I just finished eating my first MRE. I didn't have to eat it, because we have food, but I believe that everyone ought to have the experience, don't you?
The package included:
Creamy Chicken Tetrazzini
Crackers
Cheese spread
Fig bars
Shortbread cookie
Raisins (Osmotic)
Beverage base for lemonade
Spoon
Moist towelette
I must admit it was not bad. If I had no food, I'd be thrilled with it. I wonder if one meal would satisfy a hard-working man, however, it was more than enough for me, and Diana (my dog) happily licked up the leftovers.
Aren't my posts the most fascinating ever? I still have limited time on the computer, so I can't get into anything long or deep, so now you know more than you want to know about MREs.
What an interesting world you live in. I thought people quit making and serving Chicken Tetrazzini around 1914. Is this a Louisiana thing?
ReplyDeleteI've been out all day- YAY you are back!!!
ReplyDeleteYay!!!
Chicken tetrazini MRE? Not too tasty sounding.
For us foreigners, MRE?
ReplyDeleteMmmm, sounds delicious! Think I'll stick to my tinned tomatoes on toast which I had this evening.
ReplyDeleteGlad that life is slowly getting back to "normal" for you. Mind you, the thought of your "smalls" hanging out in the breeze for all the world to see is a mental image that is likely to stay with me for a long time! No photo?
Brian, "Meals Ready To Eat". They're in a package complete with a heater which operates through a chemical reaction with salt water. They were first used on the battlefield, but they work for areas devastated by disasters, too.
ReplyDeleteI think we may have electricity at home in Thibodaux. I can't get hold of Grandpere, but the answering machine works. However, I will very likely not have internet access. After Katrina, Charter Communications took forever to get up and working - weeks.
(brian r, MRE= "meal ready to eat" in a vacuum pack distributed by the government and relief agencies; troops in the field and disaster victims become intimately acquainted with them)
ReplyDeletegrandmere,
I'm actually glad to hear that you have MREs down there. From some things I had seen on the television, I was beginning to worry that the government had forgotten that people have to eat.
I'm so glad you and Diana are peacefully sharing a meal. However, I'm wondering about how Grandpere is doing with that floozy, his freezer gal. But I'll leave Dennis & PJ to dig up the dirt. You just sit tight and enjoy the peace and quiet (though couldn't you put some Cajun spices in that tetrazini stuff?)
ReplyDeleteJust remember that those MREs are also feeding our soldiers. Think of living off of two of those a day, for say couple of months. Not bad, but not good, either.
ReplyDeleteI'm just so grateful you all are okay. Blessed be God
ReplyDeleteToday's MREs are a far cry from the K rations we used to covet. When I was in AZ three people got lost on Mt Baldy and the Army searched for them leaving the trails littered with debris. The hiking club I belonged to spent weekends cleaning up the mess. We hiked for months with the discarded rations. I still have my little can opener which works infinitely better than the newer versions which are quite crude.
ReplyDeleteWe knew MREs as "LRRP" (Long Range Recon Patrol) rations, and considered them to be very choice. We did as most American Soldiers--we improvised; we took meat, etc. for c-rations and bought rice and vegetables in local markets, which we cooked ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI always tried to have a few choice C ration items (Pound cake, peaches) to share when I went out; they were harder to get in the field.
MRE: Meal Ready to Eat; just add water to foil pouch.
Kirk: it's a "P-38", not to be confused with the twin-boom WWII fighter plane.
Oops; I meant "piskie". Sorry 'bout that.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's "meat, etc. from C-rations": canned chicken or pork which went well with greens, peas, van, van, peppers, (WWWOOOOOOOOOO!) and rice.
Good to hear from you Grandmere!
ReplyDeleteOsmotic raisins?
ReplyDeleteMy mind boggles.
I've heard that the MREs are much better than the old K-rations, but I'm sure they get old after a while. What I think I would want most after a steady diet of them would be something like a good hamburger or tasty fried chicken.
ReplyDeleteLucky Diana!
ReplyDeleteWell I just finished a camping adventure and happened to stumble across the same MRE combination as yourself. I have to say however that the raisins osmotic taste like someone infused throw up into them! After biting into one of the raisins I wanted to yack. If you or Diana actually liked them let me know and I'll be happy to mail mine to you :)
ReplyDeleteThose 'Raisins, Osmotic' really do taste chemical-ly and bad; can't bring myself to eat them. Maybe if there were rinsed well...?
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