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An anonymous reader writes "The US military has devised a way to ensure its troops in battle need never go hungry - with dried food that can be rehydrated using dirty water or urine. Bleh, but lightweight bleh." The original New Scientist story is available too.
Fortunately, I've never been that hungry. I wonder if the phrase "I could eat my own urinated food" will catch on.
Wow, just what we needed another way to make MREs more unpalatable!
I suppose you really could say the food was piss poor.
Why not try some Dehydrated water?
I would like to outfit every coffee machine where I work with one of these filters so that I can pee in the coffee and not get in trouble (again). Satisfying for me, but still delicious for them. It's win-win!
I would suggest that urine would probably help the taste of MREs quite a bit...
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So are they going to call them MRPs (Meals Ready to Pee on)?
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Why don't we just give them food and education while we're at it? You want their lives to improve or something ya commie liberal?
I know it doesn't really make a difference, but the more I think about it I would just rather piss in a filter and make water. Then have drinking water and water to add to food. That just has a kind of cool factor. It just seems different then sticking the wanker in an MRE and letting loose.
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Bleh.
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A: Pea soup!
Q: This beer tastes like warm piss. ... desert
A: That's not beer, that's
Q: This food tastes like shit.
A: Sorry, we ran out of piss.
Q: Why are you so pissy lately? ...
A: You are what you eat, so
Q: Get over here. We need you to help make supper.
A: Sorry, I "gave" at the office.
Q: Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
A: Everyone.
Nah, that would piss me off.
Sorry... somebody had to...
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Foreign Soldier 2: A whole case? Bring it over. Trust me, these guys will drink anything. You won't believe what I saw them eat for supper.
And then there's this:
"Hey soldier, we need some fresh coffee. You mind filling 'er up?
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I think Fry has the best review of what it probably tastes like: "What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up."
The important question is, "Is it low carb?"
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Engineer Ed Beaudry was quoted by the New Scientist as saying that the body would not find using urine to rehydrate food toxic in the short term, but in the long term it would cause kidney damage.
Well that finally explains my highschool's cafeteria food...
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There was already a reason they are called Meals Refused by Ethiopians...
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It's still not good enough to make coors taste good.
Urine the army now!
However... in a Dana Carvey skit a loooong time ago, he, referring to the movie Water World, said the following:
"You can't pee into a Mr. Coffee and expect it to come out Taster's Choice."
Or something to that effect.
in the long term it would cause kidney damage.
Who would have thought that your kidneys couldn't handle a feedback loop.
That reminds me of that old joke, "Dehydrated water, just add coffee."
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It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
yeah... food is the only cure for starvation/hunger... well, that and suicide
Water is HEAVY -- seven pounds a gallon. We blow quite a bit of it just dragging it around
I always wondered why no one ever invented dehydrated water.
Only a matter of time before soldiers are issued stillsuits. :)