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" Deep in the heart of a Massachusetts research facility, military scientists are hard at work solving one of the Armed Forces&amp;#039; last, great technological challenges: producing field rations that don&amp;#039;t taste like dog food. MREs (aka Meals, Ready to Eat), the stuff that troops live on when they&amp;#039;re away from the relative comfort and luxury of a base, first came into circulation in the &amp;#039;80s and started out every bit as gnarly as you would expect food to be when it&amp;#039;s built to keep for three years in 80-degree heat. But the offerings have steadily improved, as researchers swap out things like &amp;quot;white albacore tuna&amp;quot; for Asian pepper steak or chicken and pesto pasta. But if you want to know where true innovation in troop-feeding lies, look no further than caffeinated beef jerky and something called &amp;quot;zapplesauce,&amp;quot; which is spiked with a dose of quick-burning starch for rapid energy. Both will soon be included in field packs. Apparently, the technologists have also been studying the menus of T.G.I. Friday&amp;#039;s and Applebee&amp;#039;s for inspiration, but they have yet to crack the all-important puzzle of figuring out a decent MRE pizza. [The Washington Post] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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