Thursdays are Cooking or something like that.
While whats her name is trying to fix a computer I thought we should do some kind of cookin thing. Thought about my pineapple upside down beans recipe but you people don’t know nuttin about fine food. So I figured this is more ya’lls speed.
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A tray? Da fukk? 🙂
Every time I opened one of those boxes, there was no steel mess hall tray.
yeah me neither. If it keeps the support types happy though and they keep supporting, I guess it’s cool.
That looks delicious.
C-Rats weren’t that bad, some of them I really liked! Hand me my P-38 and I’m good!!
You obviously didn’t eat enough of them. Try eating them for your meals three times a day for days (sometimes weeks) end and you will change your opinion. If it wasn’t for my CP section crew (RTO’s and medic) cooking up a combo stew of various meat cans with multiple condiments, including Louisiana hot sauce, I would have lost even more weight humping a ruck in the jungle for days and weeks on end.
^this^ I did a lot of cherry pickin thru the cases. Lived on the fruit, p-nut butter, pound cake, cheese, and the crackers. And the cigarettes & chocolate cookie. Would not touch the ham & mf’ers.
We’d do the same with the meat/ meat & sliced taters and the spaghetti w mystery meat balls. Put enough Tabasco and chase it with a chilled (fire ext) 3.2 near beer it was semi palatable. Good times! /s/
I agree.
What’s next Dave, your recipe for ham and mf’ers attractively displayed on an M-60 ammo can with a hearty canteen cup of C-rat instant coffee?
Some a dez yung folkz dont no nutting about real cooken
Don’t forget being heated by a small chunk of C-4
Yeah, that dude is a prolly a REMF, and that pic is way back in likely the 1950’s or early 60’s.
Good eye rgr769. Looks like maybe motor pool, motor Sgt quarters/hideout. Grease/oil stained cement floor, jeep in background and metal framed window to his right rear. Wooden Co-Cola box v a flat case under cot. Boots bloused with a blousing rubber early ’60s(?). Don’t appear to be jump boots/Corcorans.
If you look closely on a large screen you can tell they are the old issue boots that had the cap toe like Corcorans. I was issued a pair in ROTC in the early 60’s They still had some fine cattle hair on the leather tungs; that is partly how I knew they were definitely issue and not commercial. They were the predecessor to that stupid McNamara boot, without the toe cap. I still had them at Ranger School, but wore them out in the mountain phase and had to throw them away. You are correct that the guy in the photo is using the venerable elastic blousing bands.
We called that the Army’s version of “Green Eggs and Ham”. At least that what it looked like to me.
Ah… The Good Ole’ Days!
Pickled Herring anyone?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/32oz-Vita-Herring-in-Wine-Sauce/145989732
Yum! For Christmas many years ago I made 2 gallons from scratch. One gallon in wine sauce and one in cream sauce. Must be my Nordic blood.
Why does this remind me of someone…
We were issued a whole case of C-rats for each man before we went out to the bush and on each resupply. Many of us threw away the Ham and Mf’ers because you couldn’t trade them to anyone. The only time I ate them was at Ranger School, when we were starving and only issued one C-rat meal per day in the field.
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C’mon, DH – no recipie for “Herring Under a Fur Coat”? (smile)
And no, everyone, I’m not making a bad joke – that’s a real food. It’s also called shuba.
I liked it better as a joke: fish under fur.
Yum, the Soviet will have some waiting when you come to the Compound.
Herring
Beets
Onions
Mayonnaise
I try not to eat things that are purple.
I thought that might be our own IDC SARC’s favorite after dinner snack.
First pic was the Clinton server.
Thanks for keeping the trend going.
Hope she has good luck with her computer!
Sometimes if you smack the ol’ computer on the side with your hand it works wonders.
Yep. You know how you sometimes had to slap the TV on the side to make it work sometime?
There’s people I run into I’d like to do the same to.
TVs back then did not have remotes.
Most had a vise grip wrench clamped on the metal post where the broken plastic dial fell off.
When you got up to turn the channel with the wrench it would zip through them too fast.
Kids have it too good nowadays.
Unplug it, wait two minutes and plug back in. I’ve seen that work more than once, including on million dollar medical equipment.
We refer to that as “recycling the power”. It briefs better.
Step one in troubleshooting electronics- recognize you have a problem. In some units with a windows OS this may not be as easy as one may think.
Step two- recycle the power / reboot. This will cure about 90% of electronics’s woes.
If she could get online to read this advice that would be irony defined. 😉
Nice work stepping up to the plate and filling in.
By the time I enlisted, they had gotten rid of the VN era ham and Lima beans entree and the cigarettes. My favorite was the potatoes with beef slices; worst one was the hams and eggs, which was very gross…
LMAO!!! I loved the ham and eggs…I know, Im weird.
HATED F@#KING HATED the fruit cake…when the hell did the can that stuff, 1898?
Beans and Mo Fo’s weren’t at the top of the list either, but way before fruit cake.
I used to mix the ham and eggs with the pimento cheese and sprinkle in some tabasco, it wasn’t half bad heated up. Did the same thing with the tuna. By the late 70’s there were no ham and MF’s, they had been replaced by pork and beans with little hot dogs (beans n wienies).
Beans and baby-dicks
Thanks Guys! I remember hearing some of the older treadheads calling the beans and wienies; “Beans and MoFo’s” this would have been in 78. My favorite after the Ham and Eggs would have been the pork slices…gotta love all that congealed grease and fat…yumm!
Whoever came up with MRE’s should be keelhauled under a moving tank. Those things were abominations…
Hot wets!
Canteen cup and one scoop. 😂😂😂
I haven’t heard that term in years. Brings back memories!
Tried a new restaurant today. Does that count as cooking? I brought home some of it and heated it up later in the microwave.
Oh. And the new restaurant was “Asian fusion,” whatever that is. It was excellent, and had been recommended by a friend.
A Chinese and German restaurant. An hour after you eat there, you’re hungry for power.
Thank you, thank you very much; I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and don’t forget to tip the waitress.
Now, that IS funny. Will definitely share it with the friend who recommended the restaurant.
Dead computer tip…after extracting what you can from the hard drive toss it in the wood stove or melt it with a welding torch.
If someone gets their grubby hands on those recipies there could be trouble.
Go all Hillary and run BleachBit software first. It’s like nuking the site from orbit.
Oh yah! A “John Wayne” bar! I’ll swap you for it.
Still have my p-38 from about 1979. Keep it on 550 cord and in my silver ware drawer; still use it, too!
Think you all had it rough? Preflight at 0800, so hit the chow hall at 0700 and…
Start with choice of whole wheat or white toast, muffins, donuts, move on to sausage, bacon, minced beef or SOS, eggs to order (garbage omelet, please) fresh fruit, coffee, tea, milk, or juice. Have a seat at a table, chow down with silverware. Clean-up was putting your tray on the conveyor belt as you left.
Yeah, pretty rough.
Sounds like Camp Tien Sha.
Had a meal ticket so always stopped in when visiting Da Nang for materiel y material.
Navy food is superb.
Football….not so much.
The best chow I ever ate in military mess halls were Navy and USMC.