Looks like garbage to me
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You guys slay me!
This was a long time coming. 20yrs ago we speculated on an MRE pizza and decided that there was no way they could pull it off and have it be edible. That was back in the days of the green eggs and ham, tuna and noodles, corned beef hash, etc.
The new stuff with the vegetarian and kosher options were more imaginative but didnt' taste much better. As someone said, the Beef Stew was generally the winner, and it came with one of the better fruit cakes. That "oatmeal log" was the best though: you could coat it in peanut butter and choke it down and be certain you wouldn't have to take a shit in the field for at least a week or two. But when you DID shit that thing out, you needed an episiotomy.
The new stuff with the vegetarian and kosher options were more imaginative but didnt' taste much better. As someone said, the Beef Stew was generally the winner, and it came with one of the better fruit cakes. That "oatmeal log" was the best though: you could coat it in peanut butter and choke it down and be certain you wouldn't have to take a shit in the field for at least a week or two. But when you DID shit that thing out, you needed an episiotomy.
Hell, I'd trade some "real" food for some proper pork adobo and lumpia.
Throw some lechon and some pancit in!
Definitely, but you can keep the Balut (sp?)
The good thing about balut is that it definitely solves the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
Things certainly are getting better. There's a couple new flavors I've had this deployment-- Asian beef curtains*, and some Mexican taco something-or-another. The former is my new favorite, behind Meatballs in marinara (purely for the jalapeno cashews).
Pizza sounds great to me.
*strips
Pizza sounds great to me.
*strips
The good thing about balut is that it definitely solves the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
I guess that depends on if we're discussing the order in which we swallowed it, or puked it back up a few minutes later.
Dammit, I've been debating my upcoming vacation, and while I'm in SE Asia and Indonesia, it sounds as though I may need to stop in the PI for a few days at least. The food alone is worth it, and beautiful brown women and cold San Mig don't hurt either.
If you ate C's long enough even the ham and muthas got to be eddible. Most anything beat our designated mess hall, that mess sgt. could make pb&j toxic. To this day i hope he died of the curse of the seven cross-eyed c...suckers. The gut robbing bastard.
Anything is better than beef frankfurters.
I was just waiting for someone to bitch about those.
I really think the old green eggs and ham (omelet) was the worst thing they ever put into an MRE wrapper. What I found with the dicks of death was that if I cooked them on the hood/roof of a Hum-V in the open packet so the congealed fat turned back to liquid, then coated them with mustard and ate them on shelf-stable bread, they were palatable. I did the same thing with the spam slice: either cooked it on the hot surface of the vehicle or busted it up and mixed in some mayo packets and made spam salad on crackers it was doable. Of course liberal amounts of Tony's creole seasoning on absolutely everything was required.
I could NOT disagree more. The omlettes were awesome,, so were the "old rotten potatoes" they came with. You cowboy's just didn't know how to do it..
1: have a hoochmate who's inlaws are from ' nawlins.
2: have a hoochmate who's inlaws love to send 4-6 different little bottles of hot sauce per week in care packages. (he became really popular)
3: trade everyone around you your nasty-assed stews, ala kings, and pork patties for thier (soon to be) glorious omelette and au gratin spuds.. haha suckers!!
4: cut a 1/4 inch slot in said packet, add sauce de juer, liberally. Fold over covering slit. Knead/mash brutally untill you achieve the consistantcy of Alpo (hell, at this point it might as well be Alpo)
5: open pouch tearing notch to notch, unwrap your feasting implement (10 inch long brown spoon). This technique could even make the tuna/noodles palatable, however, the sauce to tuna ratio could become prohibitive given the unsure re-supply)
6: Serve with a side of "scope" and sprite.
Enjoy the good life. Living large in the AO!!
Welcome to very late 1990
1: have a hoochmate who's inlaws are from ' nawlins.
2: have a hoochmate who's inlaws love to send 4-6 different little bottles of hot sauce per week in care packages. (he became really popular)
3: trade everyone around you your nasty-assed stews, ala kings, and pork patties for thier (soon to be) glorious omelette and au gratin spuds.. haha suckers!!
4: cut a 1/4 inch slot in said packet, add sauce de juer, liberally. Fold over covering slit. Knead/mash brutally untill you achieve the consistantcy of Alpo (hell, at this point it might as well be Alpo)
5: open pouch tearing notch to notch, unwrap your feasting implement (10 inch long brown spoon). This technique could even make the tuna/noodles palatable, however, the sauce to tuna ratio could become prohibitive given the unsure re-supply)
6: Serve with a side of "scope" and sprite.
Enjoy the good life. Living large in the AO!!
Welcome to very late 1990
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I'm completely familiar with the method of drowning shit in hot sauce, as I was said guy from New Orleans. I just never found a hot sauce that could mask the texture of slimy eggs. You're right about the all-rotten potatoes being the shit though. I tended to hit everything with Tony Chacere's creole seasoning or my shaker bottle of cayenne. There just wasn't enough love in the world to rescue the omelets.
