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While Navajo families were stranded in the snow late last month and eating air-dropped, freeze-dried food, some emergency workers were having $22 steaks and $40 meals at taxpayer expense.

http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_a53a2886-0b1e-5869-826d-e7c2d515f8c7.html

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http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/article_56d0266b-27f9-561a-9a9e-0127c500626b.html

Rez ready-to-eat meals being lost in translation
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:00 am

if the cooking instructions on a box of food you received as a gift were only in Russian -- or some other language you didn't understand?

Would you still eat it?

Many elderly Navajos stranded by snow and mud are answering a similar question with a resounding "No" after receiving airdrops of ready-to-eat meals with chemical heating instructions that come only in English.

The elders don't understand written English.

Instead, chapter houses are getting requests for "real food" from households that received MREs.

Those people are being told to get to a chapter house to exchange that kind of food for another or receive training in Navajo in how to prepare it, wrote Selena Manychildren, spokeswoman for the Navajo Nation's emergency operation center.

All well and good -- except the reason the elders are being airdropped the MREs is because they can't reach a chapter house to pick them up, much less exchange them.

On the Navajo Nation, there were 3,322 cases delivered, which is 39,864 meals. The food comes 12 packages in a box and, according to the instructions, can be consumed heated or cold.

The packages are a variety of foods such as spaghetti and meatballs, chicken dinners, macaroni and cheese, vegetables, desserts, and beverages such as tea and hot chocolate.

Emergency workers with the Navajo Nation are asking individuals not to dispose of the ready-to-eat meals, even if they don't plan to eat them.

Posted in Local on Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:00 am Updated: 11:42 pm

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