EPA III

jubifahrer · Post by **jubifahrer** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:27 pm

Yes, south-american-style vegetable chilli sound good, thats what i want to say with my unproffessional translation " chilli without meat".

Sorry for my bad english.

bye

jubifahrer

Enchilada · Post by **Enchilada** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:20 pm

Hello Garron
never mind the rugger, plenty more games to come, lets hope neither of us get that French ref!
Jubi
That German brot is beautiful stuff, we get it in Britain now its wonderful.
Can you buy that cheese with green pepper in Germany in shops?

olli · Post by **olli** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:42 pm

no, i think the stuff is made especialy for EPA, havent seen any of the cheese in local stores..... i have bought tinned bread from local store, but its more brighter colour and not as good as the dark-brown bread from EPA....
someone is selling boxes of EPA tinned bread on ebay, but its really enxpensive i think.....
http://cgi.ebay.de/BW-Dosenbrot-Roggens ... dZViewItem

Enchilada · Post by **Enchilada** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:24 pm

Hello Olli
the brand of brot we get here is Schneiderbrot.
It is a German company you must get it too in Germany.
Its wonderful with beer too.
Maybe you should put some Bitburger in those EPA'S.

jubifahrer · Post by **jubifahrer** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:35 pm

I often take a look, if the epa food is selled in civilian super market.

The main entrees you can by in many stores, they only got a couloured paper around:

Also bread you can by in tin, but not as small as this ones in EPA.

You will get everything from the EPA, the cheese also, but not in the same pack.

bye

jubifahrer

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:07 am

I wasn't criticizing your english, I was just wondering if there was any difference? I couldn't even figure out south from Sud(a)Believe me, my German sucks.. ya'll have too many verb forms.. I guess if it was my language I could keep it apart, but I just don't understand changing the artikle.. well I do, but it seems like there should be an easier way.. I guess that's pretty American of me. Sad.. I was going to delete this, but I'll leave it.

Garron · Post by **Garron** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:37 pm

I find German a difficult language, though some of the grammer is quite similar to welsh (have the basics of that or used to havent had a lesson in 2 years)

the way some things are backward to that in english like in counting

tri ar ddeg (three and ten)
dreizehn (three and ten)

and there are mutations like in german (where words change to fit the sentence and tense)

and with that I still get confuised, so the way I look at it, your english is better then my german,

Garron

jayuk · Post by **jayuk** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:47 pm

Garron, you should have been around Castlemartin near Pembroke (in South West Wales) during the early 1990's. There used to be a bunch of German soldiers who used drive Leopard tanks around the Welsh countryside based there (from the 1960's to the mid 1990's).

Just afer the reunification of Germany there was a surplus of EPAs which the German government wanted to get rid off. The German soldiers based at Castlemartin were able to buy them at a token price of about £5 per box of four. I was lucky enough to know some of the soldiers and ended up with a cupboard full of them. I'm pretty sure half of the households in Pembroke ended up with a stash of EPAs.

What amazed me is the fact that these EPAs were actually flown in at great expense by the German army direct from Germany and then sold for £1.25 each.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:10 am

Garron, that's trizek (=tri ha dek) in the Breton celtic language spoken in Western France. In French that's treize from the Latin tredecim (tres+decem).
All that is standard Indo-European langage, even if it sound different from thirteen

So bad the EPA are so scarce, that's really one of my favourite rations.
For 1.25 quid each, I'd buy 10 crates!

I'll look for the Buss meals in the nearest Lidl supermarket, they have plenty of German products. (maybe in Aldi too?)

jubifahrer · Post by **jubifahrer** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:31 am

In the 80`s an early 90`s it was also possible to by the EPAs at German StOV, means the administration of the barracks.
The price was 5 deutsche Mark, would be 2,5 euro today or 2,60 US Dollar. What a great price

@Stef:

Aldi Süd doesnt have the Buss Meals, only see them at Lidl, Kaufland (in my hometown they have the greatest selection of them), Marktkauf, sometimes Penny.

best regards

jubifahrer