Army's 'Pork Rib' MRE


 
Chris Allingham

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/20...dwich-monday-we-tackle-the-armys-pork-rib-mre

Just another version of ribs in a plastic bag...but worse.
 
This quote and the pic of the guy eating it says it all!!!

Special Guest Mike Pesca: This meal disgusts me more before 8 a.m. than most meals disgust me all day.
 
MREs have sure come a long way since I was in, as bad as those might be they'd taste really good if you've been in the desert for a long time.
 
You're on a mission! Been a while since I had MRE's. Used to call them C Rations. Probably as bad as yesterday's Rib in a Bag entrée!
 
Mike Cosgrove said:
MREs have sure come a long way since I was in, as bad as those might be they'd taste really good if you've been in the desert for a long time.
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That and if you know how to mix them right. Except for vegetable omelet that one is just gross.
 
I still miss the John Wayne bar. ...but the MRE is edible with enough hot sauce. ...which has an interesting story behind it:

In the ship holds of Britain's Royal Navy, resourceful sailors would steep piquant chiles from Bermuda in barrels of sherry until the fortified wine was suffused with their heat, and then use the resulting seasoning to mask the taste of spoiled rations. Eventually, enterprising natives of this way station between England and the American colonies took to growing pequín peppers, a blistering jewel of a chile, which they would sell to the sailors to spice up their sauce.
 
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I used to sneak into the old man's rations----never really liked any of the entrees, but they sure had good crackers & grape jelly

(I almost joined the services 3 times but never did)
 
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Mike Cosgrove said:
We just had the "omelet", and MRE stood for "meal refuses to exit".
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I can recall the boots usually getting the omelet. I had to eat it once or twice but like you said after 3-4 months of eating only MRE's and sometimes only 1 a day they aren't that bad.
 
Wow,this brings back memories! Not necessarily good ones either!
As a cook in the army,C-rations,and later MRE's,were given out at breakfast so the troops wouldn't have to stop training. But the first MRE's were pretty bad. There was a reason we called MRE's three lies in one name!
 
Chris,

We lived on MREs for about six weeks after Hurricane Katrina. I don't think I ever had a pork rib one but the ones we did get were pretty good. I remember the pot roast and beef stew were pretty good. I had about 20 people living at my house at one point after the storm. There was quite a bartering system trading this for that and everyone could usually find something to eat that they didn't hate. In any case we were glad to have them...

Regards,

John

Regards,

John
 
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