This is soooo true. Like I feel like I pink socked myself after eating MRE's. Eh I will disagree on the cheese tortellini. When your heater works yes, but it tastes like complete ass to me at least if you don't heat it up.
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Shit the bread was worse when ripped up and put into the chili and beans not bad. I was told in basic that it is called fuck you bread, because if you don't have water, it can and will kill you its so dry. lol
Didn't those have a powdered "dairy creamer" (for coffee or something) in the pack also? I think we mixed the shake and creamer together, and added water. Trying to remember, haven't had an MRE since I retired...
Yes yes they did because it came with that little thing of instant coffee. Oh I never tried that.
I remember when the "heaters" first got added to MREs...of course I was still in Korea, so we were eating the old dark brown outer package MRE, pre-heater....cause, shelf life or something.
Bro, I think I want to buy one so my GF can try it out. She doesn't do anal. I figure after she eats one and it blows her sphincter out, she won't have any problem with me putting it in her but, because I'm nowhere near the size of the monstrosity that will come out of here lmfaooo.
Ya those things were so hit or miss. For some reason if it was cold as hell outside they never seemed to quiet work, but if it was a warm day out you're going to scald your hand trying to take the food out of the heater bag thing. When I was at Hood, I found this weird box contraption in a layout of the connex's turns out bradley's have like a plug in water/mre heater. Clearly we were infantry so we were never allowed to use it. Because god forbid hot water in a freezing Dongduchon climate.
Ham slice, shelf stable bread and the cheese spread made for a decent sandwich.You mean #4?
Fuck, that was nasty.
Cheese tortellini wasn't too bad.
I usually tried to get the ham slice, some crackers and the jalapeno cheese spread.
Put it together and get your grub on.
Then drink 4 bottles of water or its never coming out.
Ham slice came with "potatoes oh rotten", or so everyone called them. Break up the ham slice, mix it in the the potatoes, it was pretty decent...always helped to be hungry.
Dehydrated fruit cocktail. You would only eat it once without adding water.
During Desert Storm I was in heaven: no one liked Chicken ala King and I loved it....for about 6 weeks. Can't think about it now without vomiting slightly.
Anyone remember Tiger Chicken?
Anyone remember Tiger Chicken?
I believe so. I think the ones I had the other day were from 2019
As a kid I remember eating them. My Dad would bring home a case of expired ones here and there. This would have been early 90's.
The grape drink powder was awesome as a kid.
I don't remember what they all were but I don't remember any of them being bad, granted we only ate them hunting. And they all had meat (or at least supposed meat).
Also always heated them up, usually just with boiling water next to the fire. Don't remember ever using the heaters.
I was going to buy a few cases but the menus now are just horrible. Can't get a case without vegan options, stuff I wouldn't feed to prisoners, and just odd shit.
And if you want individual items you're far better off to get backpack hiking marketed stuff for the same or less cost.
The grape drink powder was awesome as a kid.
I don't remember what they all were but I don't remember any of them being bad, granted we only ate them hunting. And they all had meat (or at least supposed meat).
Also always heated them up, usually just with boiling water next to the fire. Don't remember ever using the heaters.
I was going to buy a few cases but the menus now are just horrible. Can't get a case without vegan options, stuff I wouldn't feed to prisoners, and just odd shit.
And if you want individual items you're far better off to get backpack hiking marketed stuff for the same or less cost.
I ate piles of them in the early 1990s , that little bottle of Tobasco made everything taste better .
The only one I remember being able to stomach was the C rat tuna.
Because it was...well....a can of tuna.
Where's the other guys that remember K rats and the pack of 5 cigarettes that came in them ?
Sometimes there was a pack of 2 chicklet chewing gum pebbles....those weren't bad either....if they weren't stale and crumbled.
Because it was...well....a can of tuna.
Where's the other guys that remember K rats and the pack of 5 cigarettes that came in them ?
Sometimes there was a pack of 2 chicklet chewing gum pebbles....those weren't bad either....if they weren't stale and crumbled.
You guys are making me feel old.
I used to heat up C-Rations for morning breakfast on the Jeep's exhaust manifold while I was "charging the battery" after running the radio all night.
As a side note: You only forgot one time to open the can before you set it on the manifold.
I used to heat up C-Rations for morning breakfast on the Jeep's exhaust manifold while I was "charging the battery" after running the radio all night.
As a side note: You only forgot one time to open the can before you set it on the manifold.
I liked chicken salsa and the fettuccine was not bad. The peanut butter would bind you up but as long as you drank plenty of water, you would be OK. I use to save the fruit pouches when I was inconus as my dad (Korean War vet) always liked them.
It sounds like they have come a long way with the menu from when I was in. How many remember the dehydrated beef and pork patties that would not hydrate. Yeah you will be telling your age. The beef stew and beans and franks wasn't bad,
Chili Mac is hands down the best because of all the stuff it came with. If you take the chili Mac and the jalapeño cheese that it came with, put both in the mre heater, then the cheese melts (kind of…) and you can mix it with into the Mac with the mini Tabasco and you got spicy, cheesy gourmet goodness. Pretty sure it came with pound cake and candy too.
