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This Is the Army’s New Battlefield Sandwich…That Stays Good for 3 Years!

Army Makes Sandwhich with Two Year Shelf-Life

That's not a Hot Pocket. (Photo: BBC screenshot)

This is no Twinkie, but it sort of looks like one and also has a similarly long shelf-life. BBC reports that the U.S. Army, having compassion on all the soldiers who have to eat Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), set out to make something a bit more appetizing, but with that comes challenges of keeping food fresh in the field.

“Hands down worst MRE made is the veggie omelet. It’s like eating soggy cardboard is the best way to describe it,” a soldier in BBC’s video report said.

So food scientists came up with another option — something that would make the Earl of Sandwich proud. Researchers created a sandwich that will stay good for up to three years — provided it isn’t exposed to air or water. As Dr. George McGavin reports for the BBC, the U.S. Army is “on the frontline in the war against decay.”

Army Makes Sandwhich with Two Year Shelf-Life

This is what a regular sandwich looks like after only three days. Potentially breeding bacteria and with an unappetizing texture. (Photo: BBC screenshot)

The first thing food scientists needed to do in order to prevent bacterial growth and aid in “extreme food preservation,” according to BBC, was to control the moisture. Popular Science describes what the researchers did to combat moisture, which would contribute to decay:

To do this, food scientists started with ingredients like sugar (in jams or jellies for instance), salt, or honey that contain moisture but also retain it, keeping it out of contact with other ingredients. Think about a fresh tomato; on a sandwich, it will quickly cause the bread to become soggy as water from the tomato soaks into the bread. But jelly or honey on toast, though moist, doesn’t impart its moisture to the bread. Using ingredients that lock their moisture inside was key to the process.

The sandwich would also need to be protected from oxygen. The researchers include a pouch of iron filings in the sandwich packaging to trap any oxygen within.

Army Makes Sandwhich with Two Year Shelf-Life

A pouch of iron filings trap oxygen within the sandwich packaging turning it to rust. (Photo: BBC screenshot)

But what of the taste? Without taste bud approval all the work of improving MRE’s would be for naught. BBC reports the following quotes from a couple soldiers:

“It’s defninetly the best 2-year-old sandwich I’ve ever had.”

“The bread just makes it.”

Army Creates Soldier Approved MRE Sandwich With Two Year Shelf Life

(Photo: BBC screenshot)

So, even though this sandwich may look like a straight-from-the-freezer Hot Pocket, McGavin says “this is one seriously high-tech sandwich.” Watch the full video report by BBC here.

Comments (177)

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  • Hickory
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:11am

    I still have my GI can opener from the 60s. It opened many a C ration.

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    • 762x51
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:56am

      Same here. The people who are complaining about MRE’s never had to eat C rations. They think the MRE veggie omelet is bad try the C ration Vienna sausage.

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    • jungle J
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:03pm

      p 38

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    • 1minuteman
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:10pm

      thanks guys for your service. i served in early seventies but fortunately never had to eat rations.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:13pm

      I thought that was a picture of Jon Corzine pitching his latest new business venture. Hot pockets that keep forever.

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    • BONETRAUMA
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:17pm

      the only c rations that were any good at all was the tuna and the blueberry ton cake.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:21pm

      “Hands down worst MRE made is the veggie omelet. It’s like eating soggy cardboard is the best way to describe it,”

      I second that. Really, any omelet.

      I miss Tuna Noodle. They did away with that years ago, but it was too darn good.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:29pm

      “.. the best two year old sandwich I ever had…” that ain’t saying much. IMHBLO.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Same here; have several P38′s; they do come in handy; pretty hard to beat a C Rat; had couple that were so-so; but could always crack the can and put on the manifold of the vehicle engine; wala…hot meal….that’s what the asbestos glove with the “Ma-duce” (M2) kit was for, right?

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:33pm

      I hated the ham and lima beans. I was ok with the beans and franks. Liked my 3 Pall Malls.

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    • mad_hatter_
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:35pm

      While we are talking about all that our armed serve men and women have to go through, here is their official Christmas Song talking about everything they are going through overseas and how they miss their families: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/dec/marine_christmas_song.html

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    • Jinglebob
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:42pm

      Yes, what can I trade you for your pound cake and that can of peaches?

