United States military chocolate

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Military chocolate has been part of US military rations since Ration D or Dasias in 1937. Today, military chocolate is issued to troops as part of the field ration base and the package is nice. Chocolate ration serves two purposes: as a moral boost, and as an emergency pocket-sized high-energy ration. Military chocolate rations are often made in special sizes for military specifications for weight, size, and durability. The majority of chocolate issued to military personnel is produced by the Hershey Company.

When provided as an encouragement or care package, military chocolates are often no different from the bar bought in regular stores in taste and composition. However, they are often packed or shaped differently. K World World II rations that are issued in temperate climates sometimes include a bar of Hershey commercial-made sweet chocolate. But instead of being the average thin bar, Cation chocolate is a square rectangular square bar at each end (in the tropics, K rations use the Hershey Tropical Bar formula).

When provided as emergency field rations, military chocolates are very different from normal bars. Since the purpose of its use is as an emergency food source, it is formulated so it will not be a tempting meal that may be consumed by troops before they need it. Even when attempts to improve the flavors are made, the heat resistant chocolate bar never receives a warm welcome. Emergency ration bar browns are made to have high energy value, portability, and are able to withstand high temperatures. High temperatures that survive are important because infantry are often outdoors, sometimes in tropical or desert conditions, with bars located close to their bodies. This condition will cause typical chocolate bars to melt within minutes.

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Logan Bar atau D ration

The first emergency brown ration bar assigned by the United States Army was Ration D, commonly known as R. D. The Army Quartermaster Colonel Paul Logan approached Hershey's Chocolate in April 1937, and met William Murrie, company president, and Sam Hinkle, head chemist. Milton Hershey was very interested in this project when he was informed about the proposal, and the meeting began the first experimental production of D rodal bar.

Colonel Logan has four requirements for Bar Dation. The bar should:

1. Weigh 4 ounces (113.4 g)
2. High energy energy value
3. Able to withstand high temperatures
4. The flavors are "slightly better than boiled potatoes" (to keep soldiers from eating their emergency rations in non-emergency situations)

The ingredients are chocolate, sugar, wheat flour, brown fat, skimmed milk powder, and artificial flavoring. The chocolate-making apparatus was built to move the mixture of liquid chocolate and wheat flour into a predetermined mold. However, the temperature-resistant brown formula becomes a sticky paste that will not flow at any temperature.

The chief chemist Hinkle was forced to develop an entirely new production method for producing bars. Each portion of four ounces must be squeezed, weighed, and pressed into mold by hand. The end result is a very hard dark brown brown block that will be crushed with some effort and heat resistance up to 120 ° F (49 ° C).

The resulting blade is wrapped with aluminum foil. Three bars are sealed in parchment packs made daily rations and are intended to complement individual combat soldiers with the recommended daily 1,800 calorie (7.500 kJ) recommended daily.

Logan is happy with the first few samples. In June 1937, the United States Army ordered 90,000 Rations or "Logan Bars" and the field tested them in bases in the Philippines, Panama, on the Texas border, and in other bases throughout the United States. Some bars even found their way into supplies for Antarctica's third Antarctic expedition. The field test was successful, and the Army started making irregular orders for the bars.

With the onset of American involvement in World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bars were ordered to be packed to make them poison the poisonous gas. The 4-ounce box (112 g) is wrapped with an anti-gas layer and packed 12 to cardboard, which is also coated. These cartons are packed 12 to the crates for a total of 144 rods to the crate.

Rations are almost universally hated for their bitter taste by US troops, and are often discarded rather than consumed when expelled. The troops call the "Hitler Secret Weapon" D ration for its effect on the colon's intestinal tract. It can not be eaten at all by soldiers with bad teeth, and even those with good dental work often feel the need to shave the first slice of the bar with a knife before it is consumed.

