"They're full of calories and carbs, a Dr. Atkins nightmare. "
IIRC each MRE is somewhere between 5000 & 7500 calories.
The funniest one I heard is "Meals Resisting Excretion."
The rib bones are not edible and would only add to the weight and size of the package. So, boneless.
I lived in Cajun country for a couple of years. I had to get relatives to mail me food rations.
I'm old enough to remember the old C-rations. These can't be any worse.
Being that I keep them around for emergencies.. I have developed a taste for them.. Some of the newer ones are REALLY Decent.
I have yet to have any "issues" with them.. lol but I don't eat them day in day out.. just when they need to be rotated which I do every once and a while.. especially the ones I keep in the vehicle for emergencies.
Some real life experience with them. Don't be shy about keeping a few extra in your cars folks.. you get stuck somewhere at LEAST you have some food. Don't worry about heat either. Out here in Nevada my in car temps probably reach well over 140, I rotate mine out yearly and have NEVER had one go bad on me.. even in that kind of heat. They keep pretty well in super hot conditions as long as you rotate them out every year or so.
"I like the pasta. Cameraman Michael Pohl likes the spare rib (which curiously contains no actual ribs — just a meat patty). Producer Nicola Sadler likes the beef enchiladas. We do a lot of swapping. I take Nicola's peanut butter; she prefers the cheese spread. Michael swaps chocolate mint cake for strawberry milkshake powder. It's really obvious which MREs the soldiers don't like; Cajun rice with beans, and jambalaya remain unopened."
Sounds like lunch at any elementary school in the country, but the real meat of the story is as one reads further at Fox News.
There does appear to be progress in Iraq.
They need to bring back the Meatballs in BBQ sauce!
I can take FOX embeds, but I don't think they ought to be there just the same. Other presstitutes should be give MRE's marked D-CON.
Chicken a la king - gag.
But you can keep the concrete cracker!
I was in when the switch was made from c-rats to MREs and it wasn't long before we were longing for the "good old days", let me tell you. I hope they've improved those things.
Yeah, but they don't have Lucky Strikes inside.
Can someone tell me if MRE's come with any other necessities. C-rations used to contain a small bundle of toilet paper and a small pack of 4 cigarettes. Occasionally you would also get a couple of "stimulators, interdential" which were balsa wood toothpicks. Others contained a small can opener called a P-38 to open the cans with.
I'm sure they don't come with cigarettes anymore, but back in the olden days, we would share the C-ration cigarettes until they were gone. You knew you were getting low when you were down to the Kents.
Cookie says there is too much complaining on this thread! :)
most guys in the bush had hot sauce
Heat them up quickly with C-4
No one smoked Chesterfields.
Fruit cake was not our friend.
C-rats. were fazed out in my unit(2/7 1ST Marines ) around the Tet offensive.