Have you been eyeing to get the new MRE Pizza when it becomes commercially available so you can bring it your milsim or airsoft weekenders? Perhaps you are still unsure if you will like the taste of the new menu and think that it’s a Meal Rejected by The Enemy? Well, don’t worry as the valiant troops in Afghanistan are trying it out to find out if it is edible to eat and taste like the pepperoni pizza they’re used to back home.

Promised as a “day after pizza” which always brings to mind the pizza left in the fridge, the MRE Pizza is comprised of the following:

• Pepperoni Pizza
• Cherry blueberry cobbler
• Cheese spread with cheddar and jalapeno cheese
• Italian bread sticks
• Cookies
• Chocolate protein drink powder

But of course, the most important component is the Pepperoni Pizza, as pizza is the holy grail of the U.S. Military’s food technologists. While it is already a big achievement being able to have an MRE pizza, will it really pass muster among the troops who are in the field? Stars and Stripes tried to find out by having their reporter in Kabul to see if the troops at the NATO Headquarters if they would have it in their bags when on missions or would rather face an incoming bullet from the enemy than eat it.

Luckily, the MRE pizza, despite initial criticisms on its appearance, seems to be get their approval and does taste like a day old pizza as promised. Even men from the land of pizza and pasta, Italy, were made to suffer eating a piece but they actually did like, meaning a pizza in the frontlines, it actually tastes good. Maj. Gianluca Cinque of the Italian Alpini Mountain Troops said that, “Taking into consideration where I’m going to eat that kind of pizza, yes, it’s good, in the middle of the s---.”

There you go folks, it’s safe, it’s edible, and yes it will be the pizza you will happily welcome when you’re in a hostile environment teeming with enemy troops after your neck. Just don’t forget to bring the beer.