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    • odatrobert
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:45pm

      OK…but the Spaghetti was pretty good when heated in the exhaust pipe of a takk

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    • MTCOWBOY711
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:56pm

      John Wayne

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:37pm

      762×51 – I have eaten plenty of both and they both stink overall. There are also good aspects to all of them (like you ain’t going to starve to death) but they are a poor choice to real food. I also used to keep a P38 on my keychain for many years and it is one of the handiest tools a guy can have. I opened up many cans and turned many screws with it over the years. It got wore out and kept flipping open in my pocket and stabbing me in the leg so I took it off. I did just buy a couple of new ones the other day, so maybe I will put one back on.

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    • justcause89
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:59pm

      I still have my p-38 as well. I keep it on my key ring. I remember some of the first MRE’s. The Beef Stew and Chicken ala King were not bad. Most troops complained about the dehydrated pork patty, but it was decent if you had access to hot water and the “soup and gravy base, beef.” Even the nastiest MRE’s, LRRP’s, and C-rats were edible compared to the tray-pack, “Dinner, day six.” My troops liked to eat the dehydrated fruit, and then drink water, so they could complain about their stomach aches induced by such practice. Remember the MRE cheese spread? I don’t know what it was exactly, but it was not any cheese I have tasted. We used to take the entree from the MRE’s, and put them inside our gas masks, put the gas mask back into it’s carrier, and lay them on the dash of a vehicle. Do this in the morning, and you will have a hot lunch. This was way before the inclusion of the MRE “heater packs.” Ah, memories…

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 2:33pm

      Keep preparing for the day when only those with basements full of non-decaying food will be able to live a few months longer than the rest of civilized mankind. Long enough to trade everything to me for gold.

      TEA

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    • richardTX
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 2:43pm

      Hey everyone that everused a P-38 kept it, most of the time mine was on my dog tags, oops I mean ID tags, they kept changing the names of everything. And justcause89 yes the tray-packswere the worse, the earlier ones were either green or yellow, no matter what it was, and we renamed the sausage in brine sauce to sausage in urine. The dehydrated pork patty and the dehydrated beef patty were the worse until my crew chief told me to use hot coffee instead of water, made them pretty good. They wentthe way of the dodo bird and they finlly started packng a small bottle of hot sause in each MRE like they did in he C rats, only way to make them edible. Until they did everyone had their own bottle of hot sause. I noticed the oher day the commassary is once again selling MRE like thy used to sell C rats.

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    • Iman Azol
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:15pm

      I liked the Vienna Sausage C rat. However, the tuna with noodles MRE was revolting.

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    • IceHawk00
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:19pm

      Compassion on all soldiers that have to eat MREs? I do have to admit the veggie omelette is horrid… hands down the worst… but the cheese tortellini or beef stew? king chicken? best bro.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 5:01pm

      Based on what others have said, I seem to be the odd man out, when it comes to MRE’s……I ate many of them and thought they were pretty tasty. Certainly better than those frozen frisbee pizzas that my kids like to buy.

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    • Black Tiger
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:04pm

      I have one that came out of as reproduction WW2 C-Ration. Still have it. Military rations have come a long way from the Hardtack Bread (US Civil War), the C- Rations (ww2, Korea, Vietnam) and even the Brown MREs from Desert Storm.

      THis link is very informative about the history of military rations in the US military…
      http://www.qmfound.com/army_rations_historical_background.htm

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    • AmericanIcon
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:20pm

      Hell, not only do I have the ‘John Wayne’ on my keychain, I still have (vintage 1945) C-rats ‘just in case’.

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    • Kinnison
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 6:25pm

      Do you remember the legendary C-Rat “Ham & Mothers”? Or the green eggs? Every grunt I knew carried a treasured bottle of McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce. My C-Ration “John Wayne” can opener is still on my dog tag chain. I once got C-Rats that were so old that the cigarette 5-pack inside was still “Lucky Strike Green”. When MREs hit the field the DOD didn’t change the size of the plastic spoon and every time you ate from one of the brown packets you got sauce up to your 2nd knuckle, which is a bummer in the field where you can’t wash.

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    • wilsonclay3rd
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 7:21pm

      Remember the smokes they included? Now they tell you not to smoke.

