Varied results IMO.

by cas, Thursday, October 16, 2014, 18:56 (3632 days ago) @ Creeker

I eat a few cases of them in the early-mid 90's. They were out of date and I guess being thrown away, someone I knew brought them home from a guard weekend. Even past there extremely long shelf life, they were still pretty good. There was only one thing that turned. Most of the entrees weren't bad at all, some pretty dang good. The extras where great in most, orange pound cake and maple walnut loaf. Peanut butter or apple jelly on crackers. I had a couple cases and eat them as regular meals now and then until they were gone.

In the early mid 2000's I bought some commercial copies. I was really disappointed that all the extras weren't included. (no salt pepper, matches, gun, tabasco (pretty sure my 80's-90's ones had it Miles) coffee, no little plastic spoon, I don't even think it had a powdered drink mix. I was really let down. And when I tried the food itself, I was really let down. I tried to eat a couple and gave some away. They were just awful.

The last match I shot at West Point I was given one as a meal, but didn't eat it on the range, I took it home instead. I was curious what they were like now days so I opened it. Contents were still not as good as the old ones and the food wasn't particularly good.
I've heard a few people say they've improved over the years, but that certainly isn't my limited experience.