Favorite/Worst MRE Meal

[Oh-ryan]

For my money, it don't get better than the Chicken Tetrazini... especially if you get a strawberry shake with it.


Gotta stay away from the "Country Captain Chicken" though. Not only does it taste like a blend of vomit and kitty litter, but who the heck is this "Country Captain" anyway?

 

[Pistlpetet]

Navy people actually eat MRE's?

 

[jobear]

Ham and eggs barfy.

 

[coho92]

Chili Mac with all the mini bottles of tabisco you can find - oh yeah now that's good eats (unless you can go to the stubbe for some jagerschnitzel and several kristal weizens)

 

[JungleJett]

What are MRE's?

 

[bagasticks]

This will date me as I haven's ate MRE's since my days in the Corps (other than survival school), but my favorite was the mid 1990's Pork w rice in barbecue sauce. . . . mmmmmmmm

 

[Occam's Razor]

I broke a tooth in '88 on a Maple Nut Cake. So that "side dish" loses points right there.

The chicken a la king was inedible if you couldn't heat it.

Chili mac is decent, but is depressing to eat before 0700.

 

[AlbieF15]

Tuna with noodles and the chocolate chip nut cake would start a fight back in 91. It was good hot or cold, especially with tabasco. The chocolate nut cake was much better than the maple one Occam alluded to...

I went 40+ days without anything to eat but MREs during the Gulf War. I've long since lost those brain cells, but I used to be able to tell you what every meal in the case was and what each one contained.

What they DO all contain is a lot of calories--they are designed for infantry on the march. They are fat pills for anyone else who is just sitting around... Rumor at the time was the were all laced with saltpeter to reduce everyone' libido, but I always suspected that was a just a fine Army urban legend.

 

[Oh-ryan]

Navy people actually eat MRE's?

Only after a long day of bashing skulls.


Albie,
40 days of eating MRE's?!?!? You could have probably built a hardened air shelter for your plane just by harvesting all the rock-hard dumps you guys must have taken during that time.

 

[jranger]

In the mid 80's they made BBQ beef slices, that although a solid meal at Ranger School, gave most folks crew served type heart burn - nasty. I heard an RI once call it "bouncing beef slices."

Agree with the Pork and Rice as a favorite. Always traded for maple nut cake if I wasn't able to get an MRE it typically was in (circa 1990's). In my infantry unit at the time it was forbidden to search through a box to make a selection. We were on the lottery system; couldn't look, just grab one and move out.

 

[Jafar]

I haven't had one in about 4 years, but my favorite was always spaghetti with meat sauce.

Anyone ever make explosives with the heaters? That passed the time.

 

[MarineGrunt]

(Late 90's) Worst = ham slice. uke:

 

[MarineGrunt]

Anyone ever make explosives with the heaters? That passed the time.

I almost got thrown in jail for that. Aparently, the apartment manager didn't think it was too funny. 6 MRE packets in a 2 liter bottle wrapped in a couple rolls of duct tape makes a LLLLLLLLLOUD BOOM!!!!

 

[AlbieF15]

No hangars for me in 91....I was doing the Battalion liason officer gig. That's when a clueless 1LT gets to live, breathe, and fight with Army. My bros in the fighter business were heros over there, but most of them at least could get soft ice cream (dog) at the temper tents. No such luck with us...

 

[Caveman]

MRE's? These kids these days. Anybody here still remember C's? Ham slices and a four pack of Winstons. Old school chow.

(BTW, the Mr. E Chow Mein was my favorite)

 

[pkober]

It doesn't matter because once you put the tabasco in it they all taste the same.

What the most complete MRE's you have ever seen anyone eat in one sitting?

3

 

[bagasticks]

believe it or not, I always liked the oatmeal butt-plug too, although that thing would always swell up after a couple canteens of forced hydration and make me look like a pot-bellied starvin-marvin (minus the flies in the eyes). .

 

[414Flyer]

It doesn't matter because once you put the tabasco in it they all taste the same.

What the most complete MRE's you have ever seen anyone eat in one sitting?

3

One of my friends did 7 in a day when we were on the firelines.

 

[RogerMOSA]

Worst: The Four Fingers of Death....(the Weenies).
Best: Spaghetti w/ meat.

FYI: Setting off a MRE heater bomb at 0200 in the middle of the Wadi is not good headwork.

....aaah. good times, good times.

RM

 

[dtfl]

The cheese spread on crackers 1) rules 2) takes the place of immodium.
Also if you get that new Chicken with Salsa MRE and add the cheese to it - then heat it up, it's good.
When we were flying circles around Mogadishu in 94 ,we ate MREs on our 14 hour missions. We used to always discard the Escalloped potatos and the Omelet with Ham...one day, just before TO our LM ran off the plane to get a case - we closed up and took off....inflight he opened the box and found that some &sshole from LG had taken all the crappy ones everyone threw out and put them in a case, sealed it, slid the cardboard cover over it and was distributing them. We had an entire case of Escalloped Pot and Omelets and Ham.

That &***********************************.

 

[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.