Well, quite. And a big part of that shudder is probably from his imagination trying to extrapolate what a hamdinger made as a field ration for the United States Army in the 1940s* would be like.

--G.
* This does, admittedly, assume they weren't left over from NW1. Or the Hispanian-Liberion War, for which - not a lot of people know this! - they were invented as a replacement for the hated beefundibulum.
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