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Private pizza: Military meal that lasts three years almost ready
AP via Fox News ^ | 2/14/14

Posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:35 PM PST by Kartographer

They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat.

Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations — known as meals ready to eat, or MREs — replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.

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TOPICS: Food; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: mre
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MRE Pizza? Hmmmmm.......
1 posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:35 PM PST by Kartographer
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To: JRandomFreeper

Ping!


2 posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:57 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

....as long as it comes with Tabasco.


3 posted on 02/14/2014 1:32:14 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Kartographer

Preppers take note...


4 posted on 02/14/2014 1:32:31 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kartographer

I believe they got it from Chuck E Cheese.


5 posted on 02/14/2014 1:33:34 PM PST by MNDude
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To: TADSLOS

What they should do is have a meal that nothing but tabasco. ;-)


7 posted on 02/14/2014 1:34:00 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
Not sure Mooshcele is going to approve.
Pizza bad; lettuce and kale good, as the kids in her program are throwing away such.
8 posted on 02/14/2014 1:34:34 PM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever!)
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To: Kartographer

“good to eat”

probably a little too relative of a term for an mre pizza with a 3-yr shelf life.


9 posted on 02/14/2014 1:34:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kartographer

Turkey pepperoni pizza also will be available for soldiers who do not eat pork products.

I wonder if they had Jews in mind.


10 posted on 02/14/2014 1:38:47 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Kartographer
Impressive.

They sure have come a long way from ham and egg C-Rats.

11 posted on 02/14/2014 1:39:22 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Kartographer

MRE. Not just a meal. It’s an adventure. Scariest MRE I ever consumed was a six-year old ration of tuna and noodles. Lived to tell about it.


12 posted on 02/14/2014 1:40:04 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Kartographer

I’m getting some of the newer lots and I will say, for the most part, they are better than the ones we got in the 1980’s.

BUT - that for “regular” meals. The more they try to get fancy with the meals the worse it tastes.

I think Pizza will be the same. Great idea but just don’t think it will come out of the pouch very well.


13 posted on 02/14/2014 1:41:19 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: PowderMonkey

Only had a few but liked the spaghetti version. There is no such thing as edible tuna in my book.


14 posted on 02/14/2014 1:42:02 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: TADSLOS
....as long as it comes with Tabasco.

I was pre-MRE, but if there was any chance of having to eat C-rations, I always carried a bottle of hot sauce.

15 posted on 02/14/2014 1:42:54 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Moonman62

I didn’t know that there were ‘Amish’ soldiers? ;-)


16 posted on 02/14/2014 1:45:21 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Starstruck

I had both. Tabasco was dummy corded to my ruck.


17 posted on 02/14/2014 1:46:15 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Kartographer

Forget about ‘last three years’, do they taste fresh NOW?


18 posted on 02/14/2014 1:52:39 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Starstruck
 photo mcilhenny-company-tabasco_zpsc60aeede.jpg
During Vietnam, the McIlhenny Tabasco folks heard how much our guys appreciated their product with their rations of "Muthas' and Ham." So, the company arranged to air drop cases of their Tabasco sauce to men in the FOBs. On each wooden case, they had stenciled the words: "Life has a special flavor, to those who fight for it." McIlhenny's. I accept no substitutes.
19 posted on 02/14/2014 1:53:50 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Sir Napsalot

>>> You can basically take the pizza, leave it on the counter, packaged, for three years and it’d still be edible,” said Michelle Richardson, a food scientist at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.

See what I mean? “Edible” don’t sound too good to me.


20 posted on 02/14/2014 1:54:10 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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