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Got the pics up of my 2008-2010 MRE omelette! 5 years does wonders for the Cheese & Vegetable Omelette. I was incredibly ill at ease upon pulling the cooked "omelette" out. It wobbled and jiggled like a solidified paste made of eggs, and that isn't the camera quality making it such a disturbing off-white color.  Amazingly, it was still safe to eat and actually didn't taste bad at all. The peppers included were still just flavorful enough to give it some kick after so many years in a pouch. But the texture of the "egg" made everything seem like some alien dish dropped on my plate. Nothing about it immediately looked like food for humans.
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chitoryu12 posted:Got the pics up of my 2008-2010 MRE omelette! OH GOD! Why is it brown!? 
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VendaGoat posted:OH GOD! ....the spoon?
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Nov 6, 2015 03:32
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The omelette was definitely the worst MRE. I think there was one with ham chunks in it. Straight up inedible. I wonder if they changed it since I last opened one
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VendaGoat posted:OH GOD! MREs are lies. Is the food any better in the cafeterias or are you essentially eating sub-school food 100% of the time in the military if there's no restaurants nearby? Pomp has a new favorite as of 03:42 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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chitoryu12 posted:....the spoon?  Pomp posted:MREs are lies Some of the ones I have tried have been.... Edible.
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Nov 6, 2015 03:40
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I think MREs are tasty in proportion to the percentage that they make up in your diet. I used to love them when I'd go backpacking, but that was once a month at most. Day after day for months or years... a man could lose his sanity 
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Nov 6, 2015 03:57
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Chard posted:I think MREs are tasty in proportion to the percentage that they make up in your diet. I used to love them when I'd go backpacking, but that was once a month at most. Day after day for months or years... a man could lose his sanity They taste like canned food mixed with convenience store snacks, really.
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Nov 6, 2015 04:07
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Even then, American MREs are at least a bit better than many other field rations I've tried. British 24-hour rations provide a similar amount of food for the most part and make very heavy use of commercial products, but there's a sort of haphazard scattering of components instead of carefully divided meals like in an MRE and some nitpicky problems like only having one spork for an entire day's worth of food, or having more spreads than biscuits to put them on so you end up having to squeeze peanut butter or jelly right into your mouth to get all the calories. Lithuanian rations are high quality clones of the MRE, but they have fewer components and accessories. I don't know of a single other country that has 24 unique menus for its field rations, let alone constantly rotating them in and out of circulation and developing new ones. And Russian and Ukrainian rations...those speak for themselves.
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Nov 6, 2015 04:12
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Nov 6, 2015 04:15
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Pomp posted:
That looks about 10 years old, so....
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Nov 6, 2015 04:18
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it almost looks like a tamale with the husk off
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Gotta remember MREs are there to pack as many calories into a 2-meal-per-day diet as is practicable, in minimal volume. I don't think MREs should count as AFP. Sort of like saying "oh look at this astronaut ice cream, its not even creamy or cold." Of course MREs are lovely.
