[solzhenitsyn]

Thanks, andysandmikesmom, great story! Enjoy your retirement (won't those MREs be expired then?)

[andysandmikesmom]

They might be expired by then, tho I have heard some folks brag, that they will last forever....they are completely vacuum sealed, and I dont even know if there is an expiration date on them...I should go and check one of them, and see if they do expire....

I remember during the late 70s and early 80s, when my hubby was stationed at Ft. Bragg, he was still getting the rations in the cans, when they would have field duty...he would never eat those either...just brought them home....

But my dad, who was in WW11, always enjoyed those canned rations, I guess the C rations is what they were called...so we always saved them for when he came to visit us during the summer...he was a happy man, returning home to Chicago, with his box full of C rations...

Thanks for the good wishes for retirement...two years to go, and then we are outta here and on the road...