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It took a while for the MRE to come into its own. By 1991 they were pretty awesome. Then, in true military fashion, they screwed them up. By 2001 when I went to Iraq, they were trash. They did away with the good ones, and replaced them with garbage. To top it off, every case of 12 had 3 vegetarian MREs in it. They were horrible. In Somalia, we had B-rats once a day for dinner. Them were really good!
My favorite MRE was spaghetti. You put in the squeeze cheese, crumbled crackers, and the little bottle of tabasco. Was a meal fit for a king.
Grimpuppy We did C-Rat spaghetti & meatballs the same way w/crackers and cheese and of coarse Tabasco. Everybody had a bottle of that. The ham & limas were a real gagger!
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome! Semper Fi
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Grimpuppy We did C-Rat spaghetti & meatballs the same way w/crackers and cheese and of coarse Tabasco. Everybody had a bottle of that. The ham & limas were a real gagger!
Bob Stehlik I think that was one reason most of us were not so fond of the switch from C-rats to MREs. We all had the mixtures down with the C-rats. I saved peaches and pound cakes until I could eat them together. Mixed up some good old Instant coffee with a heat tab and life was good. Although, I have heard the newer MREs are pretty good compared to the first few years.
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The first MREs came with a dehydrated pork patty and a dehydrated beef patty. They were awful. Think dehydrated like a cracker or rice cake, not like beef jerky. In all the time they were around, I only recall one time that we ever had the time and a heat tab to reconstitute it. It was actually not bad. But it took 30 minutes cooking in your canteen cup. All the other times you just ate it dry.
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Bob Stehlik I think that was one reason most of us were not so fond of the switch from C-rats to MREs. We all had the mixtures down with the C-rats. I saved peaches and pound cakes until I could eat them together. Mixed up some good old Instant coffee with a heat tab and life was good. Although, I have heard the newer MREs are pretty good compared to the first few years.
GWG8541 To give you an idea of the C-Rats we had they had cigarettes in them. A little 4 pack of Camels, Lucky Strikes or Pall Mall. All unfiltered. That’ll give you idea of my being “Old Corps”. I do have to say that by saving the cigs, pd. cake, chocolate, instant coffee and jelly; you could accumulate a good amount of “trade bait” and trade up to put something tasty together. I used to have a small sized “C-Ration Cookbook”. Also I never go anywhere without a P-38 ! I have one on every keychain.
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome! Semper Fi
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GWG8541 To give you an idea of the C-Rats we had they had cigarettes in them. A little 4 pack of Camels, Lucky Strikes or Pall Mall. All unfiltered. That’ll give you idea of my being “Old Corps”. I do have to say that by saving the cigs, pd. cake, chocolate, instant coffee and jelly; you could accumulate a good amount of “trade bait” and trade up to put something tasty together. I used to have a small sized “C-Ration Cookbook”. Also I never go anywhere without a P-38 ! I have one on every keychain.
Bob Stehlik I remember the old salts talking about the cigarettes in the C-rats. They were also the ones who were pretty vocal with the first round of MRE’s about 1983. I still own a few of those great P-38s as well.
I used C-rats and MRE’s both for trade fodder in Korea and PI. Getting freshly cooked Lumpia in PI was easy with a little OD green wrapped American food. We were livin life large.“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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Bob Stehlik I remember the old salts talking about the cigarettes in the C-rats. They were also the ones who were pretty vocal with the first round of MRE’s about 1983. I still own a few of those great P-38s as well.
I used C-rats and MRE’s both for trade fodder in Korea and PI. Getting freshly cooked Lumpia in PI was easy with a little OD green wrapped American food. We were livin life large.GWG8541 said in Vienna Sausage:
Bob Stehlik I remember the old salts talking about the cigarettes in the C-rats. They were also the ones who were pretty vocal with the first round of MRE’s about 1983. I still own a few of those great P-38s as well.
I used C-rats and MRE’s both for trade fodder in Korea and PI. Getting freshly cooked Lumpia in PI was easy with a little OD green wrapped American food. We were livin life large.Oh boy, don’t get me started on PI……. May have been the greatest year of my life.
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GWG8541 said in Vienna Sausage:
Bob Stehlik I remember the old salts talking about the cigarettes in the C-rats. They were also the ones who were pretty vocal with the first round of MRE’s about 1983. I still own a few of those great P-38s as well.
I used C-rats and MRE’s both for trade fodder in Korea and PI. Getting freshly cooked Lumpia in PI was easy with a little OD green wrapped American food. We were livin life large.Oh boy, don’t get me started on PI……. May have been the greatest year of my life.
Grimpuppy Magsaysay Drive in Olongapo City was one wild ride. Good times.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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GWG8541 Grimpuppy Good old Olongapo with S**t River! I only spent 3 days there but definitely remember that place. I liked Iwakuni much better.
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome! Semper Fi
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Bob Stehlik Iwakuni was a good time also, just more expensive for a young jarhead with no money. On libo, we went from PI and 30 cent Red Stripe beers to main land Japan and 5 dollar Kirin beers, big hit on the wallet.
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Grimpuppy I like them also, but man my Dad loved the stuff. I just had SPAM over a camp fire about 3 weeks ago.
If you can eat C-rats, this stuff is a delicacy. With the exception of beans and Frank’s and the pound cake. Those two things were awesome. They switched to MRE’s just as I got out. C-rats were much better.GWG8541 said in Vienna Sausage:
Grimpuppy I like them also, but man my Dad loved the stuff. I just had SPAM over a camp fire about 3 weeks ago.
If you can eat C-rats, this stuff is a delicacy. With the exception of beans and Frank’s and the pound cake. Those two things were awesome. They switched to MRE’s just as I got out. C-rats were much better.Those were great items, it was like winning the lottery when you seen them in your box. The least favorite I think was was the scrambled eggs and ham.
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GWG8541 said in Vienna Sausage:
Grimpuppy I like them also, but man my Dad loved the stuff. I just had SPAM over a camp fire about 3 weeks ago.
If you can eat C-rats, this stuff is a delicacy. With the exception of beans and Frank’s and the pound cake. Those two things were awesome. They switched to MRE’s just as I got out. C-rats were much better.Those were great items, it was like winning the lottery when you seen them in your box. The least favorite I think was was the scrambled eggs and ham.
YooperDog I think I agree. I definitely know where Dr. Seuss got the idea for green eggs and ham. A bottle of Tabasco was one of the few ways I could choke that one down. Heating it up with a heat tab helped also.
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I got to spend a year in PI. I was there for 6 months on a rotating detachment from Okinawa. Two days before we were to get on the boat to head back to Okinawa, Mt Pinatubo erupted. Since we were combat engineers, we were about the only ones with equipment to clear ash. That left us there another 6 months clearing flightlines and the port.
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