U-Boat cocktail

OldWulf85 · 08-19-14, 05:49 AM

Lol, you should do that only when your body have the first signs of Scurvy.

Aktungbby · 08-19-14, 11:47 AM

As was apparently the case from time to time on the long U-boat missions? From a review of Battle Beneath the Waves : "We also get a glimpse of the snafus that plagued the German forces just as surely as they did the Allies, when we learn that most of one crew came down with scurvy during a long mission because they were mistakenly supplied with a much smaller quantity of vitamin tablets than their health required."

KorvettanKapitän Kentrat after his longest patrol of the war-225 days-hardly profitable IMHO-only two ships sunk...he looks decidedly malnourished here.

UKönig · 08-21-14, 05:58 PM

The daily squeezing of the lemons, something of a ritual aboard long haul U-boats. Crews haunted by images of wasted, toothless ghouls painfully gumming the hard Kommissbrot...
Everyone aboard has his own way of downing the stuff.
The Chief cuts his lemon in two, methodically stabs each cell (as if this task will take him all night), then places a small lump sugar into each, and then noisily sucks the juice through the sugar. Sloppy. No regard for manners.
The Second watch officer has hit upon a particularly ingenious idea. He squeezes the lemon juice into a glass, mixes it with some sugar, and then pours in a measure of condensed milk. The milk curdles the instant it touches the lemon juice and the whole thing looks absolutely revolting. It makes the Old Man shudder, every time, but the 2WO pays it no mind. He proudly calls this concoction the U-Special, and asks if the rest of us are jealous. He then slowly swallows this 'drink' rolling his eyes in 'ecstasy'...

08-19-14, 05:49 AM	#1
OldWulf85 Engineer Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: DEU Posts: 218 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Lol, you should do that only when your body have the first signs of Scurvy. __________________ We joined the navy to see the world. And what did we see? We saw the sea

08-19-14, 11:47 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,033 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	As was apparently the case from time to time on the long U-boat missions? From a review of Battle Beneath the Waves : "We also get a glimpse of the snafus that plagued the German forces just as surely as they did the Allies, when we learn that most of one crew came down with scurvy during a long mission because they were mistakenly supplied with a much smaller quantity of vitamin tablets than their health required." KorvettanKapitän Kentrat after his longest patrol of the war-225 days-hardly profitable IMHO-only two ships sunk...he looks decidedly malnourished here. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

08-21-14, 05:58 PM	#3
UKönig Captain Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 495 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	special cocktail The daily squeezing of the lemons, something of a ritual aboard long haul U-boats. Crews haunted by images of wasted, toothless ghouls painfully gumming the hard Kommissbrot... Everyone aboard has his own way of downing the stuff. The Chief cuts his lemon in two, methodically stabs each cell (as if this task will take him all night), then places a small lump sugar into each, and then noisily sucks the juice through the sugar. Sloppy. No regard for manners. The Second watch officer has hit upon a particularly ingenious idea. He squeezes the lemon juice into a glass, mixes it with some sugar, and then pours in a measure of condensed milk. The milk curdles the instant it touches the lemon juice and the whole thing looks absolutely revolting. It makes the Old Man shudder, every time, but the 2WO pays it no mind. He proudly calls this concoction the U-Special, and asks if the rest of us are jealous. He then slowly swallows this 'drink' rolling his eyes in 'ecstasy'... __________________ Because I'm the captain, that's why!