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The food being eaten aboard the U-Boat

posted 14 years ago by jeffyoung1
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Did everyone look closely at the odd food being served aboard the German U-Boat? In the first scene at the officers' table they're eating some weird, mystery meat. Everyone is scraping the surface off the meat and it looks like hairs are growing out of the surfaces of the meat. Later in another scene everyone on the officers' table is enjoying some odd concoction of what looks to be yellowish cream mixed with bright red maraschino cherries. It must taste good because everyone is scarfing down like starving men. The enlisted men are all eating what looks to be slop on their plates. I can't even identify what is being shown on their plates. It looks as if someone brought aboard cans of leftovers from restaurants, all mixed together and then spooned up and served to the enlisted men.

[–] alcockell 14 years ago

Different mealtimes.

More often than not, dinner is shot in the officers' section; you see the ratings having breakfast at 48 minutes in. Probably powdered eggs rehydrated...

Ahh - found one page about the diet on board... http://www.uboat.net/men/foodstuffs.htm

Although I wouldn't be surprised if the odd "All-In" was served up...

[–] Hungerhill 14 years ago

The captain remarks that the meat is badly shaved so I guess they are eating pork.

[–] alcockell 14 years ago

I think they were about halfway through the sortie, weren't they? So that would suggest they're onto the canned compo meat.

[–] bent-aarhusc 13 years ago

The dessert is Pudding (in German - in Denmark we call it Budding). It is made out of milk, sugar, (sometimes also flour), eggs (yolks and whites separated), vanilla, shell of lemon and cream. Served hot or cold with canned cherries. It was very popular in my childhood (late '50es and early '60es). Surely it must have been popular in Germany too: one of the largest producers of Puddingpulver is German Dr. Oetker, located in Bielefeld. I think Bielefeld was heavily bombed after POWs have been served Pudding and written home to their moms about it ;-)

[–] TaraDeS 8 years ago

bent-aarhusc Thu Dec 30 2010 14:56:48

The dessert is Pudding (in German - in Denmark we call it Budding). It is made out of milk, sugar, (sometimes also flour), eggs (yolks and whites separated), vanilla, shell of lemon and cream. Served hot or cold with canned cherries. It was very popular in my childhood (late '50es and early '60es). Surely it must have been popular in Germany too: one of the largest producers of Puddingpulver is German Dr. Oetker, located in Bielefeld. I think Bielefeld was heavily bombed after POWs have been served Pudding and written home to their moms about it ;-)

Bielefeld?!
"Das gibt's doch gar nicht!"

Bielefeld Conspiracy
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The city council of Bielefeld tries hard to generate publicity for Bielefeld and build a nationwide known public image of the city. Even after 17 years, however, the mayor's office receives phone calls and e-mails which claim to doubt the existence of the city.

In 1999, five years after the myth started to spread, the city council released a press statement titled Bielefeld gibt es doch! (Bielefeld does exist!) on April Fools' Day. In allusion to the conspiracy the 800th anniversary of Bielefeld was held under the motto Das gibt's doch gar nicht (colloquially "This can't be true", but literally "This does not actually exist").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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[–] Torni3945 9 years ago

The hair on the first officer's meat I assume was a cruel prank done by the second officer and the U-Boat's cook.

[–] persen1 9 years ago

The dessert is Pudding (in German - in Denmark we call it Budding).

Close, what they are eating with Cherries on top is called Grießbrei, very popular in Germany and no wonder, it tastes very good. Can be eaten hot or at room temperature and does not require to be cooled first for several hours in a fridge to become enjoyable, like normal Vanilla Pudding requires.

Managed to find out with Google what Grießbrei is called in English: German Semolina Pudding
Vanilla can be added to get a better flavor.