Posted on Nov 9, 2014
Whats the weirdest thing you ate while in the military?
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Early vintage MREs with the hockey puck pork patty. I have traveled a lot and eaten food in various countries, but never have experienced anything quite like that pork patty.
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SFC Steven Wheeler
The pork patties and beef patties were freeze dried. You needed to reconstitute in water in the first version of MREs! These MREs also did not have the heaters. It was difficult to heat those plastic baggies without melting them. I do not remember those having hot sauce either. :( Some times we wished we still had the C rations (it was easier to open the cardboard box than those dark brown heavy plastic bags. I think that the light colored brown MRE bags were easier to open when they came out).
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SMSgt Patrick Sampson
the old C rate you could heat the cans in your cup with the water, eat the can stuff and use the water for coffee.
MREs ,when we heated the packets in the water and made it into coffee- we all got sick. Should have tread the small print "causion! this packet has an anti rat deterrent coating, DO NOT drink the water it is heated in". or something like that
MREs ,when we heated the packets in the water and made it into coffee- we all got sick. Should have tread the small print "causion! this packet has an anti rat deterrent coating, DO NOT drink the water it is heated in". or something like that
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Camel Mountain oysters, tongue, heart
Ox tail soup
Steak tartare
Camel Mountain oysters, tongue, heart
Ox tail soup
Steak tartare
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Dog, Kimchi and monkey in Korea, Chocolate covered ants and grasshoppers,can't remember where that was. Oh, and sugar coated squid on a Popsicle stick. But the best was the Hobo stew we created with the C-rats in the field cooking in a steel pot. You old timers know what that is!
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The weirdest experience was in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield. I was the one who got to pick the live goat that would be sacrificed in our honor and serve as the main course for our meal while visiting with the local Saudi Officials. Being that I selected the goat, it was my distinct "honor" to eat the eyeball.
What really chaps my ass is being told that I "had" to accept anything during the meal or I would insult our Arab comrades. Ohhhhh so many years later I learned that I could have said no humbly without causing an International incident :/
What really chaps my ass is being told that I "had" to accept anything during the meal or I would insult our Arab comrades. Ohhhhh so many years later I learned that I could have said no humbly without causing an International incident :/
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MSgt Michael Durkee
Like hell, I've always been a notoriously picky eater to begin with...to be hassled about "eat it and pretend you like it no matter what" was a very stressful experience.
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CMSgt (Join to see)
Oh d@mn. I may have had to go with, "Quick!! Look at the soles of my shoes!" As I was running toward the door. Lol
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I haven't eaten anything weird. I remember this one time while I was working in the produce department at Walmart, a lady walked up to the grapes and asked me if the grapes were any good. I grabbed a bag, pulled a grape out, ate it and told her the grapes were pretty good. She looked at me in shock and asked, "You're going to eat those without washing them?" I said, "Ma'am, I have eaten things in the field that if they haven't killed me yet then these grapes aren't going to either."
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SGT Michael Glenn
One of my fav comments is to tell people that I survived Military chow, ex wifes grub, ex girlfriends mystery meats so I can survive most anything.
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LTC Stephen C.
Don't forget wonder meat SGT Michael Glenn! Remember, you wonder what the heck it is!
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CSM Charles Hayden
SGT Ralph Miller, my ladyfriend's cousin grows a lot of grapes South of Fresno, CA. he would be offended if I washed his grapes. He says buyers pay more for the 'blush' on his grapes! (looks like dust to me, but the price is right).
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I had an Annual Training in Camp Grafton, North Dakota where we were served T-rations (I'm dating myself a bit) for breakfast. For the uninitiated, this is a large aluminum tray filled with irradiated "food" that you heat up in boiling water.
What made it noteworthy was my discovery while on KP (another thing you noobs have never heard of) that the date stamp on the eggs and sausages that day was 1944!
I don't know if it tasted any better fifty years prior, but it was a vile, gelatinous substance with mystery meat suspended in it.
What made it noteworthy was my discovery while on KP (another thing you noobs have never heard of) that the date stamp on the eggs and sausages that day was 1944!
I don't know if it tasted any better fifty years prior, but it was a vile, gelatinous substance with mystery meat suspended in it.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
You know what T-rats are, there training rations so you can be graded on what kind of a training crap you can deliver afterwards! I've done Camp Grafton as well.
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SGT Michael Glenn
We were out in the woods at Ft Lewis digging foxholes in 1984 and ran into an old position that had quite a few cans of food dating back to 1971 at the bottom of it, we were told to rebury it and to forget about them and that we didnt want salmonella or the like. Like any good soldier we listened and put them back in the hole....NOT!!!!!!!!! I scarfed a gallon can of Fruit cocktail and off I went into the woods !!! Several of my battle buddies went with to ...Ehem... watch my back... we also drug canned ham and several other delectable goodies with us, ate like kings !!!!!
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Goat / Mutton When we were in Nam, somebody thought it was a good idea to feed us Mutton or Goat ( don't know precisely what is was ). It was noon chow and the meat was so strong nobody could eat it and it went into the can. Needles to say, the Head Storekeeper was checking the can to see what was being thrown away. Never had it again.
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