Originally Posted By: Doug_Ritter
You are comparing apples and oranges. Or, maybe, jerky vs. fresh meat. If you don't need long term storage, and rotating stock every two years clearly isn't, and the other attributes it provides, then survival rations, per se, make little sense. It's a product designed for a specific purpose and it fits that purpose well, a purpose that PB doesn't fit well, in the least.

As to PB not being thirst provoking, I'd have to say I definitely will have to disagree with that.
YMMV

Ditto!
And as Glockaroo points out, nutritionally it's pretty bad on you. I mean, Mayo is pretty calorically dense. Of course, no point being prepared when you have that fatal heart attack on your third bottle of a Mayo-only diet (shuddering - I hate mayo).