Milsurp After Hours

We used to get a 'Hershies Chocolate Bar' in out C-rats in Nom. No one I know knew WTF it was... hard as a rock and tasted about as good.

For D**n sure it didn't melt in your mouth, as well as in anything else! It's supposed to be tropical chocolate, but I think it was a secrete weapon.

We horded it, so in case we ran out of ammo, we'de give it to Chaelie and he'd surrender!

It's a conundrum but we never could figure the answer.

Thanx Dante'

some of the things that came in the c-rats I still don't know what it was but with some tobassco on it everything was ok .

I wrote to the McHennerys co. and got a recipy book for C-rats!

I put TS on everything!

thanx Dante'

....the little tin of Date-Nut Bread. Eat one and drink a 1/2 canteen of water and your belly would swell up like you were pregnant....didn't need to eat for 24 hours!

Ah! the C rations of different wars. We Aussies in Korea used to get both American C rations and the British "equivalent" We loved C rations but found some to be a bit bland, especially the tinned custard (known as baby's ----) however we needed an intake of the more robust British stuff to keep our systems working properly.

The US chocalate of that era was delightful, but then it was cold country chocolate

Eoin.

...how can anyone produce such a discusting 'food'!

I lived with the Nunges, their families and and the hunger of their people. Even the Nunges through the 'Ham & Eggs' over the side of the OP's mountian!

I used to trade off my peaches and pound cake (which I loved) for cans of apracots, pennut butter, chesse and crackers and beams and franks!

I used a pease of C-4 to cook the c-rats.

Thanx Dante'

Let us not forget SAUSAGE PATTYS AND GRAVY!!

Like a White Castle patty (cheap hamburger for our Brit and Aussie friends) smeared in Vaseline....or cosmoline. B.C.

Let's not forget tose babys

This discussion has brought some memories back.

I remember, without any fondness, stuff called 'Raviolli in Sauce'. These were tiny pastry envelopes filled with a brown,tastless, gritty filling in a watery red faintly tomato flavoured sauce----to be avoided even at the cost of going hungry.

Eoin.

My dad talked about rations they were issued in Belgium -1944 called 10 in ones..I am sure he told me that they were I RATION-10 MEN-ONE DAY. Anyone know more about this?

I remember him telling me about heating the large cans on the exhaust manifold on vehicles. He said that many of his half-tracks smelled of burnt food from forgetting them under duress and driving off in a hurry! B.C