MRE
Meals Rejected by Ethiopians
(A US Marine)
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The first soldier ration established by a Congressional Resolution during the Revolutionary War consisted of enough food to feed a man for one day, mostly beef, peas, and rice. During the Civil War, the military moved toward canned goods. Later, self-contained kits were issued as a whole ration, and contained canned meat, salt pork, bread, coffee, sugar and salt. During the First World War, canned meats were replaced with lightweight preserved meats (salted or dried), in order to save weight and allow more rations to be carried by soldiers carrying their supplies on foot. At the beginning of World War II, a number of new field rations were introduced, including the Mountain ration and the Jungle ration. However, cost-cutting measures by Quartermaster Command officials during the latter part of World War II and the Korean War again saw the predominance of heavy canned C rations issued to troops, regardless of operating environment or mission. The use of canned wet rations continued through the Vietnam War, with the improved MCI field ration.
Wait, but C-rations were replaced by K-rations during WWII…
those are actually pretty good to eat-just dont eat alot of them. bad things will happen.
Right, like your guts clogs up. I don’t like this one, and the army ain’t gonna like it either.
I don’t see how this is funny. MREs are tasty
minestone’s the best =]
*minestrone
Like a minestone cowboy…
Live off these things for a year. Then talk about how they’re tasty.
Yeah they’re pretty decent. You don’t want to eat more than 1-2 a day because they’re like 2500 calories each.
Actually, I bet if you’re hauling a couple hundred pounds of gear up and down hills all day you can burn 7500 calories easy.
That’s kind of the point Paul, they are intended for eating while under heavy physical exertion. However for people that buy surplus for things like camping/emergency rations/etc. if they are not particularly active, 2 is more than enough per day.
If they are 2500 calories each, no one should be eating more than one a day unless they are undergoing serious physical exertion.
Point taken
Like carrying 50+ pound pack of stuff and weapons up hill in the desert.
If you had desert why would you be eating an MRE?
You’ve got “desert” mixed up with “dessert.”
I like taking them on camping trips, and I usually eat 2 a day. However I’m not exactly the type who takes an RV ‘camping’. I may not be humping an 80 pound ruck 40 miles a day, but I’m not exactly sedentary either.
That is why I have had them before.
You basically carry one meal per day during missions. That’s all you have room for (if that). You get resupply while you are out there. You break the MRE down to its most minimal packaging and wear them in your clothing (pockets) and load them (the broken down smaller interior packets) into your ruck sack (“back pack”). They maximized calories due to amount one is able to carry, not so much about the extra calories needed due to extra exertion. Of course, if you are limited to one meal per day (mission mode), then high calories naturally help.
read the packing it says that ‘a soldier needs 3 MREs a day as they exert so much whatever and you should always eat the carbs first’
Well that may be what the ‘package says’ but our missions do not allow us to carry 3 per day. You are lucky to fit one per day into a large ruck with all of the other stuff you carry.
It may be that they want the packaging to read a certain way for PR and legal reasons. The plain fact it that when you are on a true mission, like recon, you aren’t going to get your three square meals per day – dumb ass.
So, I believe, with foot patrol missions being one of the MRE program’s objectives, having an unusually high calorie content enables getting by on one meal per day WHEN YOU HAVE TO.
Well, you’re not supposed to eat them for more than 21 consecutive days.
your never suspose to eat anything 21 days in a row. thats why there are 23 meals to choose from. (24 if u count cheese Omlette)
did u know if your ship is sinking the cheese omlet MRE can repair broken Steel???
Mmmmm delicious.
Can they be any worse than Nat’l. Gurard C-rations circa 1969? I’ve had those and if you’re hungry enough…well…
OMG…do I hear you, my friend! We always speculated that they were left over from Korea…much like our M-1s.
the gurad got new “tom Mres” they SUCK
Never eat the Ham N Lima Beans, or Ham N Mothef**kers as we called them. Something about white colored ham floating in a sea of, not sure what, just killed off the appetite.
If I didn’t know any better I was say that is Buster Bluth. “I’m going to Army!”
But he has both hands. Must still be training.
Ethiopian jokes? This one needs a nostalgia tag. Crank up the WABAC machine.
