gNads noes MRE's

[ScubaGuy]

In the OP about the military developing an MRE pizza, Lieutenant gNads chimes in with her expertise.

gNads noes

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
4. Anybody who's ever eaten an mre...

Will tell you, while better, nothing to really write home about.

And kneading peanut butter inside a boot while walking is an experience all on it's own.

Really? What do you make? A peanut butter and toe jam sandwich?

big_dog (576 posts)
8. the only thing good about an mre

is the m&m's

Response to big_dog (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 04:54 PM

NM_Birder (535 posts)
10. asprin and salt

Response to big_dog (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 05:00 PM

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
14. We gave the better ones to grunts.

So no m&ms for me, when we had to issue them

I guess senior officers had better food.

[JakeStyle]

Putting a peanut butter packet in your boot to loosen it up sounds like something you would tell the new guy to do, just to see if he was actually gullible enough to do it.  Apparently nadin is that gullible.

[Skul]

Heaven help us.....here she goes again.
1240 hrs right now.  I give it one hour before the bullies pounce.

[98ZJUSMC]

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
14. We gave the better ones to grunts.

What?!?!?!  Was this before or after you crammed the entire contents into your stubby little shoe?

Minus the M&Ms, of course.

[dutch508]

Putting a peanut butter packet in your boot to loosen it up sounds like something you would tell the new guy to do, just to see if he was actually gullible enough to do it.  Apparently nadin is that gullible.

Thats bullshit, Nads. The peanut butter wasn't that solid that it needed that much manipulation. It would take you like 30 seconds of ****ing with it and it was fine.

Gave the better ones to the grunts? again- BULLSHIT. We never got any of the good shit. the REMFs always picked them clean before they got up to us.

[98ZJUSMC]

Thats bullshit, Nads. The peanut butter wasn't that solid that it needed that much manipulation. It would take you like 30 seconds of ****ing with it and it was fine.

Yeah, because nothing says fun like humpin' the hills with peanut butter packets in combat boots.  WTF?!?!?  Never, ever heard of that.  Ever.

Gave the better ones to the grunts? again- BULLSHIT. We never got any of the good shit. the REMFs always picked them clean before they got up to us.

Thing is, they still come in banded 12 Ea. cases right?  Unless the cases are cracked open.  We were always issued in bulk to the platoons and then the miracle of the barter system worked its magic.   

[marv]

I was in Laos long, long before MREs. But I've sampled some, and they sure beat the C and K rations (left over from Korea I heard) any time....

[formerlurker]

Response to gerogie2 (Reply #20)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 06:05 PM

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
23. I don't believe Dominos delivers

To a forward base, or for that matter to the National Training Center in the middle of exercises.

They have been trying for years to make MilRats better for grunts for decades. It is a morale issue. Why McDonald's has outlets in bases. It's a problem since you need something that is somewhat palatable, nutritious and with a lllloooonnnnggg shelf life. The latter has actually been reduced from even 20 years ago.

The results are ...shall we say mixed and meals ready to eat are the but of many a joke.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #23)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 02:02 PM

Star Member underpants (106,872 posts)
45. At Ft. Hood they did deliver to coordinate

I was talk by several Scouts who were stationed at Hood that they could order pizzas and have them delivered to them, often by GI's working a second job, directly to their Bradley or 113. I think they said there was a Pizza Hut freq.

underpants will soon be introduced to Nad's ignore list.

[formerlurker]

Response to 11 Bravo (Reply #19)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 05:53 PM

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
22. We got really old, near expiration date, MRE's

During the floods to feed displaced people. We decided to see if culturally people would eat them. In the end, fire, police, EMS, shelter workers were issued these. The higher in the food chain the least palatable. Yes, we asked the marines who brought them about that. I remember the peanut butter since it was so old it required kneading to remix it.

Ham and Lima beans..I agree with you. They were, well.. Just that memory and god...I lost my appetite.

We used locally gathered canned food, cooking it even, for shelter residents. Yup, plenty of griping on the responder side. But, I learned that lesson with the Mexico City quake, no matter how hungry people are they at times will not touch very unfamiliar food. (That was pickled herring, it ended up in delis with proceeds going to beans and tortillas)

Been told that British MilRats make ours seem gourmet. I can't imagine. Not after ham and beans or the PB and J, or the...well you know. I will give them this, kept us full and going. That I will give them.

Soooooo, now the peanut butter in the boots was when she was a medic.   Hmmm, what about giving the M&Ms to the grunts?  

