jmcquown wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>> On Jun 4, 1:35?pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>>> Nancy2 wrote:
>>>> On Jun 3, 11:04 pm, -bwg > wrote:
>>>>> As if "Cheeseburger In A Can" weren't enough, via Gizmodo,
>>>>> MREdepot.com brings you Bacon In A
>>>
> Can:http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/the-...80%C2%99s-Cele...
> http://gizmodo.com/5012656/canned-ba...-heart-failure...
>>>
>>>
>>>>> See you next time,
>>>>> -bwg
>>>> I got news for you - back in the day (the 50s and 60s), we ALWAYS
>>>> took commercially canned raw bacon in cans to our fishing camp in
>>>> Minnesota - refrigeration wasn't needed - it tasted as good as any
>>>> refrigerator- case bacon from the supermarket - it was great for
>>>> that purpose!
>>>> It ain't new. ;-)
>>>> N.
>>> MRE's are certainly not "new", as indicated in the original post.
>>> ?Although why someone would be eating MRE's in 2008 is beyond me.
>>> ?They do have a great shelf life LOL
>> Calling canned bacon an MRE has to be an error... it's definitely not
>> ready to eat, it's only minimally processsed, right out of the can it
>> still needs to be cooked. Even grits lovin' hillybillys from the deep
>> south wouldn't eat petrified bacon straight from the can.
>
> Since you're actually replying to posts replying to me, I'll say this: my
> father ate more C-Rats than he did MRE's.
>
> C-Ration, Revised (1948-1958)
> After the failure of the E-Ration, there were several improvements made on
> the basic C-ration. Most involved ration variety and content, different
> sizes and shapes of cans, and improverments in packaging. The C-ration
> series was eventually phased out and replaced by the Meal, Combat,
> Individual ration in 1958.

still called C-rats up until the MRE's came out, which was after my
time. I ate a ton of C-rats in the fifties and sixties. Loved the ham
and lima beans, call ham and mothas by the troops. We also had Lurps,
aka freeze dried meals from, I think, Mountain Home, California. Eat a
handful of freeze dried food, slurp some water from the old aluminum
canteen, and get your belly full fast.
>
> Sample C-4 Ration Contents
> A sample C-4 ration (stamped March 1954) contained:
>
> a.. 1 Instruction sheet
> b.. 2 Cheese bars (1.5 net ounces)
> c.. 2 "Cereal Class 5" bars (1.5 net ounces)
> d.. 3 Type XII Style 1 Enriched chocolate bar (1 ounce)
> e.. 1 "Jelly Bar" (2 ounces)
> f.. 2 "Fruit Cake Bars" (2 ounces)
> g.. 3 sticks Topps peppermint chewing gum
> h.. 3 Domino sugar packets
> i.. 2 Nestea "soluble tea product"
> j.. 1 Pure soluble sugar
> k.. 1 "Soluble cream product"
> l.. 1 bottle Water Purification Tablets, Individual, Iodine
> m.. 1 plastic bag
>
>
And don't forget the little packet of dried out cigarettes, four each.
And the little package of charms candy. The C-rats leftover from WWII we
were opening in the mid-fifties didn't have any Nestea product that I
ever saw, mostly some nasty instant coffee. Most of that stuff was dated
from 1943 until 1945. The Navy ate up a lot of it in chow halls along
the eastern seaboard by mixing the meals together and then serving them.
Nasty stuff mostly. I was a smoker then and you had to rehydrate the
cigarettes by putting them in a Prince Albert tin with a little piece of
apple. If you just tried to smoke them they burned so fast they would
take out your nose hairs. Kinda "whoosh." One puff only.