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Yep. When I worked there as a volunteer and on contracts for a whitecaps I would get MREs on Flower Street for under 50 cents. Flower Street had rickety grocery stores catering to foreigners. Meals Ready to Eat cost US taxpayers $6+ each. So “pennies to dimes” is right on.

Now some of the MREs were past expiration but that’s irrelevant as they last forever except for Tabasco sauce drying out. I ate them so much I made a menu of what all 28 varieties contained, so I could buy the ones I liked and keep inventory.