ORIGINAL: BrucePowers
I was just curious. I here about them here or on the news. I understand a lot of them went to the Gulf Coast after Katrina.
Yeah. I spent some time down in Louisiana after Rita hit. (The National Guard will send you on short notice, all expense paid, tours of the most inhospitable places on Earth. [:D]) There were a lot of MREs that civilians got for free and then sold on Ebay. We got a truckload of the British version of MREs. I brought a bunch back. They are pretty interesting. They actually are 24 hour rations. They were originally for civilians but were not handed out because they included beef and there was the fear of Mad Cow disease. I ate a bunch of them and feel fine. (Twitch, twitch) [:D]
but now they look like "regular" food. You can open them up and eat them cold, but they taste 
