MRE Menus VI (1986) Frankfurter & Beans
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:20 pm
Well I went through my stash looking for the older meals to open up and see how they have held up.
This meal was not that popular at the time if my memory is correct.
(More like a meal a rural construction worker would eat in 1976)
The unpacked contents struck me as looking more like a 1940's era meal. It was the shape, size and color of the boxes (imo)
It was a nice day and decided to go outside and heat them in the G.I. Canteen cup stove with red box Esbit tabs.
Then take a taste of each item, if it was no go give it to the dog or chickens
Beef Frankfurter TS 4 oz
Green Giant Le Sueur MN 56058
Code 0809A07 Pink code on foil 08 08 6EST
Package looked total intact No off smell or color. Took at bite and it tasted just like current production American canned Vienna Sausage. Very salty and greasy. Texture was about the same as Vienna Sausage. Not a real hot dog taste. My son tried a bite and said taste like potted meat formed in a cylinder shape.
I would say that is why the meal was unpopular. American troops know what both Vienna Sausage and real Hot Dogs taste like
Have to give credit to the packers for doing a great job sealing up the package. Not rancid
Beans with Tomato Sauce TS 5 oz
Shelf Stable foods inc Evansville Indiana 47715
Code 62833E1
Package intact and smelled just like current pork and beans. The flavor was that of heavy sweet tomato sauce, slightly BBQ
The texture of the sauce was paste like and beans mushy. Took two bites and thought they tasted about the same in 1986.
On a US Pork and Bean taste Rating I would give them a 5 on 1 to 10. Not a good base flavor
(if they were fresh)
Still they held up all these years and they were still edible
Jelly Grape
Kern Foods Inc Industry place Calf 91749
Tasted acidly and I spit it out in 10 seconds
Chickens did eat it
Crackers unmarked
Were crushed in the package but tasted about the same as 1986. Audible hissing noise when I opened the pack
Candy Chocolate Bar enriched sweet Type VII Style 1
Wilbur Chocolate Co
Lintz PA 17543
Looked normal on the outside and these were very popular at the time
Took one bite and spit it out in about 10 seconds. It tasted horrible
Had to wash my mouth out for a few minutes
Cocoa Bevarage Powder Type 1
KO-PAK inc
P.O. Box 201 Monence Ill 60954
Turned into a solid block, but I tried mixing it with the Instant coffee and creamer
Notice oily residue on top
Tasted horrible and I spit it out
Coffee Instant
RYT -Way Packaging Northfield NM
Smelled like almonds or nuts.
As noted mixed it with coffee and was un-drinkable
Sugar
Diamond Crystal Corp
Wilmington Mass 01887
Ketchup Dehydrated
Trans-Packer Service
Brooklyn NY 11222
Well we have been down this road before. Bad idea for American troops
Mixed it up and tasted it. Tomato paste is all it is, not Ketchup in the real form.
Ketchup needs vinegar to taste like ketchup
Why pack it in this meal? the meat was meant to be mixed with the beans (I think)
Pouch Stand
Spoon
Acc Pkt E (
)
This meal was not that popular at the time if my memory is correct.
(More like a meal a rural construction worker would eat in 1976)
The unpacked contents struck me as looking more like a 1940's era meal. It was the shape, size and color of the boxes (imo)
It was a nice day and decided to go outside and heat them in the G.I. Canteen cup stove with red box Esbit tabs.
Then take a taste of each item, if it was no go give it to the dog or chickens
Beef Frankfurter TS 4 oz
Green Giant Le Sueur MN 56058
Code 0809A07 Pink code on foil 08 08 6EST
Package looked total intact No off smell or color. Took at bite and it tasted just like current production American canned Vienna Sausage. Very salty and greasy. Texture was about the same as Vienna Sausage. Not a real hot dog taste. My son tried a bite and said taste like potted meat formed in a cylinder shape.
I would say that is why the meal was unpopular. American troops know what both Vienna Sausage and real Hot Dogs taste like
Have to give credit to the packers for doing a great job sealing up the package. Not rancid
Beans with Tomato Sauce TS 5 oz
Shelf Stable foods inc Evansville Indiana 47715
Code 62833E1
Package intact and smelled just like current pork and beans. The flavor was that of heavy sweet tomato sauce, slightly BBQ
The texture of the sauce was paste like and beans mushy. Took two bites and thought they tasted about the same in 1986.
On a US Pork and Bean taste Rating I would give them a 5 on 1 to 10. Not a good base flavor
(if they were fresh)
Still they held up all these years and they were still edible
Jelly Grape
Kern Foods Inc Industry place Calf 91749
Tasted acidly and I spit it out in 10 seconds
Chickens did eat it
Crackers unmarked
Were crushed in the package but tasted about the same as 1986. Audible hissing noise when I opened the pack
Candy Chocolate Bar enriched sweet Type VII Style 1
Wilbur Chocolate Co
Lintz PA 17543
Looked normal on the outside and these were very popular at the time
Took one bite and spit it out in about 10 seconds. It tasted horrible
Had to wash my mouth out for a few minutes
Cocoa Bevarage Powder Type 1
KO-PAK inc
P.O. Box 201 Monence Ill 60954
Turned into a solid block, but I tried mixing it with the Instant coffee and creamer
Notice oily residue on top
Tasted horrible and I spit it out
Coffee Instant
RYT -Way Packaging Northfield NM
Smelled like almonds or nuts.
As noted mixed it with coffee and was un-drinkable
Sugar
Diamond Crystal Corp
Wilmington Mass 01887
Ketchup Dehydrated
Trans-Packer Service
Brooklyn NY 11222
Well we have been down this road before. Bad idea for American troops
Mixed it up and tasted it. Tomato paste is all it is, not Ketchup in the real form.
Ketchup needs vinegar to taste like ketchup
Why pack it in this meal? the meat was meant to be mixed with the beans (I think)
Pouch Stand
Spoon
Acc Pkt E (
)
