Kenyan Compo Ration

[donaldjcheek]

Don't have a lot of info on this, but it looks interesting. The Kenyan Wildlife Service invited bids for the components of a "10-man Compo Ration." Each heavy duty cardboard box (sealed with dark brown "jungle tape, whatever that is) is to contain:
-2 cans (440 g each) beans in tomato sauce
-2 cans (420 g each) garden peas
-2 kg rice
-2 kg maize meal
-1 pkg (250 g) dehydrated vegetables
(kale, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, & onions)
-1.5 kg service biscuits in tins
-1 can (500 g) margarine
-5 cans (340 g each) corned beef
-4 cans (432 g each) pineapple
-1 can (250 g) orange drink powder
-2 cans (410 ml each) milk
-1 bag (50 g) tea leaves
-1 bag (400 g) sugar
-1 bag (200 g) salt
-1 bar soap
-1 box matches (at least 40 sticks)
-1 roll toilet paper
-1 tin (100 ml) shoe polish

It looks like several items require cooking (rice, maize meal, tea), while most canned items may be eaten "as is." I don't know if the Kenyan military ration is similar, but I would suspect so. Pictures I've seen of Kenyans on deployment (UN missions) show them eating foreign rations, mostly US MREs.

[kman]

Interesting composition there, donaldjcheek. It sounds like some good food but it also sounds like it'd take a lot of preparation. When did this bid invitation go out?

[donaldjcheek]

Specifications were written in March 2007, bids had to be in by July 2007. Don't know if contract was awarded yet.

This is not a military ration, hence all the items which require cooking.

[C-rats]

I think I know what the reference to "jungle tape" is ---- I believe it's what we here in the US call Duct Tape.


.....of course, I've always called it "Duck" (quack!) tape.....


`rats