Reviews of rations from abroad - British ration packs, EPA, IMP, RCIR, etc.
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by housil » Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:11 pm
We have been late today, so I deceided for a ration.
But which?!
I took a:

The 7 years old Ritz w/ peanuts butter crackes had an "unusual" smell. Not rancid - but unusual. They also felt "greasy". I eat one, they seemed soaked from the oil of the peanuts butter between. I didn´t finished them...
The entree was very delicious. I didn´t used the pepper sauce that came with it.
Why there are two jam´s with the supper?! Aren´t they a breakfast item? On what do they eat them? There is no bread nor ordenary crackers with it?
The apple sauce contains more "pieces", not totaly mashed as the MRE apple sauce.
I love the tooth pick

and the Canadian IMP´s. They are a nice variety
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by norge » Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:19 pm
the canadian army use to add extra bread with the
imp ration when in the field.
at least they did when they was here in norway.
cheers from norge
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by DangerousDave » Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:27 pm
Too much veggies. The dog don't like it. However, they are excellent. Canned version with no meat available, if you have the $
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by housil » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:40 am
norge wrote:the canadian army use to add extra bread with the
imp ration when in the field.
at least they did when they was here in norway.
cheers from norge
I had this bread:
that came with an IMP before
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by kman » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:06 pm
Good pics, Housil - thanks for posting them. I've always wondered what those cabbage rolls looked like but I not very interested in actually eating them (my first reaction is - yuck!). But I'm glad you liked them.
As for those Ritz crackers, I'm not surprised they didn't hold up. It seems like those commercially-available ration parts don't hold up as long as the military-produced ones.
Speaking of old IMPs, I just ate a Salisbury Steak IMP from 1996 for dinner last night - I'll put up a review soon.
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by SAR1 » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:54 pm
how was the cappucino?
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by housil » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:20 am
SAR1 wrote:how was the cappucino?
"Unspectacular..."
I had it 2 days ago at nightshift.
Yesterday night I tried:
but I had a French Vanilla

Veeeeeeeeery delicious and Army issued here in Germany, but not available in a store

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by housil » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:29 am
kman wrote:
I've always wondered what those cabbage rolls looked like but I not very interested in actually eating them (my first reaction is - yuck!). But I'm glad you liked them.
I guess the pic seems worse that it realy was.
Actually it was a sheet of cabbage with a ground meet/rice stuffing, brine and some veg (tomatoe).
They had some extra pepper sauce with it - but I don´t like it this hot.

So I didn´t used it.
I like the IMPs - they have a tooth pic wit it
See civilian counterpart of:

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by Bypah » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:52 am
This one looks better and appetizing than the IMP ones....lol

yummmmm....
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by kman » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:28 pm
Well cool...I might actually try one of those then - I thought it was just cabbage rolled up with some kind of nasty sauce (purely my imagination at work). Now that I see it has military mystery-meat in it, I might have to try them!