Would anyone swap for a tin of bully beef? It was so bad that when the Australians threw a tin over to the Turks at Gallipoli the Turks threw it back.
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After GW1 as recall US government tried to feed homeless people with MREās and they said thanks but no thanks. 
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How rude of them lolā¦ The ones I liked the best were old ten man packs we used to get on the MBTs in Germany, the ten sausages in a tin and the large cans of bacon grill or burgerā¦ heaven lol
Cured, canned bacon wrapped in parchment ā¦ that was the taste! 
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MRE = Meal Refused (or Rejected) by Everyoneā¦
MRE = Meal, Rarely Edible
H.P.
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New owners 
AFAIK this one is Ukrainian :
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I would be very hesitant, and Iāll eat just about anything. I know theyāve got salted lard in one of those cansā¦
I flew to Russia on Interflug from East Berlin once. They served salami as part of a meal on the flight. Iām used to salami being mainly red meat with white flecks of fat. This stuff was mainly white with red flecks of meat. Not to mention the fact the only aircraft Iāve flown that was in worse shape was probably an Mi-8MT.
At least the food at the KOCMOC hotel wasnāt bad. Quite good in fact. I discovered what we were eating was far better than what most Russians ate. A little more of Potemkinās village, perhaps? I think one of the biggest problems in their society was how cheap alcohol was. We could get a bottle of KrimSekt (Crimean Champagne) for the equivalent less than four dollars, and that was restaurant prices.
Ah, but those French rations came with wine!!!
And very little else of substance, a bit like the French themselves to be honestā¦
I think the worst I saw were the Dutch. But it was close between theirs and the French.
Wow, Frenchy. I know youāre great at finding just the right photo online. But let me give you a little help this morning. I think this one I took in Iraq might be appropriate.
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MREs are not like that anymore.
Thanks Rob
Iāve read that in Afghanistan, one would trade three MREs for one French rationā¦
H.P.
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Thanks for the info 
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H.P.
Our idiot team leader in Afghanistan traded an SF Gore-Tex Jacket to a German for 12 of their rations. They were good, but while on a beer run (they gave us five cases of Paulaner any time I asked) they offered me a bunch for free. Seems they were as tired of their rations as they were of the Paulaner.
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yep one wag in the British army who was in a remote region of Afghanistan was heard to say after eating āMenu Bā for 8 daysā¦is there really a āMenu Aā out there?
There is always something good and bad in every ration. I ate the Dutch ones in Bosnia and found them OK to begin with but they seemed very vegetable based. Similar story with MREās in Baghdad, great to start with but soon got sick of them, though I do like the peanut butter and the jalapeno cheese spreads and the pound cake. We used to get a lot of US troops come into our camp to eat as our chef Sergeant was second to none and went out of his way to put on good food. In the same vein we used to go to Camp Bucca to eat and hit the PX whilst patrolling the Kuwaiti border. In our 24 hour packs the treacle pudding in sauce was a favourite, a weeks worth of sugar in one hit 
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There is, but I rarely out MREās of any sort. In Kabul I usually ate with the Afghans I was training - pretty much Kabuli Palau over lamb every day, with a tiny can of Pepsi.
I liked the street food - Bolani was one of my favorites.
And of course weād eat at the local restaurants.
Downrange on our firebase we had a cook who had owned a restaurant in Fair Play, the town South Park is based on. So we ate pretty well down there. Still ate local food when we could but most of my teammates were horrified at the thought. They were convinced people would try to poison us. I told them no, theyāre not serving us MREās.
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Thatās a good beer
for those building in 1/35 i have found this:
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Nice. But it seems their own troops havenāt seen those in a whileā¦
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