[munrod]

Funny, I don't remember the ham and lima beans. There were of course the ever popular ham and M#####F#####s. Edible only when generously seasoned with Tobasco dispensed from a bottle wrapped in 100 mph tape.

 

[Avenger]

MREs from various nations

Kind of interesting to see how different countries feed their troops.

http://imgur.com/a/S3FA4

 

[BlackHills]

interesting to see the difference between nations tastes, was surprised the Italians start off breakfast with a shot lol thanks for sharring

 

[falm16]

Pork and beans for breakfast. Looks like spanish is loaded with condoms.

 

[AndGunsForAll]

Pork and beans for breakfast. Looks like spanish is loaded with condoms.

Ya know, I'd have figured the french would have lots of condoms in their MREs.

 

[AmmoSgt In Memoriam]

You guys.. being silly ... they didn't say condoms.. they said condom-mints. Sheesh!

 

[North Bender]

I'm pondering what a condom-mint would be used for ...

 

[Ranger Z]

No. No. No. That is a mint 'flavored' condom.

 

[falm16]

I was just looking at the pictures-, I can't read.

 

[Madmo]

The French never use their MRE's.
They show up to the battle, drop their guns and go home and share the condo-mints with the neighbors.

 

[North Bender]

Actually they don't show up for battle and drop their guns pal. Been to Parwan province? Seen the French casualty roles from their part in OEF?

 

[AmmoSgt In Memoriam]

I'm pondering what a condom-mint would be used for ...

?? you put them on hotdogs everybody knows that.. duh!

 

[North Bender]

Once again I lean on AmmoSgt for her mastery of the French language. I'll add that to "sabot".

 

[oneshooter]

No. No. No. That is a mint 'flavored' condom.

And you would know this, how?

 

[me26245]

I've eaten several of the Canadian meals and I find them to be better than our MRE's or T-rats.
It seams that just when I would get used to a MRE I liked they would delete it or change it in some fashion. Although I have to admit most of the deserts are pretty tasty.
The LURP and cold weather dehydrated MRE's always have a taste about them, but they pack lighter and you can eat them dry if needed.

 

[Caribou]

Someday, they might be "Gourmet".......

The hungrier you are , the better they will taste. This I know from experience with other foods, and became conditioned
to such..... such as fermented whale meats, aged/fermented fish, Caribou innards, Fermented seal flippers and ect...
I actually am of the opinion that things as those I mentioned and others like Snails and Monkey Brains are "Delicacies" because the first time someone ate them, they were near starvation or in a bad way. After that, it was their favorite food.....the same way I think of the awesome yet 1/2 burnd crisp 1/2 still frozen Spam I gulped down all hot and salty, greasy....... cooked in a cabin we walked to in 50 MPH winds after sinking our boat in the inlet and walking 6 hours at 20* above across bare ice when we made shore, the wind froze the outsides of our clothing and made us "windproof'...........could still remember that smell right now Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

 

[AirForceVeteran]

In the 601St Tactical Control Squadron, a NATO mobile heavy radar unit in Germany in 1977 to 1982 , we lived on C-Rations (B-3) dated May, 1945 through November 1946! I was born in December 1946! The food was older than me!

All the items are very appetizing, when I was burning 3000 calories a day, but, compact food was heavy, and after 6 weeks on it, the digestive tract has to get re-adjusted to regular meals. The four cigarettes were just fine, too! A box of rations was supposedly 1,000 to 1,500 calories, we were tole, so, we ate two to three boxes a day when humping heavy cables, two reels at a time, over a quarter mile... My team had 8 pallets of 26 reels, to connect in 4 hours...

 

[Billofthenorth3]

MRE time - temperature indicator

MRE users, this is new to me, the MRE Time -temperature indicator on the case. I hadn't noticed discussion of it before so thought others may not have heard of it either. I guess they implemented TTI in the late 90s so if your military experience was before then, you might not know of it.

https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-shelf-life/

 

[Oldstuffer]

Never saw such a thing, I retired in '08.

If the bag is balloon puffy, DON'T OPEN THE DAM THING.

if it isn't, it's fine.

 

[plonker]

New one on me too, thanks.