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The closest is really backpacking food that you can find at your local outdoor store. You can get freeze dried versions of pretty much whatever you want. The m
by bbatha 11y ago
The closest is really backpacking food that you can find at your local outdoor store. You can get freeze dried versions of pretty much whatever you want.
The military also produces meals ready to eat (MREs) which are fairly easy for civilians to procure. Radiation is used to kill every living thing in MREs so the food can be shipped with most of its water content in it and still lasts for decades. MREs are incredibly nutritionally dense, though the lack in the flavor department. But I bet the lack of flavor is because their made by the lowest bidder for the military and not because of a technical restriction.
If you just want a meal in a can, there are dozens of brands of meal replacement shakes you can get at your local grocery store.
- photoJ 11y agoThank you for this. The Soylet emperor wears no clothes.
- chiph 11y agoToday's MREs are far far better than the ones I ate back in the 80's. People complain about the taste, but until you've eaten the "Dried pork pattie" (which resembled a desiccated cow flop), you haven't had a truly bad MRE. The complaints of blandness are probably because they have to be eaten by a wide variety of military members, and having something high on the Scoville Scale would be a problem (although .. the tiny bottles of Tabasco are highly prized). The same meals also end up in non-military branded packaging being given to refugees, and often their stomachs can't handle anything spicy in the slightest after what they've been through.