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Combat Feeding Directorate improves MREs
U.S. Army News Service ^
| May 16, 2006
Posted on 05/19/2006 3:42:51 PM PDT by 68skylark
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It looks like we're in for a long war. We might as well serve good food along the way.
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posted on
05/19/2006 3:42:52 PM PDT
by
68skylark
To: 68skylark
It's admirable to join up out of patriotism but,gosh darn it,don't join up for the chow!
To: 68skylark
Some of those selections look like they're for issue to the 34th Urban Metrosexual Combat Exfoliation Team (Provisional)!
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:00:49 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
To: 68skylark
Reads like a recipe for heart disease.
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:02:02 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
LOL...my son said that after a month of nothing but MREs he hates them. When he joined he really liked eating them...but not anymore.
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:03:33 PM PDT
by
556x45
To: 556x45
this'll keep ya more 'regular' than MREs.
can't wait to hear the nicknames these items will get.
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:12:58 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!)
To: 556x45
Hot Sauce - the key to all field rations is Hot Sauce.
Not the "Damnation Inferno" stuff but assorted pepper sauces.
Got somebody overseas? Send a care package with assorted pepper sauces, a few assorted spices, baby wipes, hand/body lotion, Gold Bond powder and sun screen. When the box is packed use hard candy (jolly rancher, butterscotch, etc)to fill the voids.
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:14:17 PM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: 68skylark
Instant vanilla or chocolate pudding
Toaster pastries – chocolate chip or French toast
Chipotle snack bread
Chocletto's candy (chocolate toffee candy)
Twizzler Nibs (small red licorice candy)
Chocolate-covered coffee beans
Patriotic cookies (sugar cookie with flags/Soldiers imprinted on surface)
Cheez-Its, hot and spicy
Irish Cream flavored coffee
Banana strawberry dairy shake
Yes, it sounds like troops are demanding more health conscious stuff! Spaghetti and meatballs in spicy tom sauce was not that bad. The cheese and crackers were consistent.
To: 68skylark
The new items and replacements are the result of extensive evaluations with the very people who will be eating the meals: the nation's Warfighters. What a strange idea...
Somewhere a Nazi saboteur is still chuckling over inflicting Ham & Lima Beans on my generation...
To: 68skylark
I got to experience the first incarnation of MRE's back when I was in the Army, and as long as they keep away from those dehydrated strawberries they'll do fine! :)
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:30:26 PM PDT
by
Pox
To: 556x45
So, with all these smart guys we can't develop a 'salad ready to eat?'
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:32:08 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Rakkasan1
Well it ain't ham and lima beans (ham'n mothers) but some of the meals look interesting.
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:36:00 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: 68skylark
Instant vanilla or chocolate pudding Toaster pastries – chocolate chip or French toast
Chipotle snack bread
Chocletto's candy (chocolate toffee candy)
Twizzler Nibs (small red licorice candy)
Chocolate-covered coffee beans
Patriotic cookies (sugar cookie with flags/Soldiers imprinted on surface)
Cheez-Its, hot and spicy
Irish Cream flavored coffee
Damn, if the enemy don't get ya, the menu will. Join the Army, get shot at, come back with cancer and no teeth. Ugh! What listing of CRAP!!
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:38:13 PM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(Why isn't there an "NRA" for the rest of my rights?)
To: 68skylark
Some of that stuff doesn't belong..
Soldiers aren't "health conscious" as mentioned in the article. Yes, they want to come home in one piece, but want real food for real hunger. Splenda? Ersatz food equals zero calories.
To: All
"Chocolate-covered coffee beans" That sounds good.
To: 556x45
LOL...my son said that after a month of nothing but MREs he hates them. Looks like he went to the wrong place! When I was in Afghanistan I never had a single MRE although they were made available to us.
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posted on
05/19/2006 4:54:18 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
To: billorites
Reads like a recipe for heart disease. Soldiers in the field burn a lot of calories, and it's hard to get them to eat enough -- a sharp drop in body weight hurts physical and mental performance.
It's my impression that the Army will put anything into MRE's that they think will be eaten -- if they had to go with 100% candy and cookies, I think they'd do it.
To: monkapotamus
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. When I've been out in the field I'm just dying for caffeine, and the instant coffee in MRE's is horrible. The chocolate-covered coffee beans sound great.
To: operation clinton cleanup
No Way! John Wayne Bars were the SH!T!!. I don't know why they are not part of the ration Pack. I loved that part of the C rats.
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posted on
05/19/2006 5:18:00 PM PDT
by
RGRX
To: 68skylark
Driven by Warfighter preferences... Warfighter???? Is this to be the all inclusive term for grunts in the trench?
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posted on
05/19/2006 5:53:41 PM PDT
by
Luke
(CPO, USCG (Ret))
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