MRE

The MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) is a consumable item in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Characteristics
A military individual field ration used by the United States army and found extensively in the area surrounding the Divide. The MRE contains boneless pork chop as the main course along with standard sundries. This food item is one of the few radiation free foods in the game, and its nutritional value in hardcore mode is amongst the highest found in any food, on par with the much heavier caravan lunch. The MRE provides relatively low HP restoration in hardcore mode, given its high nutritional value. However, its HP regeneration is significantly better when used outside of hardcore mode.

Locations
This is a list of fixed non-random places where you can find MRE.
 * At the Canyon Wreckage: on the left, there is a wooden board that says "Lonesome Road". In the duffle bag below this, there is a MRE.
 * If you leave Ulysses alive after the final mission, he will be at the entrance to Canyon Wreckage. You can ask him if he has recovered anything from the dust of Hopeville which will result in 4 MREs, amongst other minor loot.

Behind the scenes

 * The real-life MRE Menu No. 2 was boneless pork chop from 2000-2001. The resale notice was added in 2001. However, the bag design more closely resembles older MREs.
 * MRE is a real-life abbrevation of the original military designation "meal, ready to eat".
 * MRE's are considered horrible tasting by a lot of US soldiers, earning MRE's the rather morbid unofficial title "Meal, Rejected by Ethiopians", implying that even people from a region struck by frequent famines like Ethiopia would not eat MRE's. Other nicknames include "Meals, Rejected by the Enemy", "Materials Resembling Edibles" or "Meals, Refusing to Exit" - the last one due to MRE's actually causing constipation in some.
 * The real-life ZIP code of Mullins, South Carolina is 29574, while ZIP code 12490 corresponds to West Camp, New York. However, the real-life MRE supplier SOPAKCO is indeed based in Mullins.