Dr Ancel Keys was given the assignment of designing a ready-to-eat meal that did not need refridgeration, would fit in a soldier's pocket, and provide a day's nutritional value. The Army may have intentionally used his initial in the name, or maybe it was just randomly assigned.
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An emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces in World War II, consisting of a single packaged meal.
Soldiers ate C rations or K rations which were canned meals in the field-
I don't know about "in hidding" but I do know what they ate. K rations! K rations where better than nothing meals (since they had to be max-produced) There was breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts. Soldiers got pretty tired of eating those and were glad to be home when the war was over! (By the way not ALL of them were K rations)
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Some types of military rations are jungle rations and mountain rations. These two rations are specifically designed to give soldiers enough nutrients to survive in whatever area they are in.
The prisoners rations are a small chunk of salami and a piece of stale bread.