Favorite/Worst MRE Meal

[DaveGriffin]

Mmmmmmmmm LRRPs, all flavors were outstanding.

 

[dispatchguy]

Mmmmmmmmmmm

Maple Nut Cake!

 

[scoreboard]

Worst MRE: Your first.
Best MRE: Your last one.

 

[Medivacer]

Anybody have the pleasure of the cold weather ones? The ones that come in white packages and have half a million times the amount of calories the regular MREs pack?

Great for sitting around waiting.

 

[Jafar]

Anybody have the pleasure of the cold weather ones? The ones that come in white packages and have half a million times the amount of calories the regular MREs pack?

Great for sitting around waiting.

Yup. I remember that one meal came in two big white packets. Brings back memories of January above 10k feet in a snow cave that I dug, wondering how many of us would survive the coming storm.

And lets not forget the giant goofy tennis racket snow shoes that go right along with the white MRE's.

I don't miss that crap one iota.

 

[Pistlpetet]

We use to have competitions to see if it was possible to eat half of one of those MRE crackers in 30 seconds, or a whole one in a minute. Sounds easy, but it is hard to accomplish.

 

[Medivacer]

I give them two minutes, then a whistle.

 

[Caveman]

Worst MRE: Your first.
Best MRE: Your last one.

We have a winner! I could not agree more.

 

[hawk16e]

Worst MRE: Your first.
Best MRE: Your last one.

Amen, brother.

MRE--meal, ready to eat. AKA Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.

Pork patties were pretty bad. They looked like dried out McD's hash browns. In the mid '80s, they forgot(?) to include Tabasco.

 

[MGlobemaster]

The mashed potatoes were pretty awful. The last time I had those I was plenty hungry and had no time to heat em up. Despite my hunger I still couldn't stomach the suckers without mixing them with a packet of peanut butter.
I prefer the Jambalaya. I wonder though, what kind of meat the little shrimps truly are.

 

[erj-145mech]

I wonder though, what kind of meat the little shrimps truly are.

Think of swimming vienna sausages! Little fish lips, ears, forskins and other choice trimmings.

 

[jetjock6]

Anyone ever make explosives with the heaters? That passed the time.[/quote]


Ah the MRE bomb...hours of fun in the field. Best when dropped down the vent pipe of the Port-O-John while someone is taking that early morning dump.

 

[Weasel Keeper]

Someone mentioned the Chicken a la King was inedible if it wasn't heated. Man o man, no wonder I always could get those...it was by far my favorite in the late 80s and I liked it cold!

My new favorite as of last summer was some sort of beef patty with Mexican mac n cheese. I think it also came with the jalepeno cheese spread and hard bread stuff. By far the best I had considering how many vegetarian MREs I ended up with...which for the most part weren't all that bad either. I really dig those freeze dried cranberries for dessert.

Heck, I'm easy...I can eat any of them.

 

[millhouse21]

Have they changed MREs recently? It had been a few years since I had one until last week. I just finished the Navy IA combat training at Ft Jackson and we ate some MREs. There was no Tabasco, no little toilet paper roll, and NO HEATER. WTF, did someone get cheap?

 

[ExAF]

It was Navy

Have they changed MREs recently? It had been a few years since I had one until last week. I just finished the Navy IA combat training at Ft Jackson and we ate some MREs. There was no Tabasco, no little toilet paper roll, and NO HEATER. WTF, did someone get cheap?

Must have been a Navy MRE. An AF MRE would have had all of the above plus a tee time for the golf course.

 

[YeOldeProp]

C-rats and MRE's and LRRP's....oh my! And usually not eaten in Kansas, were they?

Here's a story from days sitting in the heat and humidity during the lovely Haitian Vacation of '94. We worked out of the warehouse compound (across from the airfield). We had trained up a variety of forces from the Caribbean community (all the local islands), the Bangladeshi's (part of the UN forces who showed up) and a bunch of others from all over the world who acted as International Police Moniters (IPM's). Unfortunately, the Bangladeshi's and a good number of the IPM's came from muslim nations and had issues with the pork in MRE's. So the supply guys had to make sure the pork MRE's were pulled from all the boxes going to them. They then re-packed the pork only (as in ham slices, egg and ham, pork BBQ, etc) MRE's in boxes and put them at the front of the warehouse.

We had an admin Sgt who got our daily rations, who was too lazy to walk past the first pile of MRE crates. So, we went a week or two getting the same "wonderful meals" day after day. Then one day, our boss the Admiral (a SEAL who was still benching 300+ lbs during PT), "escorted" the Sgt to supply to find out what was going on. Supply was ever so kind to show the Admiral and the Sgt what the set-up was and let them in on the joke. We then had a Sgt who gladly walked the length of the warehouse to get our boxes of MRE's for the day...once he got the Admiral's size 11 boot out of his backside.

Anyone remember the little "cookbook" that was floating around? It had all the contents of each of the 12 MRE's (of that time), the nutritional list, and a variety of ways to mix parts of them to make different "meals".