The dollar and change personal frozen pizzas you get out of the frozen food isle look better than this garbo.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    People who buy old MREs for camping (or even the civilian packaged equivalents) are suckers. The Humanitarian Daily Rations are both cheaper and tastier.

  • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Aren't MREs for when you're out shooting brown people and don't have a kitchen? I didn't think you got them at base anyway.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          All of them should basically be some form of beans and rice with different seasonings, but the troops would be upset if every MRE was just beans and rice even if it tasted 1000x better than this.

    • PlanetBrokeBeforeUs [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Yea. It’s not even meant to be eaten all at once. Those shitty crackers and peanut butter pouch? That’s meant to go on a pocket until you’re rucking for miles and don’t have time for a proper refuel.

      Taste, enjoyment, ect… all tertiary at most.

      They are good at what they are meant to achieve though.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    brit mres are pretty nice
    though the sticky toffee pudding doubles as a sidearm

    disclaimer: i'm a slut for biscuits, brown

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      7 months ago

      "i'm a slut for biscuits" would make a great t-shirt or bumper sticker

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
          hexagon
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          7 months ago

          And that's sad because I remember actual cooked school lunches, like real pizza by the slice and it was good. The worst food I ever had was in a psychward, found out later googling them they also serve prison food and had numerous violations against them. I'd take the MRE over that shit.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            7 months ago

            There's like a handful of these vendors that serve places like schools, prisons, hospitals, etc. To my knowledge, they have different tiers - the cafeterias at the university I went to were probably one of the better ones (definitely better than my K-12), but they still sucked, had nearly no vegan or vegetarian options, and I remember losing a lot of weight back then. The stuff they serve at prisons and psychiatric wards must be abysmal.

            • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
              hexagon
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              7 months ago

              The stuff they serve at prisons and psychiatric wards must be abysmal.

              I've seen smuggled pics from inside prisons where the food has bugs on it. In the psychward I remember getting served a cut of meat that was turning a blueish hue. Needless to say I always went with the grilled cheese option, at least that was fresh and cooked right.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      When I was in the cadets we had many opportunities to eat mres. One of the best things was trading the bits you didn't want with other people. I ended up with so much Brussels pate.

      Salmon paste was particularly unpopular, although I reckon I'd devour it these days. I'm like a dog, I'll eat anything, the more pungent the better.

  • save_vs_death [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    yeah and frozen pizzas turn to rotten mush 24 hours without refrigeration; these things are supposed to not do that and as a result of turning what is essentially trail mix into pizza, it's gonna look and taste like actual shit

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Salt pork, hard tack, boiled beans. Oh and scurvy. Now we're civil war reenacting.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          I haven't seen the words "plum duff" since reading Treasure Island as a kid. Holy shit you unlocked a core memory.

          • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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            7 months ago

            See it a lot in the master and commander books. It's like an even shitter Christmas pudding

  • Blep [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Even the less shitty mres still caused some bad constipation