LRP - Sweet & Sour Pork - 1998 DoP
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:11 am
Here's a gem that isn't produced anymore - Sweet & Sour Pork Long Range Patrol Ration from 1998. First off, this is no cheap entree, it has complex flavors and is sweet.. literally! With the pineapple accompanying the pork & rice, it gives such a pleasant & easy to eat sortof way about it. It's like instant Chinese food - or better yet, some kinda Hawaiian dish.
Why this entree was discontinued is beyond me, probably wasn't cheap to produce but then again, maybe the troops simply got tired of it.
Along with the main dish is a simple pairing of peanut butter & crackers and a Bran Cereal Bar.
The bran bar is a condensed block with dried milk & bran compressed into a morsel of goodness.
In the following set of photos I will show it broken down in a dish with my accessory packet creamer added to it with water. It was like having a portable bowl of cereal.
Now I took this photo set back in February 2014, but I can tell you I clearly remember how good that bar was broken up W/ the coffee creamer & 2 oz of water added.. it was slightly sweet, crunchy, creamy, & had a pleasingly mild overall flavor that made it easy to eat.
The Peanut Butter & crackers were perfectly normal, nothing special, nor anything off about them for being over 15 years old.
The Sweet & Sour Pork was fantastic! I must say, I have one left out of a 2005 McW, and that one is being saved for a special occasion!
The only thing that was no longer "good" was the Taster's Choice Coffee. A pinhole got through the paper sachet & it was just getting the signs of dry mold.. was probably still good up until I would assume maybe 2011 because this mold formulation was obviously of somewhat recent.
This is a fair presentation & example of a ration no longer produced, and it shows (as per usual) how well these puppies hold up.
Questions? Comments? Let me know, folks!
-Steve
Why this entree was discontinued is beyond me, probably wasn't cheap to produce but then again, maybe the troops simply got tired of it.
Along with the main dish is a simple pairing of peanut butter & crackers and a Bran Cereal Bar.
The bran bar is a condensed block with dried milk & bran compressed into a morsel of goodness.
In the following set of photos I will show it broken down in a dish with my accessory packet creamer added to it with water. It was like having a portable bowl of cereal.
Now I took this photo set back in February 2014, but I can tell you I clearly remember how good that bar was broken up W/ the coffee creamer & 2 oz of water added.. it was slightly sweet, crunchy, creamy, & had a pleasingly mild overall flavor that made it easy to eat.
The Peanut Butter & crackers were perfectly normal, nothing special, nor anything off about them for being over 15 years old.
The Sweet & Sour Pork was fantastic! I must say, I have one left out of a 2005 McW, and that one is being saved for a special occasion!
The only thing that was no longer "good" was the Taster's Choice Coffee. A pinhole got through the paper sachet & it was just getting the signs of dry mold.. was probably still good up until I would assume maybe 2011 because this mold formulation was obviously of somewhat recent.
This is a fair presentation & example of a ration no longer produced, and it shows (as per usual) how well these puppies hold up.
Questions? Comments? Let me know, folks!
-Steve
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