about 24 hour ration packs

[harry hackedoff]

Biscuits, Fruit, AB.
Buy`em in the shops as Garibaldi
Pity no-one sells oatmeal block,though

[ExCrabMate]

Thats the one
Hmm, Fruit AB? Sounds like Jack in a frock.

[Artist]

Once gave a hexi block coated in jam to this here little lad in Africa.

He ate it, pulled a face and asked for more! We gave him the rest coated with various items. One was human Sh*t. Lo and behold he was back the next day for seconds with his oppos! (might offend some people, kin tough, go and talk to God!)

One fine day in Pompey this here yank USMC (uncle sams misguided children) private first class drank his own P*ss in the Home club. (I think he was trying to show us how tough he was) "Beat that you Faggots!" he cried.

My mate Mickmac walked up to the Burger bar and took a bun and proceeded to the Heads with it. Came out with this bun full of brown stuff and said to the Hardcase; Try eating your own sh*t, tough guy! And proceeded to eat the burger bun complete with brown stuff. We got lashed up for the rest of the night after this little gem. Mickmac in actual fact ate two mars bars in a bun. The USMC tough guys are so easy peassy! Words like Green Cu*ts spring to mind

Artist

[Dave.Mil]

Spangles.....
Does anybody remember those in 24 hr packs?
Chicken in brown sauce? has anybody ever seen anything else called ***** in brown sauce?

Yank MRE's had dried strawberries in them they were good.

[old scaly back]

Remember the toilet paper,Three sheets i think,nice and shiny.
Mind you,seemed a waste as you couldn't sh-t for days after being on compo.

[adj125]

Remember the toilet paper,Three sheets i think,nice and shiny.
Mind you,seemed a waste as you couldn't sh-t for days after being on compo.

The secret was to fold 1 sheet in to quaters and to tear off the one of the corners Therefore forming a sheet of paper with a hole in the centre which is just wide enough to slip over your middle finger. You then use the paper in this position. The little circle that is left over is for cleaning any residue that is left behind the finger nail

[Batfink]

Remember the toilet paper,Three sheets i think,nice and shiny.
Mind you,seemed a waste as you couldn't sh-t for days after being on compo.

I believe the army sold it to schools uner the brand name of "tracing paper"

The secret was to...

No the secret was to bring your own soft and quilted stuff!!!

[old scaly back]

Sorry to go off track, but how come when on exercise (before thunder boxes were compulsory)When you went off into the woods with the trusty shovel for a crap.Where ever you dug (generaly next to a tree)You allways dug up someone else's crap.

[old scaly back]

I used to be on Rebro in the Sigs,three of us ,usually on the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere,being resupplied every three days.
One day the Sgt came up to us with a 56 pound bag of spuds and five loafs of bread.
I said ,what am i supposed to do with that ?
His reply.
Make chip buttys (army sense of humour eh)

[ExCrabMate]

Remember cooking stuff wired on the exhaust manifold of your wagon? Still do it on me Land Rover occasionally on longish trips. Pound of snorkers, triple wrapped in foil takes about 45min, its done when you can smell it.

Toptip 1: You can unclip the rad grill from a series II or III L/rover and set over a fire for a barbie, let the paint burn off first.

Toptip 2: You can also use rad grills from later L/rovers but these are plastic so will melt

[Dave.Mil]

When I served on 438 GW wagons it was like going on exercise in a camper van, we had a cooker made from a HESH box and 2 boiling vessel elements fitted to the back door. The infanteers faces were a treat when you emerged from your wagon with a full fry up and toast!!!! now that was roughing it. On the tanks we also used to carry an iggory it was a cut down 5 gal drum with a chimmney welded to run up through the centre and 3 legs on the base you filled it with water and put a compo can of petrol underneath in line with the chimmney and you could get enough HOT water for your crew to wash. On challenger if you strapped a water can to the gearbox deck after a days motoring that would also be hot enough to wash with. Those were the days

[barryc]

We had bespoke versions of your `iggory' in Aden, purpose made but we called them Volcanos, and quite right they really did heat up the water PDQ, don't recall seeing them in any other Cdo, don't know why 'cos they were a good bit of kit.


Barry

[lostplanet]

I have since found out (from a reliable source) that the date on boil in the bags, is in fact the manufacturing date and they last about 10 years, for anyone thats interested.
mind you, a ten year old pork casserole??

[Jon]

I always thought that ration bags would give me at least 500kcals each. Surprised when I seen some - less than 200.

[lew]

The ration packs we were given on the two weeks were ok, they now come with Kleenex man size tissues, but I abstained from taking a dump in the woods as those fruit and brown biscuits seem to bung you up something rotten...

The chocolate we had in the boxes was a surprise, I opened one packet to find a light brown coloured dust (Ate it anyway)...

The breakfasts weren’t bad although I was surprised to see Heinz sausage and beans in one of my boil in the bags, the dinners were nice I was lucky enough to get beef stew and dumplings one night, chicken pasta, and lamb stew with potatoes on the last night... don’t think much of the puddings though there horrible, good fun trying to off load them on some one else though...

Turkey or chicken with herb pate takes some getting used to, more the texture than the taste though...

Drinks were good on the whole, instant tea was nasty so I took my own tea bags, screech was great, so was cocco...

ohh and one of the lads on the course had one of those American bag cooking things, that they use instead of hexie blocks, what a good little bit of kit that is, he was the only one to eat a warm dinner after night fall...


lew