A delicacy I discovered when visiting Moscow was Rye bread spread with a local version of dripping. Pork fat chopped with mixed herbs and spices and a bit of meat. I've found similar in Germany and pork dripping is still available in the UK in some places Dripping is generally all the juices from th...

How come the Brit's are low on bread in their ORPs? All you get is a small packet of some kind of biscuits, be it digestive, browns, fruit, etc. Not enough for a 24 Hr. rat. Those Krauts include a tin of rye bread and a huge packet of hartkeks in theirs??? Especially since the Brits like their tea ...

Anything that can be eaten for dessert is a pudding. So a piece of cake can be pudding. Pudding is correctly a steamed cake mix. Although there is also rice pudding. But you can still have savoury puddings, like black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Steak and K...

When I started soldiering in the 90s British Rat packs (24 Hr GP Ration pack there were 6 large tea bags making 1 pint each and 6 25gm packs of sugar

Just about enough for the day

As a long term user of these (21 odd years) the logic is that breakfast is eaten hot in a harbour area before setting out for the day. During the day you'll snack as you go, heating up water for hit drinks and the soup when you can. The main meal is intended to be eaten in a harbour area before last...

Marmite has a Love/Hate relationship in the UK. You either love it, or you hate it, there's pretty much no middle ground.

Personally, as a Brit I find a lot of US food stuffs too sweet for my taste, even the bread, so I'd guess Marmite would strike you as too salty.

Old school is 6 teabags that make a pint of tea, a brew strong enough to strip paint and 6 25gm sized bags of sugar. All six teabags in one pint? Or each of the six was that strong on its own? Sorry, I don't come on here often :-) each teabag made a pint of tea, about the size of the issue cup with...

As an old school Brit squaddie, looks nice BUT, and it's a biggy. Not enough hot drinks, 2 tea packets the size of a doll set and 2 coffees, 4 whiteners, 4 tiny packets of sugar, and one hot chocolate...... Old school is 6 teabags that make a pint of tea, a brew strong enough to strip paint and 6 25...

As a Brit squaddie with some 20 years experience the idea of heading out without at least a hexi cooker and tabs is just cringe worthy. It's part and parcel of the webbing packing always. Something to eat, something to drink hot and something to cook in and/or drink out of. The daysack always has at...

As I understand it. An MRE is 1200 Calories per meal, if you eat and drink every single part of it. A British 24 Hour ration pack is 4,000 calories, if you eat and drink every single part of it. The British approach is to heat every single bit that needs heating and make lot of brews with the copiou...