The permit's date on the vendor's cart is a temptation to approximate the date of the photo. It seems well before the surrender of April 1942, with the Phil-Am defenders still fighting, and probably soon after the Japanese entered Manila.Peter H wrote:Supplements--icecreams in Manila.
If so, I wonder slightly if the vendor had been paid for his ice cream cones afterwards.
It does prompt the question of how the Japanese fishing fleet fared early in the war. There are some studies, but few enough, of Japan's merchant marine. Canned fish in the Japanese garrison ration seem to have simply been commercial varieties.hisashi wrote:This tuna ham went to market in 1938 but during the war it was stopped. Until 1950s tuna was mainly used but later they used surimi of various fish with the improvement of freezing technology... it seems that IJA supplied fish mainly as canned form (typically salmon).
It was the Filipinos who made small use of the coconut diesel fuel, so it was economical for their local use at the time. But like many other breakthroughs we often hear about, they often never make it into wider use and that seldom gets as widely told.a white rabbit wrote:..i'm aware of it's use as a bio-fuel, but i doubt the possibility of producing it in large enough quantities to be of a great use ...let alone something that is so heavy on human labour as coconut-oil. If you have stocks then fine, like maybe on a japanese-held island with no or very little shipping available, for a short while, yup, but then ?..
I have never studied enough about the history of the Jesuits. In the long run, how many broken tribesmen vs. master gardeners did they make?a white rabbit wrote:..to paraphrase Ignatius Loyola, " give me an under-educatated tribesman for three years and i will either break-him, or give you a Master-Gardener with the ability to feed his family and his village"..
As a Filipino I had never heard that before. It does seem to make some sense for the use of sweetened beans. Sweetened ices are found throughout history in many places such as old Europe, Mughal India, and colonial America. If there is a Japanese equivalent to our halo-halo --or its predecessor -- maybe one of our Japanese members can say.Pax Melmacia wrote:IIRC the venerable Philippine halo-halo (a concoction of crushed ice topped with ice cream and fruits, beans, and, yes, coconut packed in syrup came from Japanese civilians living in the Philippines before the war. (The name means something like mish-mash. I wonder if the ice cream is a recent addition.)
At that, I have only a general idea of the Japanese civilian presence in the prewar Philippine Commonwealth. I have heard that they were in the Davao area, that some ran bicycle shops as good local businesses, and that they were particularly useful to the occupying IJA. If halo-halo truly did originate with them, I almost expect that they were the vendors as well.
When I grew up, halo-halo was made with condensed milk rather than ice cream. I seem to remember that milk products in the RP, such as Magnolia brand, came largely from Australia. Japanese took up ice cream (aisukarimu) only after the war. It seems too much to put ice cream on halo-halo, with the shaved ice and all the other toppings. But then some Filipinos make strange things with foods that are hard to explain or understand, even for others among us.
The IJN aviators of Kido Butai were served American milkshakes at one point, while their carriers were en route to attack Pearl Harbor.
-- Alan