While you are Active Duty what is the Worst Food that you were given? Where were you at? Did you eat it?

While in AIT, toward the end of our final field exercise, I was handed a Sausage Jumbalaya MRE for breakfast. I tossed it back and ate the beef jerky that I had brought with me.

While I will also nominate the dehydrated beef patty, the worst has to be the omelet. Not the T-Rat version which was at least barely edible, but the MRE version. The omelet MRE was a yellowish block of gelatinous goo with chunks of some kind of animal flesh suspended in it. If you ate it, vomited it back in the bag and then let it cool, I am positive it would return to the same consistency as originally opened. It was horrible.

whoa whoa whoa, submarine food is usually pretty decent. Until you get that one cook on midrats who can't even make rice. But the worst food I ever had was underway on the boat and the supply officer, a former cook himself, marinated the sunday steaks in butter rum extract. You couldn't pour enough frank's red hot to make the taste go away. People were returning their plates to the galley. One of the comments overheard was that it tasted like arm pit flavored $hit.

I had Python at the Jungle Warfare Center in Malaysia. It tasted like Chicken. Also Monkey: the other white meat.

I had Tabasco sauce, so the flavor was not bad. What was disagreeable was the parasite that went Prometheus on my digestive system. I haven't felt that much intestinal distress since I took my daughter to a One Direction concert. I finally killed the beastie with a generous application of habanero peppers.

Four fingers of death. (MRE Hot dogs.......)

Afghan mystery meat cooked but still pink swimming in unknown oil, rice and naan cooked over open flames in pots washed with river water trucked in weekly by Afghans -who believe in washing their hands in sand-and maybe the water-just no soap, melons bought from local villagers, fertilized with human waste and cut with a knife without having been washed (that's what doc said really got us), and no refrigeration. You can only refuse so many times and protest that you already ate before they start to be offended. Each member of my ETT was sick for at least a week, a few had to be medevaced.

But I think some of you were having fun complaining about MRE's?

The dehydrated pork and beef patties in MRE version 1 - the original 12 dark brown bags. Took forever to rehydrate or if eaten as is tasted like munching on a bullion cube.

Orange nut roll in the C-Rations. It was rumored that WWII vets left it in the field so the enemy would find it and feel sorry for them. It had the consistency of a hockey puck right out of the freezer.

Anything from a dfac in jordan....

balute in the philippines