70s / 80s Ration Packs

[ploughman 13]

First priority when packing your kit on excercise was to get hold of some rolls of CUMFYBUM.

Sounds a bit like the current situation.

Edited March 28, 2020 by ploughman

[Zero-Five-Two 30]

On ‎3‎/‎28‎/‎2020 at 5:28 AM, Tony B said:

Funny how things change. That much maligned ass ripping bog roll, is probbaly one of your most highly valued possecions now. 😁

Available on fleebay, if you want a nostalgic moment

 

[Tony B 24]

21 hours ago, ploughman said:

First priority when packing your kit on excercise was to get hold of some rolls of CUMFYBUM.

Sounds a bit like the current situation.

No Motorway service station is safe when troops on excersisie stop! 😄

[10FM68 19]

Quite by chance, and topically, I came across this last week - being used as a bookmark!  Clearly it's been around for quite a while.

[chrisgrove 10]

What, no Geordies on this thread?  As Safety Officer on the very first Battle Group through BATUS, I was hitching a lift with a Platoon HQ of the Infantry (Green Howards) Company at lunchtime.  Platoon Sergeant suggests 'Jam and cheese sandwiches, lads?'. Compo cheese went down well (though I seldom got jam and cheese on bread since wartime in Newcastle, mores the pity.  My Southern regiment would have laughed me to scorn had I suggested it),

And, to add to the Squaddies Stew post, it was a standing joke in BAOR on the 70s that Mojo Stew consisted of ALL the components of compo stewed together (including the soap).

Chris

Edited April 25, 2020 by chrisgrove

[Barrym 1]

23 hours ago, chrisgrove said:

What, no Geordies on this thread?  As Safety Officer on the very first Battle Group through BATUS, I was hitching a lift with a Platoon HQ of the Infantry (Green Howards) Company at lunchtime.  Platoon Sergeant suggests 'Jam and cheese sandwiches, lads?'. Compo cheese went down well (though I seldom got jam and cheese on bread since wartime in Newcastle, mores the pity.  My Southern regiment would have laughed me to scorn had I suggested it),

And, to add to the Squaddies Stew post, it was a standing joke in BAOR on the 70s that Mojo Stew consisted of ALL the components of compo stewed together (including the soap).

Chris

I'm not a Geordie, but from Co. Durham, used to love the processed cheese and jam sarnies.