NATO troops swap rations

[brooklynite]

[oldfart73]

1. Military field rations different countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_rations#Europe

https://www.bing.com/search?q=military+field+rations&form=ANNTH1&refig=5b22a756315f4045a64a631ff5794e47

Russian troops in Ukraine were being supplied with expired field rations.

[Warpy]

2. I've seen MRE swaps before, but these were great

There are a lot of taste tests on YouTube. One guy even managed to guy a North Korean one and other than the raw rice rattling around loose in the broken and stained box, it looked great: butter shrimp, fried chicken, seaweed to add to the rice, different types of tea. It didn't look like it had a lot of calories crammed into it, but it did look very good. It did have things like crackers and some chewing gum for minty freshness.

I haven't seen any that look particularly bad, although the Chinese ones seemed a bit bland for me. The eastern European ones favor what is sold as "potted meat product" here, odds and ends of mostly pork mixed with gelatin and fat to make a spread. They also have packets of sweetened condensed milk, which they use on crackers and pancakes.

I'm just amazed how far front line food has come from the bad old days of K rations.

[haele]

3. We often watch Steve1989MRE on YouTube.

He's an amateur Military Historian who got interested in MREsas a kid when apparently his uncle brought some home. He tries the from all over the world and quite a few that had been The earliest intact MRE package he got was from the Boer War; tinned preserved beef, tea and a chocolate "bar" (all three packed separately into a tin tube for weatherproofing that could be carried in a pocket or used as a small artillery round) which he donated to a museum after opening and assessing the edibility afterwards. He scored a couple MRE Pacific theater WWII packs that had been sitting in warehouse in Adak, AL that were still in good shape and still edible, including lifeboat and pilot's survival pack that included fishing and evasion/rescue survival components that could keep a person active, alive, and protected from Malaria for weeks if need be.
I have little fear of stamina of the Chinese military after seeing their recent (2012 and2019) general ration packs; both times he tried, the main contained bacteria from poorly preserved proteins and the first one that he ate before looking at a sample under a microscope put him in the hospital with food poisoning.

Haele