Can't think of a better topic for my first post than mentioning this site I just found recently. They're called Repro-Rations and you guessed it they make reproductions rations of the various countries involoved in WWI and WWII. I came across the site in an interesting article in a Canadian Legion magazine article that was discussing the evolution of rations in the Canadian military. Apparently they have sourced out some of the original components or mordern equivalents and scanned original ration labels or recreated them from photos. They started this up to add to the realism of WWI & WWII reactments
Legion article(article is the second one on the page)
http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/ ... p?id=print
Repro-Rations
http://reprorations.com/index.htm
Reproduction rations
Welcome to the forums, beazle00. Interesting post and thanks for the link to the repro rations site. That site looks kind of similar to another repro site I've run into in the past - I wonder if that guys just redesigned their web page? This new page looks much better.
I'll tell you, the one thing that always leaves me scratching my head when I see these repro rations is how the rations always seem to be these cans with plain labels and just one or two words describing the contents in a big font. Everyone says these rations are exact copies - I guess I'd just like to see a picture of an original ration that they're trying to reproduce. Maybe the rations really did look that plain.
I'll give you an example of why I'm confused:
This product looks genuine - one of the better ones they offer:
But this one looks very plain and the font very modern:
I could be wrong and maybe that's how the originals really looked - but I'd like to see a picture of the original myself just to be sure.
P.S. Sorry for the ginormous pictures - I'm just direct linking to their pictures and that's their original size.
I'll tell you, the one thing that always leaves me scratching my head when I see these repro rations is how the rations always seem to be these cans with plain labels and just one or two words describing the contents in a big font. Everyone says these rations are exact copies - I guess I'd just like to see a picture of an original ration that they're trying to reproduce. Maybe the rations really did look that plain.
I'll give you an example of why I'm confused:
This product looks genuine - one of the better ones they offer:
But this one looks very plain and the font very modern:
I could be wrong and maybe that's how the originals really looked - but I'd like to see a picture of the original myself just to be sure.
P.S. Sorry for the ginormous pictures - I'm just direct linking to their pictures and that's their original size.
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heh, actually, I've ordered from these people in the past, in fact i have some of there Kokos Energie bars on my desk right now (love these things)
no Idea how accurate the packaging is, but the taste is great (alhtough a little dry)
no Idea how accurate the packaging is, but the taste is great (alhtough a little dry)
"Genius has its limits, but insanity knows no bounds" - Anon
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Yes ReproRations still sells the identical items they used to sell under a different name. Ironically while some items look authentic, some aren't i.e. the Mexican Canel's gum packs in the British WWII 24-hour rations!!! LOL they are still in the Mexican wrappers, not overwrapped as Wrigley's PK as I had suggested to them! The other is the undersized "emergency rations" made from Altoids tin size repainted tins, not the proper size at all. Still, I would like to see more of these kinds of reproductions in war movies!