Eh I was in the scouts forever so lukewarm clumped hamburger helper cooked by some shit dick on his first campout never bothered me. Tabasco and Tony's will get anything down on the trail. The black beans though have a texture I can never really get over, that meal sticks with you. I'd take half the menu of those "A Packs" or whatever the guard hands out after hurricanes to the southwest one though.
I won (lost) a raffle at a gun show, went home with a box. Pretty sure they included it to get rid of it. The mains were pathetic, the sides were lackluster, and WTF is sunflower butter? A goddamn 'smoothie' that's just repackaged baby food, and crackers that made saltines feel spicy.
I took them apart and I'll just keep the rest until the apocalypse, then I can use it to get laid because I'm sure as frick not going to eat it.
IF you're having trouble eating a meal cold crumble up your crackers and dump it in there. Stuff like shredded BBQ beef soaks up the crumbs good, if you throw the cheese pack in with the heater on the otherside from the entree it'll melt the cheese so you can mix it up fast. Personally I only use heaters in the winter if I even have time to which I usually didn't. I get hangry if I don't eat so I'd rather kinda woof down a thing fast and get back to my smoke break, but you can mix stuff up like that and use heaters it isn't half bad. It just takes some experimenting with what you got.
Those two are alright but on a cold winter day and you got enough time to use a heater for me it's chili mac. Crush up them crackers into tiny bits stomping on it a bit while the entree is heating up with cheese spread, dump in cracker crumbles and melted cheese when it's all done. Woof that bad boy up and burn your hands with the heater trying to warm up after.
Question, what's the best non-MRE food you can get in the military, in your opinion?
Rules are that it actually has to be cooked and/or served under military jurisdiction, has to be something that has been realistically served before even if only occasionally, and it can't be a military base Burger King or some other fast food place you'd normally be able to find as a civilian.
When I was in the Army, the thing I ate more than anything were Cheeseburgers. As for the best, that would probably have been the breakfast tacos that we had when stationed in San Antonio.
I don't know what it was but they were always so delicious. They were some kind of preformed patty bought frozen by the case but goddamn they were good.
This, and also ice cream. If you shoot best in your platoon, highest PT score, etc. they'd let you have one (1) ice cream cone from a soft serve machine. Of course we had some homosexuals who hadn't earned it sneak their way into the ice cream line, so we all had to suffer later, but it was still really good ice cream.
I always liked breakfast at the DFAC. The food at Fort Sill was always good but at Schofield Barracks the chow halls were garbage. The KBR ones overseas were pretty good. Food served by army run kitchens at the smaller bases were subpar.
The chow hall at Osan would serve sirloin steaks once a month or so. They were always tough, overcooked and gristly, but frick it, they were steaks.
I always liked breakfast at the DFAC. The food at Fort Sill was always good but at Schofield Barracks the chow halls were garbage. The KBR ones overseas were pretty good. Food served by army run kitchens at the smaller bases were subpar.
My man. Maybe it's because omelets, pancakes and bacon are hard to frick up but there's just something about DFAC breakfast that satisfies, ESPECIALLY after a hard morning PT session.
Midnight chow is always the absolute best regardless of what they've got on offer IMO, but that may just be because I was usually drunk when I got there.
For my money it was >2-3 boiled eggs, depends if the server was a dick >1-2 sausage patties, see above >White rice >Jalapenos >Kimchi, I spent lots of time in Korea >Black coffee >Juice
That was my bread and butter. Now I'm married so I eat bacon and eggs every day. My wife never gets jalapenos no matter how hard I hit her.
These have changed so much since my time. #3 ravioli used to be hotly contested since it also had a guaranteed brownie as well as one of the best main dishes. This was at the time where all of the fricking poundcakes were lame shit like pineapple or spiced pumpkin. I just wanted the classic vanilla or lemon poppyseed.
When I was in the Army, they had these big coffee can sized tins of precooked bacon that was fricking delicious. We'd sneak to the mess tent, steal a tin and sit around eating bacon sandwiches.
Has anyone ever missed out on trying some really revolting MREs?
I've always wanted to try the four-fingers, the vomelet, and Chicken a la King, just to know the sweet agony.
