Anybody get Sick from EBay MREs?

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:58 am

All cheese and butter is white, until it's dyed by adding Annato, which turns it orange. Also used to dye butter yellow.
It's funny, when you have to pay more for the natural color than for the dyed stuff...

bigboy · Post by **bigboy** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:19 pm

It looks like they may be even phasing out cheese spreads in meals as there is only 3 meals in the C menu that includes it. Im figuring with all the extra munchies in them they"re trying to balance out the calories. I just carry a can of aerosol cheese in my pack so I'm covered.Also epicenter has the spreads for .79 plus freight which is fair.

C-rats · Post by **C-rats** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:04 pm

I'll go out on a limb here bigboy and say "no way"; Cheese is here to stay in field rations.

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:02 pm

Yeah, the C Cases aren't real production, they're sorta what's left on the line it really looks like, although the word is they're over-runs. Either way what's in them doesn't reflect what's in A and B cases which are what the military uses.

Treesuit · Post by **Treesuit** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:14 pm

I'll have to chime in with C-Rats: cheese is a staple like the crackers. Now if they could just give us more flavors of cheese spread in the meals..........

C-rats · Post by **C-rats** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:32 pm

Hmmmmmm..... Lobster Cheese Spread ---- you gotta love that, Treesuit!

Treesuit · Post by **Treesuit** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:33 pm

C-rats,
Hey what about Pimento Cheese Spread....? Oh yeah I found an old C-rat cheese spread can in the woods one time and I kid you not it said "cheese spread, fortified, with pimentos"

Now I don't know what pimento's taste like but it must be something pretty unique?

Post by **DIRTYDAVE** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:15 am

I have eaten TONS of MRE's off of eBay and never, ever had a problem with gas or anything OTHER THAN...whenever I eat any MRE component my shit turns green, army green. I don't know why and I have mentioned this on the forum elsewhere. I guess it is so when you take a shit in the field it helps to camoflauge it a bit better...

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:22 am

Treesuit:
If you've never had pimentos, I'd guess you aren't missing anything. I'm not a very big fan. They're little pieces of peppers, nasty little pieces.

SpikNik · Post by **SpikNik** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:22 pm

DIRTYDAVE wrote:....my shit turns green, army green. I don't know why and I have mentioned this on the forum elsewhere. I guess it is so when you take a shit in the field it helps to camoflauge it a bit better...

Question is, do they include an additive in the cold weather/arctic rations to help with the camo?

If anyone can confirm that either way, words will do, no pics needed