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EEEwwwwwwW!!!!

Thank goodness for MREs? So sorry. Any Chinese restaurants open in Edinburg?

We're going for Japanese tonight!!! Tatami! Yay! (turns out that if we'd tried to go to Tatami last night for my birthday that was when they were doing their Christmas dinner and it would have been really expensive!)

I'm going to see if any are open, although the stuff that looks like canned catfood isn't too bad, if you salt it a little.

I thought the fuschia and green foil wrappers looked festive, too! Bonus!

Enjoy your Japanese!

Oh no, puika! Do we really have nothing else for you to eat in the flat? I'm so sorry. I agree with your family, though: both the "eeewww" factor and to go for Chinese! I definitely do not recommend the Latvian diet...

And just what is the Latvian diet? You have peeked (peaked?) my interest.

Piqued.

I woke up this morning and said to myself, 'picqued!'. I think it must be the Gemzar. They say there are cognitive side-effects.

Oh sure, after 54 years of being a bad speller you now have something to blame it on! Hahaha!

And about time, too!

So...
I just want t0 say that not everybody in Scotland has forgotten that Nathan exists over the holidays. In Fact my bfamilly have already beaten him over the head for not letting us kn0ow that he was going to be pathetic and alone over Xmas. As soon as my parenyts found out that he had not eaten properly on the day they sent me with a care package (including food). The point is that we want you to know that Nathan has friends here who will not sehim alone or unhappy. He is in fact a good guy and whats more he amuses us so we plan on keeping him around for a while. Whats more I plan on taking a trip to see all of you guys next year to prove that he has friends here who cae about him as much as non-familly members can. I know that you don't know me but I ask you to trust me when I say that Nathan has people here who care about him so don't worry all is good. By the way...
I am REALLY SEXY.

The Latvian diet consists of coffee or tea and cigarettes. At least that's what Latvian women consider a successful diet; this I wouldn't recommend to any sane person, including Nathan. Does he like fruitcake, I wonder?

You know, in the picture is included "drinking chocolate mix". As opposed to . . . the snorting chocolate mix? Just wondering why they felt they had to specify "drinking".

Keith - were you the one I chatted with for a while when Nathan and I were back in the States at our parents' house?

I like Christmas Pudding, which is very similar to fruitcake! In fact, a good fruitcake is delicious, just like real mincemeat. Ingrida, I'm flattered that you'd consider me a sane person! That's so sweet!

Mara, you had me laughing my breakfast haggis through my nose with the idea of snorting chocolate!

I think they call it drinking chocolate to contrast it with eating chocolate, which is just called "chocolate."

By the way, Keith is really sexy

Now, see, that was snorting haggis!! Well, there you go, I guess that's why they had to clarify. :-)

If Keith is really sexy, why hasn't he included himself in the Dornbrook Family Readers on Frappr, eh?

That's a good point! He should be putting himself on Frappr...his cousin did. Antony lived with Keith until yesterday, and Antony is on there.

I had no idea that my diet had a name and state endorsement. By the way, how do the M.O.D. rations compare to MREs? Remember omelet with Ham?

I didn't have omelet with ham, but I did have tuna casserole - and it was absolutely wretched. I did enjoy the applesauce, though. I usually ended up trading my main dish (the spaghtetti was pretty gross, too) for applesauce and . . . graham crackers? Yeah, fortunately I was only on the MRE diet for one weekend training. Hey, no bottle of Tabasco sauce?

Omelet with ham was horrible, the bottom of the barrel.

On the other hand, ham slice was always underrated. What a great MRE. Absolutely fantastic. One of the best. It came with potatoes au gratin and M&Ms and Pound Cake.

I usually tried to get ham slice. Sometimes, I'd convince people to trade their entire ham slice MRE, unopened, for a potatoes au gratin and some peanut butter and crackers, which is all the more ironic because the omelet with ham contains potatoes au gratin and peanut butter and crackers.

MRE trading is one of my fondest memories of the Marine Corps, which says a good deal about me and a fair bit about the Marine Corps.

The beans and franks in the MOD rations are top notch, much better than our beans and franks. The pork casserole was terrible; I'd take a ham slice over pork casserole, or even our tuna casserole instead of their pork casserole.

The fruit crackers were tasty, the catfood was delicious, the drinking chocolate was thin and runny, the soup mix was rich and thick and warming, the chocolate bars were waxy and reminded me of Hershey's.

No Tabasco, unfortunately.