Some MRE are edible. Others are horrible. However they made a lot of improvements since the 1990s when I had one in Boy Scouts that someone in the Navy gave us shortly after the Gulf War. Those had a few good things, but mostly bad (but they are better than C-rations and K-rations according to the Vietnam Vets.)
MRE development be liek 1890s (Ground Beef, Chocolate), 1910s (EVERYTHING IS A BISCUIT BAR), 1940s (STILL BISCUIT BARS), 1980s (WE GOD DAMN DONT KNOW WHAT WERE DOING, basically peak MRE devlopment where 80% of it are generally flops), 1990s (I think already got the formula down), 2000s (It's fine I think...)
IDK why people keep saying MREs taste bad. The stuff is amazing. The only way I can see someone not liking them is if they only had one bad one and didn't experience all the other options, or being a person who would scoff at a TV dinner.
The only one on the top of my head that was horrendous and I could not finish was an omelette one, but I don't like powdered eggs and other variants so it could just be me.
IDK why people keep saying MREs taste bad. The stuff is amazing. The only way I can see someone not liking them is if they only had one bad one and didn't experience all the other options, or being a person who would scoff at a TV dinner.
The only one on the top of my head that was horrendous and I could not finish was an omelette one, but I don't like powdered eggs and other variants so it could just be me.
Most of them are OK-ish to "meh it's food", but the vegetarian ones are just plain awful. However, the last time I had some myself was back in 2001, so they "might" have changed since then.
Most of them are OK-ish to "meh it's food", but the vegetarian ones are just plain awful. However, the last time I had some myself was back in 2001, so they "might" have changed since then.
I agree with the vegetarian part. Whoever came up with that idea was just like "how do I make someone's life suck more? Okay, I'll delete the meat." It is like catering to the mindset of someone who more than likely would not be in the field. Like the movie "SWAT", I can't trust anyone on my team who can't eat a good old fashioned American Hotdog. :D
There have been a lot of changes to the MRE since 9/11 and they definitely got better, but even the 90's dated MREs weren't that bad. The MRE was a huge improvement over previous rations. I wasn't in the military, but there were times we worked with them and we often had MRE to eat since there really wasn't a commercially viable substitute aside from freeze dried foods, which actually were also military surplus.
The vast majority of MRE packs are decent at least, and are a vast improvement over what had been in use before. In any case, they aren't meant to be eaten for more than three days, and hot food is meant to be used whenever possible.
The ones I don't like are the vegetarian meals, which tend to be atrocious.
79248cm/s said:
IDK why people keep saying MREs taste bad. The stuff is amazing. The only way I can see someone not liking them is if they only had one bad one and didn't experience all the other options, or being a person who would scoff at a TV dinner.
I agree with the vegetarian part. Whoever came up with that idea was just like "how do I make someone's life suck more? Okay, I'll delete the meat." It is like catering to the mindset of someone who more than likely would not be in the field. Like the movie "SWAT", I can't trust anyone on my team who can't eat a good old fashioned American Hotdog. :D
Religious servicemembers do get to have their dietary restrictions honored, after all. And the ones with particular allergies that make meat a problem. Not anybody's fault but the tick that bit you if you suddenly have a red meat allergy.
I agree with the vegetarian part. Whoever came up with that idea was just like "how do I make someone's life suck more? Okay, I'll delete the meat." It is like catering to the mindset of someone who more than likely would not be in the field. Like the movie "SWAT", I can't trust anyone on my team who can't eat a good old fashioned American Hotdog. :D
There have been a lot of changes to the MRE since 9/11 and they definitely got better, but even the 90's dated MREs weren't that bad. The MRE was a huge improvement over previous rations. I wasn't in the military, but there were times we worked with them and we often had MRE to eat since there really wasn't a commercially viable substitute aside from freeze dried foods, which actually were also military surplus.
I guess I wouldn't be on your team for now then as like with most foods, I still need to get used to non-asian styled foods slowly.
