Unless you can name your favorite and least favorite MRE varieties and articulate exactly why you hold those opinions, maybe you should sit out the latest kerfuffle over special meals being purchased for deployed/deploying servicemembers.

I have vivid memories of how good a cheeseburger made on a grill that hadn’t been cleaned since the Tet Offensive tasted after several months eating food from plastic, mylar, and aluminum containers.

I’m not going to begrudge surf and turf served to those going into harm’s way.

And for the record:

Favorite – Chicken ala King, hot or cold, because it was easy to jazz up with Mrs. Dash or Tabasco. Runner up was the Pork and Rice in Barbecue Sauce, but that had to be heated up.

Least favorite – Omelet with Ham, because nothing could be done to make that abomination palatable. Ate a lot of these, because leaders eat last and that was usually the last one in the box.