An on-again, off-again feature of this blog is “I Ate It (So You Don’t Have To),” wherein I subject myself to various shady burger experiences in hopes of stopping you, the innocent reader, from making a major culinary mistake. This post, however, is a little different.
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet I was able to procure perhaps the rarest burger of all – a MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) Burger. The “They” of course are our troops who are fearlessly in harms way, and for whom a trip to the latest burger joint featured on this or other sites is frankly impossible. So in a nod to patriotism, here is a quick post on the making and eating of a MRE Hamburger.
First of all, I had no idea how big an MRE packet would be. This set was fairly sizeable and featured a complete meal + snacks and drink mixes as well as a cooking pouch that is scary efficient and a couple of chicklet style pieces of gum to freshen up with after the meal. I’m not sure how many packs a soldier could conceivably carry at one time, but it can’t be too many (they don’t weigh much, but they are bulky…about the size of a shoe box) and so the stories of supply convoys cruising the desert become even more realistic when you think about how often the troops would need to be resupplied.
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