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Any lucky getting more Australian ones chitoryu?
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Gridlocked posted:Any lucky getting more Australian ones chitoryu? Not yet. Like German ones, prices shoot up to nearly $100 for a day's worth of food. Especially since I have a vacation coming up at the end of May, I should probably refrain from dropping $200 on military food for the Internet.
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Apr 24, 2017 12:43
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This isn't written in french; you should sue. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Apr 24, 2017 13:13
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Russian IRP-P kasha was the worst thing I've eaten that wasn't covered in fungal masses. The taste was actually pretty inoffensive but there was something about it that made me gag. Maybe the smell? It was awful anyway. Potato stew was good though.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:40
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I'm convinced that kasha is intentionally bad. I hated every variety as a child.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:53
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I love buckwheat, but I've never had kasha. It seems like something that should be impossible to gently caress up.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:57
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Halloween Jack posted:I love buckwheat, but I've never had kasha. It seems like something that should be impossible to gently caress up. Maybe it'ssupposed to make you heave.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:59
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It's probably just the pork products that make it grody, I've had some good kosher kasha.
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Apr 24, 2017 20:04
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Never had military ration kasha, but nana and mom made kasha varnishkes all the time; it seems like you'd have to try really hard to make it bad. It's like rice or oatmeal or something.
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Apr 24, 2017 20:25
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I've only had Kasha made simply with sugar and poppy seeds, I imagine if it was home made with some sort of pork it would be fine.
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Apr 24, 2017 20:48
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Quite possibly, it's just that military stuff seemed to overflow with congealed processed pork.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:09
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Overflowing with congealed processed pork - The Military Food Thread
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Apr 25, 2017 04:04
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Quite possibly, it's just that military stuff seemed to overflow with congealed processed pork.
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Apr 25, 2017 05:19
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Halloween Jack posted:For that specific reason, a lot of these rations seem like they'd be just fine to eat fried in a pan, and utterly repulsive to eat cold from the can. One thing I've discovered during heating is that the solid fat loves to melt when heated, which means your food ends up swimming in a pool of grease. There's basically no reasonable way to clean the grease off before eating no matter how thorough you are with draining, so it ends up inevitably coating your mouth.
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Apr 25, 2017 12:46
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Having solid fat melt like that meant that you could pick some mushrooms or something and throw them in the pan with your food while camping. Is that not done in the West?
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Apr 25, 2017 14:47
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Raid some farm for eggs and forage for mushrooms, make a gourmet omelet
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Apr 25, 2017 15:06
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I'm firmly in the camp of "enough grease to make it better when refried but not so much that it grosses you out when cold".
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Apr 25, 2017 15:10
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Ensign Expendable posted:Having solid fat melt like that meant that you could pick some mushrooms or something and throw them in the pan with your food while camping. Is that not done in the West? Do you mean civilian camping or soldiers camping out eating rations? Civilian campers in America usually carry dehydrated meals like Mountain House, off-the-shelf canned food like Campbell's soup and Spam, or off-the-shelf ready to eat foods like pouches of Starkist tuna. For the military, all the field rations are sealed packages that contain exact quantities of prepared dishes and don't need to be thrown in a pan at all; they just get boiled in the bag if they need any cooking.
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Apr 25, 2017 15:11
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chitoryu12 posted:For the military, all the field rations are sealed packages that contain exact quantities of prepared dishes and don't need to be thrown in a pan at all; they just get boiled in the bag if they need any cooking. Surely someone has made a novelty foam blob labelled "rock or something" to market to are troops. I don't want to live in this world if there ain't.
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Apr 25, 2017 15:26
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All I can find after literally minutes of Googling is that Joe Paine, of Georgia, has designed "Or Something", which you can use to prop your MRE on as it's heating. Nothing else, though. I can't show you how it looks, or anything else. Sorry.
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Apr 25, 2017 15:39
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Someone made an MRE cake and posted it on Cake Central.
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Apr 25, 2017 16:07
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Awesome, what flavour is it?
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Apr 25, 2017 16:14
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Awesome, what flavour is it? Omelet
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Apr 25, 2017 16:19
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Ensign Expendable posted:Having solid fat melt like that meant that you could pick some mushrooms or something and throw them in the pan with your food while camping. Is that not done in the West? Lol most american are terrified of having to do any foraging. I was always told that every mushroom and berry was poisonous and would kill me, and that all the plants had grown out of dog piss and toxic waste, or were for decorative purposes only. Plants dont taste good, silly! Now eat these completely unrelated vegetables from the STORE, where it's safe. What do you mean they don't taste good and you have zero connection or interest in eating them and want colorful cartoon cereals instead?!?! This is why America is fat. And it's why I'm rebelling and learning how to forage on my own, which is a little scary but it's hard to find these real life 'experts' i'm supposed to consult.
