C Rations, now there’s a blast from the past.
There were several memorable events of 1968, and one of them was when Ham and Lima Beans were taken out of our C-rations and replaced by spaghetti. Also removed from C-rations that year were the cookies in the C-ration B-3 unit and the white bread from the B-2 unit. Really missed those cookies, but never developed a taste for the white bread.
As for the Ham and Lima Beans, there are mixed emotions. The Ham and Limas weren’t that bad if you could heat them up before attempting to eat them; you just had to melt that inch of lard that coagulated at the top of the can. There’s no way of telling how many calories were packed into those cans of Ham and Limas, but it had to be way over a thousand, and just how many of those calories were from pig fat, no one even wants to know. The good thing about that meal was that you could eat a can in the morning and drive on all day before getting hungry enough to face another can of Ham and Limas. I wonder how many of us are still carrying part of those cans of Ham and Lima Beans around in our arteries.
That was the ham and MFs.
I liked them, but I needed huge amounts of calories back then, I was a very fit 200 pounder.
I had to trade my peaches for fruit cake I was so desperate for calories, even though of course, almost everyone gave me their fruit cake for free.