Comments on: Black market MRE ring broken in S. Korea

By: Retired GI

Retired GI — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:59:01 +0000

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!!

By: Burma Bob

Burma Bob — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:49:42 +0000

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.

By: chefantwon

chefantwon — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:47:21 +0000

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.

By: AlarmBlue

AlarmBlue — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:12:08 +0000

They havent improved much Bill. There is only one MRE worth a damn, and that is the Beef Ravioli. Everything else is a crapshoot.

By: Ran

Ran — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:06:41 +0000

Like they'll ever stop the Black Market in Korea lol!

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:01:19 +0000

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.