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Apr 25, 2017 16:39
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Suspect Bucket posted:I was always told that every mushroom and berry was poisonous and would kill me To be fair you really should not be foraging for mushrooms unless you know what you're doing. A young destroying angel looks like a button mushroom, until you die of organ failure five hours later. False morels cause seizures, and you shouldn't even bother with boletes because the poison ones and the tasty ones look exactly the same. Foraging for tiny wild strawberries in the woods is pretty great though.
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Apr 25, 2017 18:48
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please don't actually go foraging for mushrooms unless you know exactly what you're doing
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Apr 25, 2017 19:26
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Reiterpallasch posted:please don't actually go foraging for mushrooms unless you know exactly what you're doing Some, like true/false morels, are actually pretty easy to distinguish when you know what to look for. Others are so hard that even experienced mushroom hunters won't take the risk.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:28
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If I'll ever go trekking in the wild I'd bring my own mushrooms, dried mushrooms are light and safe.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:29
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Yeah, I just knew which mushrooms were guaranteed to be safe rather than heap every fungus into the basket indiscriminately.
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Apr 25, 2017 20:18
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Reiterpallasch posted:please don't actually go foraging for mushrooms unless you know exactly what you're doing That's what I'm saying. The experts we are supposed to have in our back pockets when foraging are just not available to most people. But thanks for the advice. I sure am a dumbshit and need constant reminding to not put unfamiliar plants and funguses in my mouth!  I have been out and trying to learn foraging on and off for years now. I am taking it VERY slowly and carefully, and have passed up many things out of fear of identification. I've done classes with this guy, he's super cool. No mycology though. http://www.eattheweeds.com/ Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 01:48
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The other difficulty (as the Eat the Weeds guy, who's a local to my area, talks about in some of his articles) is that plants don't always look exactly like they're supposed to in guidebooks. The US and Canada have just about every climate range possible, from rain forests to scorching deserts and from temperate woodland to snowy mountains. While the same plants may grow in areas 1000 miles apart, they aren't necessarily going to look the same. In unlucky circumstances, a poisonous plant may closely resemble a safe one or vice versa. Foragers have called Florida one of the hardest states to forage in because the long periods of hot weather and short spurts of freezing cold can greatly change the appearance and characteristics of plants from other climates. The only real way you can learn to forage in the United States is by learning your individual area in detail.
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Apr 26, 2017 02:18
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chitoryu12 posted:Not yet. Like German ones, prices shoot up to nearly $100 for a day's worth of food. Especially since I have a vacation coming up at the end of May, I should probably refrain from dropping $200 on military food for the Internet. Mate I have a friend in the army who's offered me them for nothing. If I come good on that order, I'll let you know asap
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Apr 26, 2017 03:56
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McSpergin posted:Mate I have a friend in the army who's offered me them for nothing. If I come good on that order, I'll let you know asap I will take you up on it!
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Apr 26, 2017 13:00
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:Surely someone has made a novelty foam blob labelled "rock or something" to market to are troops. I don't want to live in this world if there ain't. If I recall correctly, Kiwi Dude on Youtube (whose videos are mostly MRE reviews from various countries) has a rock which has been painted to say "or something" which he uses regularly, which I think is the best of both worlds.
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Apr 27, 2017 04:16
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 Unfortunately, it's not a huge reunion. But I received delivery of the 2013 revision of the Chinese ration, so once I finish eating it I'll be able to post a comparison review. Spoilers: it's actually worse.
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Jul 13, 2017 14:49
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Obtained a 10 menu crate of british army MREs. First ones ever. This will be interesting. No frhs, just boil in bag.
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Silver Alicorn posted:Oh hey this is probably a good thread for me to dump some of these videos. thanks, i guess WAIT DID YOU POST SOMETHING ON RED PANDAS?
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anomalous_pariah posted:WAIT DID YOU POST SOMETHING ON RED PANDAS? Check ✅ me out on tumblr! 😜
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Gridlocked posted:Any lucky getting more Australian ones chitoryu? chitoryu12 posted:Not yet. Like German ones, prices shoot up to nearly $100 for a day's worth of food. Especially since I have a vacation coming up at the end of May, I should probably refrain from dropping $200 on military food for the Internet. I have run into two menu b australian ones. Chitoryu, PM me if you want one. Will do you a significantly better price (cost of postage to you). I'm keeping the other for me. Trip report - so far I have only had the chocolate ration and it was basically just cheap shelf fresh chocolate. Not great but not terrible, edible at best Menu B is as follows: Braised Beef Chicken pasta and vegetables Golden pumpkin soup Plus the usual stuff Feel free to PM. We can organise something independently
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Silver Alicorn posted:Check ✅ me out on tumblr! 😜 I, buh, what? red pandas? Is this some sort of in-joke I'm missing?
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