Should mean Packing House Products - smelly stuff from the meat packing plants. Eric Mumper -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Yo
PHP - Packing House Products, ie anything that comes out of a meat slaughter operation. Meat reefers were filled with PHP, ie hanging carcasses, boxed or canned meat, along with the variety of by-pro
Good Addition Doug. I can add more: In the early 1950's I worked in the engine room at the Armour Packing Plant in South St. Paul. They made lots of dry cured sausage, some for export, lots of canned
Bob, You sure the Army C rations were not relabeled dog food??? I ate a lot of those during my 23 years of active duty. Surprisingly, not so much in RVN (67-68) because Americal Div had mess halls se
Noel, Your mind must be suppressing any memory of the crackers. They were inedible, they might make a nice clay pigeon except they would never break. The oft malligned fruitcake wasn't bad if you cou
Ken, Your right. The crackers would make great clay pigeons. You would have to use double ought buck to break them however. My wife loves her P-38 in the kitchen. Beats any electric can opener by far
Noel: We got the small cans of C rations while I was in code school at Fort Devens, MA. The cooks/KP's opened the cans and dumped the stuff into large pans for heating. The rumor was that what we wer
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:26:32 -0700 (PDT)
Yea well, what I remember most was the ham and mothers. The ham and eggs without heat tabs were awful ! But pound cake and peaches was worth fighting for. Ken, Your right. The crackers would make
In 1970 you knew you had on old box when it had Lucky Strike Greens. 8^) Ken Martin -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/ <*> Your email
Wow Look at how many of us are Veterans. My hat goes off to you all. My first taste of C-rats were in the late 70s when I was in the Civil Air Patrol in Franklin co Il. I ate a ton of them at Ft Sill
Lucky Strike Green because Luck Strike Red has gone to war. I you got Lucky Strike Green you had found a WWII pack. The boned turkey was the best. Wow Look at how many of us are Veterans. My hat goes