Late in the afternoon the company cooks brought food up to the village for the first hot meal they'd had… — Richard Yates
Late in the afternoon the company cooks brought food up to the village for the first hot meal they'd had since Belgium - salmon patties, dehydrated potatoes, and canned fruit salad - and most of the men seemed in high spirits as they sat or squatted over their mess kits in the street.
"What kind of catshit is this?"
"Salmon-patty catshit, that's what kind."
p. 80Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
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