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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/18/2008 11:33:18 PM   
morganbj


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Status: offline 		For me, it was always C-rations.  Dang, they were bad.  MREs would have been like a feast.  Anyone ever had that C-ration bread?  I'm about to hurl just thinkin' about it.  If it weren't for the dry-as-sand peanut butter, nobody would have ever eaten it.  Oh, oh!  I gotta run down the hall ....

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/19/2008 1:06:40 AM   
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During my time in, I was lucky enough to experience both the C-rats and the early MREs (or as we called them "Meals rejected by Ethiopians"). I prefered the C-rats myself.

The MREs had this packet of peanut butter that had the consistancy and taste of drywall spackle. Marked on the outside of the packet was the statement "Kneed before using". During one field exercise where we hadn't been feed on a regular basis, one of my fellow soilders pulled out the peanut butter, read that statement on the packet and said..."Well, there is no way I would be eating this if I didn't need it".



Uhh....I never tasted drywall spackle..


So, are you saying you never had MRE peanut butter? Same stuff.



Never had MRE's, wore a steel pot...wore OD Green fatigues, black jump boots.....Khaki "WW"'s for class B...etc.
"MRE" is a new thing but the jerky stuff Yamatohugger mentioned was memorable, (I too was a Ranger but did not know it was exclusive just to us-did not always have them)

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/19/2008 1:09:22 AM   
m10bob


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For me, it was always C-rations.  Dang, they were bad.  MREs would have been like a feast.  Anyone ever had that C-ration bread?  I'm about to hurl just thinkin' about it.  If it weren't for the dry-as-sand peanut butter, nobody would have ever eaten it.  Oh, oh!  I gotta run down the hall ....



all Vietnam vets remember what we called the "lima beans".......

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/19/2008 4:52:02 AM   
Feltan


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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
...I came in during the early MREs. (By the way, they've gotten much better.) I was on a medical mission in Argentina years ago where the kids had chronic runs. We quickly ran out of medicine to stop them up, so we started giving them the peanut butter out of the MREs and the T-rations we had for breakfast and dinner. That did the trick...


You ain't kidding.

I was in a unit that had the "privaledge" of being the first to get MRE's in the field. We didn't know what they were really. Just one day, someone from Natick Labs showed up and the Bn Cmdr said, "you and your company eat them and report to this guy."

We ate them for three days straight. Three a day.

I didn't crap for almost two weeks.

Got so bad I went to the medics. They sent me to the doc, and he gave me a handful of pills. Without getting too graphic, let's just say if you ever seen an Apollo rocket launch you'll know what I went through.

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/20/2008 5:04:17 AM   
Joe D.


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... When my Grandfather returned from the Pacific my Grandmother welcomed him home with a dinner made from a wonderful new product on the market. SPAM.


With the recent increases in the price of oil, resulting in a substantial increase in the transportation costs of food -- all of which being passed on to the consumer in the form of higher grocery bills -- SPAM is making a come back!

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/20/2008 2:44:35 PM   
m10bob


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(These seem to be a little after my time, we NEVER saw something nice like Marlboro's, only crap like Benson and Hedges and Chesterfield, Pall Mall, etc.)
Our matches were in an O.D. coloured paper, not the nifty green shown here, and the TP only had a paper band around it..




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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/20/2008 2:50:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: thegreatwent

... When my Grandfather returned from the Pacific my Grandmother welcomed him home with a dinner made from a wonderful new product on the market. SPAM.


With the recent increases in the price of oil, resulting in a substantial increase in the transportation costs of food -- all of which being passed on to the consumer in the form of higher grocery bills -- SPAM is making a come back!

Some places it never went out of favor: in Hawaii, MacDonalds has SPAM on it's breakfast menu! (we took some pics of the menu at one McD's about a year or so ago... )

Hawaii is also home to the world's largest stockpile of spam (dubbed "The Strategic SPAM Reserve"...)

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/20/2008 7:39:12 PM   
patrickl


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_ration

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/21/2008 12:49:56 AM   
LargeSlowTarget


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Status: offline 		I did only compulsory military service in the German Bundeswehr (12 months as a tank gunner) and never left the country, so I surely do not qualify as veteran in any sense, but since there are few German soldiers which may qualify as veterans anyway, I might as well comment on the German rations:For field operations and sometimes for exercises as well the Bundeswehr issues the "Einmannpackung" or EPa ('One-man-package') which contains two different hot meals (such as - yes, Wiki-quote- Lentils with Sausages, Yugoslav Sausage, Goulash, Beef Patties in tomato sauce, Italian Pasta, or Tofu stir-fry - can be eaten cold as well as it doesn't make any difference in taste) and foil "cans" of bread spreads such as jam, cheese (sort of, it is like viscous glue - horrible stuff...), liver sausage and dried-meat sausage to accompany a box of thinly sliced rye bread and a box of crackers. The EPa also contains a foil can of fruit salad, instant fruit juice powder, instant coffee, instant tea, powdered cream, a chocolate bar, sugar, salt, gum, water purifying tablets, two plastic bags (for what I never figured out...), matches and paper towels. No cigarettes, no beer, no Sauerkraut either.Apart form the cheese, the rations were okay, not great but not awful either. I especially like the crackers, a kind of hardtack. They are nicknamed 'Panzerplatten' ('armor plate') and rumour has it that they are actually a secret weapon of last resort: if you run out of ammo, throw the crackers at the enemy - a direct hit may knock them out...

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/21/2008 1:26:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		The British version, I believe they have changed slightly. Stuff I can remember eating from them, Rice Pudding, Chocolate Pudding, Treacle Pudding, Fruit Dumplings, Corned Beef Hash, Burger and Beans, Sausage and Beans (I think), Stew, Chicken Soup, Veggie Soup, Fruit Biscuits. I never managed to pluck up the courage to try the pate it just looked so wrong it was (IMO) best traded for something with beans in it



I still have a couple of meals left over in my cupboard.

EDIT: The Yorkie packaging has also been changed. Instead of stating that it's not for girls the rat-pack ones state not for civvies

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RE: OT: An army travels on its stomach - 6/21/2008 3:42:54 PM   
Mike Solli


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ORIGINAL: Dixie

The British version, I believe they have changed slightly. Stuff I can remember eating from them, Rice Pudding, Chocolate Pudding, Treacle Pudding, Fruit Dumplings, Corned Beef Hash, Burger and Beans, Sausage and Beans (I think), Stew, Chicken Soup, Veggie Soup, Fruit Biscuits. I never managed to pluck up the courage to try the pate it just looked so wrong it was (IMO) best traded for something with beans in it



I still have a couple of meals left over in my cupboard.

EDIT: The Yorkie packaging has also been changed. Instead of stating that it's not for girls the rat-pack ones state not for civvies


Hey Dixie, that's what I got when I was down in Louisiana after the hurricanes there back in 2005. I still have a couple in my basement. Iron rations, just in case.

What the hell does the picture in the O of the Yorkie bar mean?

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