China's MRE
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don't look down on these, these little packs are essential in keeping the troop's moral in fields.
The Aussie individual ration pack is about 1kg. Enough for one day. Fits nicely in the gun ammo punch. Nothing beat brewing up in a cold wet morning/evening.
One do have gets really inventive to make the best out of it. I normaly have the muesli bar, cheddar and tea for breafast, short bread and condensed milk for morning tea(they can be enjoyed easily while on movements). Lunch is important, I will have the Meat Can with a bit left over cheddar from the morning. Afternoon tea is cracker biscuits and vegemite(created from beer making resisdual, it has a love it or hate it taste). Dinner will be what ever that were left over. fast noddle is nice and quick. but frozen rice..... that is so what a difficult task. take at lest 20 minutes. I have to flavor it with any souce I can find in the pack with salt and pepper. Dessert normally will be the fruit can. Chocolate, lifesaver and chowing gum are essential for picketing in the night.
I found the following on the net regarding Aussie's ration packs. It is synical, but true:
found the speil on the web 'I ate an army rations pack' very amusing, not sure if you will get a laugh out of it or if it is only funny to those who have been forced to live on these packets of culinary genius.
I will however have to add some observations:
Firstly as you will see in his list he has not even touched on the good stuff! The cans or in modern packs bags of main meals!! I have only commented on the bits he commented on but have listed the ones he forgot to mention.
Beef & vegetables (Dutch style)
Minced beef with spaghetti
Shortbread biscuits
Apricot & Coconut muesli bar
Anzac muesli bar
Peach fruit spread
Tomato sauce
Diced peaches in a can
Crispbread crackers
Cheddar cheese
Tea & Coffee
Shortbread biscuits
Candy
Chocolate ration
Ok I admit this is nothing like chocolate but the block shown is more than likely about 10 years out of date (eh it's a ration pack so 10 years is ok this stuff will last forever) and while still good to eat I would not like to try it.
Beverage Base Powder
I cannot believe this guy could drink this poo, This is one of the items that never gets touched in my pack, plain water is fine by me.
Processed Cheddar Cheese
I do basically agree with this one, the cheese is one of the first things I reach for in the pack.
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Spot on with this one, but hey I love my Condensed milk I would more than likely consume it even if it was brown.
Cream of Chicken
Never have and Never will be game enough to try this.
Curry Powder
This and the Tabasco are just what they say they are, Go ahead and play.
Freeze Dried Rice
Not really for a fast meal this does take forever to cook and when your doing it in a cup canteen with a stove and hexamine it makes for 30 minutes of your life you will never get back.
Apricot Fruit Grains
mmmmm!! I really don't mind this just as a snack to nibble on. I have friends who like to cook their rice and add the Condensed milk and bits to make a very strange version of rice cream, I have not tried it but hey maybe next time I am living on rations I will have a spare half hour.
Plastic Spoon
Its a spoon your moron! I mean this guy bleeted about the spoon but what would he have us eat with, an fluoro yellow Spork?
Vegemite
Most packs come with Crackers so I see the merit of vegemite, and if you ever tasted plain Rat Pack crackers you would be saying "Pass the vegemite please"
Juicy Fruit
Its gum plain and simple, at least he was not given the weird packet of banana flavoured life saver look-a-like lollies
Jam Sandwich
Plain and simple I don't like these in or out of a ration pack.
U.S regular army get hot "chow" trucked in to their positions. The poor reservlist diggers have to watch them enjoy the cool base facility that army engineers built for them in envy while eat our cold ration. At least, we don't have to find where they are with active patrols. Just watch where the chopper and truck goes. Next thing, we make a quiet call the Mr. Gollevainen for a few nice superises. Hay, we are the "enemy troops", and we know how to play dead too.
How is guys from other forces? I heard that french have 350ml of red wine and russian's get their vodka and cigarettes.
Last thing, a good job for the Chinese to provide soon much more fun for the lil gun fodders, for party, country and nation's ppl.
Cheers
Digger
don't look down on these, these little packs are essential in keeping the troop's moral in fields.
The Aussie individual ration pack is about 1kg. Enough for one day. Fits nicely in the gun ammo punch. Nothing beat brewing up in a cold wet morning/evening.
One do have gets really inventive to make the best out of it. I normaly have the muesli bar, cheddar and tea for breafast, short bread and condensed milk for morning tea(they can be enjoyed easily while on movements). Lunch is important, I will have the Meat Can with a bit left over cheddar from the morning. Afternoon tea is cracker biscuits and vegemite(created from beer making resisdual, it has a love it or hate it taste). Dinner will be what ever that were left over. fast noddle is nice and quick. but frozen rice..... that is so what a difficult task. take at lest 20 minutes. I have to flavor it with any souce I can find in the pack with salt and pepper. Dessert normally will be the fruit can. Chocolate, lifesaver and chowing gum are essential for picketing in the night.
