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Post by billhammond on May 31, 2020 15:45:55 GMT -5
As I recall saltpeter was also supposed to decrease a young male’s sex drive and rumor had it the nuns put in the food at school. When I was in boot camp in San Diego, one quickly heard the rumor that mess hall food was laced with salt peter to keep our minds focused on the demands at hand. (It was not true, but like snipe hunts at Boy Scout camp, let's go with it!) At breakfast there was a rack of individual-sized cold cereal boxes and, owing to the extreme caste system of boot camp culture, if you had been there, say six weeks, you could easily tell a table of two- or three-weekers (haircuts, dungarees, etc.), that is to say "rookies." And so it was great fun to wander over to one of those newbie tables and say "Enjoying all that salt peter, boys?" to which a common reaction would be "Ah, that's bullshit," etc. To which the sophisticated six-weeker might respond by casually selecting a cereal box from the rack, seemingly at random, flipping it so the bottom side was visible, with its big black letters SP, and displaying it for all to see and saying "Oh, yeah?" to great shock and awe. (Never mind that the letters stood for Sugar Pops.)
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