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Veterans United Network’s Levi Newman put up his own stash of MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat) for five civilian co-workers to get a taste of the military cuisine our service members get out in the field.
If you’ve got a weak stomach, don’t worry — there’s nothing too gross. Except maybe the omelet.
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Umm…. Levi, anyone can eat or taste “ONE” MRE. Soldiers know the true test is the second time around when your stomach is becoming gummy, you have no other alternatives and our stomach talked to you the night before and said “feed me Seymour”! Funny video.
i am a truck driver, i have hauled millions of MREs. they used to let us drivers buy some to go–i always had a bunch of them in my truck !?!? truthfully, i never ate an MRE i didn’t like.
Wouldn’t have a problem with MRE’s. On a different note, C-Rats ruled!!!! Wish I had a couple of CASES now!!
Oh yeah! C-rats! specially cold ham & m*****F******! MMMM……tasty
Compared to most “C” rations, MREs are a vast improvement. The one MRE I remember that I couldn’t stand was the Chicken ala King.
When your hungry and not at the table at home THESE M.R.E.’s rule.
Awesome, I just remembered why I always tried to grab the veggie ones first !! What about raping the MRE ?? I would have collected up all their good stuff before it started ! Rookie move Levi …
I love MRE’s!!! Let’ see how these girls would do if there are no other food left but MRE. I would run away from them and will let them starve! Ha! ha! ha!
I agree with the C-Rats rule comment. MRE’s had just come out when I was in and there wasn’t nearly the variety there is today. I haven’t had the new MRE’s, but, there is a reason why they were named Meals Rejected by Ethiopians!!
Funny video, but let’s see a group of civilians eat MRE’s the way we actually eat them. Not standing around some convenient chest high tables with nice plastic cups of water, and taking a little nibble out of each course. Have them sit on the ground, outdoors, with water from camelbaks or canteens, and make them eat the whole thing.
C-Rats were the best, but you learn to make due when you don’t have anything else and you always had a bottle of tobasco sauce to spice them up.
I served from 1956 to 1965. C-Rats were okay except for the ham & lima beans. Took almost 2 tablespoons of tobasco to render ham & lima beans eatable. The other items were fairly good eating -even cold. I still eat civilian pork and beans cold – developed a taste for cold pork & beans in service. We had a “butterbar” as platoon leader in 1961. He just could not “get with the program” so we rigged the C-rat draw so that every time we had C-rats, he got the ham & lima beans. He could not figure it out but, after some “counseling” by the CO, he started to become a good officer. The first time he did not get the ham & lima beans, he realized that we were “his” platoon!
Mamby pamby spoiled kids. Let them hump 80 pounds for 12 miles through the bush and see whether they are hungry or not for MREs. This is not a “test.” Nobody would eat MREs as a matter of course. But if that is all you have and you feel like eating a live bear, MREs are the way to go, and you are glad to get them.
I was “indoctrinated” with C-rats. I ate them gladly and they were 12 years old at the time. They are worse than MREs. I lived as was glad to get food.
I SERVED FROM 1965 TO 1975, AT THAT TIME WE HAD C-RATIONS WHICH I FOUND TO BE QUITE GOOD. DURING AM EMERGENCY CAUSED BY A HURRICANE I WAS GIVEN A CASE OF MRE’S, THEY WERE BETTER THAN GOING HUNGRY BUT NOT BY MUCH. GLAD WE DID NOT HAVE THEM WHEN I SERVED.
The first time I ate a “C” ration was in 1966. It was produced in 1942 and had been in a warehouse somewhere for 24 years! To my Surprise, it wasn’t all that bad. It even contained cigarettes and Chiclets gum.
as an Army brat, I stole the cigarettes and choclate
Cut me a break! They were serving us canned burgers and hotdogs out of tins dated 1947 in 1972 in Vietnam…..MRE’s are gourmet meals compoared to 25 year old burgers and dogs!
First off these hair brained hoes looks like they never dined any where but Hollywood style restaurants. Nothing gives me a case of the raw a** than seeing a bunch of stupid fools trying to be cute with 5 minutes of fame. K Rations,C Rations,now MRI Probably the same meals that Beck and Hannity talk about on their shows, they just call it something different. Me ret US Army, Nam 1966, guess these hoes couldn’t do a rice beetle. Now u Viet Nam vets know what I am talking about HEE,HEE,HEE
I ate “Cs” in Nam and MREs on fires…the MREs are much better
MRE’s are DELICIOUS! 12 mile ruck or not thats really great tasting food!
youn got that right craig, and anyway these are yuppy idiots who’s only big desion was eithe pot or coke. and what would they like? emeril lagassi on the front line?
my typing sucked on that last comment but i hope the message got across, and i liked the canned peaches and soda crackers in C rations. i guess we all had our favorites back then.
Some of these people act like they are eating crap. This is the food that airmen, sailors, marines and soldiers eat when they don’t have any other choice.
I don’t recall the C Rats being any or much better, but 1958 was long, long ago, and i actually forgot what they were. However, I do remember wanting Cheese, Ryecrisp, and a sixpack of Old Style Lager. But I must add that I hate vegetarian fare, especially Lasagna without Salsiccia and cheese.
Hey we use MRE’s when we hunt and if I had a choice of packing a lot of food or grabbing an MRE I’d choose the MRE everytime.
I used to have extra mre’s and ate them when I was working in my garage. I love them!
I was introduced to crations in Basic in 1968 on bivouaq and i didn’t think they were bad at all and I loved the ham and eggs. and in Viet Nam that is about all we ate, I drove a tank and we would take a chunk of c4 and light it and heat our rations.
Silly little spoiled,sheltered,self centered teenage girls.Mommy and daddy’s precious gigleing treasures, exposed to the rigors of eating MRE’s.Too bad they weren’t offered Mac Donalds & fries. Ham & Lima beans C,s now that was a can of dog s–t to grimish about.
Didnt have none of those when I was in we had the ham omelet none of that veggie trash thats probably why it tastes bad hahahaha seriously though they were not that bad tasting better then Mc Donalds burgers
Peaches and pound cake.!.
When my husband was active duty in the Air Force, we were stationed at Pope AFB, NC, a support base for Fort Bragg Army base, and we would go to the dump(it was allowed then, to go through things people had thrown away), and find furniture that was in really good shape, etc, but the thing we really looked for, when we knew a platoon had just come back from an exercise. They would bring all the MRE’s that were left over, and some canned goods that hadn’t been opened-coffee cake, cookies & crackers with cheese spread, etc, and I take them home and run the cans through the dishwasher, & the stuff was really good. Our base here was one that got closed, and I don’t thing that is allowed at “sanitation disosal” places any more. We thought it was such a shame that they would throw so much perfectly good food away!