Does the word tactical have any meaning in advertisements?

Do you have a recipe? I have ideas, but an expert on tactical pudding would help.

I mean, most of mine involve popcorn and sugar, but tactical ice-cream? With a tactical waffle? LETS GO!!!

(tactical Maple Syrup optional)

I don’t remember the details well enough to reproduce now, but there was a technique for combining the snack stuff from a couple of boxes of C-rats (1950s / 1960s era DoD predecessor to MREs) to produce a sorta pudding that was then cooked on the engine of your vehicle.

Something like an envelope of cocoa, a couple envelopes each of non-dairy creamer & sugar, something, something, water, stir well, pour into an empty rat can, place on running engine for 20 minutes: Yummy thickened hot pudding. With the distinct taste of diesel fumes and desert dust, but that sorta goes with the territory.

Tactical waffles are for poseurs. Only accept mil-spec waffles.

Oh… oh no. Now I want to make three batches of food-coloured camouflage waffle mixture, green, brown and the usual yellow. Mixing on the waffle iron. My kids will love this.

I mean, not mil-spec but I can pitch it to the military. I’m not familiar with the mil-spec for desserts, but I can try.

Powdered eggs.

Well, that tactically ruined my idea.

I made some of that. Now I can’t find it.

I don’t know about tactical pudding, but here’s the actual recipe for milspec chocolate chip cookies.

The key is always ingredients. To make a good tactical pudding it’s imperative to use high quality tactical sugar (and not the sort of sugar some slovenly civilian would use). And before you ask, you can readily identify tactical sugar by the prominent camouflage pattern on the packaging.

“Hooah!” ( or “Oo-rah” if you are a jarhead) is the correct acknowledgement of battle orders, as in:

“We are going to charge the waffle bar; ‘A’ Squad to secure the whipped cream depot; ‘B’ Squad pincers the buffet, SAW team covers the left flank, rifle team has the overwatch. Clear your corners, watch your background, don’t get mobbed by toddlers or mired in the syrup. Rangers, are you ready to eat some breakfast?!?” “Hooah!!!”

Stranger

“Commence Operation Jemima.”

Also known as a “twaffle”.

Nitpick: That spec defines three types of cookies (or technically, three types of dry mixes for cookies). None of them are chocolate chip. Type I cookies are chocolate flavored, but not chocolate chip.

-WildaBeast, who has to deal with actual milspecs at his job.

This would be a good time to re-read one of the Dope’s best threads about the Kodiak Power Cake waffle mix with the bear on the package. The thread even got noticed by the company that makes the mix. And I still buy a box every now and then.

Too late to edit, but now I see adding chocolate chips to the mix is an approved variation in the preparation instructions, among other variations. But that seems like something that would be added by the mess officer or whoever was preparing the cookies, not the contractor manufacturing the MIL-C-43205G cookie mix.

I get a chuckle out of this thread.

Now, trust me when I say I’ve been through a lot of legit, real-world-needs-to-be-hardened ‘tactical’ gear, and some crapola that’s straight up lame-ass ‘Gucci gear.’ I shall yield to my esteemed colleague @Bear_Nenno to confirm my observations and expectations.

Nowadays, everytime I hear the word “tactical’ I am immediately reminded of those 'Tac Glasses” commercials that used to play on TV, with some random wanna-be* dressed in now-obsolete woodland camo, standing in front of a HMMWV and camo netting. IIRC, that dude wasn’t even military. The ‘glasses’ themselves were “inspired” by “our deployed heroes overseas” and were nothing but geriatric fit-over sunglasses my Pop-Pop used to wear over his prescription lenses, so he could drive during the daytime. Discourse doesn’t have an icon with eyes that roll that far back into my head, so this one for ‘Nick Bolton’* has to suffice . . . :roll_eyes:

*Note: at first I couldn’t remember his name. And then, unfortunately, I did. . .

Tripler
Don’t get me started on “tactical” nukes.

How about tactical Tic-Tacs? :grin:

Tac-Tic-Tals.

I was looking into getting some sort of holder/holster for my smart
phone, and found this :-

..so obviously I will want that one, because it’s Tactical !