[John Jorsett]

I don't know what sort of MRE's were distributed but most of the dinner entrees are indeed unfit to eat without being heated

I haven't eaten every MRE entree there is, but all the ones that I have tried are edible without heating. Anyone who turns it down on that basis just isn't hungry enough yet. Which is fine: it leaves more for the other people.

[hiredhand]

The Chicken Ala-King MRE is disgusting (IMHO) cold. But I hardly ever got one, and when I did, I could swap with other people who just didn't mind it.

Strangely enough, I developed a taste for the dried pork chop....just as it was....dried.... :-) It helped if you pretended it was some sort of strange, dry meat sandwich. :-)