Thanks for watching. Prefer to see a US MRE? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJNl1tmYpdjFqNI.html

@anathardayaldar

Жыл бұрын

As a filthy civie, the only experience I've ever had with US MREs is from retail stores and they have been always positive. So one day I tried to compliment a veteran's pot luck dish that it was better than any MRE and he got all insulted.

@thehillbillygamer2183

Жыл бұрын

The Ukraine war is the biggest waste of money and resources in US history we are wasting all those weapons and all that money that needs to be used to fight the Real Enemy China

@thehillbillygamer2183

Жыл бұрын

The Ukraine war is a waste of taxpayer resources it should be saved to fight the Real Enemy the Chinese the Russians are responsible for killing more than a million Americans with virus

@COM70

Жыл бұрын

So funny listening to you eat the cracker. It sounded like you were eating glass.

@MuffinManUSN

Жыл бұрын

Sure thing man. Do a US one too. Chili Mac please. That's my all time favorite. Crumbling the bread into it and mixing is something I would order from home some days. But don't screw up the heating process, get it right. "A rock or something" is definately required. So my suggestion is eat them like we do. You get a bottle of water and a MRE and work thru it. Start cooking right away while you do everything else so get right to the rocking or somethinging LOL

A wise man once said "right let's get this out on a tray.....nice" 😂😂😂😂

@forgetfulpriestiv14

Жыл бұрын

Apparently Steve hasn't uploaded on quiet a while

@johnkertzman3223

Жыл бұрын

Nice hiss!

@slavvodkaman9359

Жыл бұрын

@@forgetfulpriestiv14 I think he is still searching an another MRE to be reviewed.

@SonOfTheChinChin

Жыл бұрын

chinese mre is giving him cancer than civil war hardtack

@slavvodkaman9359

Жыл бұрын

@@SonOfTheChinChin LOL TRUE, Chinese Mre is kinda sus for the noodle

As a Brit our rations were not bad but after a few weeks became very boring I loved the US MRE’s and we’d enthusiastically trade in Afghanistan with fellow yanks. Weirdly the yanks loved ours too! I guess a change in rations is really important for long duration meal planning

@ErnieJ89

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha as a US Navy Corpsman in Afghanistan I traded rations with you Brits all the time!

@sharonrigs7999

Жыл бұрын

The Gurkha rations were my favourite

@grizwoldphantasia5005

Жыл бұрын

I was a supply clerk on a US carrier, and the food was generally pretty darned good ... but when you eat at the same restaurant three times a day every day of the month, you want something different.

@sking3492

Жыл бұрын

All soldiers in any army the world over will always go for each other's rat packs. A fair amount of horse trading will always be done, always has been amongst soldiers. We always went for American mres. Next up would be the brits.

@sking3492

Жыл бұрын

@@grizwoldphantasia5005 Exactly.

It is funny that we complained about MRE's in service, but years later we look back fondly at them and how good they were.

@davidtucker7219

Жыл бұрын

Good point. And for those of us who were in when MRE's were first introduced ( early 80's) some of the MCI's (Meal, Combat Individual) also known as just "C-rats" or just plain "C's" were pretty good. Pound cake with either peaches or fruit cocktail....A perfect desert for a grunt😀😋🤤

@jb7483

Жыл бұрын

Remember the green bags lol did basic in the late 90s and most at Knox were from early 80s.... the good old days...

@Warmaker01

Жыл бұрын

I got into the Marines in the 1993. Over the years the MREs had gotten better and better. I've seen a bunch of videos with guys trying out different rations from other countries. Some of them are pretty good but IMO, the US MREs are the best. The different MRE menu, the lavish extras are top notch. Even the chemical heater we take for granted in the MRE is something missing from a lot of others out there. Because having a fire for a warm meal may not be a good idea to have going on. The chemical heater gets you warm food without having a bright fire going, and feel that much better about a reasonably hot meal in your belly. Hell, the heater wasn't even in the MREs when I first got in. In the early-mid 1990s we still had a bunch of the old 1980s MREs around and the pound cake was the best thing.

@johnsyler8580

Жыл бұрын

I liked most of them. Over time they vastly improved on the selection and taste.

@baconking1160

Жыл бұрын

I guess i must be spoiled in the Air Force, But i still dont want to eat an MRE, didnt like eating them for 2 weeks straight.

