063]

*I T B U R N S T H E H E L L O U T T A Y O U R T O N G U E*

[@masterofpureawesome]

I keep getting recommended this I really hope it’s good

[@k-trashradio5163]

It always feels so odd hearing hell and damm in a cartoon from the 40s this was the same era the line "I don't give a damn" needed special approval from the hayes office to be in gone with the wind

[@yosefdemby8792]

This was made for the military, _not_ the general public audience.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@yosefdemby8792 Yes. Film warning against VD shown to military personnel could be quite explicit (showing sores on genitalia for example) but were not aimed at the general public.

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

Abbott and Costello did a baseball routine that had "I don't give a damn!" in it, and it aired on television and radio back in the day. Because some entertainment wasn't child approved, didn't mean it got censored automatically like what utube does now.

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

@Egg T That's right, freedom of speech!

[@orochimarufanforever]

were these really shown to Navy boys back in the day?

[@Zbyhonj]

Can't believe they left the tail of the turkey uneaten, it's the bast part of any bird.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

Who made this film? the SNAFUs were form Warner brothers but who made these? I assume by him being called "Mac" that this is geared to the Marine Corps?

[@mikebar42]

Plot twist . The turkey never existed

[@Panchoproductions2069]

the bacteria barking made me laugh ngl

[@13OraOras]

Was this actually shown to people?

[@Quadrenaro]

"Africans" >Natives in the Pacific

[@DavidLopez-en6el]

Maori/Melanesians

[@FN_FAL_4_ever]

Ever heard of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands?

[@vxy357]

They look like Samoans and polynesians.

[@Name-ps9fx]

Their bodies were used to that, and how food was prepared. They’d have the same reaction if they came to the US and had a big ol’ heapin’ helpin’ of McD’s.

[@williamjameslehy1341]

You've never heard of Melanesia? What in the failed American education system is this?

[@Clarence_13x]

I love how he licked the tribesman’s fingers too.

[@CatBoyGaming23]

We should be thankful that these brave men fought for us and died to serve our country Damn I get so emotional when it comes to food

[@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon]

i know you said "our country" as in America but yknow hitler served in WWI

[@mr.chokesondik6538]

And killed tons of innocent people

[@Burnthealphabetpeople]

@@mr.chokesondik6538this is ww2 they only did that from Vietnam onwards

[@yugandali]

I've been eating plantains for decades and they're much better than bananas. Raw, of course!! But I love that sausage whinny at the end.

[@azizizul720]

Kinda ignorant from what it shows about the native people. I understand that this training video is to teach the soldiers to be careful on food especially from foreign lands. But as a native Borneo, my grandfather ( who was a guerrilla tracker then ranger) and his family and friends treats the allied soldiers (Australian & U.S Soldiers) with great hospitality. Also my people's culture put very great importance on hygiene. Like seriously, human dung as a fertilizer? wth? where does that even came from? Back to topic; As they know that they have common enemy, the allied soldiers trained and give more modern arms to native people, and my people does provide them knowledge and some stuffs on jungle warfare, food, traps, scouting etc. I mean if either from both side doesn't work together, I'm sure Battle of Borneo will be very hard and cost many more casualties on Allied forces.

[@jonathantan2469]

Human waste was used as fertiliser in Malaya & Indonesia before flush toilets became widespread to the public. My parents grew up in the 1950s Malaya & they recall waste from outhouse latrines being reused as fertiliser. Of course, all veggies had to be washed AND boiled. This declined after flush toilets gained popularity & processed fertilisers became more available.

[@azizizul720]

Jonathan Tan from where I'm from using human excrements for fertilisers are unheard of and maybe if they did it's frowned upon for sure. I did my research and asked my family and others about using human excrements as fertilisers, only to get laugh after that. They said something about human excrements are bringer of diseases(because we as a human ate many things), attracts pest and bad in some superstition way. Well they have valid points, try living in the jungle and have potty hole just a few metres away from our camp I'm sure it wont be a pleasant camping experience. Sure they did used some sort of excrements but from poultry as only 'soil' fertilisers. Shifting cultivation are widely practiced long ago from my ancestors if they have problem with soil fertility. Like example if one area are less fertile or safe due to this and that, they simply moved to another location as soon as possible. That way constantly out of supply of food isnt a problem.

[@tomservo5007]

azizi Zul, don't take offence, but there was a war going on and no one would put it past the Japanese to poison the local food/water. So let's say this video taught proper cooking -- the soldiers would get in the habit of eating local foods ... perfect opportunity for the Japanese to put toxins in.

[@Lucius1958]

Some great prawns there in the Batang Kayan, as I remember: I never did try durian, though...

[@thevet2009]

#1 causing killer during war in history is Diarrhea and Dysentery (not enemy bullets)...your native people were adjusted for the foods they prepared and survived on.

[@ColdSHeep]

Did that sausage at the end just neigh like a horse? Are they saying that’s horse meat in the rations?

[@poisontoad8007]

Plantains are fine to eat raw if they're ripe. Knowing GI's went hungry for not knowing that makes the casual institutionalised racism a little easier.

[@jobdylan5782]

where are you from?

[@poisontoad8007]

@@jobdylan5782 New Zealand. You?

[@wtsyrdeal]

Mel Blank, master of 1000 voices

[@Uatemysoul]

you can eat plantains raw they just don't taste very good.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

@@tatumergo3931 : I don't understand. You find them in every supermarket. Even up here in New England: Ropa Vieja with Rice, Peas, and Plantains. Or Jerk Chicken or Curry Goat with the same.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

@@tatumergo3931 : Of course. :-) Tasty!!!

[@ataphelicopter5734]

Much like a raw potato, I guess

[@flitsertheo]

Today there would be (at least) a McDonalds on each of those Pacific islands.

[@lukelee7967]

So many times I said "So you cook them"

[@sonicmastersword8080]

If you do enough traveling and eat more than just basic foods, you can have a higher resistance to different bacterias and food complications. That said, when this was aired, people did not travel as much and food was very local.

[@davidjones-vx9ju]

why did the sasauge sound like a horse?

[@darrellcook8253]

Because there's nothing like eating horse meat disguised as beef . That was a problem back in the time that this was made. This was a subtle nod to that issue. Most miss that little winny...um er....

[@PapiDoesIt]

Narrated by Mel Blanc. Priceless.