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This was a real campaign during World War 2, I posted about it in Smokes Screen Battles Gloom.
Prussic acid is also known as hydrogen cyanide. The comic is making fun of this American who implies that being in Northern Canada is so deadly that use would be better off poisoning yourself than dying in the cold if you were lost. Of course, no one would carry it for this purpose, and whoever told him was pulling his leg.
Turtle soup was very popular in the first half of the 20th century, so much so that they became endangered and it had to stop being produced. Even canned “mock turtle” soup was created until 1960 for people to still have something similar until it disappeared due to changing tastes.
