i take the meat MRE's on canoe trips,not the made up meals like beef stew.added to a rice side they make a fast,filling easy meal.
having said that remember that MRE's are just the new version of C-Rats,meals that could be stored,shipped and tossed out of trucks for mass feeding of a Army on the move.
there is also a phony glamor to military rations....
there is not much difference between MRE entrees and regular canned foods in the actual food. MREs are just packaged different to suit military needs and include some accessories.
regular canned foods are much cheaper and there is a great deal of variety not found in MREs.
there is phony glamour to a lot of things military. people seem to assume that the military uses something because it is really good. the truth is far more complex. while a lot of military equipment is good, it is almost never all that good. Military equipment is often designed by committees of officers that will never actually have to use it to stand up to the abuse inflicted on it by semi-trained teenagers while being built by the low bidder or by a favored political contributor.
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Bob
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