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Did You Know? - Vittles means food, especially simple food or provisions.

It has an old-fashioned, rural, or humorous feel in modern English.

Vittles comes from "victuals," an older English word meaning food or supplies.

The word path is roughly:

• Latin: victus = nourishment, way of living
• Late Latin: victualia = provisions or food supplies
• Old French: vitaille / victuaille
• Middle English: vitailes
• English: victuals

Even though victuals is spelled with a c, it came to be pronounced like "vittles."

Did You Know? - They were called chuck wagons because "chuck" was old slang for food. On cattle drives in the American West, the chuck wagon carried the food, cooking gear, water, and supplies for the cowboys. The cook—often called "Cookie"—used it as a mobile kitchen. So a "chuck wagon" literally meant a food wagon.