162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables

The History of American Food · Mar 18, 2026 · 21m

Sure people complain about mashed potatoes made from potato flakes now - but dehydrated vegetables in their first iteration were far, far worse.

In fact some of the first mass quantities of dried vegetables prepared using forced hot air drying - and hydraulic pressing for more compact storage were produced for the civil war. And boy were they nasty. All the same - they were still better than what happed to you if you didn't eat any vegetables at all.

(And no - at this point there were no vitmin or fiber supplaments - you had to get it from the source)

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