ANZAC food

ANZAC foods-

What the ANZAC’S ate

Last Wednesday Mr Forsyth made hard tack, which is a type of hard biscuit. He also brought us bully beef  and strawberry jam. This was to give us some idea of what the ANZACs ate at Gallipoli. In WW 1 it was commonly raspberry jam not strawberry jam. I myself  thought it was horrible as the biscuits were rock hard. I think that it wouldn't do any harm to add some sugar! That bully beef looked and tasted like cat food, eewww!

My class were fairly even in who liked it and who didn’t like this food. I took about half an hour to finish my hard tack - not an exaggeration as it was so awful.. But some boys had seconds, maybe even thirds! Imagine if we had hard tack every day, the dentists would be rich!

Think about it, what would it be like in the cruel battle fields surrounded  by  limp lifeless bodies and scarlet blood pouring out of people’s sides, living on only disgusting biscuits, rock hard and tasteless plus bully beef, warm and mushy. How would you like it?

by Emily Johnston