Ungrateful People

Septemeber 2, 2005 | stan25

[hiredhand]

Thanks.... :-) LOTS of posters in this thread have replied to me about seeing/hearing the same thing!

[hiredhand]

LOL! ;-) You're BAD! :-)

[hiredhand]

Those MREs with the little "heat em up pouch" were just being issued as I was on my way out the door in 1998. ...as many of those things as I ate COLD, I sure would have enjoyed them more if they had been warm! ;-) Ah well. I always thought they were pretty good anyway. I was one of those people. :-)

[hiredhand]

AryanPower is TOAST. Admin Mods zapped him/her/it...whatever it was. :-)

[Calvin Locke]

I heard a Radio Canada story a couple of years ago. They were interviewing the US Army food lab in Natick, MA,
iirc, because of the Afghan HME drops.

The lab was working on PB&J sandwiches that would last packaged for a few years. "Anybody can package the bread,
PB, and jelly separately, but ours is going to be ready-to-eat out of the package..."

[bethtopaz]

I heard they are self-heating.

[hiredhand]

We need all the help we can get, without putting off anyone. I am sick and tired of negativity, blame and fingerpointing.

You didn't post it, my gripe is with the poster that did.

I understand. :-)

[SampleMan]

They are quite "fit to eat". Sure they are more appetizing warm, but that doesn't matter.

I've eaten plenty of MRE's cold and they are a meal. I've gone 5 days without eating and I'll tell you what, I wasn't too picky about what I ate by day three. Appetizing wasn't even on the list of my priorities.

If this story is true, then this woman had eaten a full meal within 12 hours.

[hiredhand]

Oh, how it makes me cry for the legacy of self-reliance that made this country so great.

Oh the legacy is here...just not much in the blue areas.

[Bon mots]

Please do not encourage them to start fires.

They've already started. :-(

[Fester Chugabrew]

Googled images for "Cajun MRE" and this is all I got.

[toldyou]

I never thought I'd be able to complain about the complainers! Thanks for the thread!

Did anyone see the woman, standing on dry land, sun shining, outside her brother's house, in Mississippi or Alabama, demanding that she be given a place to stay? This was two days ago. She was complaining that she hasn't been given a place to stay yet, and that she HAD to sleep on her brother's porch. (His house was intact.)

The only thing I could think of is that he didn't want her in the house!

[North Coast Conservative]

Aw Come on.....Ham and Mothers were my favorite. I always had enough to eat.

In God We Trust.....Semper Fi

[tumblindice]

I saw it too. With her 91 year old father? She was complaining about the food. I've eaten them.
They may be `M(eals) R(ejected) by E(thiopians)' but if you won't eat an MRE then you aren't really hungry.
MRE's are good enough for our troops but not good enough for her, I guess.

[hiredhand]

Aw Come on.....Ham and Mothers were my favorite. I always had enough to eat.

In God We Trust.....Semper Fi

Oooh yes! The ham slice was VERY good too! Now I'm getting hungry with all this talk of food... :-)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Brian: I think I know the food distribution that you are referring to. Wasn't that when the Symbionese Liberation Front was holding Patty Hearst hostage and they demanded that her father donate about $40,000 worth of food to the poor? They went through a series of those demands, and then they never released her. And then she joined their group. I think there were at least two of those food drop offs and they both turned into near riots. I had moved from the Bay Area at the time, but I was following the case closely in the newspaper and on TV.

[miele man]

Thanks for posting this. the author nails it.

[Arpege92]

What a beautiful baby!

[04-Bravo]

I saw the interview. The woman actually complained that the MRE wasn't heated, and that the crackers were dry!

As others have already stated: there are chemical heating packets with instructions inside of each meal. And every MRE is edible at room temperature.

If I were hungry enough, I could eat a room-temperature Chicken ala King MRE, or even a C-Ration Lima Beans and Ham.

[Petronski]

I don't think she's "stranded" anymore. She's been rescued and given what the rescuers could bring.

She should take it or not take it and STFU.