Maconochie

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Maconochie is a stew of sliced turnips and carrots in a thin soup, named for the Aberdeen Maconochie Company that produced it. It was a widely used food ration for British soldiers in front-line trenches during World War I.

Though the stew was tolerable when famished, many soldiers detested it. As one soldier put it, "warmed in the tin, Maconochie was edible; cold it was a mankiller."^[1]

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• Trench Food
• Glossary of Australian military jargon of World War I
• Replicas of World War I artifacts, including cans of Maconochie