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Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

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On 11/28/2019 11:36 AM, a425couple wrote:
> I do not know what my earliest memories of the meal
> Lima Beans and Ham are.
> But certainly, I, and many of us, had them in our
> military C-Rats.
> 
> In the US Marine Corps while on Field exercises, or
> while preparing to load up to go out, they would
> open a big box (12 meals? / 16?) with labels hidden,
> and pass them out, totally randomly.  You got what
> you got.  But sometimes trading occured.  I liked
> the ham and lima beans meal.
> 
> And for year after I would often enough have it
> in cans from grocery store (Dennison's or Nalley??)
> Then they stopped.  I guess tastes change.
> But my wife nicely made it from scratch for us.
> It was GOOD!


Folks, I've met his wife before.  He's actually a nice guy.

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I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2019-11-28 11:36 -0800
  Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2019-11-28 11:39 -0800
  Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <burkesbonerbabes@pattaya.com> - 2019-11-29 08:44 -0800
    Re: I had Lima Beans & Ham recently. Happy Thanksgiving to all. % <persent@gmail.com> - 2019-11-29 11:03 -0700

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