SPAM and what else?

[Paul S.]

... What type of meat is it, beaf, pork or something else?

Mate, it's made from things that would ended up as tinned dog food otherwise - beef tongue and mutton hearts.

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But, the greatest of all proper ANZAC biscuits. I really didn't know what they were when I went to Oz. The tastiest biscuits known to man. Our cooks used to make a tray of them and leave them on the serving bays in the kitchens. The Poms have never heard of them and I've never seen them here.

Maybe one of you ANZACS can explain...........

Best biscuits ever!!! Seriously, ANZAC Biscuits and a cuppa is heaven on earth.

The recipe included rolled oats, Golden Syrup, flour baking soda and butter. I'll scan the recipe from the gold standard, The Commonsense Cookery Book.

[browningautorifle]

Mate, it's made from things that would ended up as tinned dog food

You are correct sir...lips and ars*holes and such. I don't like it because I don't like it. Not because they ground up garbage and put it in cans.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

When you are hungry, you will eat items you would never have considered before.

[Bob Womack]

When you are hungry, you will eat items you would never have considered before.

No joke. And when you are heavily physically fatigued there are things you simply won't eat. I'm thinking about trying to eat after some 14-20 mile mountain hikes.

Bob

[browningautorifle]

When you are hungry

Been there Buddy...

when you are heavily physically fatigued there are things you simply won't eat.

And other things you're dying for.

[Vincent]

When you are hungry, you will eat items you would never have considered before.

And when you get a real meal you think you’ve died and gone to heaven.

For me it was a churrasco steak with rice and beans. I remember it well. Sold my blood to get the money to pay for it.

[Peter Laidler]

To be honest and kind, some of the cooks, whom we called both 'slop jockeys' and 'fitters and turners' could make any old slop edible with a bit of effort. Especially when you're tired and hungry. On the other hand, there were other cooks who just slopped it up and it still looked and tasted like shxx. Most of us, probably like every other crunchie in the known universe always had a tube of curry powder, marmite/vegemite and stuff like that tucked in the bottom of his kidney pouches or rolled up in the poncho was always a good safe place. Some blokes just had a knack of being able to do something with Compo. Others like me were useless. Little known is that the chocolate in the UK rations was a special mix by a little firm in Scotland (forget the name now.....) that contained virtually no salt to prevent thirst. They also made the UK Military YORKIE bars.

As a bit of an aside regarding compo food. I used to invigilate some soldiers who were looking towards their first (or second) promotion to assess how they coped and acted in a group when things were getting a bit tough and also have oversight of their map reading/compass skills - or occasionally, lack or TOTAL lack of skills. Those with absolutely no map reading or directional or compass skills were swiftly side-lined to become Officers............. just joking! Anyway at the end of a couple of days out in the open when that part of the exercise was due to end, most of them would want to dump the remaining rations and plough on to the end a bit lighter. All well and good........ but they didn't know that if they did this, by arrangement, the exercise would be extended for technical reasons. The next day would be a bit of a bastxxx and all on starvation rations! That could be an eye opener too because it showed who could run a bolshy team, who could plan a small 'emergency' and who would/could equalise the compo so that everyone had a fair share. Good teambuilding and I wonder why these big multi-nationals don't do similar things to see who really deserves to be sat in the board room. A bit of paintballing or mud wrestling is OK but......

[TDH]

Nutella. I don't know if it is in the UK or Canada but it's still here in the states.

BTW I was stationed at Bentwaters/WoodBridge in 71.

I got the shuttle bus run on my base in the Peoples Republic of Californistan and when asked the time it went as follows

For all you Airforce personel the time is 6 PM
for all Army personel it is now 1800
for the navy it's 4 bells (probably nit right and I never understood that silly bell system but nobody else but the occasional swab would know anyways)
for all marines and officers Mickey's big hand is straight up and his little hand is straight down

[henry r]

Margarine was created on request of napolean III for the military (and lower class).

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Been there Buddy...

Me, and I'm sure, many others as well.

I remember thinking it a treat warming up 1944 dated C-Rats on the manifolds of my boat in 1969. And being 25 years old they tasted pretty darn good. Must have had great preservatives back then. I didn't smoke and traded the little five pack of cigarettes for the Chiclets. Eventually they ran out and is was catch as catch can. I hated those long insertions.