CNN readers recall good and bad memories of MREs . ` ` They get the job done but always with a bit of spicing up '' Chicken - and - loaf He said the canned sponge cake was an `` acquired taste , '' so instead of eating it , they opened a petcock valve on the nearby helicopters and filled the cake and tin with aircraft fuel . ` ` left a very heavy feeling in the pit of your stomach '' And the cake an ` ` acquired taste ''
CNN readers recall good and bad memories of MREs . ` ` They get the job done but always with a bit of spicing up '' Chicken - and - loaf ` ` left a very heavy feeling in the pit of your stomach '' And the cake an ` ` acquired taste ''