New year, new MREs

Marine Corps News ^ | Jan 4, 2005 | Lance Cpl. R. Drew Hendricks

[SandRat]

Four new Meal-Ready-to-Eat menus have arrived to replace a few of the outdated and unwanted menus. Photo by: Lance Cpl. R. Drew Hendricks

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What's out

Jambalaya

· Cajun rice with sausage

Ooooooooh noooooo. That's sacrilegious.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Mmmm! MRE Slopy Joes!

[CAP811]

Need one more, Ribeye with Guinness stout.

[SandRat]

Blasted YANKEEESS!!!!!

[csmusaret]

Meals Rejected by Ethiopians

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Grrrrrrrrr

[1rudeboy]

Someone from the New York Times will shortly be by to lament that none of the new selections are halal.

[tet68]

I miss my pork steak.
I don't miss my Ham and Mother*******,
a tiny piece of ham and FOUR of the
largest LIMA beans you have ever seen in your life!!!

Cinnimon roll, and Pall Malls like a gift from the gods.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm a Combat Services Troop. First, I'm PO'ed that I'm learning about the menu change via FR instead of my chain of command. Second... Pasta and vegetables in tomato sauce and Jambalaya were two of the greatest MREs for us older guys. They even had shrimp in the jambalaya. It was good. And it may have been one of the few that had the jalepeno cheese spread in the pack.

My culinary school buddies laughed at me about my unreasonable attraction to the jalapeno cheese spread... until I held a blind tasting. The stuff is good.

/johnny

[angkor]

"If there were four MRE boxes with one MRE left in each, all of them would be Country Captain's Chicken,"

Ha ha.

When we were transiting from Kuwait to Baghdad via the Ali al Salem airbase at 3AM, they had dozens of boxes of Country Captain's Chicken and the Pasta with Vegetables, and not much more. I had two bites, then the cheese and crackers, and I was finished.

[Billthedrill]

Kids these days. In my day we used to love Ham And Lima Beans.

Well, some of us liked it.

Well, if you had to repair a tire and you didn't have anything else...

[Lady Jag]

Bwahaha!!

[csmusaret]

I used to trade for ham & limas cause they came in a big can.

[yarddog]

I have never been in the military but got to try some of them around 15 years ago. A friend who was in the National Guard, traded me 12 of them which I took on a camping trip.

I can remember people complaining about them but I thought they were pretty good. I remember a pork patty which was great and the white cheeze, eaten with crackers was unusually good.

I guess like anything, you would get tired of them all the time.

[JRandomFreeper]

On my last deployment outside of CONUS we had one guy that loved the Country Captain Chicken (NASTY curried chicken) but it never sold, and everybody traded their CCC with that one guy. The pasta & veg sold well where we were. I would pick it over the Black Bean Burrito anytime.

We did two hots and an MRE, so a lot of guys just skipped the MRE.

Much better to have A-rats at an Air Force Base. Any day.

/johnny

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I can't believe they cut the Jambalaya out. During Rita, I had to fight my family to get that packet. I was a touch more generous when it came to the Cajun rice with sausage. Not much. But enough so they wouldn't hold it against me for hogging all the 'good stuff'. Maybe they'll get enough complaints and bring them back...I can dream.

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I went to the spare bedroom and found... Menu No. 18---Cajun rice w/beans and sausage. I hide a few in the bottom of the box. he he he he

[elli1]

I think the Jambalaya will be around until 2007.

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