M14 Forum

kakruse

Having spent enough time in the field to be able to avoid Ham & Lima Beans even when the Gunny opened them from the bottom so we couldn't read the box......was wondering what you guys thought?

Semper Fi

Iron Man

Ditto on the Ham and Beans!!!!!!!!!!!

ground_pounder

Favorite: Turkey Loaf
Hated: Ham & Eggs

Ham & Mutha's: Outstanding as long as they were
prepared with the cheese, crackers & hot sauce all
mixed together.

Dessert: Peaches & Pound cake if you were lucky
enough to get them.

6

9th

Favs: Hated:

Nazgul

Seeing the tins of peanut butter after a hot, dry day was almost too much, still turns my stomach.

Ham & eggs were bad.

Any canned fruit was good.

Don

dmen

Now don't be running down the peanut butter, wouldn't have been able to heat the meal and coffee without it. dmen

Iron Man

Not to mention, if you ate enough of the peanut butter, it would stop you up while you were out in the field!! That was a good thing sometimes, depending on the facilities or lack there of!!!

devildog

Ham and beans were the worst. Favorite--anything else!

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

Nazgul

Those crackers, whatever they were made of, with the jam/jelly were good.

Don

shooter700

Ham and 'mutha's.

Gimlet

I'm an MRE baby myself but, my Dad still can't look at a lima bean. Most kids grow up hearing scary stories about the boogie man. I grew up hearing about ham and lima beans.

Gimlet

shep854

I picked up my first C at Ranger Joes in Columbus, GA back when I was in high school. What I remember was the beef stew and fruitcake (and the cigs, though I didn't smoke). I've liked fruitcake since then.

At Quantico (OCS) in '75, I figured the cigs would be gold for trading, but sadly, C's no longer had them, so I had to grovel and haggle with the rest of the "candy-dates". The peaches and fruit cocktail were other favorites, along with the "cake" (same basic recipe, just different flavorings).

We never had to eat them more than a day or two at a time, so I didn't develop the strong emotions of the combat grunts who had to live on them for weeks and months.

My first John Wayne opener (a Speakman) still resides on my keyring, ready for duty.

Sustinemus

I never met a C-rat I didn't like.
When you are hungry enough you'll eat anything.

grndpndr

Anything but the green eggs and ham.
Loved the pound cake and Id trade ya for the 'gristle pucks' but not pound cake.Dont forget the tabasco.
Taking a crap and c-rats was an oxymoron in my case.I swear there was somthin in em
to deliberately stop normal bowel functions.