C-rats

[wrbones]

This one is worth it! An Australian site talking about C-RATS from WWII to to the 70's.



http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-food/c-rations.htm

[wrbones]

http://www.ku.edu/~ibetext/korean-war-l/2000/08/msg00010.html

[wrbones]

http://www.thevietnam-database.co.uk/Topics/Crations.htm


http://www.ww2rationtechnologies.com/Crations.html

[wrbones]

http://www.ehistory.com/world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2236

[wrbones]

http://www.vvsm.org/History/Together_Case/Together/pages/C-rations.htm

[criggleman]

Bones,
I ate c-rats when I first got in the corps, I liked them, pound cake beef and rocks. Good s**t.

SAEPE EXPERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATRES AETERNI
"Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever"

[wrbones]

C-Rats were changed out in the late 70's early eighties. I'm an abberration (sp). I liked the rest of it, but I didn't like that damn cake! LOL. I thought it was nasty! I usually ate it, though. Better than goin' hungry! LOL.

I do remember the Corps doin' those taste tests of the MREs. Tasted better, overall, butsomehow it just wasn't the same!Musta gone to the MREs in the early eighties. I remember them bein' around, but they were still gettin' rid of the C-RATs, too. For awhile there, sometimes ya didn't know fer sure which ones you were gonna get!

I was in 76-83

[greensideout]

The c-rats seemed to stay with you longer then MRE's.

Ate both, would trade a bag of MRE's for c-rats any day.

But then, a fine glass of wine, ham and eggs and pound cake are hard to beat.

Ya right. Well, two out of three isn't bad. LOL

[SHOOTER1]

You just cant beat the real C-Rats, the older ones with the cigs are the best, In 1987, I gave up smoking for 3 years, no problems, went camping, and as usual, had a box of C-Rats for old times sake, these were packed in 1944, me not wanting to waste anything, opened the 4pack of Pall Mall straights, lit it up, and got the biggest rush of my life, I finished the next 3 in no time, and then drove 30 miles and bought a carton of Pall Malls, and been smoking again ever since. And yes the Ham and Limas are still my favorite meal, dont care what anyone says. Bones thanks for that site, Ive bookmarked it for future viewing too.

[mrbsox]

Was kind of partial to the Chocolate Nut roll myself. Nobody wanted it, so I could trade EASY for plenty. Read the can... Was packed in Nashville, so kind of reminded me of home.

Hey criggleman,
Check out thread "C-rat Gourmets" for some receipes some of the guys remembered.

I guess C-rats are "Old Corps" :D

[NEWB]

Hey, Ham and Muthers were great. Well, as long you used tabasco sauce.

[DELTA2ALPHA]

Wow,what a topic this is !! Spent 382 days in S.E. Asia.Had a hot meal 39 times. The rest of the chow was C-rats. Did have some long range rats(Army stuff I believe) when on long ReCon,but took to much water to work out.Went back to selective C-rats for the long haul.Can't beat them for day in,day out calories.Got to agree with the remark on the 4-pak Pall Malls.Had many that were wet and dried several times.Talk about a head rush..Maybe the newer type MRE's are better than the late 80's stuff,don't know.Give me C's any day.

D2A

PS. Never went hungry,but lost over 25 pounds in that year in Nam....

[wrbones]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=795&highlight=crats

[wrbones]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4728&highlight=CRAT

[vance]

Did you folks see Ollie North in the Iraqi desert
talking about the comparison of MRE's and C-Rats? Talking about Turkey Loaf " turkey Beaks , turkey feet..." .
In Vietnam I lived on Cs for many months. As long as we had Tabasco sauce we could handle them . I personally detested Chopped Eggs and Ham , however they could be choked down if liberally smeared with tinned jam.


Semper Fi

[Sparrowhawk]

Peaches and pound cake has been replaced by jalepano cheee spread as the choice goods for trading...

They will never know what they missed from the old C-rats...LOL

[top1371]

The best engineer trick was to teach grunts how to boil water using peanut butter, bug juice and the cracker paper then using the cracker can as the stove. They didnt want to give up their peanut butter after that! It was great in the cold rain....

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[greybeard]

The dang cocoa in the c-rats we got, was so old, it didn't matter how much ya stirred it, it was mostly either floating on top of the canteen cup or globbed down in the bottom. Yep, I saw Ollie talkin abou the turkey feet, lips, beaks etc. The woman news anchor changed the subject pretty quickly.

I'd like to know tho, what genius decided a 6-4, 230 lb Marine could adequetely wipe his butt with that little shred of TP that came in the c-rats.

Speakin of a pain in the butt, I made the mistake of eating some Korean C-rats, when we were flying some Korean Marines around SW of Danang. God almighty they were HOT!!! I shi* fire for 3 days.

[NEWB]

Top1371: I found that a small ball of C-4 in a pound cake can made a real good stove to cook C-Rats with.

[lurchenstein]

greybeard I'd like to know tho, what genius decided a 6-4, 230 lb Marine could adequetely wipe his butt with that little shred of TP that came in the c-rats.

You've probably heard of 1 solution where you poke your index finger through that little square of paper. Next, wipe with the finger & squeegee off with the paper. Novel, but not for the squeemish.:o