1995 MRE Review (partial)

[supergtr77]

so i bought a lot of brown MREs from ebay. after looking through the menu list, i had narrowed it down to 88-95 for all of them. at first i was a bit disheartened until i opened one up and the date codes are from 95. not too bad.

just opened up a pound cake and it was fine. tasted a little old, it was a bit of a melted sugar type taste...hard to describe. the cake itself looked almost like it had mold on it at first, but after closer examination it was just the sugar layer on the outside had crystallized. smelled fine too.

ill be updating this as i make my way through. i almost want to eat them all but part of me wants to keep most of them as collector value. i'm torn!

(PS, i really wish they had kept making the dehydrated fruit in the current MREs, thats my favorite part.)

[rationtin440]

Hey supergtr77! You are much braver than I with those brown pouch MREs, since I came down with a nasty case of food poisoning from the "Turkey, Diced w/Gravy" MRE. I still cannot get over that; nobody in my unit got sick from eating 1979 MCIs in 1988, but I get sick from an MRE less than 5 years old!

[rationtin440]

Sorry, I should have said less than 5 years old when I ate it, back in 1989, but my memory could be off.

[supergtr77]

so i played a mean trick last night and gave some m&ms to the wife.

she came into my man cave and saw the MREs, and since she has ate some before, and didnt know that the brown ones are old, didnt realize the age. she started whining about how she wanted to open all of them to find some skittles . so i gave her the m&ms. she commented on the small package size and wierd colors (no blue, no green, and some puke brown color). she asked if they were made special for the MREs. i said, yep. so she eats them and i ask how they taste. she said "why?! how old are they!?". i said 1995, and she was surprised.

needless to say, she took the other package of m&ms from one of the other open MREs

[supergtr77]

today i decided to open up the cheese spread.

ill be damned but it tasted pretty damn good. tasted like aged sharp cheddar. crackers tasted as good as they ever did. very surprised at the cheese (i think its safe to say that these MREs were stored very well).

[cavguy]

You are a brave man for trying that cheese spread! I have yet to find one personally in the older brown MRE's that is edible due to heat stress.

[supergtr77]

the only reason i tasted it was because it smelled perfectly normal haha.