Outside the Beltway

Military Field Rations Around the World

James Joyner · Thursday, March 29, 2007 · 2 comments

Tony Karon offers an interesting survey of the field rations issued to several armies around the world.

They include Mackerel Stewed Beef Indian chicken and rice, sauté of rabbit, and mutton stew flageolets served in an earthenware dish with a “gorgeous little cooker” in the French Army (insert your own jokes here) and exotic foreign fare such as Cevapcicci (Yugoslavian Sausages) and Hungarian ghoulash in the German Einmannpackung. Karon also questions the wisdom of the issuance of rations using “an alchohol based cooking system” to the Russian military.

He’s soliciting reader comments on the exotic fare of armies in places ranging from China to Afghanistan.

via Andrew Sullivan‘s Daily Dish, which is for once about food.

FILED UNDER: Uncategorized, Afghanistan, Andrew Sullivan, China, India, Russia

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Dave Schuler says:

Thursday, 29 March 2007 at 11:28

One picture is worth a thousand words.
Boyd says:

Friday, 30 March 2007 at 10:13

Unless you’re missing a comma, I can’t even imagine what “Mackerel Stewed Beef Indian chicken and rice” might be like.