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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
I remember French rations were pretty gourmet. I suppose if you were French you'd just consider it "food". Bonbons, real cheese and crackers. Tactically, I think they were problematic as they had too much aroma.
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We stayed on a French base somewhere in France one time. We got up for breakfast early and went down to the NCO mess. We sat down with our coffee at a table and ate the bread on it. We were still hungry so we started on the next table and worked our way through about 10 tables before some of the rest of the team (only 1 team here) showed up. They started in on the rest of the bread about time the French NCOs showed up.
As the shit hit the fan, that "WAS" breakfast for "EVERYBODY", our table beat a hasty retreat as the cooks were working themselves into a high lather with everybody else.
It all worked out by supper time. We were doing a night infil jump on one of the Eugenie (sp?) FTXs and were parked down by the runway when they issued us the supper field ration. I do not remember the meal but I do remember the small bottle of wine, one per man, that came with it. Everybody drank it and thought it was pretty good.
About 10 days later wine would come back to haunt us but that story is for another day and thread.
Pete (the ugly American - sometimes)