My understanding is that proper SOS was a wwii army meal made with chipped beef.
That video...LMAO
1. His "chip beef gravy" is thick. What a soldier would get at the end of the breakfast serving time.
In reality the gravy was very thin and we never had that much chip beef in our gravy.
2. K-rations.....airborne and SOF Units.....C- rations (can rations) and there was nothing light about them. Although the nice thing about C-rats is the food was in Self contained cooking pot, aka the can.
The cans when emptied were cleaned and later filled with, normally rocks, then tied to wire or string and used as an early warning device.
3. Mermites are/were 3 canisters inside 1 insulated container. Each of the 3 smaller containers was suppose to feed 20 soldiers. Lucky if the last 10 soldiers received a full 3, 4, or 5 ounce "ice cream" scope (individual portion) of food.
Although the mermites were insulted to keep food at proper temperature they seldom did. As by the time the hot food was serviced it was either cool or outright cold and the cold food was cool to warm. And ice cream was a thick gravy consistency.
4. Totally agree with the part after eating C-rats for days on end, we may have gotten 1 or 2 K-rats in my time. Later it was MREs, after soldiers succumbed to food poisoning from out dated C- rats, as in pre WWII in the late 1970's. A hot meal from the mess facility was a welcome 5 star meal compared to what we had been eating.
Thanks for the video.
Damn it!! Now I am wanting SOS.
