I might be wrong but, I think these came about due to the beans in the MRE's at the time causing a lot of gas for people. I do remember the "not for preflight use" label on all of the MRE's that had those nasty beans in them. At was awful to have to work with the Armor Units in the field when they a...

Housil, So it's more of a "stab-push-lever-stab-push-lever" action instead of the P38 using the "twist-move-twist-move" action? I will try this way when the wife is out of the kitchen :P And I thought (along with many others) that the L-shaped part went under the can rim! That also sort of explains ...

:P New member, long-time lurker who finally has a question that I can't find an answer to: does anyone know where on the internet I can find a video showing how to properly use the can opener on the German mess kit utensil set? I've eaten MCI's back in the 70's, and had my share of most of the MRE's...