Operation Ration Man

[jackson]

If youcouldnt eat em, you gave em to the Korean refugees from the north

;D

 

[beltfeedPaul]

I think ration man is missing a critical point. I have eaten a few rations in my time(IRPS, IMPS, C's, MREs,US Arctics, Brit 4 and 10 man compo packs) and never once did I ever sit down and consume the contents of an entire ration! There is simply too much food! I would strip the ration down to the basics, the main meal, fruit, crackers, and coffee. The rest went into bin. Here is a good site for rations, www.mreinfo.com, check it out.

 

[sgt_mandal]

Ration man says: The salmon, beyond smelling fairly retched - I recall a family vacation where we briefly stopped at a small fishing town on the East Coast where several large fishing nets had spent their day drying in the sun - the salmon tasted quite vile as well.

As a recent journalism grad - which wretched/retch do you think he means:

wretched   "¢ adjective (wretcheder, wretchedest) 1- in a very unhappy or unfortunate state; miserable. 2 -of poor quality; very bad. 3- used to express anger or annoyance: she disliked the wretched man intensely.

retch   "¢ verb - make the sound and movement of vomiting.    "¢ noun - an instance of retching.

Perhaps DGPA could put him in for one of those oft talked about Domestic Ops medals should they come to being.

mixing the soup mix with the salmon gives it an extra little umph.....

 

[jmackenzie_15]

I can't eat fish period anyway, i just always trade it off.That or eggs alot of the time.

I can devour it as much as I want, my stomach, 90% of the time, disagrees and returns to sender.
The only fish I can really eat are like, those fishsticks you buy at a superstore or something lol weird.
Maybe its mental =p

Eggs just make me feel sick.

Theres always somebody that well eat that stuff anyway!

 

[rormson]

Anyone know where he is getting that many IMPs to eat in the first place? (Are they not the property if the Queen?)  ^-^

 

[Blakey]

Anyone know where he is getting that many IMPs to eat in the first place? (Are they not the property if the Queen?)

DND gave them to him.
http://rationman.blogspot.com/2005/06/ration-man-can-now-back-up-his-name.html

So we headed to the giant DND building across from the Hull casino.

I returned to the giant building to meet with Nicole Belanger-Drapeau, the combat relations programme director for DND.

 

[Old RCEME]

I see some guys don't LIKE fish , or I can't eat eggs. Sorry but no sympathy from me. If youv'e never tried cold corned beef hash from C-rations........ don't bitch.After a Hot coffee with about an ounce and a half of issue rum,they all went down And yes Jackson , there were North Korean refugees. Thousands of them ,and most of em damed hungry. Old men,women and kids, no able bodied men.Old Rceme

 

[Roy Harding]

Ration Man has blogged that ..."I am an international Ration Man champion. That's right friends and neighbours, when it comes to the ration eating contest I am currently the undisputed frontrunner - perhaps the folks at Guinness should be put on the line shortly."

What is the longest period of time any of you has had to eat IMPs/MREs?   I remember something about 2 or 3 months and rotten local food - was that Op Apollo in the Ghan?

We did four months of IMPs in '88 in Iran - supplemented with local pita bread (IMPs at that time didn't HAVE bread) and the occasional fresh salad.

We did six months of MREs, IMPs and T-Rats in Afghanistan in '02 - supplemented with a few BBQs and other occasional fresh meals later in the tour.

I do believe that the Somalia boys may be the record holders - I wasn't there and can't comment.

 

[Gunner98]

Ration Man checks in one last time - http://rationman.blogspot.com/  He never did answer the burning question about stools and digestion, let's ask him - see Blog Comments for "Day 1: Let freedom reign"