cant wait to try one , hope they are what all the hype is about,
but anything has to be better than opening a can with a bowie knife or similar
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cant wait to try one , hope they are what all the hype is about,
but anything has to be better than opening a can with a bowie knife or similar
And that's what the hype is about. You can open the can with minimal danger compared to a Bowie knife, then eat the contents. Who cares about bragging rights for the Bowie knife stunt when your starving? Bonus, you don't stab yourself.
Two words that usually don't go together; Hype and FRED.
I have to check my bag, when I get home, but I am pretty sure I still have a couple from 1985.
Seeing this has sent me on a quest to find my FRED, been years since I have seen him. He cam from a day pack I swear was left over from Vietnam. Man I luved the pork & gravy dehides, not to mention the mix stews we would cook up between us but the eggs in a tin I can do without ever seeing or eating that again.
Had FRED for 20 years but seeing I have not been camping for way too long I do not know where he resides so off to find him hopefully.
Wow. In 1985, I was a 2nd year apprentice.
1985, I was in the NZ army and living in Singapore! Had just turned 18 and was the 3rd youngest out of 508 soldiers living in camp!Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
What was the army doing in Singapore?
Need to know, wink wink nod nod say no more.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
1985 gee I'd been married 2 years, and had a good back
1985 I did get married............... and still am to the same woman I married - in more ways than one, she never changed into the demented sour crabby one that alot of them turn into...........
AND
on top of that, I can only find 1 FRED - and he is a 1989 vintage
have to keep looking I think
or go to my Fathers place........
Ever since the Malayan conflict, the NZ army has been stationed in either Malaysia or (and not sure of when they moved) Singapore. It is the Infantry training area and grunts did a 2 years TOD there.... awesome place for an impressionable 18yo....Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
Itchy eye and bogey boys whats not to like lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Gecko17
5 X FREDS arrived today plus another style which I believe to be the Yankee version.
these will be dispersed around my gear with some permanently in the Patrol. will open a can later
for a test run lol very happy I have a fred now,they have broad arrow and 2007 stamped on them
I take it to operate you open it and rest on top of can then pierce the top and open with a to fro action
That is correct :)
Was the other one a stubby one? Sounds like the P38 US version
yeah I cant do pics ATM but a very short unit very easy to lose imo.
Look what I got today I haven't had a Fred for over 25 years ;)
I shoulda been a FRED salesman...
Whenever I suck on Fred, he gives me that funny metallic feeling, like a fork touching my tooth filling.
Yeah thats the same as my order 5 x FREDS and a gift for $15 from Ben up QLD wayQuote:
Originally Posted by growler2058
And sometimes my whole lunch was covered in black, sticky, sweet (sounds dirty doesn't it) coffee. I sometimes wondered if Fred dunnit.