I seem to recall that spaghetti came on line in “C’s” during my tour. It was decent with adds. The best I found was Beef spiced with sauce,throw in some Vietnamese green onions growing all over our A.O. and some hot sauce. It was flat out tasty. The beans and weenies invited culinary magic. Ham and eggs were inedible, but in the 25th Division we often got hot breakfast in mermite cans flown out from Cu Chi. We often got chicken fried steak also, although it was pegged as water buffalo.
The heat tabs for cooking C’s were pretty useless so we took claymores apart and cooked with C4. Once a claymore remnant in the trash burn set our night logger ammo dump on fire. Fortunately the Captain (lacking volunteers ) put it out.
I remember the tropical Hershey bars as being particularly nasty. Sundry Packs had better treats and smokes.
One day me and a friend while guarding the Phu Cuong bridge on the Saigon River hitch-hiked ,carrying 12 guage pumps to Lai Khe base camp for cheeseburgers. Oh to be young and foolish and bullet proof.