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    • mils
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 8:12pm

      we have some mre’s for camping/hunting, emergencies and sotrage…they’re not bad at all….

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    • NYHuguenot
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 12:22am

      The P38. Four per case.

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    • lodgerat
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:07am

      What year were your C rats made? in 68 we were eating rats that were made in 1945. They tasted like it too

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    • apollo18
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:06am

      When my days are done and next stop is purgatory while they decide what to do with me, they’ll serve cold Spagetti & MB’s straight out of the can. First magnitude YUCKAROO!

      In Heaven you get the heat tabs.

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    • americanbuckeye
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 2:04pm

      I ate a three year old sandwich once. Let me tell you it was hard to keep the kid between the slices of bread. Especially once I started biting!

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    • lukerw
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 2:24pm

      I hated it… traded for Cigs!

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  • Gary_K
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:03am

    MMMM, green ham and cheese.

    I wonder what happens if the package gets a pin-hole in it.

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  • IIIper
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:02am

    Freeze dried is the ticket, assuming you have access to water. The military uses this for its MCW/LRP meals, which are quite good. The civillian market has brands like “Mountain House”. These have excellent shelf life, good nutirtion and taste great. The mountain house lasagna is good enough to server at your home for dinner guests (though the consistency is more like goulash than lasagna). These are great items for hikers, hunters and preppers. Seems like the military would just undertake a wider adoption of this type of meal. With the massive supply chain already required by today’s military, whats the big deal about water requirements in most places?

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:33am

      Those are good. We got a good amount of LRRP meals back in the early ’80s and they were produced by Mountain House. A bit salty for my tastes then but I began to order more Mountain House meals for camping. And, to supplement issued food while in the field.

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    • SlowBoiledFrog
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:14pm

      Water is not always available, and can be contaminated. I remember having ice in my canteen and unable to build a fire for tactical reasons. Ever eat powdered coffee from a C-rat packet washed down with slushy icewater? Whatever it takes…..

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:37pm

      I has a MSG who hadn’t washed his canteen cup since Korea. All he needed was water.

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  • Boson Higgs
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:00am

    FTFA –
    “ having compassion on all the soldiers”

    Why can’t The BLAZE find someone who knows the ENGLISH language ???

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  • BannedByHuffpo
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:59am

    Hey, they don’t call it “Wonder” Bread for nothin’.

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  • Boson Higgs
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:57am

    FTFA –
    “having compassion on all the soldiers”

    Why aren’t there any ADULTS to edit this crap ??!!!

    What Third-World country does this article’s writer come from ??!!!

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    • booger71
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:02pm

      Get over yourself

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    • skitrees
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Was this really worth TWO posts, Boson Higgs?! You might want to check your blood pressure from time to time.

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  • RodentKing
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:52am

    Do like the African countries.
    Shoot the enemy then Bar B Q them.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:09am

      Actually after a few months of eating MRE’s that might start sounding appetizing.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:52am

    If the enemy doesn’t kill you..;.the sandwich will.

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  • 45-ACP
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:38am

    I ate “C” rations off and on for 3yrs in Viet Nam from 65 to 68 that were left over from WWII. WTF
    Rob

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    • oldchevyguy
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:57am

      Couldn’t give the ham and lima beans away!!!!

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    • BannedByHuffpo
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:58am

      MMMMMMM ….. C-Rats. My favorite? Ham & Mo Fo’s

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:39pm

      I had C rations that were canned before I was born. I don‘t know if they tasted worse than some canned in the 60’s.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:38am

    Mmmmm, yum. Just right, I think I’ll buy five years worth, just to be safe. And another 10,000 rounds of ammo. And a few dozen more guns because, well, “some people” say I should.

    And you clowns wonder why you don’t have any money. It’s because you spend it all on bunkers and beans.

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    • plastinoid
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:51am

      Hahaha, your funny………….but in the end when you are starving, or being killed and eaten by your unprepared neighbors, I will be sitting back and watching it all on television while eating a nice meal.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:56am

      You folks go and wait at the New Orleans Super dome for government cheese and water. While we ride it out on our own with zero support from the mammy government. YOU ARE THE GRASSHOPPERS WE ARE THE ANTS. And if it were up to me I would let nature takes it’s course just like it did in the parable. Of course when the government collapses under it’s own weight that will happen. May God have mercy on you because we’re fresh out.

