My father was in the military and stationed in West Germany for while, back when West German was a thing.

I don't remember exactly what it was but there was a MRE so bad that he and everyone at his post truly believed that some commie infiltrator created it for demoralization.

To this day, if a conversation even touches on something like long term food storage, MREs he will rant about "the long standing commie rot in the federal government" and the war crime that was that MRE.