The acronym MRE is short for meal ready to eat. I can remember them being affectionately called meals refused by Ethiopans, the pun being that they were so bad that even starving people wouldn’t want them. To be honest, they really weren’t all that bad. Some of them were actually OK. The cheese and crackers were two of my favorites. When I was in Korea we would mix most of the ingredients with ramien noodles which almost always turned out to be a good meal.
Every army ring customer who has been to the field has had the pleasure of enjoying MRE’s. I also enjoyed the dried friut.
The MRE has changed considerably since I have been in service with the attempt being to make them more palatable and diverse for soldiers of diverse backgrounds. The MRE is a fairly dense caloric ration when the entire meal is consumed but the average soldier has the tendency to pick over the meal and throw away the entrees that he or she doesn’t like.
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