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Meals Ready-To-Eat Get Tweak To Add Some Flavor To Army
Wall Street Journal
| March 14, 2003
| By Dan Morse, Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal
Posted on 03/14/2003 8:40:15 AM PST by TADSLOS
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:40:15 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
To: TADSLOS
a little off topic but anyone remember the thread about The Outback going to Afghanistan with 10000 pounds of beef and other assorted goodies and cooked it all up for the troops?
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:51:09 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(The Federal govt should be protecting us from terrorists, not handing out goodies)
To: TADSLOS
bump
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:54:20 AM PST
by
Salman
To: TADSLOS
I was always partial to "Ham and Lima Beans". I always had enough to eat!!
BUMPIn God We Trust
..Semper Fi
In God We Trust.....Semper Fi
To: g'nad; 2Jedismom
Coming this year are Hearty Clam Chowder, Pot Roast with Vegetables and a Poppy Seed Pound Cake. "We're working on a salmon," he tells the soldiers. "Yeech," says Lt. Eddie Commender.
"No, I tried it. It's good," Mr. Acheson says.
Ping!
To: Salman
Biggest problem I found with MREs? They're bland, so after several months of eating them in hot climes? Yeah, I'd be ready to rock and or roll on the Iraqis too. BTW, that constipation comment, it's true. I used to have MREs a lot, and never fail, I was constipated for days after I stopped eating them!
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:00:41 AM PST
by
Braak
(3 days until the forces of Freedom save the world, in spite of the FRENCH!)
To: TADSLOS
The worst I had was the pre-digested crap called "B-Rations."
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:02:23 AM PST
by
decimon
To: TADSLOS
Now if they were to bring back Lima Beans and MOFO's then they would have a culinary delight to die for.
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:03:16 AM PST
by
dts32041
(Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a "4".)
To: Braak
BTW, that constipation comment, it's true. I used to have MREs a lot, and never fail, I was constipated for days after I stopped eating them! Agreed. MRE's are bricks waiting to be excreted from the body. They're made to accomodate the calorie burn of soldiers in their late teens and early twenties, not us 40 something old farts. I could usually only eat one a day and made sure to drink ample water to help with the flush.
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:05:39 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: TADSLOS
LOL - the longest I ate these was for one solid week. We thought MRE meant: Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
Cheers, CC :)
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:06:59 AM PST
by
CheneyChick
(Lock & Load)
To: TADSLOS
A-yep, the pound cake is A-numbah-1.
And yes, the mint chocolate cake is indeed weird. Tasty, but weird.
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:07:07 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(http://www.joebrower.com/)
To: conspiratoristo
Your "Ham and Lima Beans" post brought back strong memories. Smell, taste and texture! The last entree can to be taken!
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:13:19 AM PST
by
Iris7
To: Braak
BTW, that constipation comment, it's true. I used to have MREs a lot, and never fail, I was constipated for days after I stopped eating them!Yup, after eating a couple of them in the field, I sometimes went a week before nature would finally call. Back when I was in, MRE's had just replaced C-Rats, so we were the first guinea pigs. Ham and chicken loaf, and chicken ala king were the worst.
To: HairOfTheDog; Trailer Trash
"We're working on a salmon," he tells the soldiers. "Yeech," says Lt. Eddie Commender.
"No, I tried it. It's good," Mr. Acheson says.
TT Ping
To: TADSLOS
In the recent past you could buy real MREs direct from the authorized DoD manufacturer Sopakco/Crown Point in South Carolina. But they're temporarily deferring civilian sales.
"We are no longer taking orders for SURE-PAK meal cases due to current world events, and the resulting production increases in military product."
http://www.crownpt.com/MREs.htm
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:22:38 AM PST
by
angkor
To: Iris7
And, after eaten the call of Gas! GAs! followed soon after.
Always favored the turkey loaf myself and the fruit cocktail was to kill for.
At the last reunion of my Nam Vets group one of the guys had found a complete "C" that had Ham and Mothers as the entree. we auctioned it off against the general fund and it brought in quite a few bucks.
Brother that bought it swore he had some C4 squirlled away back in Bama and was gonna put that can in low orbit.
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:22:43 AM PST
by
FRMAG
My friends brother is over there, he has been using the empty little bottles of tobasco to send back sand from Kuwait and ________
To: TADSLOS
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:25:59 AM PST
by
mhking
(Fasten your seatbelts....We're goin' in!)
To: TADSLOS
The worst ones were the Omlet and anything with Tuna in it.
You guys should see the food that the contractor Brown and Root serves in Bosnia-----you would not believe it--awesome.
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:29:32 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: conspiratoristo
The MRE "Ham Slice" was always good. But I also remember C-rations, the Ham-and-eggs breakfast always referred to as "Ham-and-hockers". . .
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posted on
03/14/2003 9:32:58 AM PST
by
Salgak
(don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
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