Dinner is served.

[ProfessorWes]

For those who thought MREs were bad:



I really hope that's propaganda. OTOH who knows?

Actual Russian MREs (they also have them) are supposed to be pretty good, but one wonders if they're running low on those if they're actually serving pig snout straight out of the can to the troops . . .

 

[blume357]

I suspect other than sounding gross, it's probably pretty dern good. I had a book years ago titled "Roughing It Easy" about how to have good safe meals while out hiking in the wilderness and such and one of the recipes that the book said was a delicacy was Moose nose.

I do remember gnawing on a pickled pig's foot on occasion when I was young.

 

[woodsy]

Not too relevant, but if you ever get the chance to have cod cheeks in a restaurant, you will never forget it, and it will be on your radar whenever you enter a fish market. Simply tender and delicious.

 

[wheelgun1958]

I suspect other than sounding gross, it's probably pretty dern good. I had a book years ago titled "Roughing It Easy" about how to have good safe meals while out hiking in the wilderness and such and one of the recipes that the book said was a delicacy was Moose nose.

I do remember gnawing on a pickled pig's foot on occasion when I was young.

I had a copy of that very same book! I also had 'Back to Eden.'

 

[BearBiologist]

While in the Army @ Ft Ord in '71-'72, I worked the Survival Escape and Evasion course on a detail. We played VC and captured the "GIs". The NCOIC was a snake freak and I correctly identified the area where each of his sidewinders had been caught, so we were instant buddies. I had walking pneumonia (who didn't @ Ft Ord) and was assigned to work inside. They had a big pot of hot water and added a rabbit they killed and skinned, a chicken and veggies they grew. We worker bees got Korean era C-Rations. They let me choose first and I got spaghetti and was able to warm it in the stew pot. Not too bad. Better than HORRIBLE! The NCOIC knew my XO and would request me to serve on the detail. I did it a half dozen times and always picked the spaghetti and worked inside most of the time. They always let me heat my "C-Rat" up!

 

[BearBiologist]

Not too relevant, but if you ever get the chance to have cod cheeks in a restaurant, you will never forget it, and it will be on your radar whenever you enter a fish market. Simply tender and delicious.

Many people fail to get halibut cheeks or tuna "ears". Most tasty!!

 

[turd]

Walleye cheeks rule hereabouts.....

 

[eveled]

I think the point is that Muslims are forbidden to eat pork. So it may be some sort of indoctrination tactic.

 

[weaselmeatgravy]

My son and daughter in law raised and butchered a few pigs. They brought me a baggie of jowls about a year ago. I asked how you are supposed to prepare pig cheeks. They didn't know (I guess they gave them to us just to be rid of them). I fried them up like bacon and the flavor wasn't bad, but the visual of the whiskers was a little gross.

 

[Colonialgirl]

While in the Army @ Ft Ord in '71-'72, I worked the Survival Escape and Evasion course on a detail. We played VC and captured the "GIs". The NCOIC was a snake freak and I correctly identified the area where each of his sidewinders had been caught, so we were instant buddies. I had walking pneumonia (who didn't @ Ft Ord) and was assigned to work inside. They had a big pot of hot water and added a rabbit they killed and skinned, a chicken and veggies they grew. We worker bees got Korean era C-Rations. They let me choose first and I got spaghetti and was able to warm it in the stew pot. Not too bad. Better than HORRIBLE! The NCOIC knew my XO and would request me to serve on the detail. I did it a half dozen times and always picked the spaghetti and worked inside most of the time. They always let me heat my "C-Rat" up!

AHH YES ;;; FORT ORD went to basic and advance training there in 1966-67. Were they STILL using the WW2 barracks when you were there ? I learned to climb telephone poles and field wire telephones.