SQ3: In a few months....

[Charles Heath]

...some fellers will be issued cooked rations Friday evening, and most likely will not have the opportunity to reheat them for a number of days (for a variety of reasons). Since the research has not yet revealed whether the meat in the rations was one of the usual suspects, if you had a choice between the following boiled to death meat items, which would you pick:


Boiled fresh beef
Boiled salt beef
Boiled fresh pork
Boiled salt pork
Boiled bacon
Surprise us with boiled something kinda gray, sorta gelatinous, mostly gristle and bone.


Note, the meat will be boiled, and this may or may not apply to three events in at least two different time zones next year. Like Wendy's, you have a choice!

[Fatback and Beans]

To my thinking, the choice of which meat would depend on the availability and/or variety of condiments issued with it. Red pepper sauce/flakes, mustard, chow chow, vinegar, or wasabi would all make me less particular, though.

We're not even discussing side dishes yet.

[Charles Heath]

Joseph,

Side dishes will likely include, and be limited to, eight hardcrackers and a scant handful of coffee beans. The latter will be available for chewing once that caffiene withdrawal headache smacks a man silly about 3 pm the next day. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, greens, biscuits and gravy are but a distant memory of Momma's table. Just a thought.

[Kevin O'Beirne]

If the documentation for this event-not-named-in-this-post is not conclusive, then "surprise us with something boiled and gray".

The pre-cooked Federal rations at Outpost 3, where I saw little in the way of campfires for two days (except when a prisoner of the Rebs) were a very pleasant surprise in terms of delectability.

[Rob Murray]

Charles,

Boiled salt pork. It can be eaten any time, you can add it to any kind of starch and you can fry it later if you want.
After receiving rations at BGR, I had the company boil up the salt pork. It sure was fun watching the reactions as it was being re-issued.

[Rob Murray]

* Surprise us with boiled something kinda gray, sorta gelatinous, mostly gristle and bone.

I thought that was your coffee.:eek:

[Charles Heath]

Rob, interesting you should mention that, as our lovely and talented purchasing agent in the field just called me from Sam Walton's Emporium (not an AC Forum approved vendor) conviently located on the Monocacy Battlefield to report fresh pork butt is 96 cents per pound. This is good news for at least one season 2008 event. Methinks my favorite Kosher salt vendor in NYC is also going to be very happy this year. "You do what with that salt?" Oy.

[DougCooper]

If the documentation for this event-not-named-in-this-post is not conclusive, then "surprise us with something boiled and gray".

The pre-cooked Federal rations at Outpost 3, where I saw little in the way of campfires for two days (except when a prisoner of the Rebs) were a very pleasant surprise in terms of delectability.

Kevin - Co A started fires as soon as left alone for 15 minutes and we normally had more than we needed, but that beats the alternative :D

Charles - go with whatever the original soldiers used for the scenario in question unless that info is not available...or we have a choice - and then Boiled Salt Pork sounds good.

[Charles Heath]

Charles - go with whatever the original soldiers used for the scenario in question unless that info is not available....

Doug, please go back, read, and attempt to comprehend the first post in this thread, where we go into excruciatingly simple detail as to why we indeed may have a choice in the meat ration. Thanks.

I placed this thread in the Camp of Instruction section, and purposefully typed slowly for good reason. :cool:

[JacobReichwein]

None, I'm a vegetarian :)

[Pvt Schnapps]

Depends on the vinegar to water ratio. If none, bacon.

[paulcalloway]

Gimme some of that boiled salt beef.

Now, boiled salt fish - that just sounds gross.

[LibertyHallVols]

Now, boiled salt fish - that just sounds gross.
To the tune of "O Tannenbaum"...

O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, how fragrant your aroma,
O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, you put me in a coma.
You smell so strong, you look like glue,
You taste just like an overshoe,
But lutefisk, come Saturday,
I tink I eat you anyvay

O Lutefisk, O lutefisk, I put you in the doorvay.
I wanted you to ripen up just like they do in Norvay.
A dog came by and sprinkled you.
I hit him with my overshoe.
O lutefisk, now I suppose
I'll eat you while I hold my nose.

[AZReenactor]

Personally, I'm partial to boiled fresh beef in the haversack if I have a choice.

[cprljohnivey]

Any meat will do... any thought to issuing green coffee?

[Rmhisteach]

Chawls,

I would like you to add two items as choices.

1. Fish heads

2. Mule Chow

RM

[Charles Heath]

Rod, that is so 2006 and 2007 of you. :)

Brad, green coffee beans have been done to death, but I may be convinced to issue some more, if I see them pop up in the documentation again.

[ryanbmm]

May i recommend smoked fish, or boiled then dried fish maybe shad or haring not sure on the spelling of the fish. but sounds yummy to me!

[Pvt Peck]

hardbread & weevils (there is your meat), and thats it! I'd rather eat that (and have) than dried fish of any sort but beggars/soldiers can't be choosers so how about your last item on the original list "chefs surprise". With all these "stupid questions"your asking the as yet named event sounds like its going to be good!

Edward Parrott

[Rmhisteach]

[QUOTE=Charles Heath;82989]Rod, that is so 2006 and 2007 of you. :)

Chawls,

I am just thinking this may be you third attempt at murder by messpot. Maybe they will finally put you away. :p

[Charles Heath]

Rod,

Still mad about the four crackers and warm coffee for breakfast? Hey, at least the coffee wasn't gray that morning.

[DougCooper]

To the tune of "O Tannenbaum"...

O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, how fragrant your aroma,
O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, you put me in a coma.
You smell so strong, you look like glue,
You taste just like an overshoe,
But lutefisk, come Saturday,
I tink I eat you anyvay

O Lutefisk, O lutefisk, I put you in the doorvay.
I wanted you to ripen up just like they do in Norvay.
A dog came by and sprinkled you.
I hit him with my overshoe.
O lutefisk, now I suppose
I'll eat you while I hold my nose.

The only downside to falling in with the 1st Minnesota from Minnesota (as opposed to us Mid-Atlantic wannabes) is that invariably several of these northmen would pull a Lutefisk out of their haversack and wave it from time to time. Even those of us with years worth of dried grease and beef blood in our haversacks were powerless to compete.

Uf dah!

[Rob Murray]

The only downside to falling in with the 1st Minnesota from Minnesota (as opposed to us Mid-Atlantic wannabes) is that invariably several of these northmen would pull a Lutefisk out of their haversack and wave it from time to time. Even those of us with years worth of dried grease and beef blood in our haversacks were powerless to compete.

Uf dah!
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Doug Cooper
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[Charles Heath]

I wonder if a man could trade some salt, smoked, herring for a little bit of lutefisk? Looking back to all that great amount of research done for the 15th Wisc. impression eight years ago, I have to wonder if anyone ran across any references to those Norwegian fellows receiving a little taste of the old country in a box from home? God help the inspector who opened that box. Just sayin'.