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #22)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 07:39 PM

Star Member Brother Buzz (9,528 posts)
33. Ham and Lima beans made it to the MRE munu?

I was under the impression the Pentagon wisely retired Ham and Lima beans when they ditched the cans.

Response to Brother Buzz (Reply #33)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 06:40 AM

Star Member rudolph the red (220 posts)
37. They did

There has never been a ham and lima bean MRE.

Response to rudolph the red (Reply #37)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 12:21 PM

Star Member Brother Buzz (9,528 posts)
38. That's what I thought

After a quick Google® search I felt like Bob Dylan reading cans on the shelf in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid:

Ham & Chicken loaf, Boneless Pork Chop w/ Noodles, Omelet with Ham, Pork w/ Rice, Ham Slice, Boneless Pork Jamaican, Ham slices, Jamaican Pork Chop w/ Noodles, Escalloped Potatoes w/Ham, Pork Chow Mein, Pork Rib....

Not one demon Lima bean to be found

Response to Brother Buzz (Reply #38)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 01:45 PM

Star Member zappaman (11,167 posts)
39. We used to have to walk miles with lima beans in our boots.

That is all I will say for now.

They set Nads up -- devious bastids!!!   

[ScubaGuy]

And the fake vet 11 Boo chimes in.

Star Member 11 Bravo (16,729 posts)
19. Ham and Lima Beans (or ham and mother-****ers as we called them) could ...

have been classified as a war crime.

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
22. We got really old, near expiration date, MRE's

During the floods to feed displaced people. We decided to see if culturally people would eat them. In the end, fire, police, EMS, shelter workers were issued these. The higher in the food chain the least palatable. Yes, we asked the marines who brought them about that. I remember the peanut butter since it was so old it required kneading to remix it.

Ham and Lima beans..I agree with you. They were, well.. Just that memory and god...I lost my appetite.

We used locally gathered canned food, cooking it even, for shelter residents. Yup, plenty of griping on the responder side. But, I learned that lesson with the Mexico City quake, no matter how hungry people are they at times will not touch very unfamiliar food. (That was pickled herring, it ended up in delis with proceeds going to beans and tortillas)

Been told that British MilRats make ours seem gourmet. I can't imagine. Not after ham and beans or the PB and J, or the...well you know. I will give them this, kept us full and going. That I will give them.

Star Member Brother Buzz (9,528 posts)
33. Ham and Lima beans made it to the MRE munu?

I was under the impression the Pentagon wisely retired Ham and Lima beans when they ditched the cans.

Rut Roh

Star Member rudolph the red (220 posts)
37. They did

There has never been a ham and lima bean MRE.

Star Member Brother Buzz (9,528 posts)
38. That's what I thought

After a quick Google® search I felt like Bob Dylan reading cans on the shelf in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid:

Ham & Chicken loaf, Boneless Pork Chop w/ Noodles, Omelet with Ham, Pork w/ Rice, Ham Slice, Boneless Pork Jamaican, Ham slices, Jamaican Pork Chop w/ Noodles, Escalloped Potatoes w/Ham, Pork Chow Mein, Pork Rib....

Not one demon Lima bean to be found

Star Member zappaman (11,167 posts)
39. We used to have to walk miles with lima beans in our boots.

That is all I will say for now.

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[98ZJUSMC]

Ham and Lima beans..I agree with you. They were, well.. Just that memory and god...I lost my appetite.

    Ham and MotherF*ckers were in C-rats, you stupid Blob, and they were long gone by the late 70s.  We had some older C's in South Korea and they never appeared.  The crusty old Vietnam Vets "reminisced" about them, but I never saw them.

Star Member Brother Buzz (9,528 posts)
33. Ham and Lima beans made it to the MRE munu?

I was under the impression the Pentagon wisely retired Ham and Lima beans when they ditched the cans.

Actually, before that, but yes.

[dutch508]

Yeah, because nothing says fun like humpin' the hills with peanut butter packets in combat boots.  WTF?!?!?  Never, ever heard of that.  Ever.

Thing is, they still come in banded 12 Ea. cases right?  Unless the cases are cracked open.  We were always issued in bulk to the platoons and then the miracle of the barter system worked its magic.   

We never got a case of MREs that wasn't already busted open and rifled through. By the time it went through Battalion Supply, Company, then down to the platoons...

Of course that's when I was a young private. When I got to the command of my own company I made sure the front line guys ate first and best.

