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Tushonka

Tushonka is a canned stewed meat especially popular in Russia and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc. It has become a common name for different kinds of canned stewed meat, not all of which correspond to the strict GOST standards. Tushonka can be used and preserved in extreme situations, and therefore is a part of military food supplies in the CIS. For the people of the Soviet Union, tushonka was a part of military and tourist food supplies; at some extreme periods of time it could only be bought with food stamps. Unlike many Western canned meat products, tushonka has separate pieces, chunks of meat. It is mixed with lard and jelly. This is closer to holodets, rather than either hash or bully beef or SPAM.

Source: Wikipedia