horrible-tasting

Updated: July 31, 2026

The next morning we each received three-quarters of a pint of acorn coffee, so called, horrible-tasting stuff; and a loaf of black bread half potatoes and half rye weighing two hundred and fifty grams, or a little more than half a pound, among five men. This allowed a piece about three by three by four inches to each man for the day's ration.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland