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Rhibwolf, I followed your lead and looked it up too. What I find interesting is the stories that sidetracked me along the way. I think I could have searched and read forever.
Kye must have made an impression on this veteran who actually put it in the title of his book ("Kye and Soogie") that he wrote to share his story of his time on the Corvettes.
Reading an article of the Navy News from the RAN regarding Food in the Navy:
Most of the stories that I found had positive memories of Kye, but the description in this article made me wonder:
Kye must have made an impression on this veteran who actually put it in the title of his book ("Kye and Soogie") that he wrote to share his story of his time on the Corvettes.
Kye was a thick brew of heavy and fatty chocolate, served hot and considered a lifesaving elixir by wet and freezing young Corvette crewmen serving seemingly endless watches on North Atlantic convoy duty.
Reading an article of the Navy News from the RAN regarding Food in the Navy:
At 2100 we had kye - slab cocoa
Most of the stories that I found had positive memories of Kye, but the description in this article made me wonder:
Within an hour someone would go for "Kye" - that thick Naval cocoa, with a skin on it like a rubber disc! - and almost white with the cocoa butter encapsulated in it!