What is a sweet "Tozzi Roll" that saved the US Marine Corps in the Korean War?

ByAni-Bee

America's classic sweets "Tozzy Roll"Is a caramelic position of Guriko and Morinaga in Japan, but this chocolate taste soft candy has a long history, and in reality he saved the US Marine Corps.

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Tozzi roll with caramelToffeeIt was made in 1896 with sweets like between. Tozzi roll which is mainly sold in the United States is not "explosively popular", but it is like a glyco caramel in Japan, and it is also a standard for sweets distributed in Halloween It is a long-selling item.


What came out of the wrapping paper is like a brown candy.


Today various flavors are developed, but the original is chocolate taste.


In fact, such tozzi roll has a history that saved the US Navy in the Korean War.


In 1950, the United Nations army and the Chinese people's volunteer army fought for the first time in extreme cold in North Lake Lake of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.


The US Marine Corps also participated in the fight, but since I was out of ammo on the way, I contacted the military to drop a 60 mm mortar round in the air. At this time, this 60 mm mortar was called by the code name "Tozzi Roll".


And as you can see, the box came down from the sky ... ...


What was inside was not a mortar, but a real Tozzi roll.


In other words, the ship was sent though the shell should be sent without communication well, but this coincidence saved the Marines.


Actually, at that time, with the cold weather, there was a situation in which cracks were entering the fuel pipe of the vehicle. With this, neither advance nor withdrawal, the members were stuck.


Of course, Totsy Roll sent from the sky was also frozen in the cold, but if the members put it in their mouths, it easily melts and becomes soft.


Softened tozzi roll can be pasted on a pipe with cracks without cracks, and Tozy Roll frozen again in cold was useful for repairing and reinforcing pipes. And the Marines who succeeded in repairing the pipe safely retreated from Lake Nagatsu.


Tottsi Roll, which was found to be useful not only as an energy source but also as a "survival tool", was also used as a supplementary material in the "Desert Storm Operation" of the Gulf War afterwards.


In addition, Tottsu Roll can be purchased in Japan as well as online shops.

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