[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Four new Meal-Ready-to-Eat menus have arrived to replace a few of the outdated and unwanted menus.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.

[csmusaret]

Meals Rejected by Ethiopians

[1rudeboy]

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

[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...

[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.

[rawcatslyentist]

Not Chicken Tetrazinni!!! That was one of my favs.
Funny sounding name but delicious!!!

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Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.

He's Got A Plan
Zippo Hero

Kill A Commie For Mommie
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[andysandmikesmom]

I have several boxes full of MREs left from the hubbys time in the military...he seldom ate his MREs...just brought them home...

I dont know why we are saving them, except I understand, they will last practically forever...should there be a horrible calamity, and we cannot get food, we will be well supplied for a very long time...

[LibWhacker]

Coming up with new menu ideas is a rather large challenge. Nutritionists like Alyward have to meet all sorts of standards. These standards include nutritional value, weight & volume, and variety.

I'm having trouble with this. What with all the fantastic new chefs being cranked out by the culinary schools, and all the interest in gourmet recipes and gourmet dining nowadays, it seems to me those things wouldn't be a challenge at all, even if they have to worry about keeping costs down.

Just hire some top chefs to come up with the MRE fare and the DoD could give the troops five-star dining in a box, if it really wanted to do it. Heck, I'll loan them some of our cookbooks if they don't want to hire real chefs. There are no real obstacles to solving this problem. It's not rocket science. The only conclusion one can make: They must not want to do it, period.

[Chode]

they shoulda kept the Thai-chicken and the Capt.chicken and got rid of ALL the vegitarian ones... their only saving grace is they have better condiments.

[Drew68]

The spaghetti with meat sauce is pretty good when you add that little bottle of tabasco. Don't even need to heat it up. Tastes better than Chef Boyardee. Those heavy, moist so-called "crackers" with the "cheeze-whiz"-like spread are definately an acquired taste (and one I've never acquired).

Fortunately I'm in the Navy and rarely eat an MRE. Anytime I hear one of my shipmates bitch about navy chow I never hesitate to tell him that I'm sure there is a Marine in a foxhole somewhere who would gladly trade his MRE for the hot chow the Navy serves up. That being said, the food on an aircraft carrier is pretty damn good.

[Lancey Howard]

It was around '84 that the Marines made the switchover from c-rats to MREs. I don't recall one single Marine being happy about it. As for me, I still kept my P38 hanging with my tags and got to missing not only the c-rats (who'd a thunk?) but also the makeshift heat-tab stoves that you made out of empty c-rat cans to warm up the morning coffee. I thought the MREs were disgusting.

[Plutarch]

Lots of places sell something called "MRE's".

Anybody have a link for purchase of the genuine U.S. issued article?

(They can be useful to have for camping, etc.)

[steveo]

HA! When I was a kid we'd go to this mom and pop surplus store and buy old MREs for about 25 cents each. They had some weird cheese and WTF bar, stale crackers and cheese spread (made with latex) and a three (maybe four) pack of cigs.

[ASOC]

Anything will taste bad after you have it fro breakfast for the umteenth time. My skin still crawls at the thought of Chicken A la King as a wake up meal.

Used to carry 5 pounds of dry rice in 1/4 pound packets, would boil it up and add to whatever turned up.

MREs for 35 days in a row, sounds criminal to me.