cheese and honey rations

[rationtin440]

I'm curious, are the proccessed cheese and the honey being issued in the Canadian IMP and the British 24HR ration packs or are they still off limits due to quality issues? I recall reading stuff here and elsewhere about the "cheese, possessed" and the problem that the canadians were having with the honey. A buddy of mine picked up some assorted ration parts from Canada and UK at an army navy store here and it included cheese and honey.

[biscuits brown]

All we need is powdered milk and it would be biblical

i think the cheese possessed might have gone to the great ration depot in the sky.

[Cracker]

Possessed cheese? Like with little flakes of demon in it?

Processed cheese wouldn't be that much of a problem, even honey wouldn't. The only problem with honey might be it crystallizing. That wouldn't do much to the quality though. These days cheese processing is on quite a high level, so they are able to make decent cheese spreads. Chunks or slices of cheese are not really suitable for heattrating (cheddar like cheeses might be, but they would be impractical).

Honey crystallizes over time / temp changes.. but when it's heattreated (and even if not heat treated) it has quite a long shelf life. It might not be suitable for spreading on to bicuits/ bread.. but for use in tea and other drinks it wouldn't be a problem, because it even dissolves better then "fluid" honey.

[rationtin440]

Thanks for the replies folks, all I know is that the honey was in white packets and the cheese was canned, but they both had faded numbers and letters stamped onto them. I declined to try either one

[biscuits brown]

Its probably for the best rt, especially the cheese possessed.

It may be that cheese and pop top tins dont mix.

[rationtin440]

Thanks biscuits! One other thing I noticed were "digestive biscuits" in my friend's goodies bag. We have a supermarket here called "Stop and Shop" which sells "digestive biscuits" in several flavors. Do these biscuits actually help promote digestion or anything like that?

[biscuits brown]

Not really. Its a Victorian thing. Its because they put the newly developed sodium bicarbonate in them. They used to make any old stuff up. Advertising standards not.

[Cracker]

Well, they contain lots of foodfibers.. making you shit (pardon my french).
As canned food usually lacks most of your daily amount of fibers, rations might cause constipation (when you eat it for a long time as only food source and without drinking enough) that's why they usually add stuff to help you "digest".

The Germans add roggenschrot (ryebread), the dutch the brown biscuits, the norwegians a lot of oat products etc..

[stick4543]

Thanks for the replies folks, all I know is that the honey was in white packets and the cheese was canned, but they both had faded numbers and letters stamped onto them. I declined to try either one

Honey may crystalize but it doesn't go bad. They found some in Egyptian tombs that was still edible. Honey doesn't go bad.

[Bear_Bottom]

Mmmm, powdered whole milk - up to 2.5kilo cans
http://www.malikstores.co.uk/product_de ... em_id=1162
Also 400g cans from some UK Tesco stores for £1.99

Whole freeze dried egg - 1kilo
http://www.myprotein.com/uk/products/whole_egg_powder

And
Cheese posesseded http://www.canned-cheese.com/ can be found in larger asian/oriental shops in the UK