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Came across this the other day, took me back to the days of Rollophobia and breaking me teeth on Mars bars, plus a fanatical aversion to Chicken Supreme( nine straight days and it begins to loose it`s attraction )

Menu A.......................Menu B.......................Menu C.......................Menu D

Breakfast
Porridge......................Same.........................Same..........................Same
Drinking Chocolate

Snack
Beef Spread...............Chicken Spread..........Chicken and Bacon.......Ham Spread
All have Biscuits, fruit and plain, Chocolate, Chocolate Caramels, Nuts&Raisens, Dextrose Sweets

Main Meal

Chicken Soup.............Veg. Soup..................Oxtail Soup...................Veg Soup
Beef Granules.............Curried Beef Granules.....Mutton Granules........Chicken Supreme Granules
Pom............................Rice............................Pom............................Rice
All have Peas
All have either Apple Flakes or Apple and Apricot Flakes
Drinks
All have Coffee, Tea,Stock Drink,Sugar and Skimmed Milk

I wonder who came up with the idea that calling minced dehydrated meat of uncertain origin "Granules", would somehow, make it sound appetizing by the way
Marketing genius, not
Four men in five man tent sheets, 2-man cooker, Naptha, Meta-tabs( in reality anti slug pellets, true ) proffing anything from an onion to a side of bacon, chucking it all in a grenade tin and troughing the lot, big tins of Herring in Tomato Sauce and frozen Black Forrest Gateaux, just get it it there lofty sheer luxury of finding a frozen apple, Rum and coke in yer ally water bottle, nice HBM round the rim of yer ally mug, hmmmm. At least it cut down the number of requests for sippers Arctic Rats had 4500 calories but only if you ate the lot, including the packaging
I`ll have to sign off now, me Peak`s just boiled, the peas and rice are in ,I`m forcing meself to open the chicken and me keyboard is full of spindrift

These sound like "artic " rations harry , is that correct

Didnt they have rock hard Mars bars in them as well ?

Arry Mate,
Please could you put a warning sign on (^&^ fer instance) yer threads that contain the word R****s?
Thank You.

Rations? Rations are for wimps. Real Bootnecks live off the land. Every land must have a Pub or Indian Restaurant, s'easy innit m8..........

I chuffing hate text speak, I'm going to chin the next one, honest. Hackedoff make sure the area immediately to your rear is clear of debris.

Chicken Madras in rations ???

Which ones

It`s all" boil-in-the-bag" now mate, very nice too.
Went diving with a couple of Oppos just before we moved down here. They produced boil in the bag Meatballs in Pasta Sauce.
"This is fantastic" says I, "what`s it called"
"Scrotums in Motions" Looked like it too, tasted fantastic
Dunno what the modern Arctic rats are like, anyone know?

`Ungry `Arry

Here 'Arry, try this.

From HMS Endurance website

Contents of a typical Antarctic Ration Pack - 5500 calories

Foil pouch - Steak, Vegetables with Potato - 345g
Foil pouch - Corned Beef Hash - 318g
Foil pouch - Treacle Pudding - 235g
Instant Dried Apple Flakes - 28g
Brown Biscuits - 2 x 88g
Fruit Biscuits - 1 - 102g
Oatmeal Biscuits - 28g
Turkey & Ham pate - 82g
Instant Soup - Oxtail - 300ml
Instant Orange Drink - makes 1 litre
Instant Lemon Drink - makes 1 litre
Vegetable Stock Drink - 5g
Instant Coffee - 2 x 5g
Beverage Whitener - 2 x 10g
Instant White Tea - 4 x 5g
Bar of Chocolate - 60g
Packet of Boiled Sweets - 48g
Packet of Chewing Gum - 8g
Sugar - 8 x 8g
Matches – 10

From this website they tell you all the other types of rat pack. I didn't know that there was a submarine one

http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/dlo/DLO_News_20_4.pdf

On the subject of the old rat packs, curry power was an essential and I never ate the peas because they were always hard, even when boiled for a long time.

There isnt much different there from a normal rat pack we get here. The only thing we dont get is the dried apple flakes. (Doubt we're missing much though). And the chocolate is always out of date or something, its all white and powdery.

Noz, take a make and mend, I’ll be round later with the Beverage Whitener
Notice they changed it from powdered milk. If it’s the same shite we have down here, it’s inflammable, for true Try pouring it through the flame of a lighter. Black coffee for me thanks.
See me old fave, Oatmeal Block, is still included. You could either eat it or shove it up yer hoop, the result was the same
All the pouch stuff is boil in the bag, and as ever, can be eaten cold. In the words of one Crocodile" Mick" Dundee, " You can eat it, sure, but it tastes like shit" Don`t know if that’s the case anymore, the pasta meal I tasted was o.k. cold. Better hot of course. On the whole, this rat pack menu looks very appetizing, wait till JR and Owdun tell us about eating real babies heads ( very gassy, apparently )
Biscuits brown is a euphemism for the dog biscuits we used to ditch, but Biscuits Fruit sounds like everyone’s fave, Gary baldy or summat. Good when spread with any of the pastes, (or Pate, as it says on Helo driver`s rats)
Do they still have Spangles, one wonders

Harry , I have a nice boil in the bag meatballs and tom sauce that I had left over from my last ex

I'm trying to stock pile b inthe b meals for my pre full screw course , it helps to get as many carbs down as possible

They fit in the Yank MRE heaters too so no need for nasty hexy block

Oh stop it please Hexamine blocks!
Or Hexy blokes, as Shoulders refers
We`ve been here before mate, but if you need rapid carb intake, use Complan and Mars bars
How long did it take Elmer to come up with a MRE heater? When I was explaining the physiological benefits of eating hot food to a couple of shivering USMs they interupted" yeah Hairey, but Uncle Sam spent 20 billion dollars inventing the concept of Meals Ready to Eat"
I gave up in the end. They ate the stuff cold and then stood round their petrol cooker till it ran out of fuel. Elmer doesn`t do Arctic
OOOOrrrraaaaggghh.

I refer the Honourable Member to my previous answer

Elmer doesn`t do Arctic

Yank MRE packs are the nasty ones (Meals Rejected from Ethiopia, as we called them). When the Patricia's (Canadian inf unit) were on ex in Alaska a few years ago, they traded pallet-for-pallet Canadian rations for Yank folding cots!

Arctic supplement is worth having: Big blocks of jellied sugary stuff (almost like Turkish delight), plus extra hot chocolate.

Then there's the rum ration. They're a bit twitchy about issuing it these days (so damned politically correct) but the "issue" is still in the system, even if the actual service rum is not any more. A few forty-pounders of Bacardi amber made their way through the company last winter, though. Nice to have a tot before catching some zeds when you've been breaking trail all day.