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touron Member
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Sat Jan 02, 2016 1:59 pm
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...for a 3 week test of MRE meals
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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JEGeorge Member
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Sat Jan 02, 2016 3:21 pm
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This sounds like a bad deployment... The stomach of steel wouldnt be the issue... you'd need a toilet of steel though.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:27 pm
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A buddy of mine's father served in France during WWI -- at one low point in the uglieness of trench warfare the only rations his outfit had for several months was a canned meat product resembling SPAM (SPAM was introduced in 1937)
MREs seem like a breeze compared to that.
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JEGeorge Member
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Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:37 pm
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Whoa.. theyre deffinitley leaps and bounds from that! The new stuff doesnt taste half bad (Most of the time).
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cdestroyer Member
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dunno what the new mre's are but had lrrp's in 65 and the current mre's in 71..both tasted like chiken,,,,,har har har
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Seventy2002 Member
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RandyHiker wrote: | a canned meat product resembling SPAM |
Sounds like "bully beef"
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touron Member
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Sat Jan 02, 2016 10:28 pm
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As the saying goes, "an arm lives on its belly." Food improvements, I'm sure, would always be welcome. Although, what if the food improved so much that...
"Sir, they are shelling us."
"Darn the torpedos! Wait 'till I finish my chicken phad thai!"
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Pyrites Member
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Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:35 pm
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MRE' are a lot better than 1954 c-rats. Eaten in 1977.
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
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the1mitch Member
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 280 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish |
As a result of this thread I busted out and tested my 1985 MRE's! All edible but not very fun. The bread products were the worst. Oh yeah one of four tabascos had dried up. Rule of thumb? Salt and sugar are preservatives! Without those two ingredients, the multi syllable chemicals just don't get it done. As a result of this test, I feel that any MRE's newer than 1990 would be okay.
illegitimi non carborundum!
illegitimi non carborundum!
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Pyrites Member
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Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:27 pm
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Other nation's milatary's have adopted the basic sealed retort food preservation system MRE's are based on.
Has anyone tried them? Better?
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
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