Edit to add: every one is also right about cheese tortellini…solid choice 2nd only to chili mac
Edit to add: every one is also right about cheese tortellini…solid choice 2nd only to chili mac
Hell yeah I do. But to be honest I have been craving the good old tuna n poodle. Not sure why. Along with chalk brown Hershey bar.
I was the same way for about six months coming out of ranger school. I’d eat them in my barracks room. I’d eat them right after going to the chow hall. Must have been the pent up hunger. Thankfully everyone made fun of me until I snapped out of itSurely I'm not the only one that genuinely likes MRE food. I'm not saying it's 5 star food and that I'd want to eat it everyday but for rations it's not bad at all and it doubles a great laxative for when you really need to take a healthy dump
The gum in the dark browns had a laxative in them to solve all those anal retentive folks problems. If you didn't eat the gum, you passed a cinder block-
Eventually.
If you still have one in your shtf bag, or hunt rig-
Eat the gum, save your bum.
I had some MRE's sitting around that I had for emergency reasons and got one out and prepared it to let my kids try it out. They didn't think they were terrible, but they certainly weren't gourmet, but I don't think anyone has ever expected them to be gourmet.
They never gave me the shits, they were like a cork in the poop chute, if you eat a bunch of 'em, you ain't gonna poop for a while, and when you do go, you're going to shit a stone.
The most prominent memory I have of MRE's were during my time in the Infantry at Ft Campbell in '97-'00. Jalenpeno (pronounce Gel-op-en-oh) cheese was the 'hunnit dolla bill' of trade fodder.
Branden
They never gave me the shits, they were like a cork in the poop chute, if you eat a bunch of 'em, you ain't gonna poop for a while, and when you do go, you're going to shit a stone.
The most prominent memory I have of MRE's were during my time in the Infantry at Ft Campbell in '97-'00. Jalenpeno (pronounce Gel-op-en-oh) cheese was the 'hunnit dolla bill' of trade fodder.
Branden
Bro it was all about that rucksack stach of tapatio bro...tapatio on everything.....
I would come back from field exercises and eat a whole box of fiber one bars and that would clean me out finally. Otherwise I felt bloated for a week.
Chicken with salsaSurely I'm not the only one that genuinely likes MRE food. I'm not saying it's 5 star food and that I'd want to eat it everyday but for rations it's not bad at all and it doubles a great laxative for when you really need to take a healthy dump
[Fake]Pork rib
Jambalaya
Chicken tetrazini
I still keep a case or two of them on hand for when I jam out to the desert for a couple days and too lazy to actually make food
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Just go hungry, problem solved.
Not the MRE chicklets.....the ones in the older C rats.
Been a long time ago, but if I remember right they came in the packet with the freeze dried coffee, creamer, sugar, salt, and pepper.
Don't rag on me too badly if I'm off a bit....we're talking 35-40 years ago +.
We didn't get those fancy little tabasco bottles, you young coddled kids don't know what you missed.
I don't recall specifics of what exactly was in it, but I distinctly recall getting WWII era dated cans more than once.
That was my favorite, even cold. Always an easy trade. I'd probably vomit if I ate one now.
Chicken ala king was my first MRE. I opened it and it smelled like vomit.
I threw it out.
Young and coddled ? That's an ignorant statement . I bet you never served .
I could go for some early 90's Maple Nut Loaf.
My experience doesn't come from the military, but being young and poor. I knew someone who'd procured several cases of MRE's that were outdated by more than a few years. I took them and basically through sheer necessity ate every damn one of them. Except for one meal of hotdogs oddly enough, that nearly knocked me over when I opened the package. They had gone really really bad.
Many years later I ate a Chicken ala King and it make me violently ill. I can still tastes it today.
My experience doesn't come from the military, but being young and poor. I knew someone who'd procured several cases of MRE's that were outdated by more than a few years. I took them and basically through sheer necessity ate every damn one of them. Except for one meal of hotdogs oddly enough, that nearly knocked me over when I opened the package. They had gone really really bad.
Many years later I ate a Chicken ala King and it make me violently ill. I can still tastes it today.
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I remember finding one in my parents silverware drawer as a kid and asking dad was it was and you could see a spark in his eyes lol followed by "boy let me show you how the we did it back in the day!"
Hell I'm a millennial and I never went anywhere in the army without a p38 and an "emergency" cache of spegettios with meatballs, chunky soup, or tapatio.
Worth big money eventually
I am still carrying - on my key ring - the one I "received" in Basic Training - September 1977.
LOL, I'm not that old, but now I know why that beef was so dry. I was probably recycled from that stuff.
3703/15. August 77.
Damn, you're old. 3708 9Oct90
Ever heard children should be seen and not heard?
Turn up your hearing aid ol man, you need us kids to walk you though modern technology.
I used to love the MRE's from the old days. The tin can peanut butter was great!
