Today'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 re

Today'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.