What's Inside A Government Bag Lunch 

Certainly better than the five fingers of death

Or a vomlet

+WillEyedOney You understand that the work he's doing is firefighting, correct? And that he isn't even being provided with food that gives him the nutrition to make up for the energy his body is spending doing 10+ hours of work a day, in gear that weights nearly a hundred pounds, all the while risking his life. And you want to bag on him because he has a religion, which he didn't even preach , only mentioned (Not even going into to detail about it) just so people can understand why he can't eat a ham sandwich?

+WillEyedOney It specifically says only to not mix linen and wool. A quick search pulls up that the priests were commanded to dress in a certain way and the mixing would have someone looking like them [much the same as a person imitating a police officer is illegal today].

+masterkeep "do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material" seems pretty clear to me, no need for the rabbinic reasoning to excuse non-adherence to the law.

+WillEyedOney If you ignore Deuteronomy then that would be so. Deuteronomy 22 clarifies the commandment that it is specifically about wool and linen. There is no tricks to getting around when the clarification shows it is supposed to be specific.

+WillEyedOney I don't see a giant uncut beard or payot (long untrimmed sideburns also commanded in Leviticus)either.

+Lone Ranger MRE's $35.00 for 12 meals. Easy to find. Be careful of dates, over 7 years = no good.

+Richard where are you finding these 35 dollar cases of MREs? I pay 89 dollars per case here in Arizona at the surplus store. please help I'd you have info

Well, I may have spoke too fast. Did look them up on ebay a while back. Try Sportsman Guide, they have em. My local flea markets have 'em for $30, but I live 60 miles from Ft. Bragg. Also Emergency Essentials, LLC.

+zero_sum It's the pork and the candy in that lunch, mainly. Leviticans go by Leviticus in the bible where there are prohibitions against eating pork (carrion eater, non-cud chewer), seafood without scales and fins, and certain types of plants. Same thing with heavily processed foods. It's kind of similar to Kosher dietary restrictions, and it's actually a pretty healthy diet. Disclaimer: I'm not a Levitican so I'm not an expert but I've read about them.

Your working 16 hours on a hot fire do you really want an mre . I think not.

+RegdarKhrast It's mostly food donated from local municipalities for the volunteer firefighters. That's why it's so random

RegdarKhrast Regdar having had my young dumb ass thrown in prison 3 times before I was 35 because I wouldn't keep my hands off of other peoples property, I consider without pride to be an expert on the subject of prison food. The prison food was much better and more plentiful than those sack lunches...That in itself is a shame...

Jake Schaffer I remember how sub par the food was during high school. So yeah, they're definitelt being fed better.

Martin Henriksen Honestly i would eat that on a daily basis, its just how I was raised my father told me to never be ungrateful

+Martin Henriksen I wouldn't eat half of that crap. That's a bag full of heart-attack... But then again, Americans have grown used to heart-attack food.

+Zeberence Meh, maybe i was hungry while watching.

Zeberence Damn I never knew that mainly eating vegetables and fruits can give you a heart attack. .

+Custom Southern Arms check out Liviticus 11, interesting reading.

+Custom Southern Arms Are Leviticans a real thing? Front page of google couldn't help me and maybe someone here has a good source?

+G4r0s Try the third book of the bible.

I can devour a MRE

The spaghetti omg

+wordsnwood It's because the food gets donated to the local municipalities. Basically people or businesses donating food in a food drive. That's why it's so random. They get what they get and then bag it up for the firefighters.

+notjoshing All the food in those brown bags is donated. The government isn't organized or efficient enough to feed these men.

+Jimmy in Mexico Regardless his line of work he needs the calories like it or not. Funny in the military I never heard anyone complain, we were just happy to stop long enough some times to eat. LOL

armymastersgt Yeah, if you're hungry enough, you'd eat just about anything, but that's no reason for a well-paid contractor to throw together a bizarre collection of... whatever that was a collection of... to feed a bunch of hard-working firefighters. They deserve the best, not an assortment of whatever's lying around. And you have to remember how hot it gets for firefighters, so why would they put cheese in the lunch? It would be all melted - or as he said, "gross" - by lunchtime. I'd have eaten the Spam (because I actually like Spam, and I have no beliefs that tell me what I can eat) and maybe the saltines, but even the saltines looked like they had been around a while. I ate some old saltines once and nearly threw up. If the cheese wasn't too nasty, I might have tried to put the sandwich together and eat it too.

+Boat Murdered You do realize that by not doing something specifically because you view it as a social weakness is sort of an indication of an insecurity that reeks of a desperate need for validation from your peers?...

I am not a sheeple. I am a sheep dog.

there is a restriction against eating animals with a cloven hoof that doesn't chew cud.