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66. Ham and Limas were last seen in Viet Nam era C-rats

They never were in MREs.

They were before my time. I entered the military when the last of the C-rats were still being issued ..... and they didn't have the dreaded "ham & MFs" at that time. I guess I missed out on them!

MRE's have changed quite a bit over the years. Here's the menu over the years: http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mre-menus.html

Back in the old days we had LRPs, which I preferred to MREs. Drawback is they required water. They were like the freeze dried versions of the commercial Mountain House type entrees that came out later.

I also remember those trays of shelf stable group meals. That were usually steamed and served where refrigeration was unavailable. I remember the lasagna was pretty good.