By No Americans have been arrested yet. From Stars and Stripes-
U.S. troops and South Korean soldiers helped supply a black market ring that illegally sold 20,000 Meals, Ready to Eat across South Korea in the past three years, according to the Gangnam police department.
Police on Wednesday charged 51 South Koreans for illegally selling imported food and violating the country’s Food Safety Act, a department spokesman said. No Americans were arrested, and the spokesman said it would be impossible to track them down.
According to the spokesman, who spoke on the customary condition of anonymity, the department began tracking the ring after getting a tip in mid-April.
Since then, police have confiscated 50 boxes of MREs that were for sale in traditional outdoor markets across the country, including Seoul’s Namdaemun, Dongdaemun, Sincheon and Cheonggyecheon markets, and in the cities of Uijeongbu, Dongducheon, Incheon and Bucheon. Police believe MREs — each packaged in a plastic casing that says “US Government Property Commercial Resale is Unlawful” — are being sold in other cities across the country as well.
“Some people said they like the MREs because they taste really good,” the spokesman said.
The only time I experienced the horror had the pleasure of consuming a MRE, three words came to mind to describe it.
Meals rejected by Ethiopians. People say they are better today. Are they?
7:12 am on June 5th, 2009 1
They havent improved much Bill. There is only one MRE worth a damn, and that is the Beef Ravioli. Everything else is a crapshoot.
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8:01 am on June 5th, 2009 2
I don’t know if this BS or not, but one of my buddies when I was in the Canadian Forces told me he was offered as many as 10 American MREs in exchange for his Canadian issued one during some joint training exercises with US soldiers in the early 90’s. If that’s true, then MREs probably are as bad as they say.
I really enjoyed ours, particularly the chicken breast in BBQ dipping sauce and the mint chocolate bar.
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9:06 am on June 5th, 2009 3
Like they’ll ever stop the Black Market in Korea lol!
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2:47 pm on June 5th, 2009 4
Actually they are a massive step up from the old canned rations. However the dehydrated fruit has alot to be deserved. The tabasaco was added a few years after the MRE can out due to complaints from the troops that there was nothing to spice up the flavor. I guess if you add enough tabasco, then you could mask the taste of some of the really bad meals.
I do miss some of those old canned rats, you could at least put them near some heat source and they would after awhile get hot enough to eat. Major fart food.
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3:49 pm on June 5th, 2009 5
Major Fart Food. My favorite C-Rat was beans & frankfurters. The dessert was fruitcake. I would eat nothing but this meal for 3 days straight, by which time I was generating my own silent but lethally toxic cloud, non-stop, and at will. Results of latrine visits were nothing short of amazing, chem-light colored mountains majesty.
All of the cakes in C-Rats were pretty good. The pound cake was coveted by all. These were made by “Eunice King’s Kitchen” someplace near Dallas.
The evil green “Ham & Eggs, Mixed” meal was despised by GI’s, but fought over by KATUSA’s, -but then we are talking about people who consider Spam a rare delicacy.
The 1st generation MRE’s were pretty disappointing, small main meals, some rather odd ones, and the entire meal never made you feel like you got enough. The freeze-dried items were especially weird: hash browns, hamburger patties, pork sausage patties, and not much of them.
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1:59 pm on June 6th, 2009 6
I still like them. The powder drink shake sucks, but the main dish on most is not bad at all.
I miss the “dried beef patty” and the “scrambled egg”. YUM!!
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