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Goodpancakes posted:Seriously with our bloated military budget they can't afford jalapeño cheese in every mre? I think the idea is that randomizing even the minor parts of an MRE allows for a shorter time before soldiers get tired of repetitive diets. Though honestly, I'd rather every MRE for 10 years have jalapeno spread than deal with the lovely normal stuff.
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Only 2 cans left in the Russian ration. I opened a foil package of spread and found that it's just straight up loving butter.
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Goodpancakes posted:Seriously with our bloated military budget they can't afford jalapeño cheese in every mre? Because some need to have the bacon cheese spread.
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chitoryu12 posted:Only 2 cans left in the Russian ration. I opened a foil package of spread and found that it's just straight up loving butter. Was there anything to spread it on? 
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Dec 30, 2015 13:19
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So, uh, how is Russian shelf-stable military butter?
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Siivola posted:An unexpected jackpot! The ration came with something like 6 packs of crackers. hogmartin posted:So, uh, how is Russian shelf-stable military butter? It tastes generally like cheap, room-temperature butter. It does have a slight "off" taste compared to what you'd get at the grocery store and the color is a bit too off-white to immediately be recognized, but it definitely tastes and smells like a butter of some sort.
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Dec 30, 2015 17:00
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In Russia, butter can't believe it's you!
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One of the best decisions I ever made at MCT was becoming good friends with a guy who had a peanut allergy. He'd give me all of his peanut M&Ms, peanut butter, and most importantly chocolate peanut butter, all for the low low cost of my cheese packets and skittles.
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Dec 31, 2015 00:50
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This seems relevant: http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/30/army-needs-volunteers-eat-only-mres-21-days-straight/78011512/
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I ate what appeared to be a can of bacon from the Russian ration. I say "appeared to be" because it can be called bacon in the same sense that grinding up the scraps of steak and fat left on plates at Outback can be called a hamburger.
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Harrow posted:This seems relevant: http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/30/army-needs-volunteers-eat-only-mres-21-days-straight/78011512/ quote:Even the most dedicated prepackaged-food fan might sour on the offerings during a 21-day trial, so Natick research dietitians Adrienne Hatch and Holly McClung came up with a book of recipes pulling from multiple MRE offerings. Study participants can craft everything from specialty beverages ("Canteen Irish Cream Latte") to main dishes ("Bunker Hill Burritos") to desserts ("Fort Bliss-ful Pudding Cake") as they try to keep their palates fresh. Bunker Hill Burritos, yum
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Goodpancakes posted:Seriously with our bloated military budget they can't afford jalapeño cheese in every mre? Is jalapeno cheese like pepperjack cheese or is it more like the radioactive orange colored goo that frito lay sells as a dip and also has the unique ability to travel through your entire alimentary canal, almost unchanged, in about 45 minutes.
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It isn't solid like pepper jack and it isn't runny like cheese dip. It's basically the same viscosity as peanut butter. Tastes pretty good too, for something that you can keep in a packet in your basement for a year or two and then eat right there. I will sometimes raid my "it's February and the ice storm knocked out the power" stash for a packet or two and eat it on tortillas or matzo or whatever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDG5u6oHmXQ
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I may have found a upscale civilian replacement. http://www.humbirdcheese.com/products/12-oz-jalapeno-spread/ I'll report back
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If you don't want to pay $10-15 for a full MRE, you can easily buy the individual components from various retailers. I noticed that Airsplat, a popular California-based airsoft retailer, is selling its own MREs that appear to be made from purchased components. I may buy one to test, but it seems to just be a handful of components from various manufacturers (including civilian MREs) instead of a full MRE with 1000+ calories. I'd hardly call that suitable for a full day of exercise.
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Goodpancakes posted:I may have found a upscale civilian replacement. http://www.oldtaverncheese.com They make a Jalapeno spread that is so good it should be illegal. You can call them and ask for up to a 44 oz tub to be shipped to you. On receiving it your life will suddenly improve.
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The regular cheese spread tastes like velveta or cheese whiz, and has about the same texture as cheese whiz, but in a packet instead of a can. Jalapeno Cheddar is somehow way better even though the only difference is some jalapeno flavor and the lowest amount imaginable of spiciness.
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Who wants to be a guinea pig?quote:The Natick, Mass.-based Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine has offered up to $200 for anyone willing to subsist on nothing but so-called “meals, ready-to-eat” (MREs), the Army Times reported Thursday.
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$200 plus free food for a month? If I were near that, why the hell not?
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If you participate, please please please stick exactly to the diet. Like 55% of all the problems in nutrition research come from research participants not following their regimen, then lying about it in some way.
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So uh, the two folks who tried out the PLA rations. How did those go, hm?
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We ate one and survived. I did not take the pictures though so I haven't posted. It was not nearly as bad as "Chinese ration" might make you think. I have another one which I haven't tried yet.
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Does anyone have any experience with Indian rations? There's some wikipedia info and most Indian food I have seems like it would lend itself pretty well to retort packing but I just noticed I don't recall ever seeing one in a 'watch me try out this ration' video.