You do not want the veggie omelet. Not the fun kind of bad; it’s just bad bad. Chicken ala king wasn’t revolting or anything when they were fresh. Seems like they didn’t age well though
You do not want the veggie omelet. Not the fun kind of bad; it’s just bad bad. Chicken ala king wasn’t revolting or anything when they were fresh. Seems like they didn’t age well though
Everyone seemed to really hate that meal, and now it's notorious, but I honestly thought it was good. The only thing is I had to heat it up, and I had to have hot sauce on omelet itself.
Certainly never had a shortage of them they were always the last one in the box, so I always took extras back to my barracks room and hoarding them for when I was drunk and didn't feel like getting a dui or ordering out.
Did anyone else really not enjoy this meal? I didn't know anyone in my time in that did.
My beef with the veggie omelet was that it just wasn't like any other omelet I've eaten. All the other mains are pretty much what one can expect from pre-packaged versions of them you've had or can approximate like chef boyardee vs homemade. I wouldn't turn one down when hungry, but it's not going to be my first choice if other menus are available.
No. It's really not that bad, though, especially since it has so many good sides. I make a point of grabbing it in the field since no one else wants it (and eating it cold just for fun).
actually, i just checked and the spinach mre isn't listed anymore:
https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/
probably the reason no one noticed is cause every fricking box is half a decade old, so it'll be a while before we see it go
No. It's really not that bad, though, especially since it has so many good sides. I make a point of grabbing it in the field since no one else wants it (and eating it cold just for fun).
literally what fricking side that comes with it is good? its the only mre that has absolutely no redeeming qualities, it all tastes like rotten vomit
>peanut butter with cracker >motherfricking first strike bar >pretzels >chocolate protein drink (will frick up your intestinal tract but it tastes good)
It's very snack heavy which is good for patrols or light humps
>he eats the sides
bro you're going to end up obese like me and fail pt, cherry pick the living frick out of your stuff unless you're a skeleton
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>he doesn't eat the sides
There's no such thing as dieting when you're in the field. That 8k hump up a mountain range will suck hard if all you ate beforehand was the main dish and some peanut butter.
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Do you know how many beer calories I'm going to soak up after that shit? Being hangry is enough for me to get up that hump. The only good part of field exercises is my pants start to fit again and moving around feels a bit more normal.
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I mean outside that stuff I can afford food or I can afford beer, if an MRE package or two didn't fall off a truck I'd probably died of malnutrition living off beer.
I swear they changed the recipe or some shit on it because it tastes was better than what I remember from previously eating it. more garlicky or something. This menu also has pretty good sides
For me it's menu 3, chicken noodle soup >heat main meal contents on the issued MSR stoves with half a canteen cup of water for no shit soup >dunk your crackers and basically be enjoying Campbell's
people don't really mention it a lot but the pork sausage patty is no joke. good ass breakfast mre, only thing you gotta worry about is spilling the syrup and attracting bugs. the beef patty is another banger once i realized you're supposed to combine all the ingredient and make a little burger with it - even if the field you can enjoy the familiar taste of fast food goyslop
>even if the field you can enjoy the familiar taste of fast food goyslop
this is why we are number 1 baby
take the US invading japan in WWII, nothing japan could do would kill our morale
we had a dedicated fricking ice cream warship
its purpose was to give our lads tasty scoops of ice cream
god tier logistics, no other country can compete
the fact we built mcdonalds and burger kings in the middle east just for our lads and staffed them is also impressive itself
>ice cream warship
I just wish that I had known about this before my grandfather died. He fought in the Pacific and might have been able to give me a report on how the ice cream tasted.
I'm pretty sure his time in the Philippines was why he loved coconut so much. My mom would always make him a big batch of macaroons for Father's Day. Does that still happen today? Like, are GWoT vets really digging falafel or something?
I would kill a man for number 9, that beef stew is damned good. I actually tiny bottles of spices in my dip pouches to improve any MRE I wind up with, only problem is now everyone knows I have 'em and mooches off of me.
Do they still make "White Chicken Chunks (Cooked)" ? Because that is about the most revolting shit I ever had. Both of the times I had it, the chicken was mushed into a fibery paste.