[Delmar]

My favorite part of an MRE was the chocolate shake that was in them sometimes.  A big foil packet with some kind of powder in it.  All you had to do was add cold water and shake it up.  They tasted like a real shake with ice cream.  The consistency was right too.  They were delicious.  I snuck a few of the packets back home from deployment in my footlocker which I unfortunately had to throw out, the inside of my footlocker was all fouled up from my stinky peanut butter combat boots.

[ScubaGuy]

My favorite part of an MRE was the chocolate shake that was in them sometimes.  A big foil packet with some kind of powder in it.  All you had to do was add cold water and shake it up.  They tasted like a real shake with ice cream.  The consistency was right too.  They were delicious.  I snuck a few of the packets back home from deployment in my footlocker which I unfortunately had to throw out, the inside of my footlocker was all fouled up from my stinky peanut butter combat boots.

^5 

[GOBUCKS]

This whole thread is predicated on the belief that the crazy bald dwarf ever saw an MRE outside of a google entry.

Of course, if the USA had some old, contaminated, inedible rations to discard, it would make sense to sell them to some third-world shithole like mexico, but nadin would never have seen them.

She lives in the google universe.

[GOBUCKS]

An example of a mexican MRE:

[JohnnyReb]

Here's how it went....if you grunted, Nadin the EMS worker, would give you an MRE and take the good medicine herself.

[Mr Mannn]

I bought a case of MRE's. Its sitting around somewhere. It was 12 meals, now it is 10.
They are not bad at all. Pretty good if you ask me. Just shows nadin is lying again. and the meals are good for 15 to 20 years. The peanut butter stays soft...
I'm calling you out, Nads. You're a lying b!tch.

nadinbrzezinski (129,689 posts)
14. We gave the better ones to grunts.

So no m&ms for me, when we had to issue them

"Grunts" is a derogatory term coming from Nads. If she isn't referring to soldiers, then she is calling hungry people: Grunts. Try respecting people in need for once.

[NHSparky]

As a submariner, the only time I ever ate, let alone saw, an MRE, was when I was on the tender in Guam and Typhoon Omar blew half the island off the map.

We ate them when we went out for cleanup, and even then, half the time, the locals were doing BBQ for us as we helped out, and partly to get all the refrigerated and frozen stuff eaten before it went bad.

Then again, I've got two cases of MRE's in the basement as emergency food.  I'm still looking for an expiration date on them.  Seems there isn't one--just a pack date.  Go figure.

[I_B_Perky]

My favorite part of an MRE was the chocolate shake that was in them sometimes.  A big foil packet with some kind of powder in it.  All you had to do was add cold water and shake it up.  They tasted like a real shake with ice cream.  The consistency was right too.  They were delicious.  I snuck a few of the packets back home from deployment in my footlocker which I unfortunately had to throw out, the inside of my footlocker was all fouled up from my stinky peanut butter combat boots.

    H5!!!! That made me LOL!!!

[Airwolf]

We all know that without her using Google her IQ would drop faster then the shiny New Years Eve ball on Dick Clark's Rockin New Years show. I have never had to take more then a minute if that to knead the peanut butter packet or the cheese one. Of the two types of meals given to us in the field I'd take MREs over C-Rations anytime except for the candy in C-Rats I liked the old John Wayne bars.

[Fourwinds]

Well she is definitely full of it. The peanut butter wasn't nearly so hard as to having to march over it. I remember a few good ones. Chicken with noodles wasn't so bad with a pinch of salt. My all time favorite had to be chili with beans though.  Came with a pack of Red Hot candy.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I was in Laos long, long before MREs. But I've sampled some, and they sure beat the C and K rations (left over from Korea I heard) any time....

Yeah, I've had plenty of Cs and MREs.  The MREs were a truly vast improvement, especially after a few initial bad ideas were dropped from the line-up and the heat packs were added.  A couple of the Cs were actually not bad IF you could tear up the box and build a funeral pyre around the meat can with it, but under strict fire and light discipline there were only about two that were better than biting into a block of frozen lard.

[Big Dog]

   Ham and MotherF*ckers were in C-rats, you stupid Blob, and they were long gone by the late 70s.  We had some older C's in South Korea and they never appeared.  The crusty old Vietnam Vets "reminisced" about them, but I never saw them.

I had ham and mother****ers once or twice in 1980 at Ft Dix.

[Big Dog]

Maybe Mexican MREs are different from our gringo rations.

Maybe the Mexican grunts (don't think about those two words together too much, my friends) are fed Ham & Mother****er Burritos when they go into the bush.

gNads knows. She knows.