Can’t speak for the American MREs but the Canadian IMPs were actually pretty good most of the time… Just don’t ever eat the frisbee (Baked Cherry Desert).
American MREs have improved a great deal over the last few years.
There more variety available now and they even added vegetarian meals, of couse the small packs of tabasco can make anything editable.
However beware the large crackers that come with some of the meals. The first time I ever tried to eat one, I swear I though I was going to break a tooth!
Editable? Needs editing
=P Thats spell check for you.
Cracker? I thought that was a replacement ceramic plate for the vest!
Vegetarians? In the military? Surely not.
its all Meat Subsitute.
You know, like spam.
Wait, does his name tag say “Evangelion?”
It’s his last name.
Good job, you win!
It’s Evanglos
I’ve had MREs when we had a hurricane a few years ago, and when there hasn’t been any electricity for days, no hot or cold anything, and you’ve eaten all the peanut butter there was, they’re Deee-licious.
I happen to know a retired US Marine and the actual expression is “Meals Rejected by Everyone.”
Well bully for you. The caption is funnier for the use of “Ethiopians” instead of “Everyone”.
No it isn’t.
And I happen to know an Army Ranger who used the Meals Refused (rejected) by Ethiopians.
Either one works
I have to go along with some of the other older posters who remember how REALLY nasty the food they issued us was……
I’m guessing none of you ever ate the Ham and Chicken Loaf….
You mean the Alpo? We used to take them with us on crash recovery missions. We’d have to warn any newbies to leave the chicken ala king at home – those that didn’t listen usually got dusted off a couple hours after eating it.
Yeah. What was it with the Chicken ala Rotten? I never had one that didn’t have the outer jacket look like it was shrink-wrapped onto the contents.
A couple of the first-generation MRE meals circa 1988 were truly heinous – specifically, the dehydrated beef patty and the dehydrated pork patty. Upon removal from the package, said patties bore a very strong visual and olfactory resemblance to a huge chunk of dry dog food. I ate one dry, without soaking it in water to re-hydrate it, simply because it was the very first MRE I had ever seen as a recruit with nearly an entire month’s experience in the Army…and it also tasted like dry dog food.
The second time I got a dehydrated meat patty meal, I remembered what the first one tasted like, and let it soak in water for fifteen minutes before eating…instead of dry dog food, this one tasted like Gravy Train.
My name for them was “Meals Ready to Excrete.”
I remember those dehydrated Pork and Beef patties, absolutely ridiculous. No amount of water made it truely edible. You could eat them like a cracker and wash ‘em down with a lot of water just to put something in your stomach. Cause when you’re REALLY hungry, just about anything will do.
The famines in Ethiopia were quite a long time ago, it’s true.
The idea of the acronym being changed from “Ethiopians” to “Everyone” reminds me of how CARE stood at first for “Campaign for American relief in Europe”, later changed to “Everywhere”.
“Meal Ready to Excrete” reminds me of a bit in an F.M. Busby book about processed food that was “pre-cooked, pre-chewed, pre-digested and pre-excreted. Just warm them up and flush them down the toilet!”
BTW, in 1994 I adopted three Ethiopian children, and they turned out to be picky eaters. That’s right, I myself have cooked Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
Thanks, you’ve made my day!
OMNOMNOMNOM OOOOMNOMNOM OM nom
Sandvich is credit to MRE!
I sure miss the MREs that my cousin used to bring home from base back in ’96. Sorta. I didn’t have any favorites since they all taste the same with the Tabasco sauce added to it. I just wish I could have found a chicken ala king that wasn’t rotten. Would be nice to know what it was supposed to taste like. Then, there’s the toothpaste that tasted like peanut butter and the cheese “stuff” that was in there with the pilot bread crackers.
I dunno about you but I like the MREs. Yummy!
Depends on the MRE. When you haven’t eaten a decent meal in a long time, you start looking forward to some of them…
American MREs are probably the grossest thing ever. Canadian MREs are one step better and the best is IMP (Individual Meal Packet) they a like 10000000000000x better than an MRE. And it stands for Meals Rejected by Everyone, not Ethiopoans
I loved MRE’s. I hated that nasty slab of pork though. When I first joined the Marines, they had the first generation MRE’s. One meal back then was the omelet with ham. Everyone hated that one, but I loved it. Easy trading. If you’ve never had one, beware of the cheese, peanut butter or pound cakes, you won’t shit for a week.
