Best MRE

[TXlib]

Shameless copycat poll

I go with the turkey breast. At least with that, you get pot.

[motely36]

1. Sorry, but what's an MRE?

[TXlib]

2. Meals, Ready-to-Eat

http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/rations/meals/mres.htm

[sendero]

20. Gee..

... didn't you ever watch Tremors? :)

[DS1]

3. Trade your M&Ms for someone's crackers, and break them up

and put them into a the Pork ( or chicken - I forgot ) Chow Mein along with an entire mini-bottle of Tabasco and you'll have the best MRE available.

But then, anything other than Omellete with Ham is a gift!

[DS1]

4. Ahh crap, they've discontinued all the ones I've had

Substitute PCM for Beef Stew, same crackers and hot sauce

[Romulus]

7. no kidding! I feel OLD!!

c.1995, the best one was the (just issued) chicken chow mein.

Runners up that year (hot sauce is a given):

- spaghetti with meatballs, beef (add cheese sauce and crackers)
- meatballs, beef, and rice with tomato sauce (add cheese sauce & crackers)
- beef stew (with crackers)
- omelet with ham (as "breakfast" only)

Losers (even with hot sauce):
- corned beef hash
- chicken a la king
- tuna with noodles
- beef franks or pork patties (some were still around back then)

[DS1]

14. As ridiculous as it was in the 'meal' aspect, I was always kinda

fond of the old ham slice :D

Omelette with ham was arguably the best way to top off a shitty day :cry:

[MattBaggins]

19. Oh Yeah? How is this for MRE guru

Ham Slice #11 80s #8 90s
Spaghetti #5 --- king of MRE's had hot sauce and cheese-- oh my lord
Omelet #4 also with cheese
Chicken and rice #11 had cheses

and if you had to... beef stew #7 no cheese but had hot sauce and would do in a pinch

Man did I eat way too many if I still remeber the numbers and what they had

I don't know any past 95.

[TXlib]

8. Pork Chow Mein is foul

*full body skin crawl*

[barackmyworld]

5. I felt the outside of a bag of beef enchiladas once

and it felt like it had gone through someone already :(

[TXlib]

10. Well, they're soft and sort of cylindrical

so of course they would.

[txaslftist]

6. MR Ed.

aaaaaaaaaa horse is a horse of course of course

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9. Where're you from, txaslftist?

I'm in Houston.

[txaslftist]

12. LUUUUUUUUUUBBOCK!

She's flat, but she leans to the right.

[guitar man]

11. Is that anything like "C" rations?

God, now I'm giving my age away! :crazy:

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. I can say nothing as to "best".

But the beef stroganoff is, without question, the WORST.

[TroubleMan]

15. In 1992 I had an MRE that had M&M's in it, and they said.....

"Win a trip to the 84 Olympics"

I still ate them, and they were still pretty good.

[SOteric]

16. Now there's a contradiction in terms.

[TXlib]

22. Some of them aren't half bad.

And if you bear in mind "hunger makes the best sauce", then they're downright delicious.

Nice avatar, BTW!

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Swiss steak.

sort of...

[jmowreader]

18. My favorites from the late 1980s

My two favorite MREs from that era were Chicken and Rice and the Hash. Hash was especially good if you carried a LOT of Tabasco with you.

We're pretty sure they adopted the Omelet with Ham as an interrogation tool--"tell us what we want to know and we won't make you eat this." Now that it's been discontinued, they HAVE to use torture.

[MattBaggins]

21. HMMM dried fruit

no amount of water could ever rehydrate them. Let's not forget the orange koolaid that we used as a battery additive for cold morning starts