Today afforded me the opportunity to get my hands on some real Army history. There were several cases of Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) made in 1990 that had to be disposed of. Knowing I'd probably never get to see MREs that old outside of a museum, I went to go help get rid of them.
I was very surprised to see how similar an almost twenty year old MRE is to a modern one. Many of the entrees and supplemental foods are the same and almost every company that makes MRE components now made them back then, too. Items I'd never seen before I kept. These included freeze dried fruits that look kind of like space ice cream you can find in museum gift shops and cookie and brownie bars that are tightly compressed. I kept those because they remind me of food I saw from the Apollo space missions.
I also tasted a few of the items. The chocolate covered cookie looked and smelled fine, but at the molecular level the cookie must have broken down because it tasted nasty. The freeze dried peaches were very sugary and did not taste good. The crackers, however, tasted just like the crackers out of a brand new MRE. I guess that's also why hardtack from the Civil War is still edible.
These Charms had become gelatinous.
Nineteen year old spaghetti: Delicious
"It belongs in a museum!"
mmmm tasty.
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