This is propaganda. Definitely not true.
Sorry, but I have heard way too many of them. It is true. You long have you spent on Subs?
There is no need to be so mean. All you have to say is that in your 20+ years of experience, you never ate an MRE.
I guess I am just a big old mean bastard. 
Hows this; In my 20 years on US Submarines they have never had MREs on them. The closest thing was powdered milk and eggs. Which were only used after the fresh milk and eggs went bad after a month or so.
I am not willing to get into a pissing contest with you but my experience says differently. With my 2.5 years on a Los Angeles fast attack, you certainly have more time and may even be a sonar operator. My time standing the Auxiliaryman of the Watch got me around the whole ship, so when things were happening I was one of the few enlisted watchstanders able to see how the whole ship was reacting to the situation.
I signed some legal form that mentioned something about not talking about things and mentioned 10 years about something. I do not remember whether that was 10 years in jail or 10 years until I could talk about what happened, and they did not give me a copy of that security form for my own records. So I am leery to discuss more.
I may have seen a Russian sub, may have circled it like a shark while they were having swimcall, and may watched the team in the control room attempt to track one or more subs. Maybe the older Russian subs made a lot of noise but my ship was not able to reliably keep track of the subs we may have followed.
It may have taken underwater microphones, one or more civilian surface ships with a towed sonar array several miles long, and one or more surface combatant ships from navies belonging to more than one country to communicate with us and even then our tracking was unreliable. Those opposing subs would get lost. Nobody could find them for several hours at a time until half a day later they somehow got behind us.
Russian engineers are just as good, if not better, than American engineers. They place a higher value on math and science education and more prestige is provided the profession. Their people are good. We just have more money.
Their subs are very capable at what they do, and they were better than my boat.
Thank you for rephrasing, it is appreciated.
From what I remember, the fresh milk was finished after a week and the fresh vegetables were gone after the second week. We would be eating canned food after a month at sea.
I never saw any MRE's onboard. The food was good but not excellent.
For those without experience, we would pack as much food as we could possibly pack when we went underway. When going on a deployment, we would pack one gallon cans of food two levels high in the birthing compartments, the heads, and the showers. We even put food in the back space of the Auxiliary Machinery Room behind the oxygen generator.
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