Patriotic Cookies & War Breadsticks: Ready to Eat Food in Colombia

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

MREs-or Meals Ready to Eat-are a staple of military life for servicemen and servicewomen around the world. The compact meals are designed to get soldiers all the energy and nutrients they need for maximum battlefield efficiency. But a lot of times, MREs end up lying around by the boxful during drills or exercises, free for the sampling, which is how MUNCHIES host Daniel Hernandez first got to know this curious method of feeding the troops. Daniel sat down with a few Colombian soldiers between drills in the midst of the Fuerzas Comando 2014 competition, held last year at the Tolemaida military base in Tolima, Colombia. He decided to eat an entire MRE, right down to the coffee and dessert, to get a taste of what military personnel eat in the field when options are extremely limited
Date: 2020-05-17

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Comments and reviews: 6

Neo
I grew up as a military brat and it was always fun when my dad came home and -accidentally- took a left over MRE from his work. Although the food wasn't amazing, it's not that horribly bad, except for a few of the meals. The fun of it was just having to cook it and it also came with gum.
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actionbraxton
Some MREs are pretty great (chili mac, ravioli, lasagna. others (hot dogs, tuna, turkey) are truly horrendous. Always like getting the ones with pound cake or M&Ms b/c at least ypu had SOMETHING to eat if the main dish sucked.
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Alexander
Nice video! the ones the British Army use are amazing, but ours are a 24hr pack! Kosher, Halal, Vegetarian, but not vegan last time i had them.
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TheLivingSoil
This things aren't that bad tasting but I would have rather not eaten as much as I had to. This shit is worse for you than Fast Food.
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Kai
Man. This is about the best thing that came out of Hurricane Rita - we were eating MREs on the bus for months and for lunch. Good times.
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decembrist
You were in a Colombian Army Base but you didn't try the Colombian MRE, you tried the American. You could've done that at home.
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