"Before there was......." Topic

….MRE's there were Combat Rations, or as those of us who consumed them called them "C Rats".

So which one of the many varieties (some good and some lethal) was your favorite?
Mine was the chicken with noodles in some sort of cream sauce.

Dave

Ham and eggs. But let us not forget pound cake and the John Wayne bar.

Spaghetti for me, thank you.

Best when warmed: Beans and Hotdogs

Best cold: Ham slices

Worst: Beef & Rocks, Ham & M-F'ers, $hite discs (round bar of unsweetened chocolate and crushed peanuts)

Favorites: pound cake, pecan cake roll, fruit cocktail. You can't go wrong with spaghetti hot or cold. Kool Cigarettes because I could trade them for anything I wanted from the Brothers.

Crackers and peanut butter. The recon guys would eat nothing but that for 2 days before going on patrol behind NVA lines in I Corps. They didn't have to stop taking a dump for 5 days.

For the C-Rat gourmet Hot Sauce on everything, especially the Flips.

Good old days, I don't miss them.

Wolfhag

Ham and eggs. Peaches and pound cake Ham and mothers were good to use as a missle !

Let's not forget MREs, though. I was transitional, and ate MREs they don't make any more. The dehydrated pork patty was food that could take an edge!

I'm with Robert and was in the Army during the transition, too. Those early MRE's were pretty rough and worse than C-Rats in my opinion; albeit, lighter. First product improvement to the MREs was removing the wax paper fused between the two chocolate cookies (a.k.a. hockey puck), because it couldn't keep the hockey pucks separated and nobody like eating the wax paper.

pjm

p.s. I still have my P-38 can opener.

Oh, I used to have one of the commercial oversized (stainless steel?) P-38's. Probably still in an emergency bag.

I still have a P-38 in a box somewhere with my dog tags.

The bacon and eggs were OK heated and the spaghetti was good heated or not. I quite liked the pound cake.

Hated the Ham and Lima Beans. I swear they tasted musty and I suspect they had been canned for the Korean War.

The beef patties/disks/mystery meat saucers in kind of a gravy were tolerable.

I remember if you could get the pound cake and a can of peaches, you were living!!!

Aaand the empty cans could be used to cook coffee in or hung on the concertina with pebbles in them as a motion detector :)

Did that in training myself Wolfschanza. "Rattle, rattle WHAM! Curse."

My father brought some home and I ate the various cakes. He told me about using the peanut butter as a candle.

I got the first round of MREs when I was in. I had, thankfully, forgotten about the dehydrated pork patty.

The best part of MREs was making the non-dairy creamer explode!