Shredded Beef With Barbecue Sauce Mre

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My version of menu 2 had a pair of tortillas, a big cookie, some beans, some barbecue sauce, "tropical dial flavored no fruit juice", and cheese spread with jalapenos. Some versions of the menu have orange juice instead of fruit juice.

Today we're going to have a look at MRE Menu 2: Beef Shredded, in Barbecue Sauce. As a postmodern joke I was originally going to write this article equally if each paragraph was a living creature with thoughts of its own, but I realised that I would have to relinquish command of the narrative, which isn't going to happen.

So I had the paragraphs euthanised and replaced with new paragraphs of my own creation, such as this paragraph and the next one and the next 1 etc. I besides carefully disinfected all the white spaces, considering hygiene is important in these troubled times.

MREs are ready-to-consume meals first deployed by the US military in the early 1980s. They're intended as a supplement for field canteens and ordinary restaurant food; on the civilian marketplace they don't make a lot of sense, simply they're a fun novelty. I became aware of them during the get-go Gulf State of war, when their bogus plastic nature seemed to mirror Western society in the post-Common cold War era. MREs have a shelf life of five years, although when stored in cool conditions they tin last for much longer. The oldest MRE I have eaten was fabricated in 2002, and although almost of it was spoiled the main meal was not only edible merely surprisingly proficient.

Tiptop online MRE reviewer Steve1989 has eaten MREs from as far back as 1984, admitting that his example was advisedly stored:

The problem from a survival point of view is that a big bag of rice, noodles, wheat etc is cheaper and volition survive far longer. MREs are very bulky and apply masses of plastic, and purely as sustenance they're very expensive.

Withal, let'southward sense of taste the whip, in love non given lightly, and attempt out the coffee, instant, type Ii:

The accessory packet includes gum, "toilet paper", and a moist towelette that doesn't merits to have whatever antibacterial properties and then it'due south probably no use at fighting COVID.

As always the coffee was difficult rather than smoothen, but the Splenda(r) sweetener ruined information technology. Other MREs have actual sugar, in which case the coffee is perfectly acceptable instant coffee, but the artificial sweetener tasted sickly and incorrect.

Still, allow's become the main meal cooking. The FRH was super effective:

I put the beef and the beans on either side of the FRH. Let'due south attempt to kill off my kidneys by eating the large cookie and drinking the drincc:

No, Kimi, you will not have the drincc. In my experience MRE fruit drinks generally don't mix well unless you put water in the parcel and aggressively slosh information technology around. This fourth dimension I just used a spoon. The end result was chalky, not very impressive. I retrieve I diluted it also much. The cookie was a large cookie, no more, no less. The people who make MREs accept obviously mastered the art of packing cakes and cookies; they are the most consistently adept parts of the MREs I have tried.

Menu 2 is unusually inflexible. The improver of crackers would improve things immensely. The problem is that it has two very similar main meals, beans and beef:

Plus barbecue sauce, but it feels odd to add sauce to a pair of meals that already have sauce. In the finish I put them all onto a plate with the cheese:

Information technology's really much tastier than it looks. The charcoal-broil sauce gives information technology a tang without being overpowering; the artificial cheese is simultaneously vile and fantabulous in a mail service-pub-food style; the beans are simply beans, but the beef makes a decent stab at existence stewed beefiness. Information technology's not on a par with the awesome meat payload of Polish MREs, only it's pretty good. I made some tortillas with the tortillas:

In summary Menu 2 is unusually spartan. It's essentially a big cookie with 2 very similar primary meals. Nearly other MREs are designed with a pudding, a main meal, and a combination of elements that can be mixed into a tertiary food item or alternatively added to the meal; in this case you lot could in theory accept cheese tortillas with charcoal-broil sauce, but they would be very bland and messy.

It feels pointless having two meals that are almost the same; why not have shredded beef with black beans in a double-sized parcel? But possibly it wouldn't cook properly if information technology was likewise thick. I don't know. As is the case with most MREs the main meal would be bully with fries, but without chips it feels incomplete. And so do I.

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