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Part 3: As a reminder, this UK 24hr ORP was sent to me as part of a trade by a great ration reviewer from Scotland who proudly served his country in Iraq! You can see him on YouTube as SCOTSMAN 1984. He sent me the actual ration itself as well as some older UK ration items and also a bunch of local Scottish food from around his area. In return I sent him a couple Canadian IMP's, one of which he has already reviewed on his channel on YouTube.

Today I'm moving onto the dinner portion of this UK 24hr ORP. I decided to have the soup and tuna as mains, along with the tin of cashews, fruit puree, peanut butter and raspberry drink mix. I didn't have any biscuits left so I decided to use some Purity Cream Crisps. Purity is a brand that only operates here in Newfoundland, they make various cookies, biscuits, crackers and small cakes called "Jam-Jams". They also make various sweets, flavoured syrup, tinned salt codfish and both hard-tack and sweet-tack. The Cream Crisps below are very similar to Jacobs Cream Crackers, but not quite as hard, and a little bit more flaky.

I also use the term Dinner to mean noon-time meal. Here in Newfoundland, even though we're part of Canada, most people still use the terms Dinner and Supper as noon and evening meal, not Lunch and Dinner. This comes from our VERY long historical connection to Britain and it's Empire.

First main entree for dinner is the Carrot and Coriander soup.... it looks like and has the same consistency as a Butternut Squash soup. It was very tasty but at the same time a little bit too rich for my liking. Probably because they use real butter and heavy cream to make it. There were also potatoes in the soup; just as much as the carrots actually, and there was very little coriander flavour. It was drowned out by the cream and butter.

For the main side-dish we have Tuna Puttanesca, which is basically tuna with tomatoes, capers and green olives. I'm not a huge fan of tuna but I was pleasantly surprised by how delicious it was! Nothing was overpowering, you had nice complementary flavours of the tuna, capers and tomato all working together.
Also have the cashews here and I put the peanut butter on the cream crackers. The cashews were as good as cashews always are, but the peanut butter was juuuuust a little bit too runny. Still tasted great though. Found it odd for an American peanut butter to be so runny, even after a great deal of kneading.

I decided to jazz things up and put cashews on the peanut butter.... I'm fancy like that. Also I did this because I thought it would help keep the peanut butter from running too much as I ate the crackers.

Next we have what I would have to say is THE BEST ration beverage mix I've had thus far. It smelled just like real raspberries when I opened the package and it tasted like a mouthful of real raspberries you had just picked when you drink it. The Germans know what they're doing apparently. Haha. I really wish I had a whole case of these Raspberry drink mixes.

Lastly, we have the final bits of the meal. There was an apple-kiwi-passionfruit puree which was just like baby food.... and had no real discernable single taste. Not overly great. The Sweet Menthol gum on the other hand was a good way to end off things.

Only one more meal to go and then this ORP is officially finished.

PS: Got 2 different Russian 24hr rations on the way from ebay as we speak, and a Menu #1 French RCIR..... I can't wait!

Thanks for stopping by, have a good one!

First off....Strongbow glass, nnnniiccceee...

Second, great review. Loved it. Cant wait to see supper.

At the liquor stores here lately they give you one of those glasses for free if you buy an 8-pack of the pint cans of either original Strongbow or the multi-flavour pack. They are great glasses, not too tall and hold a deceptively large amount of liquid.

Thanks, this has been a great ration, certainly makes up for how terrible my last IMP was..... ugghhhh

The soup looked interesting and I would probably have liked it. The tuna would have been a no go on my end, double as much with the olives. You came up with the same conclusion I did on the fruit puree.....baby food. I will still say I really like the ORP. The US should really think more into this type of ration.

The soup tasted good, just after a while it got to be too much. I usually hate olives, and thankfully there was only one piece in the entire punch. Haha
The ORP'S are the best I've had so far, although I think the RCIR I have coming soon will take the #1 spot.