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Topic: GI Mess kit?  (Read 266 times)

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  GI Mess kit anyone have one and use it?  I came upon mine last week when I was rooting around my shed in search of my old camping knifes. (No pictures of it yet) I remember emptying a can Denison's chili into the pan, and then heating it up over the campfire at our camp outside Chester, (Lake Almanor) during bow season for deer.  That chili was thee best tasting after being heated over the fire!
  Not so much anymore! Haha...  I'm not immortal now like I was back then.  Trying to recall all the other foods I cooked in the thing, however it seams Denison's might have been the staple on those hunts.  Perhaps the reason we rarely saw deer then?
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I have the same memory of a can of Dinty Moore stew plopped into a little aluminum pot that was part of my Dad's mess kit :smt005.
It was more of a "camp kitchen" thing IIRC, like a couple of pots, 2 plates, a little pot, and a tiny percolator coffeepot that all nested together in the largest pot. I think he got it at a Dunnall's surplus back in 1970 or so.
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I have the same memory of a can of Dinty Moore stew plopped into a little aluminum pot that was part of my Dad's mess kit :smt005.
It was more of a "camp kitchen" thing IIRC, like a couple of pots, 2 plates, a little pot, and a tiny percolator coffeepot that all nested together in the largest pot. I think he got it at a Dunnall's surplus back in 1970 or so.

He said a little pot........ :smt044

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