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I first encountered a grit in jump school, Ft. Benning, Ga.. 1966. Saw some Okra but was not tempted.



mike r

In 1971 Central Highlands , the best part of C's was mixing the Pound Cake with the peaches.

Yep - on a main patrol we had to literally 'eat our way outta the room'... One one patrol I ate an entire case of canned pineapple that was stored in the after torp room.. I still love it..

I learned to like greens. all I can find now are seasoned.

Bingo and AMEN!

Napoleon said, "An army travails on it's belly".

So you've never had stewed tomatoes and okra over grits I take it? Lol

Yeah, it's a delicacy down here. I remember all the northern boys faces the first time they'd try grits and okra at Benning. Stewed okra, picked okra, friend okra ... we ate a lot of okra.

I think the mess halls used to get a lot of produce the public wasn't eating .... baby heads was another one. I really developed a taste for baby heads with butter and Worcestershire ... still love'm to this day.








































You know .... baby heads.

Always wondered where they come up with so many Lima beans

ol me to .......ives aid it on here many time ..c rats ...it was like 81 or so ..i got beef and boulders...so i was told a beef stew with the round white taters ... the cow an taters was in the can 4 years b4 i was born... eek...weird as hellll

This dude Swofford ( a cool little jarhead) and I busted ice on "the Worm Pit" (RIP) one morning in a tie. We got to "volunteer". We volunteered for mess dumpster duty where the dudes would hand you their trays and you would scrape the scraps into the dumpster and stack the trays. We gorged ourselves on breakfast leftovers!

Did you ever put one of the shoe polish size cans of peanut butter inti a burning Yukon stove so that it would blow up and out the stove pipe, taking the soot out with it? Nothing like getting splattered with molten peanut butter.

Can't say I ever put anything "inside" of a Yuk Yuk ... lots of things on top; the few times we used Yuk Yuks. Winter Warfare School up in Alaska and then once or twice during winter warfare training deep up in the Italian alps.

We would use empty coffee cans to cook rabbit stew on top of the Yuk Yuks with melted snow and CRats salt.

When I was stationed in England in the late 1970s, every quarter they served C Rats to us in the chow hall to rotate the stock.

I still have a John Wayne (can opener) from back then. Loved the three cigarettes in each package. They were so dry one pull burned them almost to the end and you had a nicotine buzz for a while.

We thought the dark brown MREs were inspired by God…

Through the years, the MRE meals have gotten better. We keep a few cases around for hunting and to give to the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, who still seem to devour them with glee.

I spent many a freezing morning in a blind eating a MRE for breakfast using the chemical heater waiting for a moose or deer or ‘bou to come by.

^^^^^ I don't know when MRE's came out (early to mid 80's?) We had LRRP's along with C-rats , late 70's. The long range patrol packet had a main meal , dried, that one would add water to and heat up. I never heated up my chow , but as a 60 gunner, I really liked not having to carry around 5 days worth of cans in my ruck! ( We usually got a re-supply after that....)

The first MREs came out in 1981.

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/ready-to-eat-30-years-of-the-mre/

I’m all about mountain house (the company that made LRRPs) or backcountry meals for backpacking. Freeze dried meals have gotten much better over the years.

MRE’s have come a long ways when I joined to the day I retired. I remember the ham slice, 5 fingers of death (hot dogs) they were like Vienna sausages.the lb cake in those old mre’s were the best. The new ones as of 2019 when I ate them last had pizza, fajitas etc
https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/mre-menus-2019/

During and after the invasion of Iraq 2003. Our rations were case of mre’s and case 6 pack or 8 pack of water (big bottles) per soldier, I don’t know what the thinking was on it. We had so many mre’s we had them stacked to the roof in a room we had had to be 200 cases 🤪.

Calls what you want but the west coast boy never heard of grits until I got to ft sill Oklahoma. Ph uck I thought it was cream of wheat. Drill sergeant private you out sugar on your grits?? Me what are grits? Drill sergeant walks off shaking his head. To this day I don’t ph uck with grits they are disgusting. I give a ph uck how people say to eat them. Far as okra pretty sure Army chit canned them back in 59 lol. Because I never seen them served in a army chow hall. Now korea they do serve kimchi which is pretty much okra lol..

The UGR’s when went go to the field are a gift from god! Steaks, fried chicken etc..

UGRs?