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I had an MRE for dinner tonight.

Keego

Keego

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Came with M&M's mmm!

First off, I ate the minestrone soup, I heated it in the heater thingie and it tasted very good! Then, I put the grilled chicken in the heater thingie, and I opened that after the minestrone was gone and that stuff smelled NASTY!! In the trash that went! I had crackers & Apple jelly, that wasn't too bad, the crackers were more dense than saltenes but it was ok. Just got done with the Hot Coca, now I'm eating the gum! 😀

I threw everything else away (apple cider, tea, tabasco sauce, toilet paper, hand wipie thing (after using) and spoon)

I still have the waterproof matches to play with 😀
 
Originally posted by: eakers
mre? explain.
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Meals ready to eat...

It's mainly for those people outdoors without any gasoline or electricity, such as a soldier amidst a battle...all you need to do is leave them in the sun for awhile and you have a meal ready to eat
 
Originally posted by: fatbaby
Originally posted by: eakers
mre? explain.
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Meals ready to eat...

It's mainly for those people outdoors without any gasoline or electricity, such as a soldier amidst a battle...all you need to do is leave them in the sun for awhile and you have a meal ready to eat
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EW!
*barf*

 
Meals Ready to Eat or what we always called them.....Meals Refused by Ethopians 🙂

Dehydrated this and that and meat in toothpaste form :disgust:
 
They come with chemical heating sometimes. Just mix these things and a bag gets warm, stick the food in there and warm it.

Typically run 1000-1500 calories each.
 
Originally posted by: antiABIT
Meals Ready to Eat or what we always called them.....Meals Refused by Ethopians 🙂

Dehydrated this and that and meat in toothpaste form :disgust:
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My military history teacher was talking about MREs for some reason or another a few days ago. He called them three lies for the price of one. I thought it was funny. I'm reading General H. Norman Schwarzkopf's autobiography for the class and he mentioned them being called Meals Refused by Ethiopians. Hehe.
 
Originally posted by: eakers
Originally posted by: fatbaby
Originally posted by: eakers
mre? explain.
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Meals ready to eat...

It's mainly for those people outdoors without any gasoline or electricity, such as a soldier amidst a battle...all you need to do is leave them in the sun for awhile and you have a meal ready to eat
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EW!
*barf*
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Or you use a catalytic heater, or throw the pouch in boiling water. And you think that's gross? Some soldiers improvise and stick their MRE's in a 5/4 ton truck exhause pipe to heat it.

 
Originally posted by: fatbaby
Originally posted by: eakers
mre? explain.
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Meals ready to eat...

It's mainly for those people outdoors without any gasoline or electricity, such as a soldier amidst a battle...all you need to do is leave them in the sun for awhile and you have a meal ready to eat
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Or you could heat them on the exhaust manifold of a deuce-and-a half.

 
Originally posted by: antiABIT
Meals Ready to Eat or what we always called them.....Meals Refused by Ethopians 🙂

Dehydrated this and that and meat in toothpaste form :disgust:
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Evidently you never had the pleasure of carrying C Rations around. Personally I liked them. Then again I was extremely hungry. We used to heat them over pieces of C-4.

 
Evidently you never had the pleasure of carrying C Rations around. Personally I liked them. Then again I was extremely hungry. We used to heat them over pieces of C-4.
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I guess my "favorite" was "beef stew". They are tolerable when you are starving, but I wouldn't be eating one if I didn't have too (which I don't now 🙂)
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: antiABIT Meals Ready to Eat or what we always called them.....Meals Refused by Ethopians 🙂 Dehydrated this and that and meat in toothpaste form :disgust:
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Evidently you never had the pleasure of carrying C Rations around. Personally I liked them. Then again I was extremely hungry. We used to heat them over pieces of C-4.
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:Q

edit: i had one of 'em big ass mre packages once just to taste, tasted like chicken 😀 j/k ...it tasted like bad hospital food 😉
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: antiABIT
Meals Ready to Eat or what we always called them.....Meals Refused by Ethopians 🙂

Dehydrated this and that and meat in toothpaste form :disgust:
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Evidently you never had the pleasure of carrying C Rations around. Personally I liked them. Then again I was extremely hungry. We used to heat them over pieces of C-4.
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Once again Happy Puppy, we have to set the kids straight. It is Meals, Ready to Eat. About 10 years or so ago, they started coming out with the heater pouches, which were nice. Otherwise, we had to use the compressed fuel tabs to heat them, or we would just lay them on an engine. Not in an exhaust pipe idiot, it would smell and taste like sh!t. All you had to do was place them on a hot engine or radiator and after a half hour or so, you were good to go. The ones they've had since Desert Storm are pretty good compared to the C rations or even the early MRE's of the early and mid 80's.

That being said, if you know how to prepare them they're pretty damn good. Of course, if you're hungry enough, you'll eat damn near anything.

BTW, a side benefit of the MRE's is those things really stop you up. You can pretty much count on not sitting on the throne for 2 or 3 days after eating one of those. That usually was nice because if you timed it right, you could actually find a bathroom or porta john instead of a hole.

EDIT: BTW, a 5/4 is a jeep. Their exhaust pipes were too small to fit an MRE pouch into. Jeeps have been gone a long time. You may be thinking of a deuce and a half, or 2 1/2 ton. But who wants their food to smell like diesel fuel?
 
I'm sure MREs are good IF YOU CAN HEAT THEM. I went on a camping trip and the guy decided that we were all going to have MREs for lunch before we came back. Of course, there was no firewood or fuel left at that point so we ate them cold. Nasty.
 
Originally posted by: KingNothing
I'm sure MREs are good IF YOU CAN HEAT THEM. I went on a camping trip and the guy decided that we were all going to have MREs for lunch before we came back. Of course, there was no firewood or fuel left at that point so we ate them cold. Nasty.
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Even putting them in your pocket or under your shirt for a while is better than cold. WTF were you thinking?
 
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