Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Discussions about US MREs and other US rations

What is your favorite US ration?

MRE
5
14%
Meal, Cold Weather / Long Range Patrol (MCW / LRP)
15
42%
First Strike Ration
3
8%
Humanitarian Daily Ration
1
3%
Meal, Combat, Individual (MCI)
3
8%
K-ration
3
8%
Ration, Cold Weather (RCW)
4
11%
Civilian Variant (i.e. MREStar, Sure-Pak, etc.)
0
No votes
Other
2
6%
 
Total votes: 36

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Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by SentientTootsieRoll » Sat May 30, 2020 9:41 pm

Feel free to explain why!

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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by donaldjcheek » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:48 pm

The old Vietnam Era LRRP was the best
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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by housil » Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:06 am

I grew up with MCIs and still have great memories to "Spaghetti w/ meatballs" etc...

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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by Amelieee1 » Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:12 am

Only had a few MREs and a couple RCW components, cant wait to dig into a B unit tho
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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by mikeoverhere » Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:18 pm

C-Rations are my favorite and I continued to eat them up to 25 years old
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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by ChowLine » Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:42 pm

My favorite ration has to be the Ration Individual Combat. It is so incredibly cool and contains a wide variety of items using some interesting packaging methods for the ration as a whole as well as the accessory components.

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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by HeinrichFuchs » Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:04 pm

For eating and keeping around "just in case", I would have to say the modern MRE and the FSR. A lot of variety in the latter, but the versatility of the former can hardly be beaten.

I'd love to try a MCW, though I have yet to see any for sale that don't cost as much as two - three regular ones or a FSR though, when they pop up.

As for older ones, K-rations would be my vote. Though I do collect a lot of militaria from that time, and having one would be a nice addition to my collection.

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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by SentientTootsieRoll » Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:41 pm

I chose the MCW. They're filling, the items taste good, you can ration the items throughout the day and effectively make it a 24 hour ration, especially if you are sedentary. And since it's all dry goods, I can rely on them to last for many decades.
HeinrichFuchs wrote:
Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:04 pm
I'd love to try a MCW, though I have yet to see any for sale that don't cost as much as two - three regular ones or a FSR though, when they pop up.
Until COVID-19 hit, you used to be able to regularly find cases on eBay priced from $120 - $150 shipped but I haven't seen any since. Occasionally, there's a seller that will list 6 of them for $85 which is a fairly average price.

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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by Militaryration_guy » Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:18 pm

For me it would have to be either RCWs or MCIs even though I have never tried any vintage rations except a vintage MRE, I'd still like to try a MCI or a RCW if I could get one for a reasonable price when I had the money to pay for it.
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Re: Poll: What is your favorite US ration?

Post by Militaryration_guy » Wed Feb 24, 2021 2:01 pm

HeinrichFuchs wrote:
Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:04 pm


I'd love to try a MCW, though I have yet to see any for sale that don't cost as much as two - three regular ones or a FSR though, when they pop up
I've gone to every gun show and army surplus store in my area looking for MCWs and I still have not found 1 MCW.
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