Date:         Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:32:25 -0700
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On 11/7/04 8:07 PM, "Joel Walker" <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

>>> ..how do MRE's taste.....I've never eaten an MRE.
>> 
>> Heh. I had to live off the things for almost a month before we got
>> food
>> service out in the Saudi Arabian desert for Desert Shield/Storm. Of
>> course,
>> that was 14 years ago and they've gotten a lot better.
> 
> hmph. you guys don't know how good you had it. in 1968-1970, we were
> eating c-rations. in cans. heavy as hell and no heating stuff came
> with it. oh, we got cigarettes and toilet paper (John Wayne paper ...
> :) and chocolate (well ... sorta. it LOOKED like chocolate).
> i kinda actually like pork slices. we had one guy in our unit that
> loved ham and lima beans (known to most of us as 'ham and mutha-*****'
> because of the gastric distress it caused). he would actually trade
> his fruit cocktail cans for the stuff. go figure.
> 
> good ol' days? not from the way i see it. ;)
> 
> unca joel
> 
> 
Had it good???  I at a lot of those too.  1969 to 1991 I ate c rats and the
initial mre and then the mid mre. (missed the current mre by a couple
years.)  We even got some of the kitchen rats.  The tv dinners that got
dropped into a steam bath for about 10 minutes if I remember the time right.
Now those S####cked.  I am told that those have been greatly improved now. C
rats cooked up real nice over the exhaust of a dash 8 generator (unless you
were a certain second butter and forgot to put some holes in the top of the
can.  Somehow he got off with no burns or other damage other than he was a
total mess of speghetti everywhere.)
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