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.
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.
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.
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.
>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.
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.
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
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.
>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.
>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
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...
1 year 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.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Bottled water isn't sterile dude. Most are just bottled tap water. So yes, it will go off.
1 year 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
chinese, because I like the idea that my food might kill me.
So do Chinese soldiers.
Spinach Fettucine is the best!
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.
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.
>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.
>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?
The murhreens already ate all the red crayons.
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.
>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
It's either fake-tough bs or morons not realizing they are getting fricked with for being new.
Honestly I only repeat it out of habit from fricking with new guys and a almost superstitious fear of pic
Thermals are practically fricking magic
>you're a b***h you can heat it.
Some foods taste better cold.
.t slav
>PrepHole contrarianism mixed with 'weirdo trying to look tough in some backwards way'
I had one of these last week and it was okay, thought it would be inedible like the vomelet
I like watching small chicks eat big burgers.
Taco pasta is both tasty and readily available since everyone scoffs at vegetarian meals
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.
Chili Mac
My boy.
I'm trying to think of anything that tops this but nothing is coming to mind, at least specifically our country's MREs.
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.
Big RCIR fan. Even comes with a fancy tiny bbq.
>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.
Vegetable Crumble, and if you don't like it I'm not even mad, I'll just trade you
Shredded beef is the best one, most sought after is probably pizza.
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.
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.
Breakfast: sausage patty
Dinner: beef stew
Burger king
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.
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
Can non US MREs participate in this thread?
for sure, but you must tell us the competition
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.
of course
>Lithuanian
would like to hear you review your ration and compare with normal food
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.
>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.
>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
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...
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.
Bottled water isn't sterile dude. Most are just bottled tap water. So yes, it will go off.
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.
I'm American so obviously my favorite is our own cuisine
The taco bowl
Salt pork, hard tack and a splash of grog for me!
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.
Chili mac is excellent
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.
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.
You're not human
How did Vomelet even make its way past development, did nobody bother to try that shit before?
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.
>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?
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.