1899- 1902 British MRE – Would you try it? – IOTW Report

1899- 1902 British MRE – Would you try it?

 

Check out what British soldiers ate during The Second Boer Conflict of 1899-1902 when in a last ditch effort ! This is the second oldest thing I’ve ever eaten (Oldest was that Hardtack) and much unexpected considering this MRE’s condition. It was pretty rough – and the smell when cooking the dried beef (Pretty much a pemmican) is nearly indescribable. It was quite the experience. And for old rations up next we will see the next generation in Emergency Rations – (1918). This is pioneering in food technology – the beef was still edible. It was a pulverized, slow cooked, dried, and compressed meat by-product bar. Way ahead of it’s time – this was food tech that was adopted by the U.S. Quartermaster Corps of Sustenance and Natick Food Labs decades later.

13 Comments on 1899- 1902 British MRE – Would you try it?

  1. GIN

    whadya like? “bean + weenies
    ‘; ham+limas”; salt pork (the bread+jam that cam with this was good(too me) Pork too dry))
    Stew?

    Spent some time wit Recon; they had MRE in ’67! Needed lots of water tp make em; but much smaller+ lighter than C. Rats”

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