05-09-2014, 04:30 AM
There was an article on that re-published on Englishrussia.com some years ago:
Russian American Canned Stew | English Russia
From memoirs it seems that this "Svinnaya Tushonka" was very popular and considered much better than Soviet-made food.
Btw. One of the veterans of the Polish Army in the East in his book attached a poem he wrote about Lend-lease canned food for the unit's news wall. A funny thing is that common legend among the Polish soldiers serving there was that the Americans used monkey meat to produce "svinnaya tushonka" (which tells us something about the education level in pre-war Poland), thus those cans were nicknamed "małpina"- "monkey meat". The name was retained after the war, and until 1990's Polish soldiers called the canned pork that way.
Russian American Canned Stew | English Russia
From memoirs it seems that this "Svinnaya Tushonka" was very popular and considered much better than Soviet-made food.
Btw. One of the veterans of the Polish Army in the East in his book attached a poem he wrote about Lend-lease canned food for the unit's news wall. A funny thing is that common legend among the Polish soldiers serving there was that the Americans used monkey meat to produce "svinnaya tushonka" (which tells us something about the education level in pre-war Poland), thus those cans were nicknamed "małpina"- "monkey meat". The name was retained after the war, and until 1990's Polish soldiers called the canned pork that way.
