For my 21st birthday in 1982 I was on border patrol at the Czech border and CNN readers recall good and bad memories of MREs . `` They get the job done but always needed a bit of spicing up '' Meat-vegetable-loaf `` left a very heavy feeling in the pit of your stomach '' I think it was because they were so full of salt that you could taste them through all their fat, which is why we had to add more seasoning ( or maybe just less ) when making them again
CNN readers recall good and bad memories of MREs . `` They get the job done but always needed a bit of spicing up '' Meat-vegetable-loaf `` left a very heavy feeling in the pit of your stomach '' I think it was because they were so full of salt that you could taste them through all their fat, which is why we had to add more seasoning ( or maybe just less ) when making them again