Maconochie
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English
Etymology
After the Maconochie company in Aberdeen that produced it.
Pronunciation
Noun
Maconochie (uncountable)
- (historical) A tinned stew of sliced turnips, carrots, and potatoes in a thin broth, a widely-used food ration for British soldiers in front-line trenches during World War I.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 262:
- Dottrell said the toasted cheese wasn't too bad, and ‘There's worse things in the world than half-warmed Maconochie,’ he remarked.
- 1975, Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, OUP, published 2013, page 53:
- The troops seemed to like the Maconochie best, but the Germans favored the British corned beef, seldom returning from a raid on the British lines without taking back as much as they could carry.