Tootsie rolls

[korea drab]

http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/memoirs/szymciak/index.htm

Amazing to read this!The only eatable stuff that does not freeze,hahahaha

Enjoy

Karl

[Bank Vault]

Learn something new everyday I swear.

[Bugme]

How in the world were they able to use Tootsie Roll and SPAM in the same paragraph. It's like comparing good with evil! I've heard this before and now we have the ever trustworthy internet(sarcasm intended) to back up the Tootsie saga.

[Spathologist]

Well, he didn't say yhey wouldn't freeze, he just said they could keep them warm enough to eat by slipping them inside clothing.

 

Because they do freeze. They get hard enough you can break them into pieces like a wooden stick.

 

And while they don't melt, they do ooze some kind of sticky clear liquid when they get really hot.

[Justin]

Like said above, learn something new everyday, neat story

[Guest vcs-ww2]

Trootsie Rolls didn’t seem to be as popular in the Pacific Theater of War as they apparently were in Europe. Two of the non-melt, non-freeze, hunger-handy candies that were popular with the troops were “Bit-O-Honey” – the taffy-type bars with chopped up peanuts, and “Good-‘N– Plenty” – boxes of 3/4-inch hard, pink & white candy-coated licorice sticks.. I’m told both brands are still on the market. Both of the above were handy for 20-mile hikes, overnight bivouacs, amphibious exercises, barracks or shipboard snacks, combat, etc. As pointed out in an earlier post, Tootsie Rolls were great for handing out to the little kids in Europe, but you gota remember that troops in the Pacific rarely -- if ever -- encountered little kids -- except back in Hawaii , Australia, or other rear base places.

 

Of course, M&M's were a big hit when they started showing up on PX shelves.

 

Finally, I’m sure it has probably been pointed out numerous times on this forum that, during World War Two, candy of all types was called “pogey bait”.

 

Why pogey bait?

 

I haven’t the faintest idea!

 

vcs . – . – .

[Spathologist]

Finally, I’m sure it has probably been pointed out numerous times on this forum that, during World War Two, candy of all types was called “pogey bait”.

 

Why pogey bait?

 

I haven’t the faintest idea!

 

vcs . – . – .

 

It's still called pogey bait and this explanation for why is as good as any I've heard; if you don't like it, he provides links to others:

 

http://ericturner.wordpress.com/2007/03/20/pogey-bait/