Talk:K-ration

message: In the research I've done, Dinner is more closely associated with a midday meal("Lunch"), especially when compared/paired with Supper, which always refers to a late evening meal. (References here, Find On Page:"supper" for the most relevant spots of reference [] ) The original first paragraph of this page read
:"The K-ration provided three separately boxed meal units: Breakfast, Supper, and Dinner." And when you hovered over "Supper", it showed "Lunch" as hover text. 
:From Wikipedia Page on Supper: "During World War II, rations in the U.S. military were still divided into breakfast, dinner, and supper, using the traditional designations for meals. In most parts of the United States and Canada today, "supper" and "dinner" are considered synonyms (although supper is a more antiquated term)"
I did some extra research to be sure, and I feel confident about correcting this mix-up. I present as additional evidence a tangentially-related real-world example of a menu card out of a 1957 MRE ration kit: The entity that made these rations agreed that Dinner = Midday meal and Supper = last meal. https://www.youtube.com/vkWM6mz_JVo?t=246 
Thus, I'm changing the wording accordingly, and re-ordering the meals into intended chronological daily order. English is already crazy weird, and this dinner=lunch confusion has always had my sympathy for ESL persons. Equating supper with lunch, --this is the first time I've seen that. So grievous that I had to act. Chandell (talk) 20:42, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: For World War II. That is the terminology that was used for the K-ration see page 9 and 10 Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper that is how they were Issued for the us military in World War II. .http://www.90thidpg.us/Paperwork/Research/Misc/QMC%2017-3.pdfDriverofknowledge (talk) 20:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a much better reference than I was able to find, thank you! Chandell (talk) 20:59, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem its very detailed with the meals.Driverofknowledge (talk) 21:04, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Lunch, Dinner and Supper terminology correction

message: Can somebody please verify that one day's worth of K-rations did indeed contain 8300 (kilo)calories? 8300 kc is a freakin' lot, even when taking into account that soldiers in the field need much energy. Compare with MREs, where 3 such contain a total of 3600 kc. That's a much more reasonable amount of food energy, even for people working quite hard. I once read that old-style lumber jacks would need as much as 17500 kjoule a day, which is only around 4200 kc (compare 15000 kJ for 3xMRE). Sure, perhaps 3-MREs-a-day is a little low for young men in extreme situations, but 8300 is too much.--Peter Knutsen 00:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  8300? 

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: Boy Scouts use k_Rations nowadays? Really? Where would they get sixty year old rations? Deleted.
(All the ration articles need attention. It seems non-experts are editing them with great energy._
Paul, in Saudi (talk) 02:12, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Boy Scouts?

message: The image of the K-ration shows 4 cigarettes packed into the supper unit. However, the text says that the cigarettes were included with the dinner unit. I assume the picture is accurate, but I wonder if there are other problems with the content list.
Atterlep (talk) 15:11, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Text and Image Inconsistent