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kafziel posted:$200 plus free food for a month? If I were near that, why the hell not? quote:Participants must be within a reasonable drive to ARIEM's Natick, Massachusetts, location, and be willing to go without anything but MREs, water and black coffee for three weeks — no other food or drink, including no alcohol. The study, which includes multiple blood draws and other medical scans, requires a six-week commitment. I'm willing to get jabbed with needles regularly for six weeks, but that "no booze" requirement is a killer.
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In the world of off-beat countries, someone on MRE Info recently reviewed a 2004 Dutch entree, and miraculously the can of rice with chicken ratatouille was still edible 11 years later...with an expiration of 2006!
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hogmartin posted:Does anyone have any experience with Indian rations? There's some wikipedia info and most Indian food I have seems like it would lend itself pretty well to retort packing but I just noticed I don't recall ever seeing one in a 'watch me try out this ration' video. That's basically what Tasty Bites are, though I'm not sure if they make the Indian rations. Most of their stuff is pretty good.
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Grand Fromage posted:We ate one and survived. I did not take the pictures though so I haven't posted. It was not nearly as bad as "Chinese ration" might make you think. I think Mao-era PLA soldiers had a ration of canned pork belly in chili sauce. I could go commie for that if there was enough to go around. Also, someone mentioned those Slim Jim sandwiches as part of those last-ditch ration packs for US soldiers. I think they're on the civilian market for the Tacticool Crowd:  
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Yeah, the "Tactical Sammiches" are literally the Bridgford pocket sandwiches that are manufactured for First Strike Rations. CMMG just contracted their own production run with their logo, much like how their "Tactical Bacon" is just a rebranded Yoder's canned bacon. The FSRs aren't "last ditch" ration packs. They're designed for assaults and similar high-intensity maneuvers where soldiers don't have the time or environment to stop and cook food for eating with utensils. They consist entirely of packaged, shelf-stable foods that can be eaten out of hand like pocket sandwiches, Starkist tuna pouches, candy bars (the peanut dessert bar is addictive), etc. I don't think I have pictures saved of the ones I've eaten, but I can purchase another one and do a proper review for this thread.
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, the "Tactical Sammiches" are literally the Bridgford pocket sandwiches that are manufactured for First Strike Rations. CMMG just contracted their own production run with their logo, much like how their "Tactical Bacon" is just a rebranded Yoder's canned bacon. Please do? I would be interested in your take on them as opposed to the other info I have seen.
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Does anyone have any info on the Russian MRE's I've acquired? I can't ready Russian lmao
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McSpergin posted:Does anyone have any info on the Russian MRE's I've acquired? I can't ready Russian lmao Ensign Expendable would be your best bet for translation.
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McSpergin posted:Does anyone have any info on the Russian MRE's I've acquired? I can't ready Russian lmao Disregard me, I worked out a way to translate. I managed to get one with loving caviar in it!
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Plan Z posted:Also, someone mentioned those Slim Jim sandwiches as part of those last-ditch ration packs for US soldiers. I think they're on the civilian market for the Tacticool Crowd: I tried something roughly similar to that as part of a survey group years back. It was passable for being free but if I had to subsist on it for more than once a month I think I'd have cut my tongue out. Getting products to test for surveys was always fun because half of them were basically 'this is godawful kibble' and the other half were great but the company spent easily $20 shipping it out in refrigerated coolers.
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McSpergin posted:Disregard me, I worked out a way to translate. I managed to get one with loving caviar in it! Shelf stable caviar is not something I want to imagine.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Shelf stable caviar is not something I want to imagine. I buy shelf stable caviar all the time.
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The only true military food is the giant green cock that is forced on you every day.
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:The only true military food is the giant green cock that is forced on you every day. At least that cock is camouflaged for your convenience.
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Alright so I've got around to starting to get into this Russian MRE. It contains a number of components: Tea and coffee Beef stew Buckwheat and beef porridge Patè Caviar Meat and potato stew Several packets of biscuits Napkins Sterilised processed cheese dip Two different fruit spreads, Apple and apricot Salt pepper and sugar packets Hexamine tablet stove and matches Can opener thing  This is the cheese spread. Bonus points for being full. I had this with one of the packs of biscuits, as they had busted in transit. It tasted like generic cheese and biscuit snack cheese, so it was passable. I've definitely had worse. It would've been nice to be a tad runny, maybe if you threw it over the stove for a few mins Next is the beef stew with some biscuits, and the Patè.  I don't own any military eating stuff so I threw it over the hex, let it heat up, and dumped it into a cup. The taste wasn't too bad, but it was very fatty. The meat was soft. I don't know if it's true but I assume that some soldier would have a salt and pepper container of some sort, because the packets they give are way too big to put onto one meal and taste anything except salt or pepper. So I cracked a bit of salt and pepper into it. The pepper definitely made it a tad nicer.  The Patè just tasted like any other Patè from a cheap off-brand store. Fairly bland, but it wasn't unedible. With a touch of salt and pepper it was lifted a bit. The fruit drink i think was an apple drink. It tasted like an apple juice box. I will post more when I've had a go at the shelf stable caviar  and everything else in the pack but seeing as I'm on work holidays it makes sense to not eat 3000 calories in a day.
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