In 1990-1991 timeframe (within the Air Force), we had a total of a dozen MRE 'selections' (combat rations) for eating purposes. Most people will tell you that they could do the MRE thing for about a week max, and then their patience, bowel movements, and desire for food began to cease.
There were only four of the twelve that I considered decent (the corn-beef-hash, the ham slice, the beef stew, and the spaghetti with meat sauce). Note, the spaghetti package needed to be warmed up...otherwise, it was like a cold can of Chef Boy-R-D.
The chocolate fudge bar? This always came with the ham slice dinner, and it was regarded as 200-percent fudge....meaning that you needed to drink something with it....to get it down your throat. The fudge bar tended to be the bowel movement blocker, and usually packed you up for a minimum of two days with no toilet visits.
The maple nut cake (it's hard to describe as an actual cake) was something that usually suggested that it was five years old and marginally edible.
The pack that usually got dumped by people the most? The tuna and noodles. This included some kind of nut-cake that was marginally edible and really only worked if you could get a can of Coke to go with it (almost never happened).
The thing I came away with from those MRE experiences, was that you really didn't want to be in a situation where this was your only choice of food for more than a week. I think most people would admit that after three days....they'd just start eating less and less food via the MREs. After this....anything that the chow hall offered, as marginal of quality that it might have been....was a four-star meal.
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