Ah, C-rats. My dad was in the Army and I was a little kid around the time they phased those out. I remember the peanut butter where you had to stir the oil back in, and the crackers, and some kind of jam or jelly. I really liked the crackers.

An old neighbor told me about eating 20+ year old C-rats regularly when he was in the Airborne, but I thought maybe they had something different done to them to allow them to keep longer than regular canned food.

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