Army lab makes MRE Pizza – Business Insider

An Army laboratory has figured out how to make ready-to-eat pizza that lasts for three years, and perhaps most surprisingly, it actually tastes good. "It's a fully assembled and baked piece of pizza in one package," said Lauren Oleksyk, a food technologist at the US Army's Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, a lab that helps create the military's…

An Army laboratory has figured out how to make ready-to-eat pizza that lasts for three years, and perhaps most surprisingly, it actually tastes good.

"It's a fully assembled and baked piece of pizza in one package," said Lauren Oleksyk, a food technologist at the US Army's Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, a lab that helps create the military's meals-ready-to-eat (MRE) rations.

via www.businessinsider.com

MRE pizza has been the holy grail of Natick since the early 1990s. And as the article notes, it's a very, very tough challenge. We sometimes take for granted the miracles that processed food provide.

Now, as noted in the main article, it's not particularly good pizza. It's likened to a school cafeteria.

But I have very fond memories of the grease bomb pizza served at my school.

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  1. ultimaratioregis

    You won’t believe this, gang. I went to High School with Lauren Oleksyk. She lived down the street from me. Sweet girl, brilliant, and still as cute as ever!!!!

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  2. ron snyder

    Small world…

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  3. Quartermaster

    We called a “grease bomb” a “gut bomb.”

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