In North Africa, the British were so sick of bully beef but the Germans were delighted to capture some. It just shows how rations can be repetitive and boring. I remember in basic training out in the field, and one of my fellow trainees looked at the date on his c rations and yelled, this stuff is older than I am. A guy I worked with who was in the guard hated MREs and said he missed c rations, go figure.

@worldcomicsreview354

Жыл бұрын

In WW2 the British civilian population was subject to heavy food rationing, GI's would give kids C-rations and the kids would think they'd won the lottery

@skoshman1

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather talked about ration trading with 'The Yanks'. You get sick of SPAM faster than bullied-beef but you do get sick of it. He also noted that at the height of blitz, with rations at an all-time low, there were always tins of herring in tomato sauce at the gun. (He hated it, and wasn't alone)

@killer3000ad

Жыл бұрын

Early MREs from the 90s was really bad, hence the names like 'meals rejected by Ethiopians', 'meals rejected by everyone', '3 lies for the price of one'. Modern MREs today are much better.

@skoshman1

Жыл бұрын

@@killer3000ad Used to acquire surplus ones for Scouts. We called it 'Meals Ready to Excrete'. That being said, the MRE peanut butter was a solid cure for the diarrhea .

@BadBoy-bt6lb

8 ай бұрын

​@@worldcomicsreview354Really? Guys, during the siege of Leningrad, people ate all the cats and dogs in the city. They even ate wallpaper. Many of the residents died right on the streets from hunger.

First packet was jelly, tin was vegetable (eggplant) caviar. last tin canned meat with vegetables with barley porridge. The last packet is sugar.

@stevemontana5974

Жыл бұрын

It's not jelly it's called apple butter and it rocks.

@zulubeatz1

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemontana5974 How do you all know this stuff?

@stevemontana5974

Жыл бұрын

@@zulubeatz1 So far I've had 3 Russian rations and they all had that apple butter. It's not really like jam, it tastes more like apple pie filling.

@Patriot2609

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemontana5974 It is jelly, povidlo is basically russian jam and I'm pretty sure OP is talking about jam

@BlueRidgeBubble

Жыл бұрын

@@Patriot2609 Apple butter is what Americans call apple jelly lol

As I understood from another video, the plastic wrapper is actually a sealed zip-lock bag. The carboard box offers more protection for the contents during handling an storage. If opened along the sealed side, the carboard box can be taken out, the contents re-packed in the bag, zip-locked close, and packed in the back-pack just before action.

@trunglequoc542

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty neat. You can do a lot with a ziploc bag.

@drno4837

Жыл бұрын

it never occurred to this guy to take the stuff out the box before he puts it in his bergen, I am betting he was a general or some kind of staff officer.

@christophershear409

Жыл бұрын

@@drno4837 He talked about field stripping MRE's and how the current packaging of the US rations don't require it anymore.

@BadBoy-bt6lb

8 ай бұрын

​@@christophershear409I would feed him wallpaper. My grandmother lived in besieged Leningrad. I think he should try the wallpaper. They should not be cooked raw.

The "tomato soup" is actually eggplant puree "kabachkovaya ikra" literally eggplant caviar :)

Being able to read Russian (I'm Ukrainian), I just couldn't help but laugh when he was holding the bag that says "jam" and says "probably esbit stove fuel". Same with "probably some hot beverage" when it's just a bag of sugar. Anyway, that first round can you opened is vegetable paste called Ikra (same word as we use for caviar, for some reason), and the main ingredient is vegetable marrow (a plant that, according to Wikipedia, is closely related to pumpkins). I don't know how that particular one tastes, being expired and in an MRE, but when it's fresh, it is absolutely delicious.

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

Жыл бұрын

Haha yeah was a pretty funny stupid review.. Imagine him trying to light the jam with a firesteel

@Skimer54

Жыл бұрын

Right? I read vagly russian, however when you see the esbit tabs right under the 1st package, be safe to assume that wasn't it in the package.

@-Ryan_Gasoline-

Жыл бұрын

Это похоже на то, что сделал Markiplier, но немного хуже.

@DingoNovember

Жыл бұрын

Always feel kinda a little frustrated when watch something that narrator have no knowledge of the language that you know,there is nothing wrong with that but it would be very good if narrator did some research. I speak Russian as my third language by the way

@Fernsehenpfanger

Жыл бұрын

Украины скоро не будет, последние дни этого квазигосударства, придуманного Лениным как республика. Плешивый Ленин перестарался

Imagine being in the military just for the MRE's

@MREScout

2 жыл бұрын

Is there another reason?

