>On Tue, 10 Oct 95 11:25:33 CDT Maher, Steve (SD-MS) said:
>>In the modern era, those C-rats are referred to officially as MRE's, for
>>"Meal, Ready to Eat".
>>Among the people who actually have to eat them (I had the pleasure more
>>than once in Thule, Greenland), this is called "Three lies for the price
>>of one".
>
>yeah. and you don't even get the John Wayne Toilet Paper or the John Wayne
>Candy Bar anymore. :)  or the cigarettes you could trade for Fruit Cocktail!

I thought MRE was : Meals Rejected (By) Ethiopians