Meals Not Fully Ready to Eat

Sucks all the spit out of your head.

Oh yeah, don't sneeze while eating freeze-dried spaghetti and meatballs. Kinda hard to explain to the ER people how you got a full sized meatball in your nasal cavity....
 
Naw No ER needed.

All you need to remove the meatball is a pair of "noodle nosed pliers". :D :barf:

TRUE STORY

My granddaughter was about 4 when she put noodles up her nose with a sneeze. Asked her mom to get them out with the noodle nosed pliers. Still have a good laugh about this now and then.
 
Hey Guys...

Ahhh Man...

That $hits bad enuf cooked,,why would you EVER want to eat that like that???

Man,,I don't know,,but that don't sound to healthy!!!
Could mess your insides up BIG Time!!

Like eat'N alot dried fruit and driking water,, all that crap gonna expand in your gut,,maybeafter it's been partially digested...
Give ya MAJOR,,MAJOR Gas!!!

I wouldn't do it....

ttyle

Eric....
 
Gotta go with Normark on this one. Now, it won't be like the old urban legend about the kid that ate 6 bags of Pop Rocks, then chugged a large Mountain Dew and his stomach exploded, but I doubt if it would be comfortable having freeze dried foods expanding in your innards. And I remember reading about the LRRP rations during Vietnam, which were freeze dried. They said NOT to eat them as airplane meals while deploying, because the food would expand even more in the thinner atmosphere. So, why risk it? At the very least, you'll offend any passers-by with noxious fumes, and at the worst have some serious indegestion.
 
Unlike the "dried fruit" mentioned above, the freeze dried foods found inside MREs don't expand significantly.

Seems like I lived on MREs forever at times, and I ate them every possible way, from dry to cold re-hydrated, to cooked over a fire. Didn't really matter how they were served, they were gonna suck anyway.

I felt like the military finally found a way to make us appreciate C-Rations.

They gave us something worse.
:barf:
 
I wasn't thinking so much about the freeze-dried stuff in MRE's (only thing I can think of is the fruit bars), but the Mountain House type of freeze dried foods. I don't have loads of experience with them (way too expensive), but from the few I *did* cook up, it looked like they swelled up pretty good while cooking. It seems that, were they to do that in your stomach, it could be uncomfortable, at the least.
 
I agree, I wouldn't try to eat Mountain House freeze dried foods without re-hydrating them either.

BTW, did you mean to put this in the MRE thread?
Let me know, I'll move it there for you.
 
Yes, Ken, this was supposed to be in the MRE thread. I don't know why, but this reply and the one to Stoned Elf about motorcycle licenses got into their own threads, even though I hit the "Reply" button. Computers hate me. Thanks for cleaning up after me. D'oh!
 
I've tried the Mountain House products and they actually taste pretty good. One pointer that I would offer though - the spices are very strong. When I mix up one of their packages, I throw in an extra half cup of rice to tone it down - maybe a whole cup of rice.

Never tried it dry. Why would you want to do that? If you are that low on water - you have other things to worry about.
 
I've tried the Mountain House products and they actually taste pretty good.
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You thought.. Mountain House..was... rrk?
Remind me to cook for ya sometime Daniel, if'n ya liked Mountain House, my cooking should be great in comparison! :p

Seriously though -- which ones are you referring to? I tried their beef and chicken stews, and um.. well, to me, they seemed outright nasty, and a bother to boot. Those bread crumb bits especially.. bleck!

As to the MREs.. those few I've had, I liked well enough, but of course wouldn't exactly call 'em haute cuisine. Hrmm.. actually, they remind me a LOT of the dinners we used to get in public school cafeterias, at least the ones I was in. The beef stew was almost identical to the stew I had at college, excepting the fact they were in a little baggie instead of dumped into a bowl. Of course, unlike Ken, I didn't have to live on the things for days or weeks at a stretch.


As to the actual question.... stuff like the fruits and deserts I don't think would even be that bad... as to the freeze-dried entrees, well, I've already expressed my prejudices like for 'em reconsitituted and cooked, I figure they couldn't possibly get any worse dry.. :D

Still though.. the water's comin' from somewhere, and if it's not your water bottle, it's your body. Not somthing I'd try, I don't think, unless I was only in for a day or so, or had a water source nearby, but didn't want to bother going for it till morning or som'n..

-K
 
Ken : I don't know where your C-rations came from, but those we had back in the mid-1960's made starvation a viable option. I can at least get the MRE's down if I use ALL of the supplied spices, and most of the time they stay down (emphasis on most).
 
Maybe I'm just weird, but I got in the Army just when they were making the switch from "C"'s to MRE's. I thought that they were both pretty good, *depending* on which meal plan you got. The eggs in both were just plain nasty, though at least the MRE eggs weren't green...
 
You must admit at least, however, that the C ration Ham was a doozy ! A month's worth of salt in one meal - never get by on two quarts of water that day !
 
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