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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    chinese, because I like the idea that my food might kill me.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      So do Chinese soldiers.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Spinach Fettucine is the best!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're shitting me right? Nobody wanted those, my platoon commander ate all of them. Most of the guys thought he was a psychopath, but I know he was willingly choosing the shit end of the stick. Still they're gross.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They're not to bad just use the pepper packet, mix with some crushed up crackers, add half a salt packet and if you're a b***h you can heat it.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >if you're a b***h you can heat it.
          Woah there vet bro, not all of us are Special Forces Marine Ranger SEALS. Or moronic.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Woah there vet bro, not all of us are Special Forces Marine Ranger SEALS. Or moronic.
            What other reason would you have to eat an MRE?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              The murhreens already ate all the red crayons.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I had a joe ask if you really weren't supposed to heat up your MRE to save time.
              Thanks to him my PSG made me explain to all the FNGs why that's moronic and why you should strip down your MREs and eat the snacks and shit on the go and save the main entree for downtime so you can properly eat it warm for a bit of a morale boost. If it was cold I would stick the heater in my cold-weather gear after dumping the water out of it.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >if you're a b***h you can heat it
          this was always fake-tough bullshit for people that don't actually spend a long time in the cold and wet

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's either fake-tough bs or morons not realizing they are getting fricked with for being new.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Honestly I only repeat it out of habit from fricking with new guys and a almost superstitious fear of pic

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Thermals are practically fricking magic

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >you're a b***h you can heat it.

          Some foods taste better cold.

          .t slav

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >PrepHole contrarianism mixed with 'weirdo trying to look tough in some backwards way'

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I had one of these last week and it was okay, thought it would be inedible like the vomelet

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like watching small chicks eat big burgers.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Taco pasta is both tasty and readily available since everyone scoffs at vegetarian meals

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Maple Flavored Sausage Patty is unmatched for a morning MRE, but for the love of god just heat the fricker up unless you want to eat all of the solidified grease.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Chili Mac

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      My boy.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm trying to think of anything that tops this but nothing is coming to mind, at least specifically our country's MREs.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Korean and Japanese ones are neat because of their heating mechanism, but their menus are very limited. My field go to is burrito bowl, BBQ beef, the McRib one. I like them all really though the vegetarian ones are sketchy at best.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Big RCIR fan. Even comes with a fancy tiny bbq.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he's never seen a hexy stove
      British stoves were superior, they weren't disposable and were actually pretty sturdy
      They still make the same pattern today but limited-use ones out of flimsy paper-thin metal. The old ones made of proper steel lasted forever.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Vegetable Crumble, and if you don't like it I'm not even mad, I'll just trade you

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shredded beef is the best one, most sought after is probably pizza.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shredded beef is underrated, but the pizza one is still shit. I'll still take the pizza over any of the veggie ones, but it's still garbage.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      the pizza is so fricking bad
      it really suffers from the fact that we all know what pizza is supposed to taste like

      but most importantly, it's not about the entre
      it's about the snacks.
      and vegetable crumble and beef stroganoff have the best snacks by far.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Breakfast: sausage patty
    Dinner: beef stew

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Burger king

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me its
    1. Chicken Burrito Bowl
    2. Chili Mac
    3. Southwest Style Beef and Black Beans with Sauce
    4. Beef Taco Filling
    5. Pepperoni Pizza Slice
    If I get any of these I'm usually very happy however, I will say they got rid of most of the really bad ones now so they are all usually pretty decent.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me it's
    1. Chilli and Macaroni (the cake is better than anything I've ever bought in the store)
    2. Mexican Style Chicken Stew
    3. Beef Stew
    4. Jalapeno Pepper Jack Beef Patty (don't know but with mustard and ketchup added I really like it)
    5. Beef Taco Filling (how are you supposed to eat that normally? I always buy tacos seperatly that the filling fits)
    t. germ

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can non US MREs participate in this thread?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      for sure, but you must tell us the competition

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        sadly I can't attest for the main entree for this one

