feeding an army ... with space-age technology

For those who did not know, the MRE owes its evolution to the space program during the 60's and 70's:

"The MRE was originally developed for the military, but it was NASA that nudged it to a higher form of nutrition, and made it more palatable and easier to use .... The MRE was a boon to Apollo astronauts, who were surely tiring of squeezing food paste from a tube." Mark Hawver, Serving Them Right: MREs, Water Purification, Food Prep & Utensils

Indeed, the science behind the retort pouch sounds some like rocket science, but what do the kids think of these "savory, self-contained, cuisines"-in-a-box:

And there you have it . . . MRE: Meals Rejected by Everyone.