Posted on 12/22/2023 8:52:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Even cardboard tastes good when served like that
Awesome
The C-ration ham and eggs entree was OK to me, but nobody else in my company seemed to want it.
I wish I’d known about this when looking for spoof gifts last week.
Went through Typhoon Pamela in Guam 1976,
Destroyed our chow halls so all we got for about 3 months were C rats dated back to the 1950’s.
I worked Military air lift so I literally lived on the flight line for the summer.
In fact I don’t recall ever going back to the AF Chow hall after the Typhoon. We had become so adept at scrounging or using the system, we ate pretty good. I’d always find a reason to go the the Navy base chow hall on steak and lobster, barbecue, and Mongolian beef days. I’d order flight lunches since I was on Grave yard duty most the time.
But I virtually lived on C rats for 3 months straight.
No links on where to buy all these delicasies?
I’d love to order all of them.
You had to heat it up to make it eat able.I had fashioned a stove from a clothes hanger and used my Zippo lighter to warm it up. If you were fast it was palatable.
Haha. One of my favorite shows.
I haven’t tried it, but my friends from tell me it’s a real thing, even though they’ve never ate it.
Most of the C-rats were quite edible when warm. But cold beef and potatoes in the field in winter was real hard to digest. Oldest C-rats I saw had a 1952 date on the case.
Dark, hands down.
“spotted dıck”?
What happened to the tittle?
Korean Coast Guard was one of my customers - they took us out for dinner one night, and apparently they believe that ANYTHING you bring up in a fishing net is edible.
Not wanting to offend, I did eat nearly everything they put out. But SOME things....
Same here we’ve used it for years and always had our homemade baked beans using molasses and salt pork.
I’ve never had canned fruit cake, but I do like them.
Someone here, years ago posted a picture of canned horse. I kid you not.
I don’t know what country it was from, maybe Asian….
Aw yes, Spam, used to fry up a thick slice and have it with eggs for breakfast. Not so much anymore.
The grocery store in the town where I lived before retiring used to mark those little Claxton fruitcakes way down after Christmas. I’d buy them out every year. Good stuff.
Ham and eggs was my favorite, even cold.
Our cats like one of the cat food brands that is canned quail eggs. It’s gross to dish out.
I used to love that brown bread in a can and didn’t know it still was a thing. Even tried making it once. Pout it in a can, then set the can in boiling water or something.
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