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Topic: MMMMM...
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Subject: MMMMM...
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:11pm
Field Rations!
So yeah... we're going into the field this weekend (Farnham)for the first time. Should be a fun weekend even though it likely won't me much more than a glorified camping trip. Too bad I have tons of homework and no time to do it. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:11pm
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:15pm
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quite a selection. No ham and chicken loaf???
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:17pm
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pork auger douche, very appetizing stuff you have there :)
Eat the perple berries, they taste like burning. ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:35pm
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The breakfasts are chancy. Avoid anything Ham Steak if possible. If impossible, go for the one with mustard sauce.
The sausage and hash browns are the best breakfast, breakfast sausage is good too, and the bean and wieners are tolerable. Any lunch or supper with poultry is usually quite good. Tarragon chicken strips are delicious. Anything pork is usually edible but not amazing. Pasta or anything with cheese is hit or miss. The bread is dry as hell, but it comes right apart if you eat it with a bit of water in your mouth. It's good with peanut butter. Enjoy your camping trip, LOL. We just got rocketed again. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:38pm
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I always thought it would be funny to bring with me a NERF RPG type gun when I was on deployment. My brother had one growing up and it was pretty fun to play with. For effect, I thought about strapping a bottle rocket to it to make it seem as though it was somewhat real. ------------- http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/857/sig9ac6cs1mj.jpg - |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 1:38pm
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Well... obstable courses, marching and rappelling and such but basically... yes. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 2:21pm
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What? No SPAM?????? Shens! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 2:25pm
What the hell do you know about feeding hungry people? ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
tallen702 wrote:Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 2:28pm
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Know how the szechwan chicken is Brihard? I've heard mixed opinions and they still have a couple goulashes left which are supposedly the best. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 2:37pm
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Not sure, but I've never run into a poultry IMP that
violated my rule of thumb. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: notom66866
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 3:03pm
| Thats one thing that Canadian soldiers know, we are lucky to have the best IMP's in the world. When I was in I had a colonel in the Green Berets offer to trade me his side arm for a box of lunch IMP's. By the way Carl and Brihard, if you guys know any older guys who are serving ask about the old omelette. Now that was a meal. The only thing it was good for was to make your boots water proof. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 3:12pm
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No you don't. Try the french MRE's, they come with a small bottle of wine. and a white flag.
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 3:12pm
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We get it, you're in the Canadian army.
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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 4:19pm
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Ah yes, the mushroom omelette. That was also when they didn't think mac and cheese could give you food poisoning.
Luckily enough, they have stricter standards for production now and actually throw the ones that are over four years old in the garbage. You want to know how to really save time when it comes to growlies? Skip the whole heating phase and dig in. They taste pretty much the same hot or cold...cold is just faster. Oh, and this time of year, same goes for coffee. Just get the old airborne coffee in ya. (skip adding to water...consume 1x coffee packet and 1x whitener.) Trust me man, It took me 6 years of field time to figure these things out. I know it doesn't seem like rocket science when you have a warm arse. But once the snivelling kicks in, you'll be the most hardcore FNG in your whole section. Watch them squirm with the coffee thing. ------------- A second class drive is always better than a first class walk. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 4:46pm
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my take on MRE's: its like a party in my mouth, but everyones throwing up. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 4:57pm
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I tried coffee without the water last night and couldn't do it. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 5:19pm
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Nothing is as bad as the stuff they foist off on unknowing Boy Scouts at Philmont. God, I had some of the most awful food of my life out there.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 7:38pm
I've got this box sitting 10 feet away from me,  Your #6 and #2 sound ok ? ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 9:11pm
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..why do you have those? ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 10:02pm
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Why not ?
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 11:05pm
I would not be able to eat any of that stuff. ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 11:40pm
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I opened them up since I had to take out the crap to get as much free space as possible in my rucksack for all the kit they are making us bring.
They look pretty cool. I look forward to eating them then submitting a thorough review to my local paper. Anyways... gotta get up at like 4:45 tomorrow. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 11:42pm
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I've thought of opening the box I've got. I'm curious.
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Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 11:53pm
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Oh wordd it's like food in a bag thats so illll ive seen them before
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Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 11:58pm
^^^ West side yo! ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 12:44am
Seconded, half of my food was the bags of granola and energy bars people left at each camp. Did you ever have the Hawaiian Chicken? ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 1:02am
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Carl, keep the gum and candy bar...they make good bartering tools.
Also, if you have extra, keep em. I've got a few boxes of rats i the garage for those "owe money to the mob" days where I can't afford real food. ------------- A second class drive is always better than a first class walk. |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 1:16am
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MRE's are fantastic eats... hell even the 'vegetarian lasagna' was pretty good.
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 1:22am
Well there's a couple of differing opinions. The later MRE's weren't to bad, but the early ones left a lot to be desired. Hence the saying that MRE = Meals Refused by Everybody. The early ones were however an improvement on C-rats. Anyway, even with the the improvements most of the people I knew still considered MRE (when applied to the later meals) to stand for Meals Refusing to Exit. ------------- 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 4:27am
Plus it's good to scrounge a few extras of the ones that you decide you really like, as a hedge against the day where the IMP fairy hands you nine meals' worth of crap that you can't stand. I try to always have a couple sausage and hash browns in reserve and something with chicken. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Heres To You
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 8:29am
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The MRE's these days really aren't that bad, they come with heaters and everything. The chicken with noodles literally taste like something close to progresso. I'm not complaining when I've seen what the old one's look like, lol. ------------- |
Posted By: AoSpades
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 11:06pm
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MREs aren't bad...but then again, thats coming from someone who will eat just about anything. -------------  |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 18 October 2008 at 11:39pm
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 3:44am
Canadian dollar = American dollar, monopoly style. So: IMP = MRE, monopoly style? |
Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 10:03am
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Who wants to trade ?
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 4:25pm
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I had a pretty good weekend.
We did a whole bunch of stuff including training, and obstacle course and ruck marches. We also spent some time on the rappel tower including the helicopter rappel tower which was really cool. It was challenging to make out hitches at night in full blackness especially when your fireteam buddy doesn't speak your language. Cool though, we got woken up repeatedly by arty sims followed by ten minutes of machine gun fire. (though I bet it will be less cool this summer when I am the one who has to get up and react to it) The imp's were pretty good. First was the chicken szechwan which was somewhat crappy but more than edible. Breakfast ended up being sausages and hash browns which tasted more like potato and sausage stew. Breakfast was the worst but it was far from bad. I really liked the chicken for lunch. The best parts of them were the extra stuff though the rice was pretty bad. (oatmeal was awesome) All in all, a really fun weekend. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 20 October 2008 at 1:34am
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LOL. Cute.
Trust me, when suddenly it's *your* course being woken up by arty sims and raids, it starts to suck. Especially the fighting withdrawals and then the march to a new position, where you get to dig all those nice trenches all over again. I had the Shepherd's Pie IMP for lunch yesterday (2007 series). I give it a thumbs up, with the included salt and ketchup. Another bit of advice- keep a plain plastic water bottle with you for mixing the juice out of the IMPs. You don't want to mix it in your canteen and have it go skunky on you. Trust me. Bottled water in general is awesome, hoard as much of it as you can. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |