Gulaschkanone (Gulasch Cannon)

An army marches on its stomach and the same is true when reenacting with GD. Our original Goulaschkanone is capable of feeding 150 men at an event. It is Kompanie property and as such, it is mandatory that everyone support it.

Typically you will be provided 4-5 meals over the course of a weekend all for about $20. At times you will also be asked to clean it or help maintain it. It’s all part of portraying a Soldat of 7./GD.

The German field kitchen (Gulaschkanone) was like everything associated with the Wehrmacht carefully studied and thought out. The objective was to ensure that every German soldier got at least one hot meal every day. The German Gulaschkanone or field kitchen was an efficient means of providing large quantities of nourishing hot meals using the minimum of resources.
Meal menus regularly included both potato soup and pea and ham soup as well as all sorts of stews. Meals were accompanied by a bread or biscuit ration. The Germans set up a food system that when the campaigns were going right ensured that the soldiers were well fed. The daily ration for each German soldier was determined by OKW, taking into account the soldier’s assignment and theater of operations.