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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Ahh, MRE's.
Meal Refused by Ethopians. Meal Refused by Everybody, and other cute names. What fun they are! They pack, what, 3000 calories each as i recall?
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Anymore, that depends entirely upon how you define the word "calorie". Technically, modern US MREs contain about 2500 calories, which is enough to fuel a full day's worth of soldierly activites, according to the ridiculous and slightly insulting cartoon characters on the boxed items.
In practice, MREs contain enough calories to fuel roughly six hours' worth of anything, followed by twelve to seventy-two hours' worth of bowel discomfort.
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Omlete with ham slice is the worst. infact, any egg course was gross cause it was invariably green in color..... like slime.
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Green eggs and ham are no longer on the menu, Sam I am. They have been replaced by preprocessed slime of varying colors.
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I acutally LIKED the corn beef hash as long as i had tobasco. And nothing beat that first MRE S**t on a deployment. Usually about 3 to 4 days after you arrived. It took that long before you could have a sit down, and It was like giving birth to a cinder block.
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That sounds awful, though the lack of female genitalia in US Marines makes it difficult for me to understand your pain.
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Of course, y
(video dated 1996, which was around my "era" of service.) Do the troops now days even get them anymore? Or did the powers that be take away the fun?
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They're still here, and they still work for every imaginable purpose save heating food to an even temperature or making it palatable. Then again, we could very well be talking about the same MREs.