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    • lala1961
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:57am

      and your the reason I’m preparing for whats to come! Your going to be one of those looters killing and stealing cause you thought WE were stupid for being prepared! Must be nice to believe in a fairy tale of everything is all good and all ok in the world!

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    • acemobile
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:00am

      Why do you lash out at people you don’t know? You must have been picked on a lot as a child you poor thing.

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    • ginger100
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:03am

      You may as well kill yourself now because when we are all living the road warrior life style, you’ll be wearing nothing but a leash.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:08am

      By the way Bunkers and beans are better ways to spend your cash that 22″ rims,gold teeth and plasma t/v.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:11am

      What are you going to do with your money when it is worthless, you liberal whore?

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    • diablamonkey
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 11:35am

      what do u spend your money on?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 1:20pm

      your sensei

      Have you called the producer of “Extreme Makeover” yet?

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:03pm

      Does your neck get tired with all that weight on one side of your head?

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:10pm

      @your sensei

      You are not.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:28am

      Really? When the SHTF, we’ll all be dead on Monday, and you’ll all be killing each other a week later. But here’s what you really need to be thinking about instead of C rations, when you spend your life in fear preparing for eh worst possible existence, that’s exactly what you get – the worst possible life.

      Hope you’re enjoying it. Me, I think I’ll take a ride in the boat.

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  • Buddynoel
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:26am

    The vending machine at my office has this beat by at least five years. Our midnight shift has survived for years off of food that comes with spider webs.

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    • piper60
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:40am

      Spiderwebs provide extra fiber, the spiders themselves provide extra protein.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:24am

    Wait a minute, where’s Michelle.. I mean this sandwich is chock full of preservatives to kill a horse and they have our servicemen eating it.. Guess it can‘t be any worse than some of those 40 year old MRE’s! Yuk!

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:45am

      Since our military personnel will be the ones eating it, Moochelle the first wookie won‘t care if it’s loaded with all the engineered preservatives in it. In fact, she will probably insist that they add a touch of botulism or e. coli to the mix just because.

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  • TheSitRep
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:19am

    If you open an MRE you will find a little pork from about 30 congressmen.

    The amount of trash you have after you eat one is totally amazing and there will invariably be 5 or 6 items that 90% of people don’t even bother opening.

    MREs are complite ****. I say bring back the old C-rats.

    Oorah!

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:05pm

      MRE’s have an application. A few will get you by for a few days. Start a fire with the non dairy creamer. Mix sugar, coffee, cocoa and pbutter together for ranger stew. Use matches to burn libs. Pork products good for the muslims in the area. All kinds of fun in an MRE.

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  • TheCalvinistPastor
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:08am

    This is Great!

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:06am

    They should definitely follow the honey route. Honey is the only food that doesn’t mold or spoil.

    Coming from the C-ration generation, I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for this generation of soldiers. What’s next, foie gras and Cristal?

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 3:27pm

      Turducken and Yoohoo in a squeeze bag. These bacon and cheddar sammiches are actually decent, and they have a honey bbq that is decent too. These will get you by for a while-filling a void with calories. Note: the little air bag charcoal thingy taste like dried turds.

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:00am

    Throughout the 80s I worked for a company that manufactured the MREs and they are very good. There was one that made us a bit queezy while cooking (the ham & chicken loaf), yuck yuck spit spit. Just so happens that was the fave of the soldiers, go figure. Of course it didn’t smell or taste bad after the cooking process.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:19am

      While on the receiving end of packaged food for the military I got my first taste of MREs while in Grafenwohr, Germany in late ‘83. Frankly, they were rather disgusting and made me wish that the C Rations were not on their way out. Now, almost twenty years later they are still trying to improve the unimprovable. The first generation of MREs at least had some taste, while the next two seemed very bland. All to often there was not enough Tabasco Sauce in a bottle to give the stuff any taste. But, I did prefer the MREs to the first T Rations we got during the ‘86 REFORGER. Those were absolutely sickening…literally. Might do the troops a favor by going back to a new version of the C Ration

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    • southernORcobra
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:29am

      food is food when you are hungry after a day of training in basic it don’t matter what it is.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:47am

