aem wrote:
> 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
>
Nope, I'm a Texican, having lima beans, sausage, and cornbread for
supper tonight. Love my MoFo's.