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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: kilopaparomeo on September 07, 2010, 04:27:14 PM
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An interesting photo essay of the contents of MRE packets from different coalition forces serving in the sandbox.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/04/weekinreview/20100905_gilbertson.html
All I have to say is thank goodness I'm not from the Ukraine!! Blech! Even makes the US MREs look good.
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If you go a couple days without food you'l like MREs and C Rations too.
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If you go a couple days without food you'l like MREs and C Rations too.
Had the best gourmet Vienna Sausages and Saltines after flipping our canoe and losing all our food on the Rocky River. That was a long day.
Odd,...... the pint of Jack Daniels, and Slim Jims, were perfectly fine in my soaked pack... ::)
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Odd,...... the pint of Jack Daniels, and Slim Jims, were perfectly fine in my soaked pack... ::)
Tennessee whiskey? Should have sent that swill down river. :P
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Tennessee whiskey? Should have sent that swill down river. :P
I'm sure it got there. Eventually. ;D
FQ13 who does sympathize with just having slim jims and Jack. Who wants breakfast three meals a day?
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If you go a couple days without food you'l like MREs and C Rations too.
Hmmm....A WWII Staff Sgt. was with a group of us when we broke out the C Rations for dinner. He stopped us and told us to put all our main courses in a pot (his helmet) and cook them together, saying it would taste better.
So, we opened them (with P-38s), dumped them in and heated them on the little gasoline stove.
One of the guys said his was a breakfast so he'd just eat his but the Sgt. said it didn't matter put it in...always put everything someone has in.
Well, sure enough it was pretty good. Not prime rib, but much better than any individual C Rat meal I had had.
Never had MREs in the line of duty. Any one know if the sum is better than the parts for them also?
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Why am not I surprised the French and Italians win? It why they lose wars. They're too mellow after a good meal to feel like fighting. The taliban on the other hand? A boiled rock with half rotted goat meat. Its why they aren't afraid to die!
FQ13
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The only one I didn't like, (note there is no mention of not eating it ) was "Ham and Moth$#Fuc$%rs"
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TomB The C-Rat ham and eggs tasted like a wet sponge to me. I liked the rest of the menu's they had. I do have different MRE's and have tasted some of them - a deffinate inprovement over the years. Keep in mind the most prized accessory of the C-Rats and MRE is still the toilet paper. What I miss in the MRE is the 3 pack of Cigs.
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Not eggs, Lima beans, Ask your older 50+ veteran friends about them.
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We really haven't gotten that far from salt pork and hardtack, have we?
Even during the Civil War the most prized part of the rations was the sugar and coffee. The rest got mixed into a community stew. The more things change...
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"All I have to say is thank goodness I'm not from the Ukraine!! Blech! Even makes the US MREs look good. "
Yes but Ukrainian women make US women look pretty poor. Long, Blonde and Built. And I don't even like blondes ;)
I have eaten in the mess with Romainan, (very good), Poles (Good) and Canadian (OK) and Danes ( pass).
All but the Canadains had beer at lunch and dinner. Never had MRE from the bunch.
Romainians put on the best field kitchen but it was a big NATO show with some General officers so I'm sure it was not the regular feed for the regiment.
The Korean MRE made me gag.
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Kimche in a pouch ? ;D
Do the Brits still get the little bottle of booze in theirs ?
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Kimche in a pouch ? ;D
Do the Brits still get the little bottle of booze in theirs ?
I was wondering the same thing. Didn't they get a little shot size bottle of Brandy?
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Rum IIRC ;D
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The British Navy stopped it's daily rum issue on July 31st, 1970....a dark day in history ;D ;D
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The British Navy stopped it's daily rum issue on July 31st, 1970....a dark day in history ;D ;D
Doubtless marked by the sounds of cannon balls rolling on the deck in wee hours. Not even Nelson had the balls to do that. ;D
FQ13
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The British Army were still getting a booze ration in 1978, trust me I know ;D
Had the hang over to proveit,
God, I hate Rum ;D