# Educate me about military food

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [June 2, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educate-me-about-military-food/1002421 "2024-06-02T22:12:58Z")\
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> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
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> “Korn” means rye in general use in German, although technically it means cereal in general. I was told in Germany before the war maize was considered more feed than food.

Not long after my Russian ex-wife moved in with me, she brought home a can of “dessert corn,” an obvious mistranslation of “sweet corn.” I don’t remember which country it was from, but it was indeed the kind of corn you’d feed to livestock—really gross and chewy.

She was offended when I told her (nicely, I thought) she shouldn’t buy that brand again and had to explain why.

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