When Hurricane Ivan trashed my house and there was no water for a week and no power for a month and no grocery stores.. MREs were AWESOME. @_@ We’d fight over the Jalapeno Cheese spread.
Yeah…did I already apologize for that? If not…sorry! *sheepish grin*
You should try Ethiopian MREs. Yummy.
Does anyone remember sea rations?
I was a military brat and way back in the 70′s my Dad use to bring them home from maneuvers. Whats funny is thinking back , I liked them so much better than MREs but that just may be fond memories.
I think I may still have one of the old can openers that came with them around the house some where.
Sorry, I ment C-Rations not Sea Rations.
Man I need some sleep.
I loved C-Rats!!! my grandfather used to get them for me when I was little!! i would build myself a fort in the back yard and eat them in there, ah memories of little green cans…
MRE – The reason why every American soldier owns at least one bottle of hot sauce.
I loved MREs when I was serving, and we had the first gen stuff then.
We had some MREs right after Hurricane IKE hit and we thought they were pretty good. There were even vegetarian meals.
SANDWICH!
In the wildland fire service MRE’s were commonly referred to as Meals Refusing to Exit
I recall the Chicken a la King being the most palatable.
The peanut butter was good, but that cracker was heavy duty.
Ready to eat “individual”? I might as well try one
At least the MRE’s are all edible, the Norwegian Field Rations (FR) actually had one of the meals discontinued from production, I look back at it now and curse the name of “Royal Thai”.
Hmmm. Don’t ever eat the rice. It’s horrible. (Coming from an asian, so I don’t know if it’s not horrible to everyone else)
And never, *ever* eat the cheese veggie omelet. The big trick with MREs is to mix everything into one bag and throw in some Tobasco. Efficient and potentially a bit more enjoyable.
…also rejected by little Korean orphans — I’ve seen it happen (the Marines in the group laughed with us) — kids have to have their standards, afterall!
I’ve had both MREs and the Canadian IMPs. The MREs apparently have improved quite a bit over the years However, the IMPs are still a lot better.
Can’t remember for the life of me what meals I had from each, though.
Legend has it that the exchange rate during Desert Storm was one French pack for three MREs.
We had these given to us after the hurricane. They were a good meal for a few days while we waited for the gas, water, and electricity to be turned back on. I like the fact that they would heat up when you add bottled water.
I so agree with this! Its terrible what they are making our troops eat! They are out there fighting for us and we give them food thats all powder! How wonderful! Cmon people let our soldiers eat well!!!
when you’re a starving vegetarian on the march, it’s an exciting game of where’s the laxative.
“hey, want some gum?”
(p.s. veggie for allergy reasons.)
that’s a very old joke, but still a good one. They are always handy for backpacking.
some MRE’s are actually pretty good. Bad part is that they clog you up, although I wouldn’t really want to have to go number 2 so often during a mission anyways lol.
I can has cheez omelet?
I’ve actually had MRE’s before. Not bad, really. Kinda like spaghetti-o’s.
I’ve heard them as “rejected by Ethiopians” and by “Everyone”. Daddy is a retired former Green Beret (odd notions of retirement – teaches concealed carry classes, studies Krav Maga, plays sax in at least one band). He’s the one who told me about MREs. Also let me try food from those lovely dark olive canned C-rats on his custodial weekends. To me, it was all part of the great adventure of seeing Daddy on base. Cuisine was secondary. I was just a kid back then, though. (watched Dad’s fellow paratroopers land in a swamp {giggle} while Daddy missed it)
I got some promising-sounding MREs from an Army surplus store for my disaster kit. Don’t know how good they are yet. As for getting bound up, a stool softener is safer and cramp free. It’s safe for pregnant women even – category A! Do you know how rare that is?!? Oh, seasoning is crucial for any food! I have “Klingon In The Alley Jerk Seasoning”, lime pepper blend, & Forest Lord seasoning, but even some Mrs. Dash blends can make foods more palatable.
Some actresses are so skinny Ethiopians send *them* CARE packages.
My Grandpa was a green beret back in vietnam, and he said “theres 3 dangers in vietnam, bullets, disease, and worst of all, rations” to this day,he will not eat chicken.