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Larry B Lambert's avatar

The omelet (one of the breakfasts offered by the MRE line) is quite good. If you're going back to the old C-Rats, I thought that the corned beef hash was edible. Ham and Lima beans were not.

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Dale Flowers's avatar

Read a good military scifi book recently by P.A. Piatt, "Fresh Fruit and Ammo". In it, the Space Marines were brewing hooch from lima beans. When asked what they needed when they were pinned down in a near hopeless situation, they said "Fresh Fruit & Ammo".

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Brian Lee Gnad's avatar

I agree with you on both counts. The omelets and the corned beef hash. But then I'd been eating the commercial corned beef hash out of the can since I was a kid.

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Back Porch Writer's avatar

1986: dehydrated beef patty. Should only be fed to prisoners at Gitmo, IMHO. Frankly, the designer(s) should be forced to eat it once a week.

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

TX State Guard annual training, about a decade ago. Instead of mess hall dining like previous years, we were issued MREs. The troops tossed the rations into their bags and skipped meals when they couldn't sneak off to eat on the economy. Result: a diabetic getting an ambulance ride and several heat casualties. I suppose it would be fine for 20-something combat arms kids, but this militia unit had an average age of about 40.

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John Hollowell's avatar

No MREs here got out in 1975, but lots of C-Rats, most of which were pretty good. Hot sauce saved a lot of them.

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Dale Flowers's avatar

After Hurricane Ivan we were without power for about 10 weeks. MRE's were distributed to anyone who wanted them. I got my share and gained weight eating them. The rule of thumb in times of food scarcity is "Will it make a turd?" MRE's will do that.

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Ike's avatar

The LRRP rations were heavy on beef jerky. We had no problems using them for flight rations.

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