Meals Ready-To-Eat Get Tweak To Add Some Flavor To Army

Wall Street Journal | March 14, 2003 | By Dan Morse, Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal

[KantianBurke]

a little off topic but anyone remember the thread about The Outback going to Afghanistan with 10000 pounds of beef and other assorted goodies and cooked it all up for the troops?

[Salman]

bump

[North Coast Conservative]

I was always partial to "Ham and Lima Beans". I always had enough to eat!!BUMP

In God We Trust…..Semper Fi

In God We Trust.....Semper Fi

[HairOfTheDog]

Coming this year are Hearty Clam Chowder, Pot Roast with Vegetables and a Poppy Seed Pound Cake. "We're working on a salmon," he tells the soldiers.

"Yeech," says Lt. Eddie Commender.

"No, I tried it. It's good," Mr. Acheson says.

Ping!

[Braak]

Biggest problem I found with MREs? They're bland, so after several months of eating them in hot climes? Yeah, I'd be ready to rock and or roll on the Iraqis too. BTW, that constipation comment, it's true. I used to have MREs a lot, and never fail, I was constipated for days after I stopped eating them!

[decimon]

The worst I had was the pre-digested crap called "B-Rations."

[dts32041]

Now if they were to bring back Lima Beans and MOFO's then they would have a culinary delight to die for.

[TADSLOS]

BTW, that constipation comment, it's true. I used to have MREs a lot, and never fail, I was constipated for days after I stopped eating them!

Agreed. MRE's are bricks waiting to be excreted from the body. They're made to accomodate the calorie burn of soldiers in their late teens and early twenties, not us 40 something old farts. I could usually only eat one a day and made sure to drink ample water to help with the flush.

[CheneyChick]

LOL - the longest I ate these was for one solid week. We thought MRE meant: Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.

Cheers, CC :)

[Joe Brower]

A-yep, the pound cake is A-numbah-1.

And yes, the mint chocolate cake is indeed weird. Tasty, but weird.

[Iris7]

Your "Ham and Lima Beans" post brought back strong memories. Smell, taste and texture! The last entree can to be taken!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

BTW, that constipation comment, it's true. I used to have MREs a lot, and never fail, I was constipated for days after I stopped eating them!

Yup, after eating a couple of them in the field, I sometimes went a week before nature would finally call. Back when I was in, MRE's had just replaced C-Rats, so we were the first guinea pigs. Ham and chicken loaf, and chicken ala king were the worst.

[Selective Fire]

"We're working on a salmon," he tells the soldiers.

"Yeech," says Lt. Eddie Commender.

"No, I tried it. It's good," Mr. Acheson says.

TT Ping

[angkor]

In the recent past you could buy real MREs direct from the authorized DoD manufacturer Sopakco/Crown Point in South Carolina. But they're temporarily deferring civilian sales.

"We are no longer taking orders for SURE-PAK meal cases due to current world events, and the resulting production increases in military product."

http://www.crownpt.com/MREs.htm

[FRMAG]

And, after eaten the call of Gas! GAs! followed soon after.

Always favored the turkey loaf myself and the fruit cocktail was to kill for.

At the last reunion of my Nam Vets group one of the guys had found a complete "C" that had Ham and Mothers as the entree. we auctioned it off against the general fund and it brought in quite a few bucks.

Brother that bought it swore he had some C4 squirlled away back in Bama and was gonna put that can in low orbit.

[KneelBeforeZod]

My friends brother is over there, he has been using the empty little bottles of tobasco to send back sand from Kuwait and ________

[mhking]

[SkyPilot]

The worst ones were the Omlet and anything with Tuna in it.

You guys should see the food that the contractor Brown and Root serves in Bosnia-----you would not believe it--awesome.

[Salgak]

The MRE "Ham Slice" was always good. But I also remember C-rations, the Ham-and-eggs breakfast always referred to as "Ham-and-hockers". . .