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Originally Posted by Timsel
There was a joke in "Schwarzesmarken":
{{ By the way, Walter, you know that joke?}}Irisdine spoke in a level tone, as if she hadn't noticed the enemy at all and was asking about the weather.
{{ Which one?}}
{{ Someone sends a question to the Berlin radio: are the BETA edible at all?}}
{{ ...And?}}
{{ They answer: of course not. Unless you're British.}}
Several muffled laughs could be heard in the comms. The dreadfulness of the rations distributed to the British army, stationed in the DDR under UN command, was legendary even among East German personnel, and Walter chuckled appreciatively:
{{ Yes, and there's so many of them here... we should export them to the islanders, they'd probably thank us.}}
{{ Right, - so first, let's turn those over there into paste.}}
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Ironically British rations are supposed to be among the better-tasting rations in the world; there are anecdotes of brisk barter trade between UK and US forces for MREs during Desert Shield.
Supposedly now US MREs taste better than everyone else, so i hear.