Actually, we found the peanut butter in the "C" rats to be more entertaining than the crackers...<br><br>For those who have never seen one, the peanut butter in "C" rations came in a shallow steel can. Apparently the idea of using lecithin as an emulsifier was too high-tech for the military at the time, so, once you got it open with the (included) P38 can opener, what you found inside was about a half-inch of thick, amber colored oil on top of an indescribable hard sediment of oil-soaked decomposing sludge that may once have come from peanuts. You were supposed to stir the oil into this sludge, but no tool included the rations was adequate to the task, and it had been known to bend bayonet blades.<br><br>We did find, however, that if you set the oil on fire it would produce enough heat to make the entree edible in it's can. You didn't want to use it with cooking gear, though, because it smoked a lot, and left a layer of thick black soot on everything. <br><br>We also found that, if you threw the peanut butter cans into the fire (a popular option), the sound they made popping was indistinguisable from the sound of the service .45 automatic going off... but that's another story...<br>