Latka
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Joined: 9/29/2000 From: Honolulu, HI, USA Status: offline
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Maj. Ed - nah, I was in the 'Corps when we only had MREs. I think I saw one case of C-rats, but I was told that I didn't want to eat those. :) Heck, MREs weren't anything to brag about either! Just the basics to keep you alive...but we did try to make "field brownies" and such with all the extra cocoa, sugar, and creme. Probably tasted as bad as the C-rat version.
The one cool thing I saw just before I got out in late '94 was the new MRE heating "slab". It looked like a big graham cracker with a silver coating on one side. I can't remember what exactly the silver "stuff" was, but you put it in the big outter bag that the MRE came in, plopped in your main "meal" bag, and then put water in it. The one time I seriously tried it I had to let my food cool down for like 10 minutes 'cause it was so damn hot! ...then again, when you put about 20 of those heating elements in a bag and get it cookin...hahahahahah :) That was all of 10 minutes after we tried the first one, too. We were some destructive SOBs!
Andy
(Not missing the "4 fingers of death", "Omlette with Ham", or much else about MREs!
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