Posted on 01/26/2016 7:43:07 PM PST by Dallas59
It figures. I will keep searching for one though.
They used to pack the meals in boxes of 12 IIRC. I never seemed to get first crack at them so would end up with the-—uhh, less favored ones.
The eggs in ham and eggs sucked especially when they were cold. I thought the eggs needed lots of salt to make them palatable. Some guys would tabasco sauce everything but I hated that stuff.
The jams and peanut butter varied in quality but what was real annoying were the ones that had been overcooked and were hard to spread.
—————————————————————— I worked with two guys who were Leatherheads on Guadalcanal. They ended up having to eat rice from the captured Japanese supplies. Umm, yummy.
One of them was on Iwo Jima and claimed they would bury their ration cans in the ground to warm them. Do not know if he was pulling my leg or not.
About burying the cans to warm them up on Iwo, no he was not kidding. My cousin was on Iwo and he did the same.
Eating the Jap rice on the Canal, maybe. Marines usually used Jap rice supplies as toilets first.
I loved C-Rats when I was in; especially the pound cake and fruit cocktail.
I was in 1968 to 1973, most of the C-Rats were stamped between 1942 and 1953.
Still had the same date codes when I joined in Dec. 1985.
All military rations look the same to OLD MARINES, SAILORS, SOLDIERS, and AIRMEN.
We can tell just by looking.
Any smoke is good when you can’t buy them fresh.
Camels, Luckies, and Chesterfields were my favorites.
I just roll my own now.
American Spirit.
I loved C-rats. Water was my very personal phckme. No matter what, it was always bad to worse. At sea it still got screwed in jp4, by the freshwater crews.
My Father taught me how to roll my first smoke when I was 11. Used Bull Durham for years (can’t roll it in high winds, can’t keep it dry in South East Asia).
Smoked store bought for quite a few years but went back to “roll my owns” in 1986.
Been growing and curing my own tobacco for the last 4 years, don’t expect I’ll ever quit completely, 67 now and still healthy as far as I can tell.
I have a small collection of P-38s and a couple of B-52s from the K-rats.
After 3 days humping the A Shau eating C-Rats a bologna sandwich with mayo tasted like a 5 star meal.
Really? Ham & Eggs was always my favorite, though I’d eat any of them. Back then (70s) anyway, maybe not today.
Quitting is easy, I've done it a thousand times.
Congrats, I'm still trying.
I recall eating C-rats at FT Sill, Oklahoma, in 1982 as I sat on my steel pot. It was pretty cool getting issued the new kevlar helmet. I couldn’t help but notice how similar the design was to the German WWII helmet.
My father passed away a couple of years ago and my mother gave me (former Marine) his military items, dad and my grandfather were both Navy men, included in the box was my grandfathers navy p-coat, his Navy cap, and a cracker that had Breast France, written on it in ink, it would have been 1917.
Grandpa was bunk-mates with the son of the Kellogg folks of Michigan at the Great Lakes Naval Shipyard in Chicago, he went home with Kellogg one weekend and learned to drive a car and went to a Detroit baeball game that included Ty Cobb. He later was asked/told to drive ambulances to the front as not too many of the sailors knew how to drive.
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