The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - HEE HEE

HEE HEE (reply)

Creeker — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:55:45 +0000

MRE (reply)

Paul — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:38:09 +0000

Here's a little something one of my cousins (active duty US Army) just shared...

LMAO (reply)

Sarge — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 20:51:36 +0000

Meals Ready to Evacuate (reply)

Hobie — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:56:03 +0000

For two days or so in the field I preferred to take Meals Already Eaten.

3 foods I dont eat (Cottage Cheese, Liver, Buttermilk)ntxt (reply)

Bob Hatfield — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:29:45 +0000

ntxt

Used them for 25 years (reply)

Paul — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:54:16 +0000

It sounds like asking you about "good food" is like asking me if the coffee's too strong, the road is decent or the food is spicy...

Thanks Bob (reply)

Creeker — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:26:13 +0000

Used them for 25 years (reply)

Bob Hatfield — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:43:11 +0000

and have watched them develop over the years. Mostly hunting or fishing. And like Miles states didn't eat the whole thing for sure. I always liked the chicken meals whether it be "ala king" or some kind of chicken casserole.
I always have one or two in the pickup truck along with a blanket and coffee making stuff for when I'm snowed in a traffic jam or something.

One thing neat about an MRE is that they are like a "Pig in the Poke" You don't now what your getting and sometimes yours surprised and say "Dang that was good"
(Sometimes that is).

They are filling. I usually get mine at Hillsville Va. flea market as surplus and eventually throw some away before they are used up as I can never figure out the date codes on the dirty things

The whole thing adds too much weight and bulk to my kit while hunting so I open theme and pick out what I like and leave the rest.

The crackers and peanut butter or OK. The cheese spread will flavor the crackers to make them go down better.

I ate one at the house I'm building last Saturday. Didn't feel like wasting time at McDonalds. It was "Cheese Tortellini" and wasn't bad but it was in the truck for several years and then again I'm the type that eats Sardines at work while everyone else is chomping down on good food so I call it sustenance.

Bob

"Meal, Rejected by Ethiopians" (reply)

mcassill — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:29:42 +0000

Hotdogs! (reply)

cas — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:25:49 +0000

That was the one thing that had "turned". Or maybe they always smelled that bad.

On the commercial ones, 15 years later I can still taste the tuna casserole and the chicken a la king. The memory still make me retch a little and want to go scrape my tongue.

4 Fingers of Death. (reply)

Miles — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:29:10 +0000

The one dehydrated thing I actually did like was the pears.

MRE (reply)

Remington40x — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:55:40 +0000

FWIW, my brother, a career Army officer, used to refer to MREs as "Three lies in a pouch." I don't think he liked them much.

and somehow my mind had blocked until now... (reply)

mcassill — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:19:10 +0000

the memory of the hot dogs that came in a little packet in the early ones. Tasted like they were packed in formaldehyde. Simply hideous.

So, are you finding C-rats anywhere? (reply)

bob — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:10:53 +0000

Nope.
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When they first came out in the 80s... (reply)

mcassill — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:11:08 +0000

they were downright awful. Dried pork and beef patties that were the same consistency as dog food, with little packets of dehydrated ketchup. They got better in a hurry after the rear-echelon people had to eat them when they deployed for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. IIRC that's about when they started putting in the little bottles of Tabasco as well.

The foil packet salmon and chicken have a great shelf life (reply)

stonewalrus — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:59:16 +0000

Of course you can never have enough jars of peanut butter at our house. It has a great shelf life too.

Mountain House or just shop at grocery store for ready to (reply)

Rob Leahy — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:20:52 +0000

go meals. Yoder's canned meats are decent.

Thanks guys. I have no experience so thus the question (reply)

Creeker — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:07:58 +0000

Varied results IMO. (reply)

cas — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:56:07 +0000

I eat a few cases of them in the early-mid 90's. They were out of date and I guess being thrown away, someone I knew brought them home from a guard weekend. Even past there extremely long shelf life, they were still pretty good. There was only one thing that turned. Most of the entrees weren't bad at all, some pretty dang good. The extras where great in most, orange pound cake and maple walnut loaf. Peanut butter or apple jelly on crackers. I had a couple cases and eat them as regular meals now and then until they were gone.

In the early mid 2000's I bought some commercial copies. I was really disappointed that all the extras weren't included. (no salt pepper, matches, gun, tabasco (pretty sure my 80's-90's ones had it Miles) coffee, no little plastic spoon, I don't even think it had a powdered drink mix. I was really let down. And when I tried the food itself, I was really let down. I tried to eat a couple and gave some away. They were just awful.

The last match I shot at West Point I was given one as a meal, but didn't eat it on the range, I took it home instead. I was curious what they were like now days so I opened it. Contents were still not as good as the old ones and the food wasn't particularly good.
I've heard a few people say they've improved over the years, but that certainly isn't my limited experience.

So, are you finding C-rats anywhere? (reply)

Otony — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:24:15 +0000

The only ones I can find are "boutique rats" made up for guys who do re-enactment. Can't find reasonably priced supplies anyplace.

I know you ate 'em "professionally" but I scarfed quite a few from surplus stores for camping/woods bumming as a yute. Most were palatable, a few were nasty.

Otony