ATE MY FIRST MRE

[eldogg]

ham and lima beans.........

[MUSIBIKE]

I found a pretty good site for survival goodies.

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I picked up around a month worth of boring survival meal bars and water purification tablet packs. Stuff that can get us through a move out mode after the stored food is all gone and if the area we are in does not recover back to be a stable place to live any more.

[Black Blade]

I have an account here:

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I bought quite a bit from these guys in the past.

- Black Blade

[TRX]

Originally Posted by sjohnson

do I *really* want to go while Ivan/Achmed/Ling-ling is scoping me out?

If you rent the movie "Some Kind of Hero" you'll see what develops when that situation occurs... it's a darned good movie, and not at all what you'd expect from the guy who made it.


Seriously, modern military rations are a freakin' marvel. They're nutritious, can be eaten without further cooking, and can be stored for years or decades with almost no regard for environmental conditions. They're portable individual units; platoons aren't tied to cookwagons or required to "forage". (military term for stealing from civilians) What they taste like is way down on the list of requirements for military rations.

The concept of "packaged long term meal" is quite recent; an enterprising wine bottler sold the idea to Napoleon, who was having some nasty logistic problems. The bottler had lost most of his previous customers, and wanted to sell bottles to *somebody*... they started by packaging soup and canned meat in wine bottles, and it all evolved from there.

I recently read a biography of Alexander the Great. After he conquered Persia and marched off east, he had very few losses in military contact; his horde outnumbered the cities they encountered by as much as 100 to 1. But only about fraction of the original group who left came back; most of the rest starved, even spread out so far communications between units were difficult. The areas they were conquering were already populated to the maximum the agriculture of the day could support. Things got so bad he started sending big chunks of his horde back to Persia, but their back trail was a wasteland. Only a few returned to Persia; nobody knows how many starved vs. how many turned in some other direction and never came back.

Until practical food storage developed, armies marched when food was available. Now we just air-drop MREs as needed, and go anywhere, any time.

[[486]]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

Chip. LMAO. I know what yer talking about. Yeah one night, one meal was good. But oh God I know what yer talking about brother.
Here is a picture of the menu from the "C" rats I took. Oh God talk about bad. Damn If the enemy didn't kill you the food would.
Kernelkrink was correct. Some of the early guys had to eat "K" rations from WWII. Now there collector items. LOL.

These ones are actually pretty good, my dad had a bunch of them, got them at a surplus store in the 80's, had no idea they were that old, but they were still good...

Whoops, I circled the pork one, but the ham one under it was the good one.

[4thIDvet]

Originally Posted by [486]

These ones are actually pretty good, my dad had a bunch of them, got them at a surplus store in the 80's, had no idea they were that old, but they were still good...

Wow old post I ran into.. My God does that bring back memories.
Looking back at 40 years ago by crackey. God does that make me sick... Yuk...
Starving, starving, starving, and I would still not eat those Lima beans.
Any Nam Vet that did is a better man than me.

[MUSIBIKE]

It is starting. LOTS of people around Pakistan and everywhere else Starving.

TOO many kiddos and did not stock up. Oh wow, who else does this sound like?

CHEERS!!!

[[486]]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

Looking back at 40 years ago by crackey. God does that make me sick... Yuk...
Starving, starving, starving, and I would still not eat those Lima beans.
Any Nam Vet that did is a better man than me.

Oops, I circled the pork one, I've only had the ham one.

Did the pork one come with beans or something?

[kernelkrink]

Never ate one of course, but the vets who have and still have nightmares from it say the cans are labeled "ham and lima beans". I am sorta picturing a SPAM chunk with Lima beans embedded in it but am told it was more like Ken L Ration dog food with large green things in it.

[MUSIBIKE]

We have a lot of dog food for the two we care for. All pride aside, some of it don't look too bad at all. A bit of salt with some good liquor, you are set man.

:-)