2008 Menu: Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce
Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce Review By Todd Farino
First off I want to state that I've had both the 2007 and 2008 Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce MRes and I see no difference with their quality. This review will cover both meals and be repeated for the 2007 version as well. Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce is one of 7 Italian MRES from the 2008 set of menus. It is not the best, but its close. It is menu #20 from both the 2007 & 2008 Menus. Here's what I thought of it.
The Entree of Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce was fabulous. For the standards of an MRE it was nearly perfect Spaghetti. The key to edible spaghetti is that the pasta is not chewy. It completely ruins the taste and joy of eating spaghetti. The MRE makers cooked the spaghetti just perfect, so its not chewy , but it is a little extra moist. Moist spaghetti in an MRE will cause it to clump up a bit, but the can be remedied by removing it from the pouch or mixing it in the pouch well. If there is a weakness to this entree its the taste of the meat. Its pretty regular, but overall not impressive. It is saved with the sauce flavoring, but could certainly use more garlic. If you happen to know you will have the spaghetti MRE, bring a bottle of garlic salt, you will thank yourself. Of course, like all meals they do require spicing up and if you don't have garlic with you, never fear Tabasco sauce comes in the MRE to save the day. Pour 3/4 to a full bottle into the spaghetti pouch and mix with about half of the salt packet. Mix it will and you will have very good and spicy spaghetti w/ meat sauce. If you are lucky to have the Garlic, add it as well for a perfect meal. Like all MREs, this is necessary to overpower that classic MRE pouch flavor that is given to all MRE foods. Also, always mix the entree very well. YOu want to break up the meat sauce and mix it well.
The gist of this rather tasty MRE is getting past the meat. I'm not a big fan of most beef products in MREs, but the meat sauce is one of the better beef products. Probably because it well separated and mixed in the sauce.
The rest of the MRE was pretty good. It came with Wheat Snack bread and cheese spread, which was good, but the big kicker was the Cherry Blueberry Cobbler. We will review that in a few days. Even the Electrolyte (Gatorade) was worth drinking. With sugar of course!
Overall Rating:
First off I want to state that I've had both the 2007 and 2008 Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce MRes and I see no difference with their quality. This review will cover both meals and be repeated for the 2007 version as well. Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce is one of 7 Italian MRES from the 2008 set of menus. It is not the best, but its close. It is menu #20 from both the 2007 & 2008 Menus. Here's what I thought of it.
The Entree of Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce was fabulous. For the standards of an MRE it was nearly perfect Spaghetti. The key to edible spaghetti is that the pasta is not chewy. It completely ruins the taste and joy of eating spaghetti. The MRE makers cooked the spaghetti just perfect, so its not chewy , but it is a little extra moist. Moist spaghetti in an MRE will cause it to clump up a bit, but the can be remedied by removing it from the pouch or mixing it in the pouch well. If there is a weakness to this entree its the taste of the meat. Its pretty regular, but overall not impressive. It is saved with the sauce flavoring, but could certainly use more garlic. If you happen to know you will have the spaghetti MRE, bring a bottle of garlic salt, you will thank yourself. Of course, like all meals they do require spicing up and if you don't have garlic with you, never fear Tabasco sauce comes in the MRE to save the day. Pour 3/4 to a full bottle into the spaghetti pouch and mix with about half of the salt packet. Mix it will and you will have very good and spicy spaghetti w/ meat sauce. If you are lucky to have the Garlic, add it as well for a perfect meal. Like all MREs, this is necessary to overpower that classic MRE pouch flavor that is given to all MRE foods. Also, always mix the entree very well. YOu want to break up the meat sauce and mix it well.
The gist of this rather tasty MRE is getting past the meat. I'm not a big fan of most beef products in MREs, but the meat sauce is one of the better beef products. Probably because it well separated and mixed in the sauce.
The rest of the MRE was pretty good. It came with Wheat Snack bread and cheese spread, which was good, but the big kicker was the Cherry Blueberry Cobbler. We will review that in a few days. Even the Electrolyte (Gatorade) was worth drinking. With sugar of course!
Overall Rating:
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