being AF, i only had C rats in basic. the mre's were just coming out. never ate one as a GI. the C's were hit or miss. most seemed to be spam-like and had dates from the late 50's on and this was 81. in the 70's my brother was in ANG and he got a schit ton of C's and gave them to my dad for emergency grub. we took a bunch on a fishing trip to quebec. one particular trip back into the bush to a small lake we only took those things and flour, oil, etc for frying fish, figuring we were going to clean up like we always had there. we didn't catch crap and ate those friggen things for several days.
