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pdiggitydogg
03-22-2003, 01:12 PM
Today I was given a military standard issue Ready-To-Eat Meal Pack.

Menu #15 - Grilled Chicken Patty

It also included Mexican Rice, Pound cake, crackers, grape jelly, coffee, gum, tobasco sauce, lemon/lime and cocoa drink mixes, and a badass plastic spoon (super quality)

Here are some pics:

What the outside of the package looks like
http://community.webshots.com/sym/image5/1/40/52/67214052MyBCjG_ph.jpg

Top left: Lemon/Lime drink mix Top Right: Cocoa drink mix Bottom left: Mexican Rice Spoon Bottom Right: Pound Cake (Not pictured) Chicken (packaged same as rice...in a box)
http://community.webshots.com/sym/image5/1/41/88/67214188WnnqZb_ph.jpg

Extras
Coffee, Sugar, Salt, Matches, Mint Gum, Mini-bottle of Tobasco, Napkin, and moist towelet
http://community.webshots.com/sym/image5/1/42/73/67214273aUCOxa_ph.jpg

Heat Pack
http://community.webshots.com/sym/image5/1/43/96/67214396CzTCWV_ph.jpg

Overall I have to say that its pretty good...rice was excellent. Only thing that truely sucked ass was the pound cake and the drink mix tasted kinda like how moth balls smell... But as a final rating I give it a 4/5
http://community.webshots.com/sym/image5/1/51/87/67215187HszYgL_ph.jpg

Edit* for those of you that only see red x's (http://community.webshots.com/album/67213947iVqgtP)
maikoshi
03-22-2003, 01:56 PM
My x-bf used to have a kool-aid type stuff the military would give him. One word: ewwww-freakin-ewwww.
pdiggitydogg
03-22-2003, 02:50 PM
^yeah...it was "ewwww-freakin-ewwww" but i'm sure it tastes better than day-old canteen water
HondaTypeJ
03-22-2003, 05:07 PM
I have a bunch of those, maybe a little different contents wise, but all the same. Not bad. :yes:
Rob
03-23-2003, 08:15 PM
dude, you actually ate that shit??? :pukey
HondaTypeJ
03-23-2003, 08:17 PM
Its really not as bad as it may seem. :yes:
Rob
03-23-2003, 08:26 PM
Originally posted by HondaTypeJ
Its really not as bad as it may seem. :yes:
yes it is dude...I hate MREs, they all smell like dog food to me...:pukey :pukey :pukey
HondaTypeJ
03-23-2003, 08:42 PM
Once you get past the dog food smell its all good in the neighborhood!
Rob
03-23-2003, 08:48 PM
Originally posted by HondaTypeJ
Once you get past the dog food smell its all good in the neighborhood!
are you military?
pdiggitydogg
03-23-2003, 09:07 PM
yeah dude it wasnt bad...I could see eating those on the field

its a hell of a lot better than the food I ate in the dorms last yr..."Garlic-y Herb Packs" was something that was actually on the menu for 3 days...and it was just this hot pocket thingy that was filled w/ garlic and herbs...not even cheese. So the MRE was 100% better