That said, beef & black bean tacos (forgot the menu name) are unironically great. And the oatmeal brownie you Black folk get is fricking 10/10.
I can't believe they brought back the little tobasco bottles, I thought it'd never happen.
It's worth it. The entree isn't gonna be the best tortellini you've ever had of course, but it's got good sides and if you got one with vanilla pudding make sure you mix it right. I remember that shit being like vanilla icing when it's done right. Chocolate pudding is good, not as good as the vanilla though.
One of my favorites was the shredded beef in bbq sauce. It also came with jalapeño cheese and tortillas so you could make a couple little messy bbq cheese burritos
Hot take - I can rarely be fricked to heat my MREs. I'm hungry and it being tepid or not does not affect my enjoyment of it in any way.
>I can rarely be fricked to heat my MREs
My brother
Have you ever had the Southwest black beans and bbq beef? I tried eating it cold and threw up. It's not good warm, either.
Eh I was in the scouts forever so lukewarm clumped hamburger helper cooked by some shit dick on his first campout never bothered me. Tabasco and Tony's will get anything down on the trail. The black beans though have a texture I can never really get over, that meal sticks with you. I'd take half the menu of those "A Packs" or whatever the guard hands out after hurricanes to the southwest one though.
I'd take an entire case of the vegan menu to the southwest. Of all the shitty menus they've abandoned, that one should be next.
I would sooner shove and entire box of tacks up my ass than eat the fricking southwest beans
>A Packs
I'd rather starve than have another A Pack. I've never had food that made me sad before that.
>reduced sodium
What the frick homosexual shit is this? Sodium seems like the last thing you'd want to reduce in an MRE.
those reduced sodium MREs have more sodium than yoru recommenmded daily vvalue unless you're in some 3 day op out of the fob you're more than fine.
I won (lost) a raffle at a gun show, went home with a box. Pretty sure they included it to get rid of it. The mains were pathetic, the sides were lackluster, and WTF is sunflower butter? A goddamn 'smoothie' that's just repackaged baby food, and crackers that made saltines feel spicy.
I took them apart and I'll just keep the rest until the apocalypse, then I can use it to get laid because I'm sure as frick not going to eat it.
IF you're having trouble eating a meal cold crumble up your crackers and dump it in there. Stuff like shredded BBQ beef soaks up the crumbs good, if you throw the cheese pack in with the heater on the otherside from the entree it'll melt the cheese so you can mix it up fast. Personally I only use heaters in the winter if I even have time to which I usually didn't. I get hangry if I don't eat so I'd rather kinda woof down a thing fast and get back to my smoke break, but you can mix stuff up like that and use heaters it isn't half bad. It just takes some experimenting with what you got.
is that the one with the jalapeno cheese spread and the tortillas? I thought that was fricking delicious
Menu 22 is the best one.
If you know you know.
you're a scary person
shutup you’ve never correctly cooked the southwest black beans correctly and it’s obvious because they’re FRICKING DELICIOUS
Skinwalker
Those two are alright but on a cold winter day and you got enough time to use a heater for me it's chili mac. Crush up them crackers into tiny bits stomping on it a bit while the entree is heating up with cheese spread, dump in cracker crumbles and melted cheese when it's all done. Woof that bad boy up and burn your hands with the heater trying to warm up after.
>crunch up the crackers and put hot sauce in
by far the best
Question, what's the best non-MRE food you can get in the military, in your opinion?
Rules are that it actually has to be cooked and/or served under military jurisdiction, has to be something that has been realistically served before even if only occasionally, and it can't be a military base Burger King or some other fast food place you'd normally be able to find as a civilian.
When I was in the Army, the thing I ate more than anything were Cheeseburgers. As for the best, that would probably have been the breakfast tacos that we had when stationed in San Antonio.
>US Army
>the thing I ate more than anything were Cheeseburgers
Based
I don't know what it was but they were always so delicious. They were some kind of preformed patty bought frozen by the case but goddamn they were good.
the junk food at basic (little pizzas, cakes, stuff like that) was godly because that's like the only indulgence you are allowed
Good taste. Today OP was not a homosexual.
