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Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

From a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.war.vietnam, alt.war.misc, soc.history.war.misc, rec.aviation.military
Subject Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Date 2019-11-28 11:39 -0800
Organization NewsGuy.com
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On 11/28/2019 11:36 AM, a425couple wrote:
> I do not know what my earliest memories of the meal
> Lima Beans and Ham are.
> But certainly, I, and many of us, had them in our
> military C-Rats.
> 
> In the US Marine Corps while on Field exercises, or
> while preparing to load up to go out, they would
> open a big box (12 meals? / 16?) with labels hidden,
> and pass them out, totally randomly.  You got what
> you got.  But sometimes trading occured.  I liked
> the ham and lima beans meal.
> 
> And for year after I would often enough have it
> in cans from grocery store (Dennison's or Nalley??)
> Then they stopped.  I guess tastes change.
> But my wife nicely made it from scratch for us.
> It was GOOD!

and here is an ode to it!
from
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14142198-Ode-to-Dennisons-Lima-Beans-and-Ham-by-Jon-Nakapalau

Ode to Dennison's Lima Beans and Ham
with bread an butter

my favorite 'canned' meal
as a kid I would ask for it every other day

soup and a meal
all in one bowl

watching creature features
with a brimming bowl

on a late saturday night
the whole can for me

countless comics
read while enjoying some

coming home from grade school
on a cold winter day

a 'home run' meal
any lunchtime

asked for whenever mom went shopping
then one day

gone
just like that

a lesson to remember
as I went through life

remember to keep
things in the pantry

of kitchen and of life.

Still remember this favorite of mine! © a year ago, Jon Nakapalau   humor

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I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2019-11-28 11:36 -0800
  Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2019-11-28 11:39 -0800
  Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <burkesbonerbabes@pattaya.com> - 2019-11-29 08:44 -0800
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