Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

[Carlos Lourenco <loscon@xxxxxxxxx>]

You wanna avoid the ones that look like road apples, you know the solid
chunk of meat ones, and then there's the "frankfurters" no they're not
made by Grot and Weigel or Hummels or Boars Head. You'd think you could
roast them on a fire to get sort of a "hot dog expereince" out of them
but actually that doesn't quite pan out just so. 

But the biggest bogosity of MREs is that every one by default doesn't
come with cheese. personally I like to smother whatever is in the MRE
with cheese, just to make it taste...different.

One of my favorite field meals came from the old C rations: Ham and Egg omlet--Awesome. I saw it replicated in an MRE a few years ago only once, not too bad.

It should be a given with any soldier in any army of the world at any
time frame from 2000 years ago to 2000 years from now that you will
have to want to supplement your field rations with  some little
something of your own in order to personalize it to your likings.
Likewise to think that one going to get Mom's cooking out of a bag is
pretty stupid too.  

BTW the more heavily involved you are in combat-training operations
both physically and otherwise, the better the chow tastes. (Wlaking 10
hours aday with 40-100 lbs of crap deoes that to you) But when your
back in the contonement area and they breakout MREs because the mes s
hall is only providing one or two hots a day then it's WTF!!!

On 12/4/05, R Campbell-Jones <rcj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the (thankfully rare) occasions I was subject to a prolonged MRE diet we use to our own curry powder and live on one mail per section per day. Which, unsurprisingly, was curry. This was 20+ years ago mind.

 

CJ

----- Original Message -----

From: Don M

To: gzg-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 7:55 PM

Subject: Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

WIth regard to MREs they're not bad, has good as anything most other armies use (having tried most menus myself in my day) they're constantly changing the menus, though eating ANYTHING (even KC BBQ) out of a bag day in and day out  will convince you it sucks, plus the grass always being greener and whatnot. Don't forget to run all GI comments through a bitch filter before trying to analyze a statements for sea changes.

 

Los

 

It would also be helpful if people understood when something is said tongue in cheek.

 

Don

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