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In James Jones’ Pulitzer winning book “WWII” he includes a cartoon of an emaciated Japanese soldier obviously starving to death offering to surrender to some Marines with the caveat “My man are appoint me to offer surrendering—only under one condition—that we are not required to eat admirable American delicacy named spam.” When it comes to sausage “Don’t ask; enjoy” has always been good advice. Of course, the same thing can be said for many food items and the jokes concerning Spam were legion among troops during WWII. But hunger will drive people to many extremes where even Spam may be considered a delicacy despite the point made in the cartoon, or even to the extremes of “No Blade of Grass” or “Soylent Green.” Many are the accounts of cannibalism from the most ancient of times, and many such cases were reported in Russia and elsewhere during WWII. Even the Old Testament has a story of people...
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