Vietnam Veteran Keeps Vow, Eats 40-Year-Old Cake

[uboat509]

Amnesty International won't shut up about Gitmo but they won't say a thing about US servicemembers being fed Beef with Mushrooms MREs. Torquemada himself could not have engineered a better meal but where's the outrage from the "waterboarding is torture" crowd?

SFC W

[Pete]

Now that technique of placing a small hole on the edge of the can, dribbling in a few good size drops of water and then placing on a grasshopper stove until the steam stopped worked pretty well.

Rather hit or miss. I think it came out great about half the time and 1/4 soggy cake bottom and 1/4 burnt cake bottom but with time to kill......

[Ambush Master]

Originally Posted by Pete

Just don't use canteen water with a lot of iodine in it when you mix up a Scalloped Potatoes meal

I put some Iodine treated water into my Indig Ration's Rice bag one morning. At lunch, when I pulled it out of my ruck, I thought that I was hallucinating!!!! The rice was so PURPLE, it looked like it was plugged in!!!

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by Ambush Master

I put some Iodine treated water into my Indig Ration's Rice bag one morning. At lunch, when I pulled it out of my ruck, I thought that I was hallucinating!!!! The rice was so PURPLE, it looked like it was plugged in!!!

Groovy, magic rice! Like totally psychedelic man!

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

You are a rare individual if you can eat the Fruit Cake, much less enjoy it. That thing should have an FDA warning label on the can.
The Orange Nut Cake sucks pretty badly as well, especially with the big chunks of peel.
The Chocolate Nut Roll is edible, but barely, and only if you have planty of liquid to drink.
The Cinnamon Nut roll would have been better with more sugar, or a glaze, as it is tremendously dry to boot.
The most amazing thing is that a company can bake a true gourmet Pound Cake, and also bake and sell the above atrocities.
TR

TR you mention "glaze". You are very right. Frosting made all the difference! Chocklet frosting was possible with a packet of cocco powder and 22 drops of water (not 21 and definately not 23). One cold rainy fall day at Santa Barbara* Range in ROK we had a FO who was all sad about rain on his birthday (what a lousy liar! he was really bummed that he was at St Barbara's Range* spotting mortar rounds for Buffalos (1-17 I Mech Inf). We frosted a pound cake and stuck a match in it.
* I can't remember which it was, that range, Santa or Saint.

[pjody187]

Here's some video of the COL chowing down.

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/p..._year_old_cake