During wartime, most of the Hershey Food Corporation's chocolate production was for the military. Between 1940 and 1945, about 3 billion units of specially formulated candy bars were distributed to soldiers around the world. "This chocolate ration is part of a larger dietary scale.The food ideology, as seen by US propaganda director Elmer Davis, is recommended to be" a very political issue during the Second World War. When conditions of global hunger and national allotment programs come to determine the daily lives of most people, agriculture and food are symbols of military power, war trade, and political allegiance. "

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Tropical Bar

In 1943, the Army Procurement Division approached Hershey about producing chocolate-style candy bars with a better flavor that would remain extremely heat-resistant for publication at the Pacific Theater. After a brief period of experimentation, the Hershey company began producing Hershey's Tropical Bar. This bar is designed for problems with field and special rations, such as K rations, and initially comes in 1-ounce (28 g) and 2-ounce (56 g) sizes. After 1945, it came in 4-ounce size (112 g) D ration as well.

The Tropical Bar (it's called the entire D ration of war, though the new name) has more of a resemblance to a normal chocolate in its form and flavor than the original D ration, gradually replaced by 1945. While attempts to sweeten it seem rather successful, The United States finds Tropical Bar that is hard to chew and unappetizing; reports from memoirs and countless field reports are almost as negative. Instead, the bar is thrown away or exchanged with Allied forces or unsuspecting civilians for food or items that are more tempting. Resistance to receive rations soon emerged among the last groups after the first few trades. In the Burma theater of war (CBI), the D or Tropical Bar ration does make one group of converts: it is known as "dysentery ration", because bar is the only sick ration with dysentery can tolerate.

In 1957, the formula bar was changed to make it more appealing. Unpopular wheat has been removed, non-fat milk solids replace skimmed milk powder, cocoa powder replaces cocoa butter, and artificial vanilla spice is added. It was added with the help of sugar. This greatly enhances the taste of the bar, but it's still hard to chew.

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Hershey bar

It is estimated that between 1940 and 1945, more than 3 billion D and Tropical Bar rations were produced and distributed to soldiers worldwide. In 1939, the Hershey factory was able to produce 100,000 bar rations a day. At the end of World War II, the entire Hershey factory produced a ration bar costing 24 million a week. For their service during World War II, Hershey Chocolate Company issued the 'E' Navy Award for Excellence as it exceeded expectations for quality and quantity in the production of Rations and Tropical Bars. Their ongoing effort resulted in four stars added to their banner signifying the five times they accepted this distinction. US propaganda used this product difference during the war as a message "that the Allied countries will win the war because of their democratic institutions, but also because of the economic productivity of the US and, in particular, its agriculture." Alongside this state-sponsored rhetoric, radio advertisements for groceries and other consumer goods use a malicious racial nickname {not mentioned in the reference} to strengthen military campaigns against Germany and Japan.

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Postwar to modern

Rhetoric "war rations align food consumption with war in Europe and Asia, but also with the vitality of agriculture and US consumerism, while these campaigns aim to save surplus US food for the purpose of providing food aid to foreign military and civilians, to dispose of certain food items. "Production of the Dation bar was halted at the end of World War II. However, the Hershey Tropical Bar remains the standard ration for the United States Armed Forces. Tropical Bar sees action in Korea and Vietnam as an element of the "Serba-serbi" package (which also contains toiletries), before being declared obsolete. This was briefly re-used when it was included on the Apollo 15 ship in July 1971.

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"Congo Bar"/Desert Bar

In the late 1980s, US Army Natick Labs created a new high-temperature chocolate (nicknamed "Congo Bar" by the researchers) that could withstand more than 140Ã Â ° F (60Ã, Â ° C) heat.

During Operation Desert Desert and Desert Storm Operation, Hershey's Chocolate is a major producer, shipping 144,000 sticks for American troops in southwestern southwestern theater. While the Army spokesman said that the bar's taste was good, the troop reaction was mixed and the bar was not put into full production.

Since the war ended before Hershey's inventory from the experimental bar was shipped, the rest of the production was run packed in a "desert camo" pack and dubbed the Desert Bar. This proved to be a brief novelty but Hershey refused to make more after the inventory runs out.

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See also

• Index of military food articles
• Soldier Fuel (formerly HOOAH! bar)
• Goldenberg Beans

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References

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External links

• Hershey's military chocolate bar image
• The Kwartermaster Corps Army website
• Hershey - Ration D Bars Archive
• Hershey Archives - Hershey's Tropical Chocolate Bar
• Freedom Rates: American in War - The Smithsonian Institution exhibits featuring Hershey's Tropical Bar
• The 69th Tank Battalion - Vietnam war veteran speaks critically about Hershey's Tropical Bar

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