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Originally posted by rayb:
Does anyone have one of the C Ration cookbooks that the Tabasco Company produced?
IIRC you could write Tabasco and they would send you one free.
Mine was lost years ago, wish I still had a copy.
Tabasco was one of the few companies that did any thing for the field soldier.
rayb
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During the Vietnam war Brig. Gen. Walter S. McIlhenny, U.S. Marine Corps, son of the 2nd company president of McIlhenny Company from his experiences with C-Rations as a Marine during WWII came up with the idea to send soldiers copies of the Charley Ration Cookbook filled with recipes for spicing up C-rations with Tabasco Pepper Sauce wrapped around two-ounce bottles of Tabasco Pepper Sauce along with a handful of a P-38 type can openers all in a waterproof canister.
Here is a copy you can download.
http://www.thefontman.com/crat_cookbook.html