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Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know

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The British Army's Diet

The British army provides you with a fantastic diet. They have salted bacon in tins, which they could fry up and then use the lard,. The soldiers also had something called maconarchy, which is a sort of lamb and vegetable. And they'd have pork and beans - but I've never found any bloody pork in them. Some things don't change. You can pick up on it if you like now. Things like food. But yeah, we've had several questions about this from what was sold to us: What do they eat? How do they even cook?

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