Leafy spurge too--which is a pretty invasive pest in many places in the New World.
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Leafy spurge too--which is a pretty invasive pest in many places in the New World.
At the dawn of the Solmani Space Age, the noted industrialist Elonmusk set out to deploy sublight drones carrying synthetic snack cakes throughout what would be known as Charted Space, so that when human explorers reached far distant worlds, they would not lack for dessert. (He might have been showing off, though.)
Some of these probes have been recovered as recently as three years ago at Trin/Trin's Veil (SM3235).
Their payload of Twinkies [Wikipedia] were no less edible than they were when sent.
Some of these probes have been recovered as recently as three years ago at Trin/Trin's Veil (SM3235).
Their payload of Twinkies [Wikipedia] were no less edible than they were when sent.
Condottiere
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Beans
Written and directed by Animator Alvise Avati and produced by Animation Director Eamonn Butler. Beans, a short film with an unexpected ending, showcases Cinesite's creature animation skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WoM2bHfr48
Written and directed by Animator Alvise Avati and produced by Animation Director Eamonn Butler. Beans, a short film with an unexpected ending, showcases Cinesite's creature animation skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WoM2bHfr48
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Beans
Written and directed by Animator Alvise Avati and produced by Animation Director Eamonn Butler. Beans, a short film with an unexpected ending, showcases Cinesite's creature animation skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WoM2bHfr48
Looking at that reminds me that in World War 2, the U.S. Quartermaster Corps in conjunction with the Medical Corps had to come up with a menu of low-gas foods for the air crews to eat prior to a high-altitude mission. Gas can be a major problem at 25,000 feet with no pressure suit.
There are still rations for aircrew... the field version, "Meal, Flight, Individual" has fewer dehydrated items. The "Frosted Spice Cake" was a white spiced cake that was mixed with a durable frosting including colored sugar bits before baking. Tasty, but... It's odd having the frosting throughout the cake.
The MFI avoids most rehydratables, and the ones that were/are included are very porous... No beans, either.
One of the more interesting things about the MFI is that you can use the salt-crystalization reusable heat packs to heat them to edible... one on either side of the hot pouch gets it nicely warm.
BackworldTraveller
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I should assume "Edible" and "Tasty" may be very different things?
The military wants their people to be nourished and healthy. Tasty is nice--but often optional.
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When it comes to field rations, they are two totally different things. One big complaint of the MRE during the 1991 Gulf War, which was the first very large scale use of them was the blandness of the meal. The result was container loads of McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce being shipped to the Gulf for use on the rations. When you try to make something acceptable to everyone, you end up with something that no one likes, but will eat if nothing else is available.
Then there is the requirement for long shelf life, which does not help. Field ration development has always been a headache.
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Xerxeskingofking
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Meal, Ready to Eat= 4 Words, 3 Lies!
The congealed fats make for bad textures unless it's been heated to over 120°F... at least on some entrees.
The spaghetti is flavor-wise, texture wise, and heat-needed-for-edibility-wise, the same as Chef Boyardee canned spaghetti. If your mouth can handle it cold from the can, cold from the pouch won't be any harder.
Other entrees were not so forgiving in the early 90's.
The rest of it was fine unheated. (Well, excluding the coffee crystals.)
Note: I only got MFIs because of CAP encampments, and EAFB having a bunch on the deletion schedule for nearing shelf-life. That combination made ,lunches at Encampment interesting. But they sure were handy when we did the sleep in the snowberms at an active airfield at sub-zero (<0°F) temps. I do not recommend MFIs, but they were better than the then current MREs.
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There are two trains of thought:
1. Becomes a morale problem.
2. Increases aggression.
1. Becomes a morale problem.
2. Increases aggression.
Oh, we're talking about Frozen Pizzas here.
To be honest, it's got a bit better recently, but for the longest time frozen pizza, made for the mass market, were just the most tasteless blah flats of doh you can imagine. They were completely flat to my palate.
It's not surprising. I live in So Cal, and if we have anything down here, it's an abundance of Mexican food choices. Wide variety of tastes, textures, and spices.
Then, we have the national chains ala Taco Bell.
I was in Ohio, once, at a client, and they were going to Taco Bell for lunch. They asked if I wanted anything, and I asked for a burrito with green sauce. Now, the green sauce has a different flavor profile than the red. But one person asked "Oh, Green sauce, is it hot?" I replied "No, it's Taco Bell". Taco Bell, with their national market, especially at the time, could not do "hot". They had to temper to the large market they serve.
I don't know much about Ohio, but it's not really renown for its spicy foods.
Mass market frozen foods face the same problem. Part of it can also be the freezing process, but if that's the case, they can overspice it compensate. Airlines suffer that problem because the taste sense is hampered at altitude.
Mind, all that said, worst Mexican food I've ever had was in Ensenada, Mexico. Didn't suit me at all. I had a similar dish in the US, same (blah, bland) flavor profile as what I had in Ensenada. Maybe it's a regional thing. Maybe it was "authentic Ensenada style".
Which is why when people talk about "authentic" food, I simply claim "I like what I like, I don't care if it's authentic".
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We were escorting local truck drivers. I saw one of the drivers eating a pork chop MRE.I was certain he was Muslim, not Christian, so I politely pointed out that this was a pork meal. I had next to no Arabic (enough to say hi, tell you to surrender, ask name, etc) , so we at first didn't understand one another. I got down on the ground and made pig sounds, rooting about. He spat it out, blurted 'khanzeer!' and pretty soon afterward I was trading MREs with all the drivers, taking all the pork and giving them the other stuff. And that's how I learned the word for pig.
Not a plant, but maybe some sort of mushrooms that can be grown in human waste?
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