***Scoring ‘C’s was easy,***
***The C ration cookbook came out later IIRC.***
The Tobasco company offered a free booklet on their Tobasco sauce and C rations. I still have mine. I like the C rations. Used to go to the base exchange and buy their cooked hamburgers by the can, then warmed them up on a Sterno stove at the hootch.
Best `C’: spaghetti w/meatballs; canned beef OK too; ham&eggs not bad but needed Tabasco
Worst `C’: Ham & lima beans aka well you probably know.
`C’ pound cake: to die for
`C’ fruitcake: deadly when thrown like a baseball
`C’ tinned cheezwhiz: always welcome on crackers
But there was nothing like freeze dried LRPs. Years ahead of its time.