Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Ham and Motherfuckers

C-rations came out in the late 1930s to replace "reserve rations". The article says that reserve rations were used in the first World War, but from the description, they probably dated back to the Civil War.

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4 comments:

Deadstick said...

My AFROTC field exercise took place in the summer of 1961, and we had C-Rats with a packing date of 1942. The canned bread was a bit intimidating...each box had a pack of non-filter cigarettes of several brands. The Lucky Strikes were in green packs, which were discontinued in the same year (under the slogan "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war", supposedly to conserve copper).

Tod Germanica said...

Pound cake, canned peaches, free P-38 can opener, free dried out cigarettes, gum, TP. Everything you need for a great weekend in Vegas. Luckily, some poor fool usually liked ham & motherfuckers so sometimes you could swap them out.
We'd give c-rats to the Vietnamese who never seemed to actually eat them. Probably gave them to the VC for field rations.

Deadstick said...

I note there's actually a civilian market for MREs, in sporting goods stores. Don't think I saw that for C-rats...;-)

J4rh34d said...

If you got the ham and limas hot in the sun, you could pour off the top inch or so, which was all fat. Stir in a can of cheese spread and some crushed John Waynes (crackers), and you had something you could gag down easier. I lost 50 pounds in 5 months eating nothing but C-rats. Then, I caught malaria and got to fatten up on hospital food for 3 weeks. Then, back to the life of an 03 and slimmed down again.