MREs from around the world

[kilopaparomeo]

An interesting photo essay of the contents of MRE packets from different coalition forces serving in the sandbox.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/04/weekinreview/20100905_gilbertson.html

All I have to say is thank goodness I'm not from the Ukraine!!  Blech!  Even makes the US MREs look good.  

[Big Frank]

If you go a couple days without food you'l like MREs and C Rations too.

[twyacht]

If you go a couple days without food you'l like MREs and C Rations too.

Had the best gourmet Vienna Sausages and Saltines after flipping our canoe and losing all our food on the Rocky River. That was a long day.

Odd,...... the pint of Jack Daniels, and Slim Jims, were perfectly fine in my soaked pack...

[SwoopSJ]

Odd,...... the pint of Jack Daniels, and Slim Jims, were perfectly fine in my soaked pack...

Tennessee whiskey?  Should have sent that swill down river.   

[fightingquaker13]

Tennessee whiskey?  Should have sent that swill down river.  

I'm sure it got there. Eventually.
FQ13 who does sympathize with just having slim jims and Jack. Who wants breakfast three meals a day?

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[Solus]

If you go a couple days without food you'l like MREs and C Rations too.

Hmmm....A WWII Staff Sgt. was with a group of us when we broke out the C Rations for dinner.  He stopped us and told us to put all our main courses in a pot (his helmet) and cook them together, saying it would taste better.

So, we opened them (with P-38s), dumped them in and heated them on the little gasoline stove. 

One of the guys said his was a breakfast so he'd just eat his but the Sgt. said  it didn't matter put it in...always put everything someone has in.

Well, sure enough it was pretty good.  Not prime rib, but much better than any individual C Rat meal I had had.

Never had MREs in the line of duty.  Any one know if the sum is better than the parts for them also?

[fightingquaker13]

Why am not I surprised the French and Italians win? It why they lose wars. They're too mellow after a good meal to feel like fighting. The taliban on the other hand? A boiled rock with half rotted goat meat. Its why they aren't afraid  to die!
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

The only one I didn't like, (note there is no mention of not eating it )  was "Ham and Moth$#Fuc$%rs"

[dipisc]

Hi;

     TomB   The C-Rat ham and eggs tasted like a wet sponge to me. I liked the rest of the menu's they had. I do have different MRE's and have tasted some of them - a deffinate inprovement over the years. Keep in mind the most prized accessory of the C-Rats and MRE is still the toilet paper. What I miss in the MRE is the 3 pack of Cigs.

[tombogan03884]

Not eggs, Lima beans,  Ask your older 50+ veteran friends about them.