Worst: Not a meal but an individual item. Wheat Toast Bread. Abundant, always stale, and often moldy.
I think the consensus here is the beef or pork patties, they were the worst especially for the generation of Soldiers that came in from 1980 until about mid 90s, and the bad thing if I remember there was sometimes 2 of each to a case of 12 so more Soldiers got screwed at times than all did.
I used to love the chicken ala king or the chili mac in the early 90s, but they did away with both sometime in late 90s/early 00s. Alas, those of us that are really old school will still cherish the C-rations that you could still get into the mod to late 80s depending on where you were stationed even with MREs already being in the system by then, some installations supply depots would give you a choice of what you wanted when you went to submit requisitions for FTXs so they could get rid of C-rats and many units would rather take them over MREs, I know when I worked for my 1SG as a PFC and SPC at Ft Sill in the mid-80s, I would always be getting at least 2-3 cases of C-rats for each FTX that we had even if the company supply SGT was getting MREs for the field kitchen (5-ton type) back then.
Eaten straight up, though, they were the worst.


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