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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:45:54 PM EDT
Rate the MREs from best to worst
The beef enchilada(shaped like a pop-tart) was pretty good, the beans were even better 
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:46:33 PM EDT
[#1]
In before Sherrick13
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:46:47 PM EDT
[#2]
Don't you ever sleep??
 
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:47:49 PM EDT
[#3]
I need this!!! I'm tired of finding the worst out of the box...
Beef and Macaroni = 
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:48:09 PM EDT
[#4]
It's not best to worst, more like which degree I hate them at. They all suck, the question is which one I hate the least. I'll go with country captain chicken. May it R.I.P.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:50:18 PM EDT
[#5]
Not half as much as I'd like, or used to
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:51:21 PM EDT
[#6]
I've got a Chicken ala Thing you're welcome to... circa 1992...
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:53:33 PM EDT
[#7]
The only MREs I've been able to actually enjoy are beef stew and pork rib.
The rest I merely tolerate for nutritional purposes however without a doubt the veggie omelet is the worst but it comes with pop-tarts which are yummy. Pretty much all chicken meals come with some form of M&Ms |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:54:36 PM EDT
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it's not so much best to worst...some were downright terrible (omlette with spam) to bearable (chicken with rice or tuna with noodles)....it's that they ALL had the same nasty skank ass aftertaste. didn't matter which one.
I think this is my bitterness for having eaten so many of the fucking things. My civilian friends that I gave some to as 'gifts' thought they were all awesome. Now eat them for weeks on end... If I never eat another MRE, it will be too soon. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:55:02 PM EDT
[#9]
Oh yeah, the heater thingie said to put it back in the box to heat it
but, there was only room in the box for the enchilada so, I put the beans AND enchilada in the MRE bag neither one of them really got very hot
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:55:47 PM EDT
[#10]
The pork chow mien is well....
 Stops you up like a cork though.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:56:07 PM EDT
[#11]
Chicken ala King is my all time fav, but, when they came out with the Spaghetti..... we would fight over that one (Yeah, were talking old school MRE's, not that fancy new shit.)
 Somewhere out there, somebody misses the dehydrated pork patty, or beef patty...... |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:56:27 PM EDT
[#12]
Anything with rice or beans is
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:57:40 PM EDT
[#13]
I stole this on another site. My favorites starting from the top (2004 menus).
MENU 8 Beef Patty Nacho Cheese Pretzels Macaroni & Cheese, Mexican Cheese Spread w/Bacon Wheat Snack Bread (2) BBQ Sauce Beverage Base, Powdered Hot Sauce Accessory Packet, C Spoon Flameless Heater MENU 24 Meat Loaf w/Gravy Mashed Potato Vanilla Wafer Cookie Jelly Crackers Cocoa Beverage Powder Accessory Packet, B Spoon Flameless Heater MENU 2 Pork Rib Clam Chowder Cheese Spread Wheat Snack Bread (2) Cookie Beverage Base, Powdered Hot Sauce Accessory Packet, A Spoon Flameless Heater MENU 12 Veggie Burger w/BBQ sauce** Hard Candy Fudge Brownie Cranberries, dried Peanut Butter Wheat Snack Bread (2) Hot Sauce Accessory Packet, C Spoon Flameless Heater MENU 16 Chicken w/Noodles Raspberry Applesauce Peanut Butter Crackers Candy*** Pretzels Cocoa Beverage Powder Hot Sauce Accessory Packet, A Spoon Flameless Heater MENU 5 Chicken Breast Minestrone Stew Cheese Spread (Jalapeno) Wheat Snack Bread Pound Cake Candy*** Accessory Packet, D Spoon Flameless Heater MENU 20 Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce Apple Sauce, carbo fortified Cheese Spread Wheat Snack Bread Dairy Shake Hot Sauce Accessory Packet, A Spoon Flameless Heater The rest are all even for me. I still have not tried some menus. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 8:58:08 PM EDT
[#14]
Cheese Tortellini FTW as stated in the other MRE thread as well.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:00:03 PM EDT
[#15]
I bought a bunch of heaters from ebay to solve that problem. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:01:00 PM EDT
[#16]
I love meat, but the Veggie pasta alfredo MRE was the freakin bomb...the pasta and sauce was great, as were the snacks...the veggie cracker was terrible, but I had the peanut butter to get the taste out of my mouth
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:05:53 PM EDT
[#17]
They all suck equally
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:06:57 PM EDT
[#18]
Cajun Rice with Beans and Sausage was delicious! I had a ham steak one circa 1998, some kid brought it in for "show and tell" in seventh grade, that one wasn't too bad either.
