And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, July 26, 2024
I prefer Progresso Soups and tuna fish for trouble, but perhaps this has its place too.
Only as a last resort or an overnight stopgap. 10 year max shelf life, if you got them new. (Odds are, they were already past that date when you bought them. So they're mainly historic curiosities, and expensive caloric trash.) Pricey, even if they were new. Underwhelming amount of calories. And requires twice the storage space of what was on offer in the 1980s.
You can do better with a slight weight penalty with canned goods, and save $$$. And Mountain House backpacking food is overall cheaper, lighter, and longer-lasting.
But people who don't know, always have to learn the hard way.
Mountain house has few calories. Lots of MRE's on sale are new manufacture. Still not great, but better than other options nd will last for 10+ years if stored properly.
Knorr noodle-rice packs, cans of Keystone chicken-beef, dehydrated vegetables, whatever spices you prefer, is much, much less expensive, better tasting, more easily adapted to the mission.
Nope, I had T-rats for lunch and two MRE's for 2 months during the first Gulf war. I had to eat them a time or two in the years to follow. I would cherry pick the items I would eat. They did get better but they could mess up your digestive system.
WORD. After eating C-Rats during the VN era (11B20), I was exposed to these poisonous concoctions as an Army Reservist. My advice to the younglings was to always carry some kind of effective laxative, unless they wished to experience giving birth to a telephone pole.
Let me say this about that. As a retired old guy, shame on me to bash MREs. Knowing that our young men and women are scattered all over the worst parts of this world, and knowing that they depend on these. A product that we send them! If they are good enough for them, then they're goog enough for me! I have cases of these in my closet as I live in a hurricane prone area. God bless our troops, and these are that bad, then we need to man up and make a better product.
Only as a last resort or an overnight stopgap.
ReplyDelete10 year max shelf life, if you got them new.
(Odds are, they were already past that date when you bought them. So they're mainly historic curiosities, and expensive caloric trash.)
Pricey, even if they were new.
Underwhelming amount of calories.
And requires twice the storage space of what was on offer in the 1980s.
You can do better with a slight weight penalty with canned goods, and save $$$.
And Mountain House backpacking food is overall cheaper, lighter, and longer-lasting.
But people who don't know, always have to learn the hard way.
Mountain house has few calories. Lots of MRE's on sale are new manufacture. Still not great, but better than other options nd will last for 10+ years if stored properly.
DeleteThe way to go with Mountain House is to regard their "2 servings" packaging as a dish for 1. Unless you're eating 5 meals/day.
DeleteKnorr noodle-rice packs, cans of Keystone chicken-beef, dehydrated vegetables, whatever spices you prefer, is much, much less expensive, better tasting, more easily adapted to the mission.
Deletethis box packed in 2013
DeleteAh yes, good ol'-- Meals Rejected by Ethiopia.
ReplyDeleteNope, I had T-rats for lunch and two MRE's for 2 months during the first Gulf war. I had to eat them a time or two in the years to follow. I would cherry pick the items I would eat. They did get better but they could mess up your digestive system.
ReplyDeleteThe peanut butter and the cheese were better than Immodium for the squirts.
DeleteThe peanut butter would make you pay a hefty price a couple of days later.
DeleteIn 1977 I did 94 days in a row at Graf and ate nothing but c ratz the whole time. They won't kill you.
DeleteC rations and a Sterno stove. And a P38 can opener.
DeleteI bought them many years ago and 1.5 years before experation I started eating them--Not bad--better than starvation-
ReplyDeleteWORD. After eating C-Rats during the VN era (11B20), I was exposed to these poisonous concoctions as an Army Reservist. My advice to the younglings was to always carry some kind of effective laxative, unless they wished to experience giving birth to a telephone pole.
ReplyDeletewhat is you cut on these over priced crap
ReplyDeleteLet me say this about that. As a retired old guy, shame on me to bash MREs. Knowing that our young men and women are scattered all over the worst parts of this world, and knowing that they depend on these. A product that we send them!
ReplyDeleteIf they are good enough for them, then they're goog enough for me!
I have cases of these in my closet as I live in a hurricane prone area.
God bless our troops, and these are that bad, then we need to man up and make a better product.
They're a marginal improvement on C-rations, which they replaced, which themselves replaced K-rations.
DeleteThey are still miles from being food, and are the least nutritious and most expensive forms of survival rations one could light upon.
As for the troops, they're smart enough to avoid them until there's no other choice, as they have been since ever.