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Pomp posted:Is the food any better in the cafeterias or are you essentially eating sub-school food 100% of the time in the military if there's no restaurants nearby? I work as a contractor for a DFAC (dining facility) on an Army base, and am happy to answer any questions on this subject. A lot of it is AFP purely from a visual standpoint, but we do serve some tasty stuff, far better than high school cafs. We have a bitchin' salad bar, a smoothie bar, a waffle bar with fruit, and some occasional interesting options like bulgogi and stir-fry. Most of the time it's standard American fare, made en masse. Much depends on who's cooking that day. My biggest personal complaint is how much salt gets added; it's a wonder the entire US Army isn't dying of hypertension right now. Last night they made a pot roast + carrots thing, served over egg noodles. I took one bite and needed to get some water before my mouth puckered up like Arseface from the Preacher comics. Now, I love salt. I eat Marmite straight out of the jar. If I make popcorn at home, when the corn is gone, I can be found running my fingers over the bottom of the bowl and licking them for the butter + salt taste. (It's me, I'm the AFP in this thread.) But holy christ do Army cooks add a fuckton of sodium to EVERYTHING. Edit: to more directly answer your question, Pomp: I've seen everything from 80's high school caf food, to hospital food (while interning during the 90's, plus visiting my mom when she was dying last year), to jail food (I did a brief stint a couple years ago), and in recent months the Army's stuff; the Army wins by far when it comes to presentation and edibility. JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 04:45 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Now, I love salt. I eat Marmite straight out of the jar. If I make popcorn at home, when the corn is gone, I can be found running my fingers over the bottom of the bowl and licking them for the butter + salt taste. (It's me, I'm the AFP in this thread.) But holy christ do Army cooks add a fuckton of sodium to EVERYTHING. sometimes i scoop a little pea-sized blob of miso paste onto a butter knife and eat it standing in front of the fridge
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Hypertension takes longer than suicide or it might be #1
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chitoryu12 posted:Even then, American MREs are at least a bit better than many other field rations I've tried. British 24-hour rations provide a similar amount of food for the most part and make very heavy use of commercial products, but there's a sort of haphazard scattering of components instead of carefully divided meals like in an MRE and some nitpicky problems like only having one spork for an entire day's worth of food, or having more spreads than biscuits to put them on so you end up having to squeeze peanut butter or jelly right into your mouth to get all the calories. Lithuanian rations are high quality clones of the MRE, but they have fewer components and accessories. I don't know of a single other country that has 24 unique menus for its field rations, let alone constantly rotating them in and out of circulation and developing new ones. Canadian rations do
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If an MRE has beans in it it's worth eating. poo poo I learned.
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Haverchuck posted:sometimes i scoop a little pea-sized blob of miso paste onto a butter knife and eat it standing in front of the fridge Butter knife? Hell, that's what pinkie fingers are for JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 04:57 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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MREs are so much better than most other military rations it's beyond belief. I was there during the phase in of the MRE as replacement to the 'C' rations and it was like night and day.
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chitoryu12 posted:Got the pics up of my 2008-2010 MRE omelette! I'm pretty sure my husband bought something like that in a tub for a home renovation or car bodywork project.
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Before all the preppers started hoarding them and the price shot up we used to buy MRE's for backpacking a lot. The eastern European (Poland, Estonia, etc) and Korean ones are usually the best. For the American ones the best ones are usually the Mexican ones because they are made up of stuff that freeze dries well (beans, rice, tomato sauce, etc).
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Bina posted:I like Cash Crab, because it's a funny cute name we can all remember our trash panda by.  cash crab is queen of the AFP thread.
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Cross quotin' from the China.jpg thread:
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Ulfhednar posted:I tried to stir it to make it look a little more appealing;
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This inspired me. Chicken with soy sauce, some mixed herbs, paprika, a flavour packet from some beef two-minute noodles, pepper, and Tabasco.  Added some frozen vegetables and cooked away some of the liquid.  Added about half a jar of peanut butter.  And served with rice. It was pretty good.
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hello gentlemen
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cash crab posted:hello gentlemen My god the horror...
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Is that being served on a pizza stone or something?
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Tiggum posted:And served with rice. It was pretty good. I'd give that a go. Doesn't look very stellar but I bet it tasted great. cash crab posted:hello gentlemen That's... That's canned shrimp mixed with that Ragu alfredo-in-a-jar poo poo isn't it  
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I am pretty sure that it's canned or frozen baby shrimp in heated cream, served over spaghetti. At least Ragu has the merest whisper of rosemary in it; I am half inclined to believe that the above is paint and Cheerios.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:03
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That is clearly the result of someone jacking off Godzilla
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Before my eyes resolved what was happening I thought it was a bowl of Fruit Loops in milk.
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I don't know about you, but I could murder an Alfredo right about now.
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cash crab posted:hello gentlemen Someone needs to see a urologist about that.
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zedprime posted:Before my eyes resolved what was happening I thought it was a bowl of Fruit Loops in milk. I thought noodles, marshmallow fluff and red apple jacks.
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Shrimp Rorschach test. anywho:   
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Chicken ala prolapse
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cash crab posted:Shrimp Rorschach test. Pickled Horse Dong w/ foreskin au jus or Tube Worm in Lemon Butter Sauce
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