@MrSheckstr

Жыл бұрын

Might be fuel, might be Kool aid

@Paranoid_g8mer

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a me thing

@Ciborium

Жыл бұрын

Makes as much sense as joining the military for the military discount when buying a pack of ham-flavored gum.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti

Жыл бұрын

I only joined for free food because I was poor. And being paid to play with guns and go camping with friends is also cool. No other reason to join if your country isnt invaded by Hitler

Sorry dude , I’ve had several Russian MRE and they were all quite tasty

You mentioned the bulky box; I have been surprised at how many countries package their rations in boxes and foil 'bowls'.

@MREScout

Жыл бұрын

Doesn’t make sense to me. Too easy to blow up when subjected to the kind of treatment it’s going to get in a ruck sack.

@petesheppard1709

Жыл бұрын

@@MREScout Yep!

@tomhenry897

Жыл бұрын

Off the shelf Not ment for long term storage

@Marcel_Germann

Жыл бұрын

Germany, the "EPA" was a cardboard box during my time in the Bundeswehr. And it was until 2018, then it was a big brown plastic bag like the MRE. Bigger than regular MREs, because the EPA are designed for 24h. But the old packaging had the advantage of some sort of tin cans that could be heated on the hexamine cooker directly. The new meals are packaged differently, you'll have to heat them up in a pot of water because the packaging is like the MRE meals, but no flameless ration heater is provided. Every soldier has his own reusable hexamine cooker and hexamine fuel is provided by the supply NCO of the company. Also every soldier has a mess kit and utensils. So the German EPA does not come with any utensils or cooker. But I remember during my time of service they have started removing the water treatment pills from the package. Maybe some guys thought this was chewing gum or so... But anyhow, the EPA was popular amongst American soldiers afaik. Read some interesting comments from Afghanistan veterans that traded an EPA for 2 MREs to American soldiers.

@petesheppard1709

Жыл бұрын

A canteen cup over a small flame is a dandy, time-tested ration heater.

Russians love their jam, that's one thing they do very well. The cherry is awesome! Makes Smuckers taste like artificial flavored GMO corn syrup.

@josefwitt9772

Жыл бұрын

It's true! I got a jar of berry preserves once - really intense flavor.

Nice meal. I had a Russian in my platoon (20 years USMC) who had been in the Soviet Army. He said that the smell of the food in the chow hall would make you gag until you got used to it. That is why so many units had their own livestock and gardens while in garrison.

@ANukeWithLegs

Жыл бұрын

Churka

10:46 then why didn't you heat it up? Also some Russian MREs do include a tiny foldable stand and dry fuel for you to heat up your food, it would give you the hint that you should heat some of this stuff up, it does make MREs better considering we all would want a hot meal in a place where you probably will lose your sanity

@Chesirecat111

Жыл бұрын

It came packed with a stove, eating it cold doesn’t give a real sense of how it tastes.

The fuel tabs are an acquired taste but they will keep you warm inside😂😂😂

The kasha is pretty good if you warm it up in a pan of boiling water. It just scorches if you put a flame under it.

I bought one of these Russian MREs about 4 years ago. Nothing was edible! The pate looked, smelled, and I assume tasted like cat food. The biscuits although not stale had no flavor, and the main had a over powering metallic taste. The real funny thing is we had raccoon problem around my apartment complex, and as usual had torn open my garbage bags, everything in the MRE was scattered around and nothing had been touched. That's pretty bad, when even animals who survive scavenging want nothing to do with that food!

@bluudlung

Жыл бұрын

wahhh wahhhh

@alansmithee4957

Жыл бұрын

@@bluudlung You wanna "wahhh wahhh" my what?😆😅

@bluudlung

Жыл бұрын

@@alansmithee4957 imagine not being smart enough to realize i was making fun of you

@panzerwolf494

Жыл бұрын

@@bluudlung Pretty poor attempt.

@JeffDeWitt

Жыл бұрын

If the "trash pandas" won't eat it that's pretty bad!

I think the real answer for the hard outer packaging is that Russian logistics do not use pallets, they just throw all the packages on top of one another and make it fit. They're like airport baggage handlers but with explosives.

@sharonrigs7999

Жыл бұрын

That is SO inefficient and backwards. Especially when they don't have the manpower left to hump the kit

@origintrackz5235

Жыл бұрын

Im pretty sure Russians use pallets just like we do lol.

