Canada in Afghanistan

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
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...

And the ham steak and bread packet are gone too!!??!! What are they thinking in Ottawa? If I remember correctly the boil-in-the-bag entrees were made by Freddy-Chef, and they weren't too bad either, just not enough. In temperate weather 3 IMPs will sustain life, but just. You won't stay 230 lbs for long when you're a CME working 18 hours a day, having Stand-to's at night, and playing OPFOR. But we Canadians can't complain too much...our IMPs beat any other Army's field rations, except for maybe the French, and the food in our Mess Halls is pretty darn good too. Although I didn't like the bacon they served in the Golan Heights. None of the countries in the Middle East serve Pork so we had to import our bacon from Greece where they feed fish meal to the hogs, so the bacon tasted like fish...Yuck! The Swine!