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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by norge » Thu May 28, 2020 4:09 am

just love lrps :D :D nice pictures Steve, you made me drool :lol:

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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by steve1989 » Thu May 28, 2020 4:55 am

norge wrote:
Thu May 28, 2020 4:09 am
just love lrps :D :D nice pictures Steve, you made me drool :lol:
Thanks Ken, oh and love the stay behind ration beautiful find!

Me too, especially those 98s.

I got the sopacko 68s from a guy here off the forums for $1000 plus ship and the other from a guy off ebay who was out of Ohio for like $1500. Maybe it was $1300, I forget. Cortex helped me get that one. Hey cortex your box is growing like a ration peetree dish.

That is what it takes though. Two 68 or 69 cases sold back in 2014 on ebay for $1,250 each case plus shipping.
The prices never really did change for some rations, others more than doubled or tripled. I remember as a kid RCWs going for a lot. I specifically remember in 2003, my parent's ebay account had 69 feedback. Hehe
I was on there surfing around and seeing them sell for $25-$40 each. That was a lot to me back then. Used to lurk here pre-forum days.

I remember your various photos before photobucket lost them all on here. Then somewhere I've seen a picture of you eating an RCW in full arctic getup... inside of an igloo!


Then there was MREheater72 - between you testing old rations and the RCW photo sets on the tray.. and Hagen's vast collection and knowledge. You dudes helped fuel the fire. Got some floppy disks around here with photo sets of my first 1998 LRP, a Chicken Stew. Off the old Mavica. Pretty sure those are from 2011.


Here is a Chicken ala king - those old Skittles have real fruit juice in them unlike the modern kind.
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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by norge » Thu May 28, 2020 5:50 am

keep the photos coming :D just love the 1998 lrps, just like rcw
yeah damn photobucket...lost 100eds of ration phots :(

but i found a few on my wifes old camera but not al.
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cheers ken.

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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by SentientTootsieRoll » Thu May 28, 2020 8:56 pm

I was about to make a new thread but this thread is the perfect place to share this. I went to a surplus store today during my lunch break and came back with a bunch of various RCW items and two 1997 Canadian Light Meal Packet (LMC) Menu no. 3, Cheddar Cheese.

I never though I'd find these items, at a local surplus store of all places! I haven't done a review in a long time, but I will surely do one of the LMC and some of the RCW items for absolute sure! Oh, and all this cost me an incredible sum of $14. Talk about a price hard to argue with.

EDIT: Alright, I reviewed the LMC ration. I couldn't wait. viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11183
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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by Amelieee1 » Fri May 29, 2020 3:55 pm

SentientTootsieRoll wrote:
Thu May 28, 2020 8:56 pm
I was about to make a new thread but this thread is the perfect place to share this. I went to a surplus store today during my lunch break and came back with a bunch of various RCW items and two 1997 Canadian Light Meal Packet (LMC) Menu no. 3, Cheddar Cheese.

I never though I'd find these items, at a local surplus store of all places! I haven't done a review in a long time, but I will surely do one of the LMC and some of the RCW items for absolute sure! Oh, and all this cost me an incredible sum of $14. Talk about a price hard to argue with.

EDIT: Alright, I reviewed the LMC ration. I couldn't wait. viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11183

Woah! a fruit soup? Nice!
Check out my ORP menu spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/2NqUFRX | I have: | British 24HR Box Rations | French RCIRs | Type I EPA |Danish Rations

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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by SentientTootsieRoll » Fri May 29, 2020 11:35 pm

Yeah, I was pretty shocked. The surplus store had a few boxes stacked on top of each other and I'd never bothered to sort through them out of fear of making a big mess. This time I was feeling adventurous and decided I was going to dig through it and once I saw all of these white packaged items, I began to feel like a kid in a candy store. It was almost like a dream of mine came true. I will surely dig through there again next time. There's no telling how long these items had been there before I happened across them.

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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by cavguy » Sat May 30, 2020 11:56 am

SentientTootsieRoll wrote:
Fri May 29, 2020 11:35 pm
Yeah, I was pretty shocked. The surplus store had a few boxes stacked on top of each other and I'd never bothered to sort through them out of fear of making a big mess. This time I was feeling adventurous and decided I was going to dig through it and once I saw all of these white packaged items, I began to feel like a kid in a candy store. It was almost like a dream of mine came true. I will surely dig through there again next time. There's no telling how long these items had been there before I happened across them.
Was that store in Lakewood/Tacoma area? I used to frequent a store outside JBLM when I lived there.

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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by Cortexmelon » Sat May 30, 2020 9:42 pm

steve1989 wrote:
Thu May 28, 2020 4:55 am
norge wrote:
Thu May 28, 2020 4:09 am
just love lrps :D :D nice pictures Steve, you made me drool :lol:
Thanks Ken, oh and love the stay behind ration beautiful find!

Me too, especially those 98s.

I got the sopacko 68s from a guy here off the forums for $1000 plus ship and the other from a guy off ebay who was out of Ohio for like $1500. Maybe it was $1300, I forget. Cortex helped me get that one. Hey cortex your box is growing like a ration peetree dish.

That is what it takes though. Two 68 or 69 cases sold back in 2014 on ebay for $1,250 each case plus shipping.
The prices never really did change for some rations, others more than doubled or tripled. I remember as a kid RCWs going for a lot. I specifically remember in 2003, my parent's ebay account had 69 feedback. Hehe
I was on there surfing around and seeing them sell for $25-$40 each. That was a lot to me back then. Used to lurk here pre-forum days.

I remember your various photos before photobucket lost them all on here. Then somewhere I've seen a picture of you eating an RCW in full arctic getup... inside of an igloo!


Then there was MREheater72 - between you testing old rations and the RCW photo sets on the tray.. and Hagen's vast collection and knowledge. You dudes helped fuel the fire. Got some floppy disks around here with photo sets of my first 1998 LRP, a Chicken Stew. Off the old Mavica. Pretty sure those are from 2011.


Here is a Chicken ala king - those old Skittles have real fruit juice in them unlike the modern kind.
Thats a beautiful menu right there Steve, thoses 98s are surely one of the top quality US rations I think you can get for sure, no doubt about it!

Thats such a fun story about those early LRP's as well haha. Its unfortunate that it didnt go as planned, but we still got it to happen!

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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by hwystitch » Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:39 pm

first post here. I acquired 2 cases of dated 2000 mres. one case is unopened... the other has been opened.
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Re: Vintage mre,rcw,lrrp items tread

Post by housil » Mon Jun 08, 2020 3:44 am

hwystitch wrote:
Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:39 pm
first post here. I acquired 2 cases of dated 2000 mres. one case is unopened... the other has been opened.
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