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willriskit · May 24th, 2011, 06:32 AM

Chalk up another one for ham and lima beans, followed by beef steak with major arteries. Horse c____ sandwiches for flight rats also didn't do much for morale.

jens5 · May 25th, 2011, 07:20 AM

Hated, let me repeat, Hated,Ham & Lima Beans.

dwight55 · May 25th, 2011, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jens5

Hated, let me repeat, Hated,Ham & Lima Beans.

I'll second that motion.

Is there any discussion on the motion?
Is there any discussion on the motion?
Is there any discussion on the motion?

There being no further discussion, we can proceed to vote:

All in favor of Ham and Lima beans being the most hated signify your vote with a verbal "Aye"

All opposed with a "Nay"

The Aye's have it. Motion passed.

May God bless,
Dwight

rstickle · May 25th, 2011, 04:00 PM

Hadn't even opened the thread and Ham and Lima Beans came to mind!!

Trac2142 · July 9th, 2011, 06:37 PM

Apricots....never, never eaten on an Amtrac...bad luck!

We had a Sgt in the field in Norway, get so stopped up from C Rats, his appendix burst and had to be medivac'd to a carrier for surgery.

In the field on Lejeune, we were on the beach and issued some "new" MRE's to try (they were just being tested then). We opened them up and man, were they NASTY! Weird colors, smells, etc. CO got on the horn, had hot chow trucked out asap and served...that sure tasted good!

Essayons · July 9th, 2011, 08:01 PM

I was one of the few that actually liked the canned ham and eggs, so I could usually trade whatever I had for them on favorable terms.

wbm · July 31st, 2011, 10:42 AM

Actually Ham& Limas aka ham and mfr's could be salvaged. Scrape the grease off the top pour out the water add "fresh" water with one tin of cheese with caraway seeds and boil....not too bad.
Ham and eggs were without hope....saw some Vietnamese dogs that had second thoughts about eating those.

SOCOM42 · July 31st, 2011, 11:35 AM

In the c rats, the most disgusting i found was tuna and noodles. Just the smell made me gag. Lima was second.
C crackers and jam were good. Too many times had to open those little cans with a bayo.
Mre's favorite was beef in barbi sauce and the crackers.

Cool Mo D · August 27th, 2011, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by kieffer

Had to get my .02 in on this one. '65 Chu Lia. Became intimately acquainted with '40s-'50s era Cs. 12 to a case with 4 P-38s in each case. As the platoon Corpsman I used to get the fliers from NAV/MED about what not to eat(botulism,maybe salmonella) funny, everybody wanted to know(ticket home or at least out of the field for a while)

I must be weird, but I liked Ham & "MFs" and there was always a "surplus". I think I had at least two cases stashed in my hole.
What nobody caught on to for a while was they had the best dessert cans/packets. My favorite recipe, peaches, pound cake, coffee creamer(extra sugar optional) all together in an empty B2 can with a fingernail sized piece of C-4 to heat it up......mmmmm.....that, and some iodine water to wash down a chloriquine primaquine? tablet....who could ask for more?
(except maybe a 33 beer cooled down in a long hollow block of ice in saw dust delivered by a 10 yr. old on a bicycle for 10 Ps).......
"Doc" Kieffer
81 Mortars(pre-grenade vacation on the USS Repose)
106 recoiless after

Yeah, the ham and yeah.. I too used a little C to heat up my food. In a flash!

jpowen · August 27th, 2011, 01:48 PM

I would say that the ham and limas were always dreaded. I liked the dark chocolate bar. The best thing about C`s was the cigarettes.

Suddenthunder · August 27th, 2011, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by dwight55

Given the choice of 2 medium Milk Bone dog biscuits or the Ham and limas, . . . all I can say is "Arf, Arf, . . . "

I don't recommember what that nasty stuff was called that was supposed to be scrambled eggs and sumpthin', . . . but I didn't like it neither.

Mostly I scrounged the cookies, . . . coffee, . . . sugar, . . . cream, . . . Lucky Strikes, . . . peanut butter, . . . crackers, . . . and stuff from other guys throw aways, . . . managed to make it through on that.

Favorite was 1 package of hot chocolate mix, . . . 2 packages of instant coffee, . . . 4 sugars, . . . 4 creams, . . . all in the old canteen cup, . . . onto the fire, . . . 'bout 15 minutes and all was good. It'd even soften up them krakers from the round can.

May God bless,
Dwight

We called your fav. Ranger pudding........

CPTKILLER · August 28th, 2011, 12:40 PM

I hated the green scrambled eggs. The beans & franks were good. In any case, we carried Tobasco. It helped to make it edible.

Oxmix · August 28th, 2011, 08:40 PM

C-Rats were great. When I was on Okinawa, C-Rats were gourmet dining compared to what we got in the mess hall. I never got sick eating C-Rats. Can't say the same for the mess hall.

Regards

Ox

lima · March 26th, 2012, 07:54 PM

Well lads... I liked the ham and eggs... and the pound cake smeared with jam/jelly!! Crackers and P.B. would bind you up for days.
I had an old time Sgt that would check for cans of pears before we got on the helio's said it was bad luck to fly with pears.

R M
0331 Lima co. 3/3

Screech8710 · March 26th, 2012, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by shooter700

Ham and 'mutha's.

I never had a C rat myself (too young/MREs for me) but my dad still complains about "Ham and 'Mutha's" whenever we swap stories.

Having had MREs though, jumbalaya is hell in a pouch...