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Originally Posted by Pete
Had the Mountain House Chicken Stew a few months back - Yeap, tasted just like I remembered from the LRRPs. IIRC it was Long Range Ration Patrol.
Got a Beef Stew in the Cabinet - need to fire that puppy up and check it out.
Just don't use canteen water with a lot of iodine in it when you mix up a Scalloped Potatoes meal  |
The funny thing about Long rats/LRRPs (Thanks that is the name) was it was a court martial offense to eat one during the monsoon. One of the other thing we did not have was any kind of purification tablets. Most grunts preferred the taste of L'eau de Bomb crater over what the Doc's in the rear playing with the water.
We were generally short on rations, I went from 165 pounds to 125 pounds in about 5-6 months. One reason some would say, "We had Long rats, short rats and fat rats."
I still love freeze dried.