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Rock can answer life's biggest questions (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This is true. During the war the soldiers were suffering with shortages and they had low quality food. Overly filled and poor leaky lemons were rife. A lot of legs were sticky. It was Hell.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Close, but you were actually one of the lucky divisions to get even rotten lemons. Trench warfare was largely a battle of attrition and rations had to last, hot meals and fresh fruit (especially sources of vitamin c) were a luxury to be supplied with. Scurvy wasn't uncommon. Here's a bunch of cool links

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