2010 Italian Module B Red (part 4) Supper
- This box is heavier than the breakfast box but the same size, also lighter and smaller than the lunch box
- A look inside
- Rice Salad, Beef Medallions in Gelatin, Chocolate Energy Bar, Crackers, Coffee, Sugar and Plastic cutlery
- Main Entrees
- I will start with the rice salad
- It is watery, smells of cooked white rice
- Carrots Peas Meat of some kind, and black olives
- I don't like black olives, and their flavor is pretty strong in this dish, the rice cant compete. Other than that its a little bland, rice is soft but not mush carrots and peas have some textures and flavor but all i can taste is the black olives so not a winner in my book
A couple questions occured to me (one is more an observation): Do you know if the Italians have an equivalent to the British 10-man Ration system or the U.S. Unitized Group Ration/Tray Packs? I have not seen any references to either system being adopted by Italy in the Italian Rations page here , but I'm just curious. The observation I made is that the Italian Rations don't appear to contain any "diet" or "sugar-free" items like what is occasionally found in U.S. MREs. Since this seems to me to be limited to American MREs, perhaps the designers of other countries' rations got hit with a heavy dose of common sense, and realized that troops eating rations would likely be engaged in strenuous/heavily physical activity, so any sugar and carbs would not likely stay in their bodies long enough to cause any issues. I'm sure we all recall the revelation a couple years back that U.S. troops were losing weight even while consuming 3 complete MREs per day. 