      SOUTHERNORCOBRA, Didn‘t say that I didn’t eat them. In fact I have no idea how many of them I did consume until I retired. Being an NCO when these came out I let my troops pull out their favorites when a new case was opened. Usually I got stuck with either the beef or pork patty dehydrated. There were none of those MRE heaters back then. Those were such a pain in the rear that I gave up quickly trying to add water and simply took a bite followed by a swig of water. Also, in the early days I’ve had too many occasions to jump out of my Jeep, then later HMMWV and run into the woods ripping off my MOPP suit and trousers in time to lean against a tree and literally piss through my rectum. Yeah, I ate it, and it was filling, and I had to order other troops to eat them to keep up their strength. Now that those days are long over for me, I will gripe about the quality and taste of that food.

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:58am

      I actually bought a seven day supply of MRE’s for emergency use. We had a slight emergency a couple years ago (snowed in and no power), so we decided to have an MRE meal. It wasn’t bad. We had pressed chicken with a side of Mexican Style Mac & Cheese (that was some really spicy mac & cheese!) There was also some crackers (nasty), a cookie (good), and some sort of drink mix (didn’t even try it). All-in-all, the food we got was edible, but not something I would want to have to eat for days and months. I’ve always had the highest respect for our troops, but since eating an MRE, that respect has skyrocketed! Thank You to all our Troops and may God Bless You and keep you safe.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:44pm

      RichinGadsen

      The trick is to turn the C ration box upside down. This way everyone’s meal is luck of the draw. I am having fun with this story.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:58am

    Blech…..

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:56am

    Wonderful.

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  • Obama Snake Oil Co
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:55am

    I hope it tastes like chicken…

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  • grudgywoof
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:54am

    3 years is not a great shelf life. Needs to be double that at least.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:50am

    Is it possible to get some for our food supplies? (That was Sarcasm, really)

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:56am

      I would like mine with an extra side of rust.

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  • Johnny916
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:48am

    Yummy! I wonder if McDonald’s has any influence in making that sandwich.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:39am

    Just makes me want a C ration ham and lima beans served cold with the grease on top. Where is my P38. MMMMMGood.

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    • AJAYW
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:46am

      Or ham and eggs

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    • Perspective
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:55am

      Lol I haven’t thought about my p38 in years,that was great!

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    • Lone Ranger
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:08am

      Wow, you just triggered a memory. I’ve had a P38 on my key chain since 1970.

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    • flyoverbob
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:26am

      I was at a gun show over the weekend and a guy had some p38′s.I hadn’t seen one in 40 years,made me yearn for some beef and shrapnel.Maybe some instant coffee and a 35 year old lucky strike to burn the leaches off my azz.

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    • Semper4everSemper
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:30am

      To Marines it was the “John Wayne”. I didn’t realize for a long while that it even had an official designation.

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    • pavnvet
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:42am

      I still carry my P-38 on my key chain. As far as C’s go, had my fill in Vietnam….Still remember the crackers that were dust and the cigarettes that if you lit them they burned to a stump in about 15 seconds.,,,,,and those are the best memories I have. ;-)

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    • Seasoldier
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 10:51am

      That’s right. A John Wayne (p38) always came in handy. I once lived on Ham and Eggs, chopped, for a week. Something else that used to come in handy was the old steel pot helmet. It was good for everything from cooking to washing socks, not to mention as a weapon of opportunity, and, oh yeah, to protect your head. Our current Marines and other warriors are some of the finest and I’d gladly rejoin their ranks, but I don’t miss being part of these experiments with food and equipment that come down the pike every time some general, or his wife, has a bright idea. Semper Fi

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    • JohnHW
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:00pm

      P38 – fight or flight??

      Had my quota of C’s standing watch/guard on the fantail (ship’s stern for landlovers) or fence (in Nam). Luckily, while on the fantail, someone made coffee on the one boiler that was still in operation and it warmed you up for a few minutes.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on December 8, 2011 at 12:51pm

      SeaSoldier

      Your comment about the various use of the steel pot brought back some memories. Cook pot, shave pot, GI bath pot, weapon, chair, and head protection. My son swears by his kevlar. I guess I have hit the point of being an old fart.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:39am

    Soilent green is PEOPLE…… ahhhhhhhhhhhh

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on December 8, 2011 at 9:28am

    Yum!!

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