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Posted on 11/25/2012 10:46:52 AM PST by drewh
IIRC, back in the 90s the DoD came up with their own energy/power bar instead of using commercially available ones. They were called “Hooah! bars” or something like that, and (again, IIRC) meant for First Strike Rations and other lightweight meal kits.
I always thought it tasted more like a cross between spotted owl and California condor, but hey.....that's just me.
Next time just call Oak Brothers or Oma’s Choice and the troops will thank you.
That will be 1.25 mil. Paypal?
Pentagon Spends WASTES $1.5 Million To Develop Its Own Jerky (that tastes like a Fruit Roll Up)
God forbid we do something nice for the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the least we could do.
jerky that tastes like fruit roll ups is something nice??? if you say so...
While at the same time contacting military retirees that further throat cutting is coming this next year and the victim will be military retirees.
“As to just going commercial...”
They did go commercial. They teamed up with FPL Foods for the development.
What did they develop? ‘Continuous Osmotic Dehydration’.
http://science.dodlive.mil/2012/09/27/army-designing-tastier-meats/
The link above contains the second quote I have seen from this Yang guy, saying normal jerky is to salty...which makes me suspicious there is a ‘Lets Move’ component to this (and skepical the jerky tastes good at all).
Anyway, that’s the $1.5 million voila moment. Instead of using salt to cure the meat, the meat is “...pulled through an osmotic solution [composed of sucrose/sodium chloride/water] that extracts moisture” (I’ll ignore the fact that ‘continuous osmotic dehydration’ uses sodium chloride in its no salt breakthrough dehydration method).
BTW, the Army already uses jerky in its First Strike Rations...’The use of commercial off-the-shelf products like this is one of the ways development time of the FSR was lowered.’:
http://www.mreinfo.com/us/fsr/first-strike-ration.html
So, unless this new jerky is remarkably cheaper, lighter, tastier...something, its just a classic case of a solution in search of a problem.
bump
There is no telling what secret ingredient they wanted to test in this jerky.
I would assume that they want to get all the nutrion in as small a package as is possible to fit in the soldiers pack/gear.
Might also want to put some sort of turbo charger in it to increase strengh and endurance.
Tea Party people should be screaming about issues like this till we change the culture of washington. Who thinks that the defense Dept should be creating food products - send out to the industry a request for bids and for a variety of tastes. The same thing should be done till every dept is more effective rather than LARGER.
Basic Rule:
If you can find it in the Yellow Pages, government doesn't need to do it.
i'd like to know who did the RFP and who was head of testing and what their background is...
i’d like to know why this crap has not been stopped? What the heck is wrong with these folks? When does the crap stop?
at least not till the mutt in the white hut is gone...
Pork and little mf’ers jerky?
Beef and grease jerky¿?
Only the best c-rat flavors!
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