The senior flight attendant came in to offer meals and the captain let the FO eat first. His meal came and he set the tray on the two-pillow stack on his lap.
Then he bowed his head, closed his eyes, and took a good 30 seconds in silent, but obvious, prayer. The captain watched.
When the FO raised his head, the captain said, “Wow. you actually pray over one of those things.”
The FO said, “You actually eat one of these things without praying?”

When my middle son joined the army, right out of high school in 2000, the recruiter brought him by (as temptations) MRE's + he fell in love with them. Oh, boy, these are really GREAT! I kinda shook my head, + figured, you are going to learn to hate those things or really like them. Fortunately, it was the latter.

I liked MREs just fine - fortunately, I only ever had to eat them for a couple weeks at a time.

Oddly, the Halal meals we got one deployment were the best, by far...