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Re: What is pemmican

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Posted by Adam Quinan on September 16, 2025 at 07:12:24 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: What is pemmican posted by Clara on September 15, 2025 at 22:22:28:

In Winter Holiday pemmican is described as bully beef which was slang for canned corned beef.
Bully is thought to derive from the French bouilli meaning boiled.
It was standard British army rations for a long time in the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s.


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