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survival math made edible, where dinner becomes a measured act of stubborn hope
means Fixed portions of food (or supplies) doled out in limited amounts, especially when resources are scarce or strictly controlled.
from From Latin 'ratio' — meaning reckoning, calculation, reason — by way of French. The same root that gives us 'rate' and 'ratio'; a ration is literally your calculated share, a portion arrived at by arithmetic rather than appetite. The word took on its military and survival flavor in the 18th century, when feeding armies meant turning hunger into a fixed equation.
- napoleonic prize
- France offered cash to whoever invented canned food
- hardtack
- sailors soaked biscuits to evict the weevils
- d-day chocolate
- made deliberately bad so troops wouldn't snack early
- word origin
- from Latin ratio, meaning calculation or reckoning
- survival staple
- pemmican lasted years, fueling polar explorers and warriors
british wartime rations — uk civilians received 4oz butter, 2oz cheese per week during wwii 1939-1945
cuban food rations — cubans issued libreta (ration book) limiting rice, beans, oil since 1962 embargo
north korea food distribution — public distribution system allocates ~300g grain per person daily in pyongyang, lower elsewhere