From: Greg Booth (m38a11952@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 19:20:39 PST
We would take the pound cake mix the Coco powder to a
thick paste put a match in a n you would have a
Birthday cake.
Greg
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> Subject: Re: [MV] OT: MRE's
> From: bolton8@juno.com
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> Decade's before MRE's existed, back when field
> rations came in OD tin
> cans and the accessory pack contained four
> cigarettes and a wad of ass
> wipe, we old-timer's opened the C-rats with the P-38
> that hung from our
> dog chain. Dumped the contents into a canteen cup,
> sprinkled Louisiana
> Hot Sauce on everything, and heated it over a chunk
> of burning C-4.
> When Charlie-4 wasn't available you could open one
> of those small tins of
> peanut butter, squirt in a fair amount of insect
> repellant and stir to a
> thick goo. Then you'd light this goo with two or
> three of those 'damp
> climate matches' that came in the OD match books and
> it would burn like
> sterno for a good five minutes.
>
> Any of you old guys remember 'Grunt Pizza" ??
> You'd cut one of those
> round bread rolls in half; spoon some of the
> congealed tomato paste from
> the can of "Spaghetti & Meat Sauce" over the cut
> rolls; open the small
> can of cheese spread and lather that on top of it
> all. Next place it
> all inside the foil accessory pack, then place that
> inside the cardboard
> box the individual meal came in. Light the box
> with the OD match book
> and let the pizza oven burn itself out. Carefully
> unwrap the foil
> packet, and viola hot 'Grunt Pizza' ! Such culinary
> delights were then
> capped off with a Lucky Strike Red.
>
> My favorite was the B-2 unit 'cause it had the
> 'John Wayne Bars'. And
> then there was -- drum roll please -- 'Pound Cake',
> and a can of real
> Pineapple Bits !!! I've actually seen two guys
> with bayonets go after
> each other 'cause it was "MY pound cake".
>
> The meal that no body wanted was "Ham & Lima
> Beans". Those Ham &
> Mother's were so bad even the mess hall dogs
> wouldn't eat 'em. After
> the can of Fruit Cocktail was empty I'd afix it to
> the feed guide of my
> M-60 LMG. Allowed the link belt to make a smoother
> ninety degree turn
> and enter the feedway horizontal.
>
> MVPA 22125
> Vietnam: August 1967 -- Tet '68 -- March 1969
>
>
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Greg Booth MVPA # 24369
1952 M38A1
1969 M274A5
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