You misspelled "spam"… 
Posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:35 PM PST by Kartographer
For point of reference, I did food service my last enlistment. I know much more about military food than I want to. ;)
/johnny
Just as long as it doesn’t replace Ham & Lima Beans on the menu....
I thought that the next new MRE dish was going to be SOS?
/s
The mess hall would definitely fill you up!
It would seem to me that the best way to do this would be pizza toppings in a pizza crust tube. They already make pizza cones that are pretty popular.
After making the crust tube, put a crust “cork” in one end and fill the tube, then put in the opposite “cork”.
They put them in bags you can immerse in hot water, then irradiate them. So basically, pizza hot pockets.
I never heard of that icing recipe. Guess it’s a little late to try it out now. :-))
I can vividly remember the times while in Korea in 1961-62 we troops would find a way to get a big supply of rations of various meals, get a couple cases of beer, take it all into one of our hooches, and just have a good ol’ time.
Worst MRE ever.........the omelet. Second worst.........Chicken a la King.
The book "Semper Fi, Mac" has a fair bit in it about about (then) Col. McIlhenny and his radio call sign "Tabasco Mac". He sounded like an interesting character, and one of the good guys.
No surprise that he'd airlift his product to a FOB.
From Wikipedia.... His Navy Cross citation reads as follows: For extraordinary heroism and courage as Executive Officer of Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, during a frontal assault upon a strongly fortified enemy Japanese position along the coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, August 27, 1942. After organizing a volunteer party to advance and evacuate the wounded from the hazardous position well forward of the company, First Lieutenant Mcllhenny, armed only with a rifle, and while under heavy enemy mortar and machine gun fire, covered the advance and withdrawal of the rescue party, gallantly drawing enemy fire and silencing a Japanese machine gun nest. Although ill at the time and suffering shock from concussion of an enemy mortar shell, he returned to a vantage point close to enemy lines and, in the face of fierce sniper fire, acted as an observer, relaying accurate information necessary for fire control until ordered by his superior officer to leave his post. His great personal valor, above and beyond the call of duty, not only made possible the rescue of nine wounded men but also contributed to the success of Marine mortar fire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_S._McIlhenny
You misspelled "spam"…
Active Duty ping.
What is this dish?
I'm not familiar with the term.
I know what SOS is. My dad talked about how horrible that was.
“Muthas’ and Ham” (Mother F**ckers and Ham)...That’s a lima beans and ham ration. Makes me gag thinking about it, but it’s good nutrition and fiber, plenty iron, protein, fat, and vitamins, but you’ve got to apply a liberal application of McIlhenny’s Tabasco sauce to make it palatable.
It looked like yellow spaghetti and tasted like library paste ....yum yum....have mercy Sec of Def.....real food please....
I bet that ham & regular (white) beans could be good. In fact I love that dish.
My mom makes the best. Served with cornbread....yummy.
Who's bright idea was it to mix ham with lima beans?
Old joke about ham & mofo’s:
A grunt soldier reaches into the C rats case & every time keeps coming up with the same old thing and he gripes,
“Aw s***! Not ham & mofo’s again!”
Well, this goes on for weeks until one day he reaches in & comes up with...spaghetti & meatballs with pound cake! So then all he can say is, “What!!? Where’s my ham & mofo’s!!!?”
As for SOS, my Dad was an infantry soldier from the Battle of the Bulge onward. At home SOS was his favorite breakfast & made with ground beef, chopped onions, & fresh biscuits it was delish & something you could march on all day long. Great for a day of hunting!
Decades passed before I knew what SOS really stood for.
Damn MRE’s always made me constipated.
One of my bucket list items is to visit Avery Island.
Really? They serve sh*t-on-a-shingle? Remember that term?
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