Field rations of the world

[Mr King]

The guy that did the above video has done videos on a bunch of rations from around the world. I found it interesting, but not surprising in retrospect, that the New Zealand 24 hour ration pack comes with a packet of Vegemite / Marmite.

[Mr King]

I would not mind sharing a field ration with her.

 

http://youtu.be/7Vv662T2610

Edited August 28, 2014 by Mr King

[Mr King]

Chinese PLA MRE's

 

http://youtu.be/vMFNG20swt0

 

http://youtu.be/hEZh7F5cJ80

[shep854]

Dragging an old thread up--again--for a video discussing the testing and eating of 15-30 year-old MREs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=80&v=Cn2vezlSfxs

[Mr King]

Here you go Shep, tasting a Food survival packet from 1956

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0WZEppklY

[Mike Steele]

"Meals Refused by Ethiopians" Is 20 years old? I'm over the hill.

[Sardaukar]

I really like those "Emmy eats MRE" videos, they are quite funny.

[shep854]

The prim and proper nibbling off of clean trays is rather amusing.

[M48A5K]

http://blog.naver.com/fahrenlove/70188459309?viewType=pc

 

South Korean MRE Type 2; includes ham fried rice, stirred fried kimchi, seasoned sausage, beef with beans for main dish, almond cake and chocoball for dessert. Flameless ration heater, plastic spoon and tray is also included.

 

[Mr King]

http://blog.naver.com/fahrenlove/70188459309?viewType=pc

 

South Korean MRE Type 2; includes ham fried rice, stirred fried kimchi, seasoned sausage, beef with beans for main dish, almond cake and chocoball for dessert. Flameless ration heater, plastic spoon and tray is also included.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshlZcSxlPk

[bojan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhT90xB4g-M

It is only a part of ration pack however, it is missing a lot of things - coffee, heater, water purification tablets, chocolate, crackers (more like old style hard-tack, nickname "plocice" as an association to ceramic tiles.) etc.There were 4 main menus and some variations.

 

Back in 2006-7 it was still pretty much the same, and that SPAM (made in 1990) was still good, way better then commercial version that is still available, military version had much less water and salt and much more good meat taste.

 

Sardines were universally hated, unless you had some onion to go with them. Alternative to sardines was a liver pate or a butter and jam or can of tuna (my father hated tuna with a passion, due the some fuckup for 40 something days on terrain they got only tuna in every single ration pack... Everything else was mixed, but that can (used for breakfast usually) was only tuna....

[bojan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRSAUeGrWg

Powdered drink was horrible. Pate was OK (I am not a fan of pates), fruit/raisin bar great, SPAM was good if hot and passable if cold, beans with smoked ham great. Pepermint candies can double as fire starters as long as they are dry (they are pure sugar/menthol mix w/o any add-on so pretty flammable).

Edited November 1, 2016 by bojan

[Mr King]

Thanks for posting this Bojan, I did not see the other link from July until now. Great stuff.

[bojan]

Ex Yugo military cookbook android app, in English:

http://krukop.wixsite.com/armycookbook

[Mr King]

Thanks Bojan.

[rmgill]

[Delta tank 6]

Here is a comical video comparing military rations of several nations!

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​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxRBblqbYg

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​Mike

[Harold Jones]

This sort of fits here I guess.  Manual of Army Cooks 1910  https://archive.org/details/manualforarmyco01statgoog The recipes in this surprisingly varied.  Some familiar things with strange ingredients.  Tamales made with mashed potatoes instead of corn flour is one.  

[rmgill]

My buddy Jim has a bunch of the various manuals from Victorian times to WWII for British Field Kitchen gear. He has a bunch of the gear too. 

[Rick]

On 11/10/2021 at 8:49 PM, rmgill said:

My buddy Jim has a bunch of the various manuals from Victorian times to WWII for British Field Kitchen gear. He has a bunch of the gear too. 

teabags or loose powder or leaves?

[DB]

WTF is powdered tea?

[bojan]

Instant?

[DB]

The depths to which some will descend.

[R011]

19 hours ago, Rick said:

teabags or loose powder or leaves?

In Quartered Safe Out Here, George Macdonald Fraser talks of making loose leaf tea.

[DB]

Traditionally in the UK, tea was made with chopped leaves, in a teapot. The liquid is usually strained as it is poured., but you can get "balls" that you'd put the leaves in before they go in the pot (or cup, whatever suits)  You can still buy tea that way, but that US innovation, the teabag, now ensures that we produce more waste and use (often) lower quality product, to include "tea dust", which to my mind would be the tea equivalent of mechanically recovered meat.

"Loose leaf tea" is still available in supermarkets, so it's not turned into a hipster product just yet.