M.R.E.
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Sitting with his wife, Nasrine, in their small, bare apartment in Houston in December as dusk fell, with his six children running around, he opened the knapsack and at the bottom found an unopened M.R.E.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Even YouTube hosts with a broader scope are running M.R.E. taste tests — like Emmy Cho, who runs a popular food channel called EmmyMade.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
Blair Calder, the owner of Meal Kit Supply in Buffalo, buys M.R.E. components and repackages them in his own retort pouches — a common means of working around the commercial-resale ban.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
As we load the tracks, the Marines swap little pieces of M.R.E. cake and placed them gently in their mouths like priests placing communion wafers.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2019
We snacked on M.R.E. junk food, tossed our candy wrappers into the wind and waited for the Man of Learning to issue orders.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014
James McMullin owns MRE Homes, a Northern Virginia developer that builds six or seven new homes a year.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
In December MRE agreed a new energy contract, raising the price of electricity from 18p/kWh to 78p/kWh, covering the first six months of 2023.
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
MRE said CBP guards have reportedly badgered at least three other reporters in airports in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, in the past year.
From Fox News ● Oct. 4, 2019
I failed in my attempt to track down one last Cheese and Veggie Omelet MRE for old time’s sake.
From Slate ● May 6, 2019
But Digger would turn all that good food down in a heartbeat for a pack of MRE rations.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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