SPAM and what else?

[browningautorifle]

makes me wonder what I was remembering

Bully beef? I think canned bully beef(corned beef)made it's rounds for WW1. I sure ate enough during certain years in the army. I'd melt the grease to the closed end of the can on the manifold of an armored vehicle and open the other with it's key. I'd use a knife to eat it and leave the grease at the bottom...very quick meal.

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[Vincent]

Processed cheese was invented by Kraft in WW1.

Probably one of the biggest foods developed in WW2 is one we never think of as having come from the military. We consume millions of tons of it every year without giving its origin a thought. It’s found around the globe and common as a bag of chips (crisps in the UK).

It’s the cheese flavoring in many of the snack foods we eat today. Dehydrated cheese powder is light weight and lasts a very long time. Just what the US military was looking in WW2.

The military used the Spray-drying method to dehydrate other foods, like milk, eggs and ……….


Object of Interest: Cheese Powder - The New Yorker

[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.

[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.

[browningautorifle]

warming up 1944 dated C-Rats

I had forgotten some of that. We were out on Coronado-cross-the-bay, on the beach strip you and others here must know well. We were doing IBS surf indoc with the USMC and when lunch arrived, it was C's from 1945. All well marked and perfect condition... Well, it WAS 1974 so they were pretty new still. I remember the smokes the next January up in Ft Wainwright when Bear and I were doing a Jack Frost ex or whatever we called it then. The good smokes went fast and the Benson and Hedges 100's were everywhere...menthols...yuk.

[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