I found the following on the net regarding Aussie's ration packs. It is synical, but true:
found the speil on the web 'I ate an army rations pack' very amusing, not sure if you will get a laugh out of it or if it is only funny to those who have been forced to live on these packets of culinary genius.
I will however have to add some observations:
Firstly as you will see in his list he has not even touched on the good stuff! The cans or in modern packs bags of main meals!! I have only commented on the bits he commented on but have listed the ones he forgot to mention.
Beef & vegetables (Dutch style)
Minced beef with spaghetti
Shortbread biscuits
Apricot & Coconut muesli bar
Anzac muesli bar
Peach fruit spread
Tomato sauce
Diced peaches in a can
Crispbread crackers
Cheddar cheese
Tea & Coffee
Shortbread biscuits
Candy
Chocolate ration
Ok I admit this is nothing like chocolate but the block shown is more than likely about 10 years out of date (eh it's a ration pack so 10 years is ok this stuff will last forever) and while still good to eat I would not like to try it.
Beverage Base Powder
I cannot believe this guy could drink this poo, This is one of the items that never gets touched in my pack, plain water is fine by me.
Processed Cheddar Cheese
I do basically agree with this one, the cheese is one of the first things I reach for in the pack.
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Spot on with this one, but hey I love my Condensed milk I would more than likely consume it even if it was brown.
Cream of Chicken
Never have and Never will be game enough to try this.
Curry Powder
This and the Tabasco are just what they say they are, Go ahead and play.
Freeze Dried Rice
Not really for a fast meal this does take forever to cook and when your doing it in a cup canteen with a stove and hexamine it makes for 30 minutes of your life you will never get back.
Apricot Fruit Grains
mmmmm!! I really don't mind this just as a snack to nibble on. I have friends who like to cook their rice and add the Condensed milk and bits to make a very strange version of rice cream, I have not tried it but hey maybe next time I am living on rations I will have a spare half hour.
Plastic Spoon
Its a spoon your moron! I mean this guy bleeted about the spoon but what would he have us eat with, an fluoro yellow Spork?
Vegemite
Most packs come with Crackers so I see the merit of vegemite, and if you ever tasted plain Rat Pack crackers you would be saying "Pass the vegemite please"
Juicy Fruit
Its gum plain and simple, at least he was not given the weird packet of banana flavoured life saver look-a-like lollies
Jam Sandwich
Plain and simple I don't like these in or out of a ration pack.
U.S regular army get hot "chow" trucked in to their positions. The poor reservlist diggers have to watch them enjoy the cool base facility that army engineers built for them in envy while eat our cold ration. At least, we don't have to find where they are with active patrols. Just watch where the chopper and truck goes. Next thing, we make a quiet call the Mr. Gollevainen for a few nice superises. Hay, we are the "enemy troops", and we know how to play dead too.
How is guys from other forces? I heard that french have 350ml of red wine and russian's get their vodka and cigarettes.
Last thing, a good job for the Chinese to provide soon much more fun for the lil gun fodders, for party, country and nation's ppl.
Cheers
Digger
Oh hello fellow Digger,
Nice to see another Dig in here. Yes i love my ration pack too. I remember being put on sentry and did not have enough time to eat. So as a medical scientist i just decided to swallow the entire pack of cordial powder and it went down like sand. It also tasted really really nasty. But it got me going until lunch and that was after a 30km march. My favourite is the spagetti and sasauge. mmmmmmmm and the can opener, it always comes in handy in weird situations.
oh yes, u r absolutely right about the age of the chocolate bars. And eating it on a very hot day in the aussie bush gives eating weird chocolate a new dimension.
Nice to see another Dig in here. Yes i love my ration pack too. I remember being put on sentry and did not have enough time to eat. So as a medical scientist i just decided to swallow the entire pack of cordial powder and it went down like sand. It also tasted really really nasty. But it got me going until lunch and that was after a 30km march. My favourite is the spagetti and sasauge. mmmmmmmm and the can opener, it always comes in handy in weird situations.
oh yes, u r absolutely right about the age of the chocolate bars. And eating it on a very hot day in the aussie bush gives eating weird chocolate a new dimension.
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i think that the canadian army MRE are the best, and my favorite meal is the smoke salmon, unbeatable. We don't have can, only in the scelled metallic bag and I founded funny that some brother-in-arm made a note about the age of the ration, I remember eating this ration of 1992 and the bar of mint chocolate inside, didn't taste very good... and I also remember the compressed package of toilet paper, a bit weird...
Liberator said:
Yup. Mr C and I are both Australians. I am an ex-reservlist while he is the current one, I think. Mr c, r u the one shot the body armor?
Lazzydigger
sino52C said:
Haha. that is funny.