Canada in Afghanistan

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Vets Dottir 2nd
Is THIS some of what you soldiering ones all eat? Oh yum ... ??? I don't envy you deployed folks some of your rations there. (I like that story about the "comments" card inserted with the rations ... sounds like they are used a lot ...

LMAO!!!!! And Canucks have rations some other armies would KILL for, particularly Americans... I don't know if theirs have improved in recent years, but their MREs used to be referred to as "Mainly Rat Entrails"...

Me, I'm just pissed they chucked the ham omelet; it was a culinary work-of-art... I used to trade just about any other meal I was carrying for ham omelets, while the lads would look at me with a mixture of awe and horror on their faces. It was a character-building exercise to scarf the things cold at oh-dark-thirty, flavoured with salt, pepper and ketchup! The young-uns with spirit learned to motivate THEIR charges accordingly, bless 'em all!

When the CF started cutting over to what they thought of as 'gourmet' meals, the charm went out of field cookery. It was "where the hell is my Tabasco sauce?!"

Ah, the good ol' days...