Japanese Yak meat

My lasting Memory of World War II is………during and after 1939 — 1945 there was a factory near here that produced canned foods. They bought a ship load of Yak meat from a captured Japanese ship and sold it in cans as “stewed beef steak”. Many of the canned food in that period was referred to by the manager as “what we call ………” there was no ‘Trades Description Act’ then!

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