The French ration came with an adorable box of wooden safety matches, but the little definitely-not-flameless fuel tablet stove was hard to light with the matches (I wound up using a Bic Multipurpose long lighter). Little handle to hold food can over stove was oK. Food wasn't bad. But neither is the...

Footnote, Steve1989 got the bagel in a #6 FSR from 2019 and thought it tasted like a hamburger bun. He put MRE cheese on it though, which doesn't work well with bagels in my mind. I had 2 3 4 and 8 only, and in my email it labeled one of them as 2019. Here's Steve's review: https://www.youtube.com/w...

Yes. I had an unexpired first strike ration with a plain bagel in it a few years ago, I forget which specific ration, and other than the bagel I didn't like it and for what FSRs cost I should have. Like one of the couple FSRs I had had something that was roughly comparable to a 99c frozer burrito. T...