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EagleRockCafe · 02-15-2014 11:38 PM

They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for as long as three years and still remain good to eat.

Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations — known as meals ready to eat, or MREs — replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.

Researchers at a U.S. military lab in Massachusetts are closing in on a recipe that doesn’t require any refrigeration or freezing.

“You can basically take the pizza, leave it on the counter, packaged, for three years and it’d still be edible,” said Michelle Richardson, a food scientist at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.

Scientists at the Natick labs also are responsible for developing equipment and clothing that improves soldiers’ combat effectiveness and their survival, but the quest for good pizza has become known as the holy grail there.

http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/02/15/m...sts-years/

VA49er · 02-16-2014 10:26 AM

lol, I swear we already had that in my high school cafeteria decades ago.

DaSaintFan · 02-17-2014 09:33 AM

I was thinking the same thing, Va... .go ask any high school lunch cafeteria :)

EagleX · 02-17-2014 10:41 AM

(02-17-2014 09:33 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote: I was thinking the same thing, Va... .go ask any high school lunch cafeteria :)

and if you aren't hungry, you can build houses out of them.

I45owl · 02-17-2014 11:23 AM

All this in an era where twinkies have been unjustly villified...

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