Military Rations: French include venison pate and duck confit. Italians get liquor

[cali]

British get tiny bottle of tabasco and chicken tikka masala. Australians include Vegemite. Germans get liver sausage.

More:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566893/Tabasco-British-40-proof-shot-cordiale-Italians-Can-guess-armys-nationality-ration-pack.html

[Scuba]

1. Americans get three year old pizza.

[Historic NY]

2. with Tabasco Hot sauce to numb the taste buds.

[DustyJoe]

6. that's nothing

Let's hear it for 1960-1970 US C-rations

spaghetti
stew
pound cake
pears
peaches

and the occasional ration that came with the lucky strike green ciggies showing that case was a WWII holdover

Cooking was remarkably simple. Pinch a SMALL portion of your 1lb bar of C4 explosive and roll into a ball. Make a small depression in the dirt and light said ball on fire. Hold can carefully by extended lid over the unbelievably hot flame of the explosive. Take extreme caution with the spaghetti as ultra fast heating will boil the entire contents of the can over the can edge onto your little ball of fire. Let fire burn out DO NOT try to stomp out the fire.

Violla ... supper.

[Lost_Count]

8. Side note - you can stomp the hell out of C4 and it won't do diddly...

[DustyJoe]

9. except

If not burned out soft c4 would wedge in the ridges of your combat boot, the fire would not go out till it burned out. Made the Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd hotfoot look tame

[Lost_Count]

10. Touché...

[Bigmack]

11. Or... throw contents of several...

...cans of C entrees into a helmet - minus liner and cover, of course.

Put over a C-4 fire until it boils. Stir occasionally, and break up any identifiable chunks.

Serve to fire team/gun/tube crew.

Eat and enjoy.

[Lurks Often]

3. American MRE's usually had little bottles of Tabasco as well

Depending on how finicky you were some MRE's were good and some were bad. Distribution of meals was random and people would swap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat#MRE_menus_by_era

When I was in the National Guard Meatballs in Tomato sauce was good, chicken and rice wasn't bad, spaghetti w/ meat sauce was popular. Pretty much everybody hated the Omelet w/Ham. Included were various snacks, crackers with either jelly or peanut butter, coffee packet, sugar, spoon, napkin.

Since I don't like ham or potatoes I really hated Escalloped Potatoes w/Ham, not only did the main meal suck, it didn't have any decent snacks either.

Each one was about 3000 calories and during wartime soldiers were supposed to get 4 MRE's a day

[Lost_Count]

4. Most were edible with the exception of Egg Omelette...

Find whole cases of just those.. Blech...

[Lurks Often]

5. Sounds like the cases were opened and resealed then

Every 12 pack case of MRE's I saw had 1 of each meal (during the 1992-1995 time period)

And yes the Omelette with Ham was nasty

[Lost_Count]

7. Full cases found after everyone found it and dumped em...

I think they retired it now but frankly I don't know how it made it past the focus group...

[X_Digger]

13. Ugh, that greasy cheese for crackers. You'd better mash / mix the packet well before opening. n/t

[Lurks Often]

14. I don't remember trying the cheese, I never was a huge cheese person n/t

[Pretzel_Warrior]

12. lol