jmcquown wrote:

>>>> 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.

Did I miss something here? I thought we were discussing canned bacon?
How did MREs and C-rations come into this?