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From: D Yuniskis on 24 Mar 2010 13:41
Fred Abse wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:55:47 -0700, D Yuniskis wrote:
>
>> As a kid, I spent a few months living on C-rations (research).
>> It's hard to imagine doing that for a prolonged period. Even the
>> "chocolate" was abysmal!
>
> Isn't there supposed to be a time limit (28 days?, can't remember) on how
> long they can be used before you have to feed the poor grunts some real
> food?

Dunno, I wasn't in the service. I was 12 at the time.
In "research", the rules are whatever you make them to be ;-)

From: D Yuniskis on 24 Mar 2010 13:48
Martin Brown wrote:
> D Yuniskis wrote:
>> Hi Joerg,
>>
>> Joerg wrote:
>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>>> BTW, some canned goods were found in 'Old West' ghost towns that
>>>> were
>>>> about 100 years old. Other than loss of flavor, they were supposed to
>>>> still be safe to eat.
>>>
>>> We had some stuff like that in the army. As for flavor, that was
>>> rather debatable even when "fresh" :-)
>>
>> <grin> As a kid, I spent a few months living on C-rations (research).
>> It's hard to imagine doing that for a prolonged period. Even the
>> "chocolate" was abysmal!
>
> Do you really mean that or do you mean it actually tasted of *real*
> chocolate instead of Hershey bars brown sugary rancid fat product.

I'm saying that as a 12 year old kid, after 3 months of eating
*only* C-rations, there was absolutely *nothing* that I
"looked forward to" in those little green cans!
From: Michael A. Terrell on 24 Mar 2010 15:45

Fred Abse wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:49:27 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>
> >
> > Fred Abse wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:37:28 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> >>
> >> > Some of the ones I got while in the Army were over 20 years old. When
> >> > its -20 to -30 degrees and the only food for 15 miles, you don't
> >> > complain, if you want your next meal.
> >>
> >> Helps seal you up so you don't need to go outside so often ;-)
> >
> >
> > have you ever tried to dig a latrine in frozen tundra? We had to put
> > a ground rod through it, which required an oxyacetylene torch to hit the
> > tip, so the rod didn't bend. Heat it red hot, drive it a few inches,
> > pull it out and repeat. It took all day and used most of the full tanks
> > of Oxygen and Acetylene.
>
> At least, if you fall in, it'll go BUMP! rather than SPLAT! ;-)


Fall in what? You'd need a backhoe or TNT to open a hole. Who can
wait that lobg to go?


--
Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!'
From: Michael A. Terrell on 24 Mar 2010 15:45

D Yuniskis wrote:
>
> Martin Brown wrote:
> > D Yuniskis wrote:
> >> Hi Joerg,
> >>
> >> Joerg wrote:
> >>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> >>>> BTW, some canned goods were found in 'Old West' ghost towns that
> >>>> were
> >>>> about 100 years old. Other than loss of flavor, they were supposed to
> >>>> still be safe to eat.
> >>>
> >>> We had some stuff like that in the army. As for flavor, that was
> >>> rather debatable even when "fresh" :-)
> >>
> >> <grin> As a kid, I spent a few months living on C-rations (research).
> >> It's hard to imagine doing that for a prolonged period. Even the
> >> "chocolate" was abysmal!
> >
> > Do you really mean that or do you mean it actually tasted of *real*
> > chocolate instead of Hershey bars brown sugary rancid fat product.
>
> I'm saying that as a 12 year old kid, after 3 months of eating
> *only* C-rations, there was absolutely *nothing* that I
> "looked forward to" in those little green cans!


Not even the arsenic tablets?


--
Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!'
From: Charlie E. on 24 Mar 2010 16:19
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:37:28 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>"Charlie E." wrote:
>>
>> I had a similiar experience. Visiting a friend, I noticed a bunch of
>> boxes of C-rations sitting in the garage. Asked about them, and found
>> they were expired rations from a fallout shelter. I asked if I could
>> have some, and soon found myself in possession of about six cases of
>> them. Over the next few months, tried them out, and found which were
>> tolerable, and which were really, really bad! A couple of years
>> later, at ROTC summer camp, when we were issued C-rations, I knew
>> which ones to get, and which ones to trade... ;-)
>
>
> Some of the ones I got while in the Army were over 20 years old. When
>its -20 to -30 degrees and the only food for 15 miles, you don't
>complain, if you want your next meal.

Like I said, these were EXPIRED C-rats, IIRC, it was 1973, and they
were manufactued in the 50's...

Charlie
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