Least favorite C-Rat or MRE?

[bill ace 350]

I hated any C-Rat with lima beans.....

As far as MRE, leasyt favorite was omellette..

I keep a few cases of MRE around. and a couple in the car trunk...


What are/were your least favorite?

 

[JC in GB]

My least favorite was the dried pork patty. Never rehydrated enough and always gave me a gut ache. The chicken ala king and the fruitcake blob were not bad. Ahh... Good times... good times.... Funny, I don't really miss field duty.

JC

 

[mr_whipple]

We used to get them on the cheap and most times free from friends. Never did duty that required MREs. Used to take them on extended Canoe trips... 4-5 days on a Virginia river. The nastiest I can recall was the hot dogs. They looked like fat little fingers in the vacuum pouch hence my term "four fingers of death." They tasted like s&@# and gave me flamethrower style heartburn.

 

[mneeley490]

I don't have any first-hand experience, but my dad was in the Army Reserve in the 70's-80's. He'd get MREs and bring them hunting. (These even included small packs of cigarettes.) They had something like a beef stroganoff that was pretty disgusting, as you say, it never fully rehydrates. But I did like their processed cheese and crackers quite a lot.

 

[bill ace 350]

The C-Rats had cigs for most of their life span, but not MREs.

On a side note, I recently heard they were doing away with the tobasco sauce in the MREs....

 

[noboundaries]

Let's see...oh wait...I was Navy. Powdered eggs and canned milk was the worst I had to endure. The rest was all frozen meat and veggies. Hard Ice cream or soft serve every night. Life aboard was (not) tough.

 

[mneeley490]

The C-Rats had cigs for most of their life span, but not MREs.

On a side note, I recently heard they were doing away with the tobasco sauce in the MREs....

If you say so. But I remember opening the packages and handing the cigs to those in our party who did smoke. I do remember the tiny bottles of tabasco, too.

 

[bill ace 350]

Remember the dehydrated ketchup?

I hated any C-Rat with lima beans.....

As far as MRE, leasyt favorite was omellette..

I keep a few cases of MRE around. and a couple in the car trunk...


What are/were your least favorite?

 

[normanaj]

I'm on board with JC in GB . The freeze dried pork patty was disgusting.

 

[bauchjw]

I think #15, the Beef franks…or 4 fingers of death is what I hated the most. Eaten cold, my body wouldn’t let me swallow a bite and I could never heat them up enough.

#10, Tuna with noodles was my favorite. Came with pound cake and M&Ms too! So I could trade a desert for someone’s cheese packet to add into the Tuna and still have a desert for later!

 

[bill ace 350]

I think #15, the Beef franks…or 4 fingers of death is what I hated the most. Eaten cold, my body wouldn’t let me swallow a bite and I could never heat them up enough.

#10, Tuna with noodles was my favorite. Came with pound cake and M&Ms too! So I could trade a desert for someone’s cheese packet to add into the Tuna and still have a desert for later!

Pound cake reminded me of T-rats.

Used to cut a piece about 2 inches by 2 inches and soak with alcohol used for cleaning map overlays....

Light that thing up, heat up a canteen cup of coffee or just warm your hands.

Great memories...

 

[okie sawbones]

There used to only be 12 entrees. I always went for the ham slice. Tuna with noodles was second. Omelette with ham sucked.

 

[JC in GB]

I don't have any first-hand experience, but my dad was in the Army Reserve in the 70's-80's. He'd get MREs and bring them hunting. (These even included small packs of cigarettes.) They had something like a beef stroganoff that was pretty disgusting, as you say, it never fully rehydrates. But I did like their processed cheese and crackers quite a lot.

Forgot about the cheese and crackers. Those were not bad if you heated the pack and mixed the cheese well.

 

[mike243]

Went in 1979, had c-rats from 1962, no cigarettes in them but had 2-3 with the meat spoiled, stunk bad, they were our lunch so by dinner I was starved lol. the dehydrated pork was really bad.

 

[Bearcarver]

No such thing as MRE's in Vietnam, when I was there. We had C-Rations, and I liked most of the meals, but it was definitely better than the slop the Mess-Hall put out, when we had the pleasure of Dining back at the Base Camp, at Dong Tam.

Bear

 

[mike243]

No the pork was MRE's , nothing like 15 year old soda cracker with 15 year old PeanutButter on it from the c-rats lol

 

[fltsfshr]

Ham and lima beans were the worst hands down. 50+ years later I can still remember how crappy they were.

 

[negolien]

I hated any C-Rat with lima beans.....

As far as MRE, leasyt favorite was omellette..

I keep a few cases of MRE around. and a couple in the car trunk...


What are/were your least favorite?

Ham and MF'ers LOL fkin priceless. As a side note Poor Bear was probably eating rations from Korea LOL. The fact that they tasted better than chow hall meals is sad as fuck :<( .. poor mud dogs ...

 

[mike243]

No telling how much green paint I eat lol , I went in early 79 and the oldest date I seen was 1962 so not sure how long the shelf life was but they must've made a lot of them at 1 time, be interesting to see how much they stock these days, it would probably surprise us on the amount

 

[Steve H]

Worst C-rat was the boned chicken. MRE was the first edition with bbq beef. I never went into the field without my bottle of hot sauce!