All definitely blocked me up though, but thats what the gum and creamer is for anyways. lol. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:07:45 PM EDT
[#19]
Also, is it possible to just buy the ones you want?
the ads I've seen in the past specifically stated NO
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:13:08 PM EDT
[#20]
I like the Cheese Tortellini
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:15:40 PM EDT
[#21]
Dehydrated pork patty with ketchup was AWESOME. Break that patty up in the pack. Open it up and rehydrate with a bit of fresh coffee. Then sprinkle the dehydrated ketchup packet over the patty, adding more coffee to get a gravy-ketchup sauce on the ground pork. Let sit for 5 minutes. Unwrap the crackers, spread the rehydrated mix over the crackers. Top with the pickeled jalepeno slices you snuck into your ruck. Add cheese whiz from a can over the top. Open a can of beans to top it off!
Yes. I did that. Tabasco sauce was also a staple in my ruck. In cool weather, the peppers kept. Discard the first bit of cheese that comes out of the nozzle. Before the heaters, the exhaust muffler on a 5k or 10k gas generator would heat a canteen cup of water in about 5 minutes. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:20:25 PM EDT
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I've known people who preferred those... Me, I threw 'em in my stash for when money in college was tight, they weren't too bad cooked into ramen. But eating them in the field? Nope, don't like dentists that much. We practically paused an FTX the first time we got MRE's with Tabasco in them... We'd already grabbed the case from the cache and run (our OPFOR/instructors had a habit of hitting us at food pickups, so we'd set up a perimeter near by, send in the sacrifice to grab the case, then bug out two hundred meters before stopping). MRE heaters were a godsend, IF you were paused long enough to cook (usually during the AAR after a lane) with one. Of course, I'd gone to Brigade Quartermasters, bought a pack, and then they started issuing them to us (ROTC cadidiot). Still have some in a box in the garage. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:22:26 PM EDT
[#23]
I wish we could have had the new stuff, we were stuck with such "goodies" as escalloped potatoes/ham and the every nasty corned beef hash that even all the hot sauce in the world could rid one of its nasty taste. If I had the choice between those two and not eating, well I wouldn't eat.
Fucking T-Rats are even nastier than than the nastiest MRE, got to love the green egg omelet cubes and the chicken that had a worst aftertaste than a formaldehyde laced Singha beer. 
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:22:54 PM EDT
[#24]
Chicken and rice with all of the little bottle of tabasco and pepper packet.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:37:20 PM EDT
[#25]
Dibs. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:37:54 PM EDT
[#26]
Best - Tuna Noodle Casserole (early 90's)
Worst - Dehydrated Beef Patty (late 80's) - I'm just glad the first one I ate was in the middle of the night - I didn't have to look at it! |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:38:59 PM EDT
[#27]
Worst = ham slice
Best = cheese tortellini |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:42:19 PM EDT
[#28]
best = Slopy Joe Worst = cheese omelet
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:44:00 PM EDT
[#29]
Damn, forgot about the pork rib. You can put it together with the wheat snack bread for a ghetto McRib or mash it up and stir it in along with the clam chowder and cheese spread for a greasy, creamy cheesy delight. I truly want to strangle the asshole who decided to replace the crackers with aluminum, err, wheat snack bread. And I'm pretty sure that if I open one to discover peanut butter two more times I'll dig my eyes out with that indestructible spoon. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:46:15 PM EDT
[#30]
Why a spoon? A good portion of the MREs Ive eaten are better served with a fork....why cant the MRE spoon at least be a spork?
