In terms of cooking method, it’s a hodgepodge of stew, and in terms of ingredients, it’s spam, sausage, rice cakes, and cheese. Except for the red chili sauce and rice cakes, which are traditional Korean foods, they are all foreign.

Rather than saying that the army pot is a traditional Korean food, it is better to say that the army pot is a popular American food.

Speaking of army pot, we have to mention the main ingredient of army pot, Spam luncheon meat. Army pot itself is a derivative of Spam.

During World War II, the U.S. military ordered more than one billion cans of Spam luncheon meat from Hormel Foods to replace the original bacon for military rations. In order to increase production and reduce costs, Hormel increased the starch content of Spam.

, reducing the meat content, so the taste is extremely unpalatable. In addition, American soldiers eat this stuff three times a day, so there are complaints that this stuff is spiritual meat and should be eliminated like the fascists.

The Americans originally rolled their arms up their sleeves and prepared to play with something big. They ordered enough lunch meat to last for five years based on the total mobilization of 16 million troops. But before they even tried their best, the Axis powers fell down, resulting in a large amount of supplies.

With no place to use it, the American master had a lot of money and started giving it away with a wave of his hand. All the warring countries including Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and Australia were lucky enough to have a taste of this canned luncheon meat with a high starch content and no meat. However, this thing

However, it has become the most popular item among the supplies provided by the United States to its allies.

The Soviet Union was already in tatters. The Red Army soldiers had less than 450 grams of food a day. Ordinary Soviet people could not get enough to eat. The British implemented wartime rations and they were hungry and full. Spam became

A precious source of protein, Thatcher recalled: During the war, their family was only willing to open a can of Spam on Christmas and New Year's Day.

Khrushchev admitted after the kitchen debate: Without Spam, we would really have nothing else to feed the Red Army soldiers.

This is true for the great powers, let alone the newly independent powers such as South Korea, so in South Korea, Spam is definitely a delicacy.

After the end of World War II, a large amount of remaining Spam was either sold or used as disaster relief materials and thrown directly to the local people. This was really a mercy for the Korean people. They got some military ration food and cooked it in one pot.

Well, Spam is the grand finale.

The military pot is essentially a food that was eaten during the poor years. Taste and nutrition are secondary. When Korea became rich, no one was willing to eat it. The main reason why it has been spread to this day is also the consumer sentiment and remembering the hardships and thinking about the sweets.

, although there have been improvements and the taste is acceptable, but the origin is such that the method is not particular, and it will not be on the table after all. But if you really replace the luncheon meat with more expensive meat ingredients, it will not be a military pot.