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    SQ3: In a few months....

    ...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!
    Last edited by Charles Heath; 11-26-2007, 05:28 PM. Reason: Sense make this did not edit until made. - Yoda
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  • #2
    Re: SQ3: In a few months....

    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.
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    • #3
      Re: SQ3: In a few months....

      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.
      [B]Charles Heath[/B]
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      • #4
        Re: SQ3: In a few months....

        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.

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        • #5
          Re: SQ3: In a few months....

          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

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          • #6
            Re: SQ3: In a few months....

            * Surprise us with boiled something kinda gray, sorta gelatinous, mostly gristle and bone.
            I thought that was your coffee.
            Rob Murray

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            • #7
              Re: SQ3: In a few months....

              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.
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              • #8
                Re: SQ3: In a few months....

                Originally posted by Kevin O'Beirne View Post
                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.
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                • #9
                  Re: SQ3: In a few months....

                  Originally posted by DougCooper View Post
                  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.
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                  • #10
                    Re: SQ3: In a few months....

                    None, I'm a vegetarian :)
                    Patrick Rooney

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                    • #11
                      Re: SQ3: In a few months....

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

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                      • #12
                        Re: SQ3: In a few months....

                        Gimme some of that boiled salt beef.

                        Now, boiled salt fish - that just sounds gross.
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                        • #13
                          Re: SQ3: In a few months....

                          Originally posted by paulcalloway View Post
                          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.
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                          • #14
                            Re: SQ3: In a few months....

                            Personally, I'm partial to boiled fresh beef in the haversack if I have a choice.
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                            • #15
                              Re: SQ3: In a few months....

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