Comments on: REVIEW: Cheese Omelet with Vegetables Power Performance MRE (Meals Ready to Eat)

By: val

val — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:45:40 +0000

I F**KING LOVE MRE’S!!!

I used to eat them all the time as a kid- my dad would bring them home from Camp Pendleton. I was so sad when they discontinued their dehydrated fruit salad. IT WAS DELICIOUS. In place they just put regular hydrated peaches which was no fun what so ever.

YUM.

But this is coming from someone who looks forward to hospital and airline food.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:44:12 +0000

There is a reason that most MRE’s come with a tiny bottle of Tabasco sauce!

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:15:21 +0000

Uh oh. I predict an unspoken contest between you and Ace to see who can eat the most rancid products imaginable.

No matter who wins, both lose. How you suffer for us.

By: stuporstar

stuporstar — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:53:41 +0000

Wow…i grew up on that crap. There is a reason they give it to soldiers, airmen, sailors, etc who are in the field! or they had way too many left at the base that they were trying to get rid of and your parents are supercheap!!!!

By: Ace

Ace — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:52:58 +0000

I have a box of MRE’s in my closet! This one is by far the scariest among the scary.

By: Red Icculus

Red Icculus — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:09:41 +0000

My family stocks up on a couple weeks worth of MRE’s in case the worst happens. We do occasionally have to eat them as they reach the end of their shelf life.

Beef Stew is really good. Anything chicken or with a white sauce is questionable. We (luckily) stayed away from anything with eggs.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:28:56 +0000

How come Reprobate gets a billion comments and Marvo gets one?

By: govtdrone

govtdrone — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:42:06 +0000

Ahh, MRE’s. Yes, I remember eating them after Katrina. Actually we were rather lucky because we also managed to get a box of British MREs and those are the best! The best one was the lamb and potatoes. Man, that was tasty.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:13:59 +0000

Oh, maaaan! My mom was in Mississippi when Katrina hit, and decided on the totally fab idea of staying with my step dad in their tin can of a trailer.
Needless to say, when she came to visit, there were some stories to tell about MREs! She came like magical Santa, bearing an entire box! I was probably about 12 or so, and instead of having them “rot” in the basement, as they probably should have done, I brought the entire box to a friend’s house where we had a figurative feast.
Some of it was the craziest stuff ever, I don’t remember much of anything tasting remotely palatable, despite how many salt and pepper packets you dumped in.
The insta heater things were really cool, and the apple cider or whatever was pretty darn good.
I think that the rest of the box is what I stare at every time I do laundry. Maybe I’ll try them again…

By: Texas Soldier

Texas Soldier — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:49:54 +0000

I have to admit, I actually don’t mind the “veggie omelet” (as it’s usually called in non-expletive terms). But, despite that, I’ll have to say that it’s probably the most hated of all the meals in the recent years of MRE “menus” (though the Cajun Rice & Beans seems to run a close second). When we’re allowed to choose out of the MRE box (which includes a variety of 10 different meals), you inevitably end up with a leftover box full of veggie omelets. When you get no choice, most people rather just not eat it at all. So you can see how despite the extremely high caloric content of MREs (meant to sustain us in combat or field training), most of us come back skinnier anyway. Because even two MREs a day (let alone three) is just disgusting at a point.