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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
On a totally different subject.....I was browsing through youtube over the weekend and stumbled on what can only be described as an "unboxing/review" of individual meal packages from different countries armed forcres including Canada. Some of them were from WW2 and still edible.
I was quite surprised at the look of the quality of the ones Canada is putting out. I don't know why but the videos struck me as really cool and perhaps something to look at buying for emergency backups.
What did you guys think of the IMP's Canada is providing?
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In WW2, the American's had the worst rations in the war, they were basically given cans of bully beef and some crackers. Canada was considered to have the best of that era.
I will give credit, when I was in, the equipment was crappy, the uniforms were terrible, but it always seemed like the food was good.
I remember we would get a two part box.
In the first box there were usually two pouches, the meal and the dessert. For the meal it was just add water. You would get corned beef hash, of sphagetti and meatballs, or different meals. The desert pack was usually like canned fruit in a bag.
The second box, usually had crackers and jam or peanut butter or some kind of cookie. There were usually two cigarettes, your eating utensils, matches, powdered drink, powered coffee and or powered tea.
Some meals were better then others obviously.
There were two complaints. First of all you needed hot water, that wasn't always possible. second of all, in my mind they were bulky, so when you were packing your rucksack where you already had precious little room, jamming 6 of these in there was next to impossible and they usually got crushed.
But yeah the food while it wasn't delicious was enough to get you through.
plus the way it was packed, it made it easy to trade stuff because you'd always have one person that seemed to love the worst meals.