ration

Then I must begin, I explane what the ration is. The ration is the meal that soldiers eat when they are in the distant lands from their base camp or ships and the area without food. Japanese Self Defence Force's ration is very excellent and delicious, if seen globally. In PKO in Cambodia, that ration won the victory wonderfully in contest of ration. I wish I want to eat Japanese Self Defence Force's ration at once. The ration that I want to eat the most is chicken Kamameshi. I think that the development of that ration was incredibly difficult.

In 1951, Police Reserve Force was founded, and a small hard dry biscuit was adopted as emergency rations at first. In about 1954, Japan being influenced by that in the USA, destribution started by unit type. Three meals were destributed in a day but, like america, cigar, gum, dairy necessaries and so on were not destributed.

In about 1952, for Japanese living mainly on rice, the can of rice was adopted. As the food both staple food and side dishes, for example, the can of fried rice and so on were adopted but these's taste was not so delicious so they became tired of these and these were indigestible food. Now, these are delicious and easy to digest, and as side dishes, 2 canned foods are destributed.

Introducion of Rations

Type Ⅰ: The rations of this type are canned foods.

Chicken rice (torimeshi): This is tattered without heating so you have to heat this in boiling water for 25 minutes or above.

Steamed rice with red beans (sekihan) : For eating this, heating is necessary too. This was born in before long time.

Corned beef : This is normal corned beef but contains mix vegetables. When you eat it, you may as well as heat it. This becomes soup adding boiling water of the quantity of double.

Yellow picked radish (Takuan) : This is said to be the best masterpiece of all type Ⅰration. This is cut thick and delicious.

Small hard dry biscuit (kanpan) : This instead of a general that. This keeps you going long.

Orange spread : This is for energy supply rapidly. This has refreshing scent and sweetness so this seems to be very delicious and like honey.

Hamburger steak : This is more meatball than hamburger, not juicy and very salty so this is not so popular too.

Type Ⅱ: The ration of this type is retort foods.

Beef curry and rice : This is major retort food and popular stably

sweet and sour pork (subuta) : This seasoning is thick so white rice fits this. Pork in this likes meatball so this food is not so popular Members want solid chicken.

Chicken steak : This likes chicken boiled in water so is not so popular. But, german potato salad in this seems to be very delicious.

It seems that we can buy these foods in Self Defence Force's festival. If you have interest, how about buying these?