I was surprised by the crackers. They were very nice and just a little bit sweet. They were the the tooth-breaking "panzer armor" I expected I guess those are in different rations, not the regular German ones. The "panzer platten" ("Hartkeks") got replaced :cry: :cry: first by some cardboard like t...

MrFahrenheit wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:45 am

UK border force decided to open them and see what was inside.

Blame it on Brexit, postage within EU doesn´t get checked.

I´m sorry they ripped it open that way...

The oldest EPa main I ever ate was "just" 19 years old and still great.

Eddo36 wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:25 am

Hi, was wondering if there are public recipes available for the food served in military cafeterias today.

There is what is called the ARMED FORCES RECIPE SERVICE . When cooking A Rations, you can look here the recipes up.

Fallout420 wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:09 pm

P.S. The mods may ask you to move this to a different section since this is the marketplace!

Mod: I moved it into the tips and tricks section

Wow, I´m amazed. 30 years and still edible

Little side note This German ration has a date or "model" label of 2013, but most of the components inside were made in 2014 (the canned rye bread has a 2013 date). The number from the sticker "BV I 2013" does not refer to the year, it´s just a random number for packing that accidentally looks like ...

Did a little MTB tour yesterday, just to eat a 2007 Fir Bar (out of a #23 Chicken w/Cavatelli) LB1.jpg LB2.jpg LB5.jpg Suppose the bar to be that dark?! LB4.jpg Smelled OK. LB3.jpg Gave it a first try, nothing suspicions so we ate it half/half - just to be sure :mrgreen: it tasted as usually and tod...

Rms2324 wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:54 pm

If edible, my question is will it possibly increase in value?

Only for MRE enthusiast, but they are "worthless" until you find one guy that will pay a higher price .

They are freezedried and MH guarantees a shelf life of 30 years for their products.

Sep 4th we start for another 3 days 125km bike-hike ("donkey trail"). Going by train 2.5hrs north before driving all the way back criss-cross the "Spessart" woods.