On Jun 4, 12:43*pm, "l, not -l" > wrote:
> On *4-Jun-2008, George Shirley > wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I too loved the ham and limas, especially when I had saved a tin of
> smoke-flavored cheese to stir into it, when I was able to heat them.
>
Ham and m-f's have come up here before, but not the good idea of
mixing cheese in. Here's what I posted some years ago:

"Of the 24 meals in a case of C-rations (Korean war vintage, still
eaten in
Vietnam) ham and lima beans was widely regarded as the least
popular.
Probably because it was terrible: tiny bits of very salty ham, the
largest, starchiest, driest lima beans possible. Even the
omnipresent
Louisiana red hot sauce couldn't salvage it. Hence the insulting
nickname.
Some historian/demographer will someday do a dissertation on why
soldiers
from South Carolina liked it. "

Are you guys from South Carolina? -aem