Menu 4 Pork Sausage with Gravy

[rabidwolf]

Hello MRE Info; this is my first review. Please bear with me as I will be on a learning curve here.

Now for how some of the items tasted and etc.

Pork Sausage with Gravy:
For some reason I was expecting saw mill gravy. It was close, but not quite the same. Not a whole lot (or any that I could tell) pepper. It was creamy and had a slight salty taste
I could believe the sausage was real.

Dehydrated Granola with Milk and Bananas:
This was better than I thought it would be. I added close to 3 ounces of water. Then let it soak while the Pork Sausage with Gravy heated in the FRH. Approximately 12-15 minutes.
It wasn't crunchy, but it was not mush. The banana flavor was noticeable.

Cheese and Crackers:
Not much to say about either one. Unless you have never eaten either one.

Orange Flavored Drink Mix:
Pretty good. Tasted like most instant orange drinks.

I didn't bother with the toaster pastry. Didn't have room in the tank for it.

[RockyRaab]

Good job, especially for a "firstie."

I wish they would pack a biscuit with that one, instead of the crackers. Even a slice of snack bread. Then you could have biscuit and sausage gravy. It also rather cries out for hot sauce of some kind, do you not agree?

Now that I ponder it, a breakfast MRE that I'd like to see would be the military classic, SOS. Chipped corned beef in cream gravy, on toast. known as "Chit on a Chingle". I enjoyed it a lot when I was a youngster (I was born in the late Holocene Epoch) and haven't actually thought of it in years. It was not at all the same as sausage and gravy.

[SierraTangoDelta]

Fantastic review, man!

I really enjoyed that MRE. You couldn't have said it better, though.


I like to carry the Granola and a spoon in my jacket's inside pocket, makes for a quick, awesome snack if you're on the go.

[housil]

Thanks for sharing, keep going!
I like your way of serving in the messkit

[Ruleryak]

Welcome to the site, and good on ya for coming out swinging with a full review as your first post! The granola's one of my favorite current production ration items - although I prefer the blueberry kind to the banana kind.

RockRaab - I've never seen the SOS as an MRE, but I've served it as a UGR to quite a few folks at Burning Man over the years. A while back I stopped at an Army Surplus store in Idaho and snagged a dozen or so trays of Creamed Ground Beef for about $5 a tray. They were 6 or 7 pounds a piece. Just about everyone I served it to was afraid to try it, but they all came back for seconds. Served on toast it's really quite excellent breakfast fodder

[rabidwolf]

Thank you all for the kind words.

RockyRaab: Some type of bread or biscuit would be nice. Yes, it could some more kick. Though I would prefer ground black pepper. My mother makes S.O.S., should would just smile when I asked her what that meant. By the time I was old enough for her to tell me. I had pretty much figured it out.

SierraTangoDelta: That is a good idea. I always have a bottle or something of water with me. Wouldn't take much to add the water and let soak while on the move.

housil: That mess kit is late Vietnam era. I got the idea from looking at other reviews on this site.

Ruleryak: I have a couple of the blueberry, hadn't tried them yet.


On the topic of S.O.S. and creamed chipped beef. Stoufers makes a frozen creamed chipped beef entree. While homemade is always better, it will do job if needed.

[Name_not_found]

Welcome aboard, nice review.

You got shorted! This meal should have a biscuit!

Biscuits and gravy mmmm



Also that granola is ok to eat Dry, and wont make you want to die like a mcw will with no water, great snack

[RockyRaab]

Now you've done it...gotta find some of that Stouffer's CCBoT. SOON.

[dirtbag]

I love SOS, either with the chipped beef or the sausage/ground beef!

It's great over potatoes also...

[rabidwolf]

Name not Found: A biscuit would have been nice. Though one makes do with what one has.

dirtbag: A sausage version is good. What about deer sausage?