This, and also ice cream. If you shoot best in your platoon, highest PT score, etc. they'd let you have one (1) ice cream cone from a soft serve machine. Of course we had some homosexuals who hadn't earned it sneak their way into the ice cream line, so we all had to suffer later, but it was still really good ice cream.
The cat turd sausages are a guilty pleasure.
lemon pepper stirfry with rice was godly and anabolic as hell
I always liked breakfast at the DFAC. The food at Fort Sill was always good but at Schofield Barracks the chow halls were garbage. The KBR ones overseas were pretty good. Food served by army run kitchens at the smaller bases were subpar.
The chow hall at Osan would serve sirloin steaks once a month or so. They were always tough, overcooked and gristly, but frick it, they were steaks.
My man. Maybe it's because omelets, pancakes and bacon are hard to frick up but there's just something about DFAC breakfast that satisfies, ESPECIALLY after a hard morning PT session.
Midnight chow is always the absolute best regardless of what they've got on offer IMO, but that may just be because I was usually drunk when I got there.
For my money it was
>2-3 boiled eggs, depends if the server was a dick
>1-2 sausage patties, see above
>White rice
>Jalapenos
>Kimchi, I spent lots of time in Korea
>Black coffee
>Juice
That was my bread and butter. Now I'm married so I eat bacon and eggs every day. My wife never gets jalapenos no matter how hard I hit her.
One of the DFAC’s at Ft. Sam used to serve crab legs every week. Always enjoyed that
I like chili with the tabasco dumped into it and also torn up pieces of the wheat bread
These have changed so much since my time. #3 ravioli used to be hotly contested since it also had a guaranteed brownie as well as one of the best main dishes. This was at the time where all of the fricking poundcakes were lame shit like pineapple or spiced pumpkin. I just wanted the classic vanilla or lemon poppyseed.
When I was in the Army, they had these big coffee can sized tins of precooked bacon that was fricking delicious. We'd sneak to the mess tent, steal a tin and sit around eating bacon sandwiches.
Has anyone ever missed out on trying some really revolting MREs?
I've always wanted to try the four-fingers, the vomelet, and Chicken a la King, just to know the sweet agony.
You do not want the veggie omelet. Not the fun kind of bad; it’s just bad bad. Chicken ala king wasn’t revolting or anything when they were fresh. Seems like they didn’t age well though
>the vomelet
Everyone seemed to really hate that meal, and now it's notorious, but I honestly thought it was good. The only thing is I had to heat it up, and I had to have hot sauce on omelet itself.
Certainly never had a shortage of them they were always the last one in the box, so I always took extras back to my barracks room and hoarding them for when I was drunk and didn't feel like getting a dui or ordering out.
Did anyone else really not enjoy this meal? I didn't know anyone in my time in that did.
My beef with the veggie omelet was that it just wasn't like any other omelet I've eaten. All the other mains are pretty much what one can expect from pre-packaged versions of them you've had or can approximate like chef boyardee vs homemade. I wouldn't turn one down when hungry, but it's not going to be my first choice if other menus are available.
I'm convinced that people who genuinely enjoy the veggie omelet are lizard people.
If even Steve couldn't stand the wieners and the omelet, I don't even wanna try.
I have one sausage patty MRE and one sausage with peppers and marinara MRE. Here's hoping they're yummy.
For me it's MountainHouse
their granola is the breasts. Fettuccine alfredo? S-tier
Speaking of fettuccine, did they discontinue this nasty bawd?
....sadly, no. still gets forcefed to unlucky pfcs to this day
No. It's really not that bad, though, especially since it has so many good sides. I make a point of grabbing it in the field since no one else wants it (and eating it cold just for fun).
actually, i just checked and the spinach mre isn't listed anymore:
https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/
probably the reason no one noticed is cause every fricking box is half a decade old, so it'll be a while before we see it go
literally what fricking side that comes with it is good? its the only mre that has absolutely no redeeming qualities, it all tastes like rotten vomit
>peanut butter with cracker
>motherfricking first strike bar
>pretzels
>chocolate protein drink (will frick up your intestinal tract but it tastes good)
It's very snack heavy which is good for patrols or light humps
>he eats the sides
bro you're going to end up obese like me and fail pt, cherry pick the living frick out of your stuff unless you're a skeleton
>he doesn't eat the sides
There's no such thing as dieting when you're in the field. That 8k hump up a mountain range will suck hard if all you ate beforehand was the main dish and some peanut butter.
