Army MREs...

[Emperor_Mike]

US marines hunt gazelles with rocks


US marines in Iraq are hunting gazelles with rocks and pistols - to avoid having to eat ready-made military rations.

The soldiers at a base outside Tikrit say they are enjoying eating the unusual meat from Saddam Hussein's personal hunting preserve.

Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 are venturing into the woods to hunt the animals before hauling them back as a welcome substitute for the pre-packaged Meals Ready to Eat rations.

"It was delicious. I don't know if it's because we have been eating MREs for two months, but everyone has enjoyed it a lot," said army cook Cpl Joshua Wicksell, 26.

Each of the squadron's platoons has been limited to killing one gazelle a day to make sure the herd is not depleted.

The soldiers have been allowed to use 9mm pistols to hunt after initially being forbidden to use firearms for fear that gunshots in the woods might be mistaken for enemy fire.

"We hunted them with rocks (at first), as Stone Age as that sounds," Wicksell said. "We gutted them and skinned them and pretty much carried them over our shoulders barbarian-style."

The preparation is almost as primitive: a fire pit dug in the ground, covered by a radiator grill from one of the marines' trucks.

Cpl Wicksell tenderises the meat with a fork and rubs in salt, pepper, sugar and seasonings scavenged from MREs. To cut the meat's gaminess, he adds some juice from the oranges the marines have started receiving now that their supply lines are secure.

"I was worried about tenderising the meat at first, but the gazelles here had obviously been fed grain and corn," Cpl Wicksell said.

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[ren28]

MRE's are pretty good tasting when it comes to the main course. The crackers and other stuff might not taste that great but the main courses are almost all above average.

[rakovlam]

Yeah, MRE's sucks so bad, I'd eat gazelle. I'm Chinese, it seems that we eat anything that moves.

[Chris]

OH God When I was in JROTC. We had to eat those things during encampment. Thank god I was brigade officer by senior year. Got great meal at the Officer hall hahahah.

[Emperor_Mike]

Do you think gazelle is like beef? Probably tastes like beef. Or venison! That makes more sense.

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by rakovlam@Apr 18 2003, 02:46 PM
Yeah, MRE's sucks so bad, I'd eat gazelle. I'm Chinese, it seems that we eat anything that moves.

There's an old Japanese saying (or slur, kinda) about how the Chinese will eat anything with four legs that isn't a chair or a desk...

[Tao]

Originally posted by YuheiCarreau@Apr 18 2003, 05:20 PM
There's an old Japanese saying (or slur, kinda) about how the Chinese will eat anything with four legs that isn't a chair or a desk...

hahaha actually there's some truth in that. but i don't think the japanese should be talking about that, i mean at least the chinese cook their chairs and desks :lol:

and recently I saw a soldier on a morning news show describing the technology the soldiers had with them in iraq. and one of the new technological developements is the military rations. and actually the food they have looked pretty good. the package contains chemicals that can instantaneously heat up the food in it, plus it's actually real food. not freeze dried crap. all you have to do is add a bit of water and pull a string, and the food is instantly piping hot. plus the meals looked pretty good too, they had jumbalia shrimp, roast beef, and other great tasting foods. and the news anchors tried out the food, and it was pretty decent, so, i dunno what the soldiers are complaining about, the food should be pretty damned good. maybe it's cause they just want to shoot something?

[Emperor_Mike]

I heard the potatoes taste like wallpaper paste.

[angelwiththesword]

canadian armed forces field rations are among the best tasting (and healthy) emergency foodstuffs you will ever have in your life. including sirloin steak, lasagna, roastbeef sandwich, etc.

during wartimes, other countries have been known to trade rations with canadians because our food is so good.
ah, the advantage of being canadian.
the canadian emergency winter gear is also quite neat.
you can stand butt nekked inside just the coat of the gear and be toasty warm standing still in the middle of antarctica. gots to love canadian winters.

[angel nympho]

I heard eating MREs makes you shit out giant baseball sized turds only once a week. LOL~

[CrX3183]

MRE's taste like shit and you can't eat it for more then ten days or you'll pass out because it clogs your system...

[ChinaLama]

i think it;s just the way they caught their gazelle that makes it so tasty. i mean first its rare, second it's saddam their archenemy's game, third they worked REALLY hard to catch, gut, skin them. so yeah if you work that hard for food that you don't often get and on top of that, its a big fuck you to the enemy, i think it would be much more gratifying than ready made military rations that you get everyday regardless of anything.

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by Tao@Apr 18 2003, 04:41 PM
hahaha actually there's some truth in that. but i don't think the japanese should be talking about that, i mean at least the chinese cook their chairs and desks :lol:

That's the point. Only a barbarian would cook their food.

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally posted by angelwiththesword@Apr 18 2003, 05:14 PM
canadian armed forces field rations are among the best tasting (and healthy) emergency foodstuffs you will ever have in your life. including sirloin steak, lasagna, roastbeef sandwich, etc.

during wartimes, other countries have been known to trade rations with canadians because our food is so good.
ah, the advantage of being canadian.
the canadian emergency winter gear is also quite neat.
you can stand butt nekked inside just the coat of the gear and be toasty warm standing still in the middle of antarctica. gots to love canadian winters.

I think we can safely say these are the only advantages to being Canadian during times of war :D .

[ren28]

I guess I'm not that particular about food that can be stored for a long time. :D