Great pics, thank you for sharing them
Name_not_found wrote:
This ration was in amazing shape for 19 years old,i think its in good shape for being new even, this was stored well before i got it.
I had a
19 years old EPa entree before - don´t worry
Cold war period EPa´s were designed to be stored up to 20 years - serious! The Bundeswehr always had 600.000 EPa´s "in stock". Every 10 years they rotated the "old" EPa´s out and store new one´s in. Once a week you had an "EPa day" in the installation where the "old" EPAs were served as lunch to the troops.
I´m too curious if do you do a review how do you like it.
The cold war EPa containers were different from the curret. They had an sqaure shape and were very solid, you had to cut them open. No oxigen could move (diffuse) inside and spoil the food.
Three different "Gulasch" containers from 1984, 1999 and 2003
Name_not_found wrote:
That said I dont think the box would hold up to much compared to an MRE bag.
A MRE bag is a single meal (1.200kcal, 700gr), an EPa is a 24hrs ration with breakfast, lunch and dinner = ~3.300kcal by a weight of 1,6kg
If do you compare three MREs (3.600kcal) to one EPa (3.300kcal) -you are right. If do you have to carry one EPa (1,6kg) or three MRE bags (2,1kg) - you will miss the EPa
The chocolate
is a dark chocolate. The biggest advantage is it does not melt into great heat like in a dessert
and also prevent from the need to go tot the bathroom