Do you know how many beer calories I'm going to soak up after that shit? Being hangry is enough for me to get up that hump. The only good part of field exercises is my pants start to fit again and moving around feels a bit more normal.
I mean outside that stuff I can afford food or I can afford beer, if an MRE package or two didn't fall off a truck I'd probably died of malnutrition living off beer.
I swear they changed the recipe or some shit on it because it tastes was better than what I remember from previously eating it. more garlicky or something. This menu also has pretty good sides
Here to rep the Southwest beef & black beans.
Also this
Menu 1 chili with beans
For me it's menu 3, chicken noodle soup
>heat main meal contents on the issued MSR stoves with half a canteen cup of water for no shit soup
>dunk your crackers and basically be enjoying Campbell's
RIP Hashbrowns
what the frick theyre gone?
people don't really mention it a lot but the pork sausage patty is no joke. good ass breakfast mre, only thing you gotta worry about is spilling the syrup and attracting bugs. the beef patty is another banger once i realized you're supposed to combine all the ingredient and make a little burger with it - even if the field you can enjoy the familiar taste of fast food goyslop
>even if the field you can enjoy the familiar taste of fast food goyslop
this is why we are number 1 baby
take the US invading japan in WWII, nothing japan could do would kill our morale
we had a dedicated fricking ice cream warship
its purpose was to give our lads tasty scoops of ice cream
god tier logistics, no other country can compete
the fact we built mcdonalds and burger kings in the middle east just for our lads and staffed them is also impressive itself
gernans knew they were fukt when they learned USGIs had chocolate in their rations.
>ice cream warship
I just wish that I had known about this before my grandfather died. He fought in the Pacific and might have been able to give me a report on how the ice cream tasted.
I'm pretty sure his time in the Philippines was why he loved coconut so much. My mom would always make him a big batch of macaroons for Father's Day. Does that still happen today? Like, are GWoT vets really digging falafel or something?
I like Anzac cookies cause they had a long shelf life and mom would send them to me when I was deployed
someone post a tier chart for https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/
My friends used to do meth just to keep up the pace there. Indiana is a bad place anons
I would kill a man for number 9, that beef stew is damned good. I actually tiny bottles of spices in my dip pouches to improve any MRE I wind up with, only problem is now everyone knows I have 'em and mooches off of me.
For me its beef brisket entree
Do they still make "White Chicken Chunks (Cooked)" ? Because that is about the most revolting shit I ever had. Both of the times I had it, the chicken was mushed into a fibery paste.
That said, beef & black bean tacos (forgot the menu name) are unironically great. And the oatmeal brownie you Black folk get is fricking 10/10.
>t. Czech
Idk when this got axed but I had it once in basic and it was my favorite thing I ever got in an MRE.
>mfw amerifats will never have a poutine mre
I would like the hamburger pain please, I will exchange the pork sausage patty, maple flavored in return.
>>>PrepHole homosexual
Mexican style chicken stew is the best entree and used to be the best overall Mr.E until they ruined the snacks.
My favorite was spaghetti marrina, but I've been out for 12 years now, not sure what's changed.
they still taste like shit
jambalaya
Anyone had menu 13 cheese tortellini? I'm a leaf that got it during a field exercise and want to know if it's worth opening up.
I can't believe they brought back the little tobasco bottles, I thought it'd never happen.
It's worth it. The entree isn't gonna be the best tortellini you've ever had of course, but it's got good sides and if you got one with vanilla pudding make sure you mix it right. I remember that shit being like vanilla icing when it's done right. Chocolate pudding is good, not as good as the vanilla though.
One of my favorites was the shredded beef in bbq sauce. It also came with jalapeño cheese and tortillas so you could make a couple little messy bbq cheese burritos
The best part of an MRE is the crackers and jam/spread