Slimy?, dude we must be talking about different year groups. Without the hot sauce, these omlettes could keep you from spitting for a week. Correctly mixed, both the omelette/sauce and potato/sauce mixs (mixes, mix's, still looks wrong) looked kinda big mac sauce, a very distinct shade of orange, with the only solids being the tiny chunks of "ham?" or potato.
All that aside, an MRE pizza would be cool, but I have 3 observations:
- pizza is a "pig-out" , not possible in an MRE
- this "pizza" looks like a totino's canadian bacon f*cked a granola bar
- seriously,, what do you include as a side? Somehow crackers and grape jelly doesn't seam right. But then again,, I'm kinda old
God love anyone who can really put pizza in an AO.
All that aside, an MRE pizza would be cool, but I have 3 observations:
- pizza is a "pig-out" , not possible in an MRE
- this "pizza" looks like a totino's canadian bacon f*cked a granola bar
- seriously,, what do you include as a side? Somehow crackers and grape jelly doesn't seam right. But then again,, I'm kinda old
God love anyone who can really put pizza in an AO.
I would think pizza should be something that you look forward to, on a higher level than shit out of a pouch. Frankly, you guys have been charitable towards this abomination: what it looks like is something that got scraped off the inside of a birdbath by an OB/GYN.
...or Ham and Motherfuckers...
speaking of which:
About a month ago, P6 siad dinner was all me. I looked in the freezer that morning before heading to class. I found ham, ham hocks, and frozen lima beans. My inner Marine/Goblin grew this huge shit eating grin, and took it all out. Hocks into the pot to sit on a low simmer all day, then about an hour before everyone came home, into the pot went the motherfuckers and some onion and carrot.
I found it odd why no one would eat this meal I slaved over. She liked it. The boys though, they 'tasted' it and decided hungry was the better option. Me, I just smiled and said, it's dinner, pull up a bowl and spoon or go hungry. If you have a problem maybe your mom might cook you something else.
There were no leftovers. They decided hot sauce would make it better, then had seconds
Ham and Motherfuckers, the bane of any C-Rat or MRE, or CW-Rat, and to think the Brits, Aussies, and Polish STILL have that meal in their collections
C Rats were mighty good. We had green eggs and ham in a can too as well as ham&motherfuckers and other tasty things like beefsteak, pork slices, beans and meatballs, great candy and fruit cake, it was great. It was all in cans so we didn't have to waste any water and the weight helped us balance out our ruck sacks.
We also had LRRP rations that were on the top of the cusine order. Things like the chili and beef and chicken stew had peas or beans in them that if you soaked them for 4 or 5 hours reduced the brinell hardness of them to only about 4000. Mighty fine stuff. Masked the taste of the fine water we used in them also. Chicken and rice and beef and rice were fantastic. Reminded me of the paste in 1st grade.
Yea, we had it better than you guys did or do. Maybe they should bring back those great meals for you so you can better enjoy the great outdoor adventure. They also had these incense smelling heat tabs for heating them if you were low on C4. As they burned they gave off a good odor and helped hold the mosquitos at bay. Regards, FM
We also had LRRP rations that were on the top of the cusine order. Things like the chili and beef and chicken stew had peas or beans in them that if you soaked them for 4 or 5 hours reduced the brinell hardness of them to only about 4000. Mighty fine stuff. Masked the taste of the fine water we used in them also. Chicken and rice and beef and rice were fantastic. Reminded me of the paste in 1st grade.
Yea, we had it better than you guys did or do. Maybe they should bring back those great meals for you so you can better enjoy the great outdoor adventure. They also had these incense smelling heat tabs for heating them if you were low on C4. As they burned they gave off a good odor and helped hold the mosquitos at bay. Regards, FM
Ham 'n Muthas was my all-time fay-vo-ryte Charlie Rat; that and some GI Mocha made my day. Never had a GI backup as long as that stuff was close at hand.
I am truly saddened that no such or similar line of consumables exists in this modern age. Oh, the humanity...!
Dinty Moore and Boyardee try, but just manage to fail, at providing a bite of nostalgia...
MRE's...; I has 'em, but I'm not in any great hurry to open some right soon. They constitute the last thing on earth I'll willingly chomp down on. Things gotta be soooooooooo bad...; AKA at Chateau Greg as 'Meals Rejected by Ethiopia'.
With respect, Charlie Rats were a genuinely functional proposition. The folks who seriously considered a need to replace them with something like (dare I say it?) ah-HEM ARRRRGH EEEs probably had some sort of hidden fetish that even now does not (nor ever will) allow a politically correct label to be uttered in mixed company.
Greg
I am truly saddened that no such or similar line of consumables exists in this modern age. Oh, the humanity...!
Dinty Moore and Boyardee try, but just manage to fail, at providing a bite of nostalgia...
MRE's...; I has 'em, but I'm not in any great hurry to open some right soon. They constitute the last thing on earth I'll willingly chomp down on. Things gotta be soooooooooo bad...; AKA at Chateau Greg as 'Meals Rejected by Ethiopia'.
With respect, Charlie Rats were a genuinely functional proposition. The folks who seriously considered a need to replace them with something like (dare I say it?) ah-HEM ARRRRGH EEEs probably had some sort of hidden fetish that even now does not (nor ever will) allow a politically correct label to be uttered in mixed company.
Greg
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