RCIR Breakfast Review

[Name_not_found]

This is what i have seen locally in the fancy supermarket

Digestive Biscuit

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They are delicious, any of you fellas who like the chocolate covered cookies from back in the day rations should try them

[rationtin440]

Those biscuits are awesome! They are sold at a store called Ocean State Job Lot here in western Massachusetts. The chocolate covered ones are much better than the regular ones which take some getting used to but are still good.

[Apocalypse]

Where I am (Western Canada), digestive biscuits/cookies are marketed as easy to digest for babies. Usually a happy fat baby on the label.

[alcockell]

This is what i have seen locally in the fancy supermarket

biscuit.jpg

They are delicious, any of you fellas who like the chocolate covered cookies from back in the day rations should try them

Dark choc Homewheats are MUCH better...

[Rationista]

This is what i have seen locally in the fancy supermarket

biscuit.jpg

They are delicious, any of you fellas who like the chocolate covered cookies from back in the day rations should try them

Yes...these are the real deal....even look like McVities....

And Alcockell is bang on....the plain chocolate homewheats are the best! They can be harder to find tho.

[rationtin440]

Back to Rationista's first posting in this discussion; if I were having that for a breakfast I would mix the coffee and cocoa into one drink for a mocha. I'm not sure if that is a common way to drink it in France but I really enjoy coffee and cocoa mixed with boiling water.

[Norton]

Back to Rationista's first posting in this discussion; if I were having that for a breakfast I would mix the coffee and cocoa into one drink for a mocha. I'm not sure if that is a common way to drink it in France but I really enjoy coffee and cocoa mixed with boiling water.

First This meal looks OK except for I would pass on the mint tea and I like creamer with instant coffee.
I did eat a Euro Continental meal for the first time in Italy circa 1980's and wondered where the scrambled eggs and meat was.
Some Canadians there also wondered the same thing out loud. They being North Americans were looking for the stainless steel tray of eggs, Pork products and Toast.

I had a German Exchange Student stay with our family a few years back and My Mexican wife made him huge Mexican breakfasts of eggs Choriso (Mexican Sausage) and tortillas nearly every day.
Latter his father came to our house, he went to the market and bought supplies.
Then he prepared a German style breakfast as pictured by Housil before a all day outing. It very good.

(This is, how a real continental breakfast looks ever morning on our table)

In fact I take a similar light breakfast to my construction job like that everyday
A bag with hard boiled egg, some cheddar cheese and a tortilla.

Would like to add
The few times I ate MCI for breakfast. (I was 18) I mixed the instant coffee and coco powder, ate the pound cake and chocolate disk.
If I did not draw a ration with Coco I would drink the Orange or Grape drink mix
Would not eat the main can unless it was the Ham and Eggs Chopped. I drank the Coco powder and coffee cold.
Some of the older brown MREs main entrees were 'slightly' easier to stomach for breakfast.
Also you did not have to open a can and spill Ham or Beef juice all over your hands in dark

[rationtin440]

Back in the day when I'd draw any MCI with the cocoa powder, I found that the only way I could ever get it to mix anywhere near properly was to add water a bit at a time, mix it with coffee and creamer from whatever MCI stuff we had on the ambulance track, and stir it into a paste-like consistency. Of course when we had hot water it was never an issue. I'd still love to try that RCIR breakfast sometime though.

[dirtbag]

I was Homeported out of Napoli, Italia, for 2 years back in the early 70's...

Italian Continental breakfast was Rolls and coffee.

Blech!

[SierraTangoDelta]

Glad you got to come to Georgia, Housil! I wanted to pipe in, grits are amazing! With sugar, salt, pepper, a bit of grape jelly and a side of sausage, that's what I enjoy, here in my slice of the United States of Alabama.