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/vj5p1vP.jpg

        sadly I can't attest for the main entree for this one

        however it's pretty nice having both a FRH and an esbit stove come with it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      of course
      >Lithuanian
      would like to hear you review your ration and compare with normal food

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I can only speculate for the main but my guess would be to compare it to the US MRE beef stew, ignoring different ingredients of course, but with less preservatives based on the shelf life.
        You want a comparison with normal food but most of this kind of stuff is just canned food you can find at a supermarket, just without the can. Even US MREs is stuff you can find canned (except for the pizza, not sure I've seen anything like that before). From what I've seen with various foreign rations also seem to follow this pattern of "normal" food you could find at a store, with some items quite literally in their retail packaging.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >most of this kind of stuff is just canned food you can find at a supermarket, just without the can
          ah, I see, thanks

          >Even US MREs
          No
          US MREs are cutting edge. The retort pouch itself is a US Army invention. Then it trickled down to the civilian sector. The same goes for many processed food techniques in fact. (There's a book about it.) Also, the pizza is 100% US Army, as are things like MRE bread, and the US Army is big enough that they can contract specialised manufacturers to produce their custom-made food products. However, they do try to include some commercial items whenever possible.

          The UK, France, and Germany (not sure about Italy) does the same albeit on a much smaller scale. They have a couple of nutritionists and chefs on staff to design rations. Some items are custom-made, especially British items who export a lot to other NATO countries too. However they do use lots more commercial off the shelf items, as you've seen.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >commercial items whenever possible
            Regarding that, I don't understand why they include peanut M&Ms, they say on their website they're good for at least 31 weeks, that's not even a year, meanwhile all other components are fresh way longer.
            The only commercial item I've ever had that was still in date were those horrible Twizzlers cherry things

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              For commercial purposes the FDA (and other national standards authorities) require manufacturers to set a particular expiry date. The terms and conditions and parameters are of course myriad. So canned foods for example have expiry dates way earlier than their real expiry dates. The craziest example I can give is BOTTLED WATER. Which you will notice, will have an "expiry" date!

              The US Army has their own standards, and those too are conservative, as Steve has shown...

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah I see that, especially for canned food but the M&Ms I had were from an 1 year old MRE, out of date and tasted pretty stale.
                Bottled water has an expiry date because the plastics get in it over time, at some point it tastes bad and might even get slightly toxic.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bottled water isn't sterile dude. Most are just bottled tap water. So yes, it will go off.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                But in a sealed package, can water ever become rancid enough to be a health hazard? Even if there were microorganisms inside at the time of bottling, there's a limit to how much digestable matter they have access to which then limits how much germ poop and corpses you'll be gulping down.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm American so obviously my favorite is our own cuisine
    The taco bowl

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Salt pork, hard tack and a splash of grog for me!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Part of the reason why the Royal Navy BTFOd its opponents from around the 1790s was because they spared no expense providing rations to the sailors. Most stories about shitty food come from the Army, other navies and ancient memes.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Chili mac is excellent

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is there a published military paper or document that surveyed the popularity of each flavor? I need to know how to search for this stuff without stumbling over all the SEOshit on Google.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cheese and veggie omelet was definitely my favorite
    >oooooh, right! because it had the best snacks?!
    No, frick the snacks. I ate the omelette. I loved it. You put hot sauce on it and it was even better.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're not human

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How did Vomelet even make its way past development, did nobody bother to try that shit before?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        this is just a theory, but I believe the military food labs don't taste test their products two years after storing it in a depot, only when it is freshly prepared. hence they have no idea what it tastes like after being stored for so long. there is no feasible way around this because you can't hold up a finished product for years on the edge-case off-chance that it tastes bad in future, so the solution is simply to wait for reviews while preparing new menus to rotate it with.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >any eastern yuro MRE
    >8 types of canned pate and a few tea packets
    Do they eat that much pate normally or is it just cheap to put in a box?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah that's normally one of their more popular snack foods, I think it's one of their bigger exports too because I see it in American grocery stores quote a bit. Pretty good too or at least the Polish stuff israeliteel stocked was.

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