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Posted: 4/20/2022 6:51:47 PM EDT
I read many, many books on WW II. The German recruit had to sit there with a knife and peel potatoes. No potato peelers like we have in our kitchen but with a simple knife. If the skin was too thick, the recruit was wasting potatoes and would get chewed out. Kitchen duty was not an easy task.
Today I learned that the US Army of WW II had machine potato peelers. Recruit placed a potato in and it whirled around inside the machine before being spit out all pealed. America! BTW, we had a machine in Chef School but I never used it. |
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Posted: 4/20/2022 9:03:52 PM EDT
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Potato peel is my favorite part of a potato. WTF?
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2022 11:45:33 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Riter: I read many, many books on WW II. The German recruit had to sit there with a knife and peel potatoes. No potato peelers like we have in our kitchen but with a simple knife. If the skin was too thick, the recruit was wasting potatoes and would get chewed out. Kitchen duty was not an easy task. Today I learned that the US Army of WW II had machine potato peelers. Recruit placed a potato in and it whirled around inside the machine before being spit out all pealed. America! BTW, we had a machine in Chef School but I never used it. I would say the advantage was that the Allies had potatoes to peel in 1945, and the Germans did not. |
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Posted: 4/21/2022 12:05:32 AM EDT
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The fact that Germany didn't have the ability to 24-7 bomb our potato peeler factories might factor in to this as well .....
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Posted: 4/21/2022 1:24:21 AM EDT
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Years ago I worked at a restaurant which had the automatic potato peeler, it would take 50 lbs. at a time. Over time the door handle would get too loose and you had potatoes running everywhere.
Also if you forgot about them and they came out the size of ping pong balls the chef was not happy. He frowned on using for for carrots, turnips, and rutabagas, but we'd wait until he was elsewhere and use it for as much as we could. 
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/21/2022 9:31:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rope-A-Dope: Potato peel is my favorite part of a potato. WTF? I never peel mine. |
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Posted: 4/21/2022 6:13:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rope-A-Dope: Potato peel is my favorite part of a potato. WTF? Emma Peel > potato peel. I think you can ferment potato peel to make alcohol. I saw the historical documentary, The Great Escape. |
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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:21:30 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Riter: I read many, many books on WW II. The German recruit had to sit there with a knife and peel potatoes. No potato peelers like we have in our kitchen but with a simple knife. If the skin was too thick, the recruit was wasting potatoes and would get chewed out. Kitchen duty was not an easy task. Today I learned that the US Army of WW II had machine potato peelers. Recruit placed a potato in and it whirled around inside the machine before being spit out all pealed. America! BTW, we had a machine in Chef School but I never used it. What a great aphorism (or is it a metaphor?) for those armies in that war. |
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Posted: 6/1/2023 9:26:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Villafuego: The fact that Germany didn't have the ability to 24-7 bomb our potato peeler factories might factor in to this as well .....  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/23/2023 3:05:46 PM EDT
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Logistics
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Posted: 11/23/2023 10:12:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mstennes: Logistics All your army's brilliant maneuvers are fer shit if you can't continue to support them. The US logistical machine during WW2 was mind-boggling. |
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Posted: 11/24/2023 1:34:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lew: All your army's brilliant maneuvers are fer shit if you can't continue to support them. The US logistical machine during WW2 was mind-boggling. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lew: Originally Posted By mstennes: Logistics All your army's brilliant maneuvers are fer shit if you can't continue to support them. The US logistical machine during WW2 was mind-boggling. It was, factor in none of it existed prior to the war, not only is it mind boggling, it’s mind numbing as well. Originally Posted By Villafuego: The fact that Germany didn't have the ability to 24-7 bomb our potato peeler factories might factor in to this as well ..... Which we could do because of logistics, had we not established the logistical supply chain we did we could not have bombed Germany 24/7 nor could we have even invaded France. |
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Posted: 11/24/2023 9:14:59 PM EDT
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Well, the Germans had a "Potato Masher" grenade.
Several types of the famous 'Stielhandgranate' ('stick grenade') were produced during the war including a percussion version, as well as the Automatic Lighting Time Stick Grenade. Known to British troops as the 'Potato Masher'(because of its shape) the stick grenade could be thrown further than a British Mills bomb. |
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Posted: 12/7/2023 6:39:57 AM EDT
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One of the few stories my father told me about WWII regarded peeling potatoes.
He and another guy had KP duty, and they loaded all of the potatoes into the 'peeler'. He said it was like a washing machine. They turned it on, and then started horsing around. They finally remembered to go turn it off. My father said that they had small potatoes because it ran too long. 
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Posted: 12/9/2023 10:41:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jmt1991: One of the few stories my father told me about WWII regarded peeling potatoes. He and another guy had KP duty, and they loaded all of the potatoes into the 'peeler'. He said it was like a washing machine. They turned it on, and then started horsing around. They finally remembered to go turn it off. My father said that they had small potatoes because it ran too long.  
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