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Originally Posted by Torplexed
From the BBC People's War archive.
"Navy cocoa was issued as large blocks of hard gritty chocolate bearing a pattern of impressions of a triangular flag. Scraped into thin flakes and boiled in evaporated milk it made a most satisfying and warming drink. I found that when I sensed that it was time for my mug of hot cocoa I could smell it by applying my nose to the tube, and soon afterwards one of the sparkers would bring it up to me. Any article of official issue was called Pusser's (from Purser's?) and cocoa was called Kye, so this drink was known as Pusser's Kye."
No Wuss Miss for the Royal Navy.:p
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Wow, thanks for the info. Sounds . . . interesting.
Sadly, it doesn't seem like it would be easily recreatable. Guess I'll have to settle for the packaged stuff. Your reference material sounds like a great source of information.
Thanks again,
JD