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Ungrateful People
Septemeber 2, 2005 | stan25

Posted on 09/02/2005 12:50:00 PM PDT by stan_25

In the middest of the chaos and despair, that is in the City of New Orleans, there have been people waiting for at least three days for food and water. The media has been squawking the loudest about the slowness of the food convoys. When a truckload of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) finally arrived in to help feed the masses, that have not had any food or water; you would think that these people would be grateful.

That seems to be not the case in the eyes of some people. Yes, that is right, there are some people that have refused to have anything to do with the MREs. A case in point, a woman that was hollering the loudest about not having anything to eat, was handed an MRE and refused it. The reason? It had not been heated.

Well sister, I hope that you can live for a few more days. It is going to quite awhile before there is any way to serve up any hot meals. The only way that there might be any hot food, is if you build a campfire and cook food that way. I doubt that you would be able to find any food to cook over a campfire anyway, as the government won’t there to hand out the food to cook or to make the fire for you.

If our troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan can gain weight by eating MREs, surely you can subsist on these for a few days. The same troops that are subsisting on these MREs and have been for the last 2.5 years, seem to take it all in stride as a part of doing business.


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To: toldyou; All

Thanks.... :-) LOTS of posters in this thread have replied to me about seeing/hearing the same thing!


101 posted on 09/02/2005 1:25:55 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: jbeachgrl5

LOL! ;-) You're BAD! :-)


102 posted on 09/02/2005 1:26:31 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: musical_airman
Those MREs with the little "heat em up pouch" were just being issued as I was on my way out the door in 1998. ...as many of those things as I ate COLD, I sure would have enjoyed them more if they had been warm! ;-) Ah well. I always thought they were pretty good anyway. I was one of those people. :-)
103 posted on 09/02/2005 1:28:59 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: groovychick; All
AryanPower is TOAST. Admin Mods zapped him/her/it...whatever it was. :-)
104 posted on 09/02/2005 1:30:36 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: riverrunner
I heard a Radio Canada story a couple of years ago. They were interviewing the US Army food lab in Natick, MA,
iirc, because of the Afghan HME drops.

The lab was working on PB&J sandwiches that would last packaged for a few years. "Anybody can package the bread,
PB, and jelly separately, but ours is going to be ready-to-eat out of the package..."

105 posted on 09/02/2005 1:30:47 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: robowombat

I heard they are self-heating.


106 posted on 09/02/2005 1:30:54 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: HairOfTheDog
We need all the help we can get, without putting off anyone. I am sick and tired of negativity, blame and fingerpointing.

You didn't post it, my gripe is with the poster that did.


I understand. :-)
107 posted on 09/02/2005 1:31:41 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: robowombat

They are quite "fit to eat". Sure they are more appetizing warm, but that doesn't matter.

I've eaten plenty of MRE's cold and they are a meal. I've gone 5 days without eating and I'll tell you what, I wasn't too picky about what I ate by day three. Appetizing wasn't even on the list of my priorities.

If this story is true, then this woman had eaten a full meal within 12 hours.


108 posted on 09/02/2005 1:33:04 PM PDT by SampleMan
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To: JewishRighter
Oh, how it makes me cry for the legacy of self-reliance that made this country so great.

Oh the legacy is here...just not much in the blue areas.
109 posted on 09/02/2005 1:34:38 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: rineaux
Please do not encourage them to start fires.

They've already started. :-(

110 posted on 09/02/2005 1:35:40 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Googled images for "Cajun MRE" and this is all I got.
111 posted on 09/02/2005 1:36:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: stan_25

I never thought I'd be able to complain about the complainers! Thanks for the thread!

Did anyone see the woman, standing on dry land, sun shining, outside her brother's house, in Mississippi or Alabama, demanding that she be given a place to stay? This was two days ago. She was complaining that she hasn't been given a place to stay yet, and that she HAD to sleep on her brother's porch. (His house was intact.)

The only thing I could think of is that he didn't want her in the house!


112 posted on 09/02/2005 1:36:39 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: hiredhand
Aw Come on.....Ham and Mothers were my favorite. I always had enough to eat.

In God We Trust.....Semper Fi

113 posted on 09/02/2005 1:37:03 PM PDT by North Coast Conservative (Never Take a Gun to a Gunfight That Is Less Than .40 Cal ..... VIVA LA MIGRA!!!!)
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To: Iowa Granny

I saw it too. With her 91 year old father? She was complaining about the food. I've eaten them.
They may be `M(eals) R(ejected) by E(thiopians)' but if you won't eat an MRE then you aren't really hungry.
MRE's are good enough for our troops but not good enough for her, I guess.


114 posted on 09/02/2005 1:37:06 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: North Coast Conservative
Aw Come on.....Ham and Mothers were my favorite. I always had enough to eat.

In God We Trust.....Semper Fi


Oooh yes! The ham slice was VERY good too! Now I'm getting hungry with all this talk of food... :-)
115 posted on 09/02/2005 1:40:33 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: Brian_Baldwin

Brian: I think I know the food distribution that you are referring to. Wasn't that when the Symbionese Liberation Front was holding Patty Hearst hostage and they demanded that her father donate about $40,000 worth of food to the poor? They went through a series of those demands, and then they never released her. And then she joined their group. I think there were at least two of those food drop offs and they both turned into near riots. I had moved from the Bay Area at the time, but I was following the case closely in the newspaper and on TV.


116 posted on 09/02/2005 1:44:44 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: hiredhand

Thanks for posting this. the author nails it.


117 posted on 09/02/2005 1:45:47 PM PDT by miele man
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To: BurbankKarl

What a beautiful baby!


118 posted on 09/02/2005 1:46:10 PM PDT by Arpege92 ("I am happy, be it yourselves." - Pope John Paul II)
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To: stan_25

I saw the interview. The woman actually complained that the MRE wasn't heated, and that the crackers were dry!

As others have already stated: there are chemical heating packets with instructions inside of each meal. And every MRE is edible at room temperature.

If I were hungry enough, I could eat a room-temperature Chicken ala King MRE, or even a C-Ration Lima Beans and Ham.


119 posted on 09/02/2005 1:46:43 PM PDT by 04-Bravo
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To: NeilC

I don't think she's "stranded" anymore. She's been rescued and given what the rescuers could bring.

She should take it or not take it and STFU.


120 posted on 09/02/2005 1:48:04 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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