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norge wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 4:09 am

just love lrps nice pictures Steve, you made me drool

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

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.

steve1989 wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 4:55 am

norge wrote: ↑

Thu May 28, 2020 4:09 am

just love lrps nice pictures Steve, you made me drool

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.

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.