Carnation Condensed Milk

[Tengu]

Evap is good.

 

[Danceswithhelicopters]

Burn the Heretic

 

[Falstaff]

Another Heretic here, based on current medical advice to avoid sugar/insulin spikes. Went shopping yesterday and found Condensed just tipped over 50% sugars.
Nice tho' it is, I bought Evap.

 

[Mang]

It makes decent Dutch oven ice cream mixed with double cream, you don't get the icy crystals. Has a unique stickiness all of it's own too.

 

[Pattree]

Ah! Perhaps it could make a good bushcraft flypaper. There had to be some use for it.

I’m with @Tengu and I’m not going to stick that stuff in my mouth.

 

[saxonaxe]

Falstaff​

" I've been unable to find any supporting research, but I'm pretty sure it was standard issue in WWII to the navy/military because of the difficulty in keeping dried milk dry/transportable/economical usage size. "

Sometimes the most mundane things stick in memories, and Conny onny is one of them for me...
Back in the early 1960's I attended a course that on passing would lead to me being rated as Able Seaman in Merchant ships. There was an examination at the end of the course which was at St Katherine's Dock in London, then a working Dock, now the haunt of the rich and fashionable. The old Board of Trade qualification was overseen by retired Master Mariners and apart from Seamanship, splicing, ship's lights etc one of my final questions was..
Name the contents of the survival ration lockers in a ship's Life Boat..

per person... 16 ozs of Barley sugar.
16 ozs of Hard Biscuit
and
16 ozs of sweetened condensed milk..
plus 3/4 gallon of fresh water

Correct..and I passed.

 

[Pattree]

A memory has emerged:

While I wouldn’t give rucksack room to the nasty stuff, I do remember seeing it in tubes.
Is that still available?
Very convenient I would have thought.

(Off topic - it’s how I carry passata, garlic or ginger into camp - in tubes.)

Edited to add:
I’ve found condensed milk in squeezey bottles but that’s not the same as a metal tube because it lets air back into the container.

 

[Tengu]

Phew, Saxonaxe, that is foul.

Remind me never to get shipwrecked on your ship.

 

[neoaliphant]

Lovely stuff....makes brilliant tablet too

I got a load of tins on offer, made up several kilos of tablet
was very tasty at first, but kept it in the shed chest freezer which was also full of bags of brussel sprouts

so ended up with a huge amount of brussel sprout flavoured tablet.....

 

[Falstaff]

"carry passata, garlic or ginger into camp - in tubes"
Slaps own head, Doh! Why didn't I think of that?

Instead of giving up on trying multiple part-filled little tubs that split in the bag, and you cannot read the label in the dark. That also take up a surprising amount of space in the rucksack..