mmmm..... like fine wine and cheese....... 1992 vintage MRE

[perna]

40 year old c-rat

[DaBears_85]

army rations are designed to taste like puke. It helps develope and drive that "suck it up and drive on" mentality. You eat it because you need the calories, not because it tastes good.

If we wanted our food to taste good, we'd be the air force.

It doesn't taste like puke though, I don't think anybody was saying that it does.

[JHC]

40 year old c-rat

That's what I'm talkin' about. Fine quisine like in the '70's eating 20 year old "pork slices in spiced sauce". To my palate, it was so bad it would gag a maggot. ROFL

[GermanSynergy]

MRE poundcake was awesome.... So was the pork chow mein...

[kalikraven]

I was both active AF and Army and I can't complain about the food that we had at Ft Carson. It was no better or worse than AF food.

[F_G]

If we wanted our food to taste good, we'd be the air force.

Yes, we Air Force boys were spoiled. Never forget seafood Fridays at Elmendorf AFB, better than any resturant I ever ate in.

[l3mon]

Wow... hardtack, forgot about that stuff. Got a chance to try it once at a recreation of a revolutionary war era army camp. I can't even really begin to quantify the taste of that. Seriously, how do you describe that? Regardless, I bet it wasn't too bad during that brutal winter at Valley Forge considering some didn't even have shoes.

I make hard tack for my BOB.. lasts in those vacuum bags for YEARS!

[Quiet-Matt]

I miss the slime/jelly on the ham slice. Save the TP from every MRE and by the time you could actually manage to sh!@ the brick you might have enough.

[Shamdawg]

I made $40 bucks on a bet once that I couldn't eat all the crackers in an MRE without drinking water with it. Just as I was about to loose my money, I accidentally puked stomach bile from inhaling the cracker bits. I managed to keep my mouth closed, the puke dissolved the crackers in my mouth and then swallowed everything.

I was now $40 richer. Those were fond memories from the field....

[Honu]

Wow... hardtack, forgot about that stuff. Got a chance to try it once at a recreation of a revolutionary war era army camp. I can't even really begin to quantify the taste of that. Seriously, how do you describe that? Regardless, I bet it wasn't too bad during that brutal winter at Valley Forge considering some didn't even have shoes.

the hardtack I has was over 100 years old it was original stuff

tried the recreation stuff also did not taste so OLD