The only time I really had an issue with IMPs was one winter exercise where, for whatever reason, the QM couldn't get breakfast meals, so all we got was corned beef hash.

Even that wouldn't have been awful, but we never had time to heat them in the morning, so ate them cold. Hell of a way to start the day.

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Well, this is the French way on an aircraft carrier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZKxqCesUCo (starts at 4:15)

it looks a tiny little bit like konjaku but if you told me to imagine a slice of a boiled or steamed loaf of a pasted mixture of all of the following ingredients* or some of them in the least possible appetizing way than that would be what i imagine.

* (fatty) meat; tofu; tahini/sesame seeds; some kind of grains or flour; maybe some alibi egg plant for additional grey color enhancement.

Now that looks interesting.

Like my coffee, I'd stick with a regular (single) order though.

It's the part of the meal classified as "vegetables, fresh" probably.

It is actually different! Beef rather than lamb, and instead of tzatziki it's "Donair sauce" made with condensed milk, vinegar, and garlic powder. No worse than Tikka Masala being quintessentially English, although it is admittedly odd.

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Essentially yes, but you can get a store-bought version here that comes in pre-cut slices that look like that.

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There's no doubt about the carrots being carrots. If the lumpy patty on the right is a burger (meat), then the grey thing would likely be either a starch or another vegetable. My guess: a slice of eggplant, also known as aubergine.

However, of the lumpy thing is a starch, then the grey slice must be meat.

Poutine, maple syrup, a double-double and we march all night.