Originally posted by John bull 1
Napoleon's army that marched to Russia took with them some of the first tinned food as rations.
Unfortunately the tins were made, in part,using lead and many of them died of lead poisoning.
No biggie though almost all the rest froze to death.
Welcome IC.
Lead... *when*, I ask myself, will they learn John??
I also heard that the baguette was a Napoleonic invention, as the soldiers could shove the bread sticks down their trousers for convenience....
Wouldn't fancy it myself - Lead-bread-dead? There's a poem in there somewhere!!