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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AWMac on January 20, 2007, 04:40:39 PM
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Frozen or Hot were the Ham and Eggs C-Rats!
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Lerps, dry or wet were the Chicken and Rice.
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Gorilla Cookies were fun... makin my own Ranger Fudge..Good.
Traded Rations with German troops... them Bastages eat good. I didn't know the coffee pack was for 4 troops.... made a cup of Joe with the whole pack...ONCE! Got more watermelon done in one day!!!!
Watta Rush!
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Mac
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Wtf is a lerp?
At any rate, I heard K rations were the best.
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i heard the Brits eat the best in Iraq.
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We shared quarters with some Brit troops in Saudi Arabia before Desert Storm. Beside being absolute cut ups, they ate way better than we did. After eating at our mess hall they wondered if we were in some sort of penal battalion because the food was so bad. And they had a point. We ate better in the field than we did in garrison.
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Going back to WWII and a book by David Kenyon Webster (Company E 506th PIR 101st Airborne...Band of Brothers guys. The guys eyes that "The Last Patrol" episode was seen through)
"Parachute Infantry" was the book and was his experience in the war. Long before Ambrose wrote Band of Brothers (S. Ambrose actually wrote the foreword for Websters book) I remember them talking about the food. He said the Brits ate better than anyone back then too...
The end.
(How's that for a long windy road to lead almost nowhere for ya?)
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Originally posted by nirvana
Wtf is a lerp?
At any rate, I heard K rations were the best.
A bag of freezed dried crunchy crap...most of the time ya eat it in clumps on the run.... Saliva helps alot.
Even wet in the bag looks like Barf.
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Mac
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battle kit: bangers and mash, 3 Earl Grey Tea Bags, 4 crumpets, 1 can figgy pudding, malt vinigar, 1 pint dark ale, 1 "tin" Scottish Salmon and 1 bar of Cadburys and 1 packet of 3 Jammy Dodgers. :aok
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Never had C-Rats,
MREs aint bad. The new ones (post gulf war 1) are even better. I wish they still came with ciggaretts though.
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I had the C rats and they were far far better than the first generation of MRE's. I understand the latest generation of MRE's has improved quite a bit. I haven't tried them and am not all that interested.
Lurp is the pronunciation of Long Range Patrol. Since they were expected to be out in the bush and frequently behind the enemy lines theyu had to be able to carry a large amount of food rations. C-rats were bulky and heavy canned items. Freeze dried "stuff" was brought out for the lurps to carry.
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1st gen MRE's = Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
shamus
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That's what I loved about the Coast Guard. 3 hot meals a day and 2 coffee breaks (jelly donuts included). Fridays we ate lobster tails and king crab legs. Sundays were the best, we were served brunch until 2pm. Anything in the galley was on the menu during brunch.
Always had a warm bed to sleep in every night, too. :aok
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Thanks Mav... couldn't have said it better.
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Mac
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I was in when they switched from C-rats to MRE's.
I liked them both. The MRE's travelled better being in those thin pouches and you didn't need a can opener.
The C-rats heated up better because they were in cans (back then they didn't have that neato MRE heater pouch they have today).
The crackers survived longer in cans than in pouches.
We used to play games like racing to open a C-rat can with your P38 and at night we played "guess what it is" because you couldn't see the labels.
Fav C-rat was Chicken Loaf
Fav MRE was Beef Stew
Was always on the lookout for the accessory pack that had the chocolate bar rather than hard candies.
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C-rat candy was generally good except for the fudge bar. That thing would gag rosie odonnell.
The best thing in C-rats was the fruit. It was actual canned fruit not some freeze dried peach scented excrement like in the early MRE's. :mad:
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1st gen MRE's sucked, badly. The newest MRE's are fantastic! I've eaten truckloads of them while working the hurricanes over the past decade & I prefer some of them to some peoples cooking that I've had.
On a side note, they also have a "humanitarian meal" they provide to stricken foreign countries (think tsunami, earthquakes, war refugees etc.) They had a few pallets of those floating around during Katrina (yellow bag with a U.S.A. flag & the words donated by the citizens of the United States of America printed on it)....worst freakin' garbage I ever put in my mouth & that's counting actual garbage. First gen MRE's are good in comparison! Although the curry rice was pretty good, the portion provided was too meager & the rest of what little food was in the bag was horrible.
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It's donated Brenjen, they shouldn't expect anything more then what prisoners get. I don't think anyway.
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If prisoners received what brenjen just mentioned I'm sure there'd be riots in every prison in the states.
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Originally posted by nirvana
It's donated Brenjen, they shouldn't expect anything more then what prisoners get. I don't think anyway.
Huh? Disaster victims are no better than prisoners? :huh
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It's a donation, prisoners essentially get their meals donated as are those meals. I can't say what either taste like as I have no experience.
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You don't think that if you donate something that it should be a worthwhile donation?
Buddy of mine brough back one of the food parcels from Nawlins after his time in the cleanup effort. They're sad borderline pathetic.
I like to think that if we're going to stamp our flag on something it should be something quality and that we'd be proud to put our flag on.
Not "eat it you ungrateful unfortunate! It's a donation!!!"
That's the wrong attitude.
Prisoners eat much much better than these god awful food pracels.s
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What, no nod to the T-Rats? Come on! :huh
T-rations: Big aluminum foiled packages of food you boiled, opened up, and served up to the troops in a chow line? These were as bad as first generation MRE's. Often worse.
Then, the 1st and 2nd gen MRE's had quiet a rep:
"Corned Beef Hash"... you know, the one full of veins, cow hearts, and entrails..... yum....
"Chicken ala King" .... guaranteed to make any soldier sick due to spoiling long before it's expiration date.
"Omlette".... what the heck is it with the Army and Green Eggs?????
"Oatmeal Cookies" rock hard brick, and resembled what an MRE looked like coming back out of a human body (after much grunting and effort).
Only the best for the troops!
Oh, and as to those humanitarian meals.... they are very restricted in how many calories they can provide and what can go into them so they can be used in just about any country for any situation and not run afoul of ethnic and religious taboos toward what you can eat..... as well as have a 5 to 7 year shelf-life. No pork. No beef, IIRC. No real spices used.
So, yes, they suck worse than about anything else troops are forced to subsist on.
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Originally posted by Golfer
Prisoners eat much much better than these god awful food pracels.s
If prisoners ever had to live under conditions American soldiers do; lack of showers, sleeping arrangements, quality of food, work level, and so forth.... they'd sue the government penal system they were under....... and win.
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the Marines always served me A#1 chow, even in the field. I think some of you city boys are spoiled.
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Originally posted by AWMac
makin my own Ranger Fudge..Good.
Don't ask, don't tell.
:)
-Sik
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Originally posted by nirvana
Wtf is a lerp?
At any rate, I heard K rations were the best.
It is really
LRPS (spoken "lerps")
Long Range Patrol Rations
(BARF in a bag)
Flashback aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh h
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Originally posted by Phaser11
It is really
LRPS (spoken "lerps")
Long Range Patrol Rations
(BARF in a bag)
Flashback aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh h
And in The 'Nam, it was LRRP = Long Range Recon Patrol