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:53:11 PM EDT
[#31]
Tuna w/Noodles in the old brown packs was the worst. Pork and Rice/w BBQ sauce was the best back then. I haven't had one in ~8 years, so I can't comment on any of the new ones.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 9:55:47 PM EDT
[#32]
Spicy Penne and Beef Ravioli =
 Most Others =  Some Others =
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Posted: 9/22/2008 10:46:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/22/2008 10:51:43 PM EDT
[#34]
I haven't eaten Chicken Ala King since 1988 because of the MRE. Only in the last 5 years have I been able to suppress the gag reflex when I smell Chicken Ala King.
Ham patty or Escalloped potatoes with Ham were the only ones I could choke down at the end of my service in 94. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 10:51:47 PM EDT
[#35]
I've only ever had two MRE's. One was a cheese ravioli thing and the other was some sort of meatloaf. I don't remember specific names, but both were restaurant quality and very good. I fucked up both of the heater pad things, so I just cheated and nuked it. I guess MRE's take practice.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 10:52:29 PM EDT
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There was a thread on here a few years back where a guy made a fancy dinner for a chick and used like 4 MREs. Long story shory, she shit her brains out in the middle of the date. That was one of the funniest stories I have ever read.....wish I could find it again.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 10:59:45 PM EDT
[#37]
The original brown bag ones, "Corned Beef Hash". More so when cold, since the F'ing heaters came separately.
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:06:00 PM EDT
[#38]
Heh, actually I was wondering about the best and worst of the current MREs But, some of your recollections of your MRE misadventures are pretty funny
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:08:10 PM EDT
[#39]
Every new one is a culinary delight compared to the originals!
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:09:43 PM EDT
[#40]
Beef enchilada is the best one, but only if it was made by The Wornick Company. If it was made by SoPakCo or Ameriqual, it is crap.
The worst one by far is the Spicy Penne Pasta (vegetarian). |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:12:26 PM EDT
[#41]
The three I got were from Ameriqual ETA: and obviously I was pretty hungry at the time..... |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:41:11 PM EDT
[#42]
The only one I could not handle back in the day was the Four Fingers of Death Frankfurters. I felt sick every time I ate them. Saying that I loved the Omelet with Ham!
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:44:29 PM EDT
[#43]
Chicken w/salsa.
I miss dehydrated fruit. |
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Posted: 9/22/2008 11:58:11 PM EDT
[#44]
I used to eat them dry. |
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Posted: 9/23/2008 12:05:15 AM EDT
[#45]
I think I found a couple old brown MRE's in my mom's USMC stuff. (ca. 1987) Should I be worried about puking if I eat one? Or should I just give it to someone I don't like?
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Posted: 9/23/2008 12:07:54 AM EDT
[#46]
+1 with a minor correction. |
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Posted: 9/23/2008 12:10:41 AM EDT
[#47]
the wheat bread is fucking awful.
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Posted: 9/23/2008 12:13:50 AM EDT
[#48]
1) Chicken Fajita
2) Beef Ravioli 3)Sloppy Joe 4)Spaghetti 5)Tuna in a Bag (Starkist I think) 6)Chili & Beans 7)Pork Rib* 8)Veggie Burger* !!The worst is the Cheese Omelet nasty not niceness!! *Pork rib and Veggie Burger are interchangable, as they both taste the same to me. Does anyone else hate the smell of those god damned heaters. If I never smell another one, it would be too soon. |
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Posted: 9/23/2008 12:16:33 AM EDT
[#49]
I used to eat it all the time, and one day I just couldn't take it anymore. I would trade for the crackers (not the vegetable) which are much better. Have you tried the new chocolate peanut butter? That shit rocks!! |
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Posted: 9/23/2008 12:23:44 AM EDT
[#50]
I've seen three generations of MREs come and go, so I'd have to think hard what some of the earlier ones were. Hands down worst was the omlette.
I miss some of the side stuff more than I miss the main entrees. |
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