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Post by Jolly on Jun 24, 2023 3:10:40 GMT
John Wayne...
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Jun 24, 2023 4:35:15 GMT
I suppose you could survive off the John Wayne version but they’d probably make better hockey pucks. |
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Post by BrewDaddy on Jun 24, 2023 4:48:01 GMT
I've made them before, at least the Townsends' 18th century version (hoe cakes), which is pretty much the same... edible, bland, will fill you up....
Pair them with some eggs, bacon, maybe a country gravy and you be stylin'...
Then again, ANYTHING with country gravy is stylin' in my book....
bd
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Post by Jolly on Jun 24, 2023 14:11:08 GMT
Thought the shovel method was pretty neat. Also thought his second recipe was much better.
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Post by fordy on Jun 25, 2023 2:18:51 GMT
...............I enjoyed eating breakfast at Mc D's on Sunday morning while consuming 4 biscuits and gravy and reading the sunday morning paper !
...............I kept asking them IF they were going to start making SOS like we use to have for Breakfast in the Marine Corps ! They had NO idea what SOS , was ! , fordy
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Post by Jolly on Jun 25, 2023 13:14:30 GMT
Max Miller has an interesting channel where he recreates old (sometimes ancient) dishes...
If you'd like to have soldier's rations from an earlier period in America's history...
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Post by woolybear on Jun 25, 2023 19:12:52 GMT
...............I enjoyed eating breakfast at Mc D's on Sunday morning while consuming 4 biscuits and gravy and reading the sunday morning paper ! ...............I kept asking them IF they were going to start making SOS like we use to have for Breakfast in the Marine Corps ! They had NO idea what SOS , was ! , fordy ::vigorously waving my arm in the air:: OH OH I KNOW "stuff" on a shingle. Also stuffed peppers were called "stuff" in a seabag. My father was a sailor in the Navy so the word "stuff" was used quite liberally lol. |
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jun 25, 2023 23:36:56 GMT
If I'd have somehow saved all the C-ration cans I emptied over 18 months, I'd be heading for the metal recycler.
That was some really miserable stuff, but, when that's all you have..... No wonder when I mustered out I weighed 165 pounds. Nobody, nobody ever got fat eating C-rations.
Now, one time the brilliant strategists put us on top of a mountain near Bon Son with a fire base of artillery. Bright and clear when we arrived by helicopter, but the next day, and the next 10 days the fog rolled in off the coast. Yeah, we had 5 days worth of C-rations. Ended up "bartering" with the locals below the mountain for minnows in boiled rice. When the fog lifted enough to get us out those C-rations tasted really good.
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Post by Jolly on Jun 26, 2023 15:14:40 GMT
Good buddy of mine was a Navy corpsman with a Marine unit in Vietnam. He's had his share of rations. Said some of the most delicious food he ever had, was bought from a mama-san in one village or another, after being out in the boonies on a long patrol. Didn't much matter if it was dog or what, he said if you put some of the fish sauce on it, it'd beat the rations.
Not that the food was really delicious, but when you're really, really hungry...
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