Or this one?

[ludickid]

I went back to the commissary, risking my precious freedom to snap amusing pictures for you ungrateful cowards. (At one point, I actually made a joke about ending up in Gitmo for snapping pictures on a military base, and a nearby uniformed woman gave me a look best described as “dire”.) Anyway, the big sad news was that the Keebler-elves-in-

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[ludickid]

I would like to note that not only is that MRE being sold at markup by a for-profit commercial entity, which is completely illegal, but it costs eight dollars. For what is described on the package as a single serving of penne pasta. No wonder the military budget is so out of control.

[calamityjon]

I have met SO many ex-GIs who are ADDICTED to MREs. They will turn down home-cooked meals if they happened to remember the four-year old chicken parm pack they've got stashed in their desks ...

[ludickid]

Man, you know what? Me too. And frankly, I have eaten MREs, and I don't get it.

Plus EIGHT BUCKS!

[roninspoon]

It's cause they're chock full of all the addictive food elements that doctors tell us are bad for people who sit behind desks all day, but are good fuel for high stress situations and high exertion tasks. They contain something like 2500 calories. Eat two of those a day in a normal white collar job and you'll gain weight faster than Nichole Ritchie loses it.

Also, you'll poop a lot too. They really get your bowels moving for some reason.

[ludickid]

Like I said in my previous entry about this, I find the commissary to be fine not a great selection, but huge and with good prices. It's the PX that bums me out: grade-Z knockoff electronics and sub-Kmart kids' clothes.

What I really want to get into is the armory, but for some reason it's not open to family of service personnel.