@markotisovic8233

Жыл бұрын

Not really. Russian logistics use pallets like everybody else. It is becouse of soft "cans" that can be easily damaged or ruptured thus making kasha spoil. Basicly it is a good idea.

@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339

Жыл бұрын

Where did this mention of explosives come from? Perhaps you pulled this out if your ass

When I was in the Army they taught us to take the MRE out of the bag, then you could fit one each in your cargo pockets to save room in your ruck!

@jasonferguson5195

Жыл бұрын

You can definitely carry a lot more if you field strip them. Take everything out of the boxes and toss what you won't need. I kept main meals in my pack but anything easy to eat I kept on my person. Beats digging in your ruck for a quick snack. I usually kept two spoons and tossed the rest. Ounces add up to pounds and pounds add up to a sore back.

Heated up, that meat and barley is actually very enjoyable-have taken a few of those camping, soaked the biscuits in the tea and sugar to soften them and flavour them.

@stanford2444

Жыл бұрын

I thought Kasha was buckwheat

When you ate the jam, as soon as you said it tasted delicious, I thought then it's got to be lantern fuel or something like that. If it tastes good, it's not for eating.

ive had several russian rations and i find if you heat any of those barley meals then mix that tomato past in with it it takes away that dog food taste and its not too bad.those crackers are always like that.the whole wheat ones are worse,i found the best meal was the meatballs.

*_Ration Items_* 02:40 повидло яблочное нестерилизованное (с консервантом) / _povidlo yablochnoye nesterilizovannoye (s konservantom)_ > "Apple Jam, Unsterilized (with preservatives)". 02:54 икра овощная- икра из кабачков / _ikra ovoshchnaya - ikra iz kabachkov_ > "vegetable caviar - caviar made with zucchini". Vegetable ration item. 03:28 Галеты простой - из муки пшеничной (первого сорта) / _Galety prostoy - iz muki pshenichnoy_ ( _pervogo sorta_ ) > "Simple Biscuit - made from wheat flour (first grade)" 03:44 каша перловая (с говядиной) / _Kasha perlovaya_ ( _s govyadinoy_ ) > "Pearl Barley Porridge (with Beef)". Meat & Vegetable ration item. 03:55 Чай черный / _Chay Chernyy_ > "Tea, Black". МАЙСКИЙ ( _Maiskiyi_ ) is the name of the company that makes the tea. It looks like a packet of their _Koronet_ ("Coronet") brand black tea.

Thing is, methinks this is one the _better_ Russian field rations, since it was probably skimmed off the supply meant for active personnel to sell internationally at a good $ profit. Still would've liked to have seen you heat this up with that esbit stove to see whether it improved its palatability.

@MREScout

Жыл бұрын

Heating food usually does make it taste a little better. I’m of the old school, US Army Cav Scout, we very rarely had opportunity to heat food in the field. I got used to eating them cold. To this day there are some foods I refuse to heat up even though most people look at me like I’m an alien.

@lexslate2476

Жыл бұрын

And since it probably was skimmed off of the supply meant for use to be sold at a profit, it's contributing to Russia's ongoing dismal failure in Ukraine. Good job, purloined package of Russian food. Keep it up.

@derscarf3803

Жыл бұрын

Nope, these things get sold i think a year or so before the expiary date like everywhere. The crackers are made stale to not give a taste off when being eaten with the jam and the other thing that i dont know how to translate, sadly they are a bit too hard but still okay, as thats done for it to not break at the first impact and have a good shelftime. You have to heat up the kasha and when you do that you have to only get a small little hole into the top, so that it doesent burn and gets warm in its juices, most do that part wrong, opening it up fully or partly, letting the moisture out, getting a burnt dry meal.

First person came up showing us these so thank you. Would appreciate knowing what everything really was and seeing it eaten. Lighting the stove up and assembly would have been awesome. But a great breakdown of one type of them and the comparison.

Bruh his expression at 7:54 got me dead asf 😂😂😂 Great videos always MRE Scout I am addicted to these!

I love these, I've had 1 or 2 24 hour versions of these and they're my favourites

I’m almost sure someone has already pointed this out, but just in case they haven’t - the date stamps on Russian canned food is the date of production, not the expiration date. The expiration is usually noted on the label separately like “Expires in 2 years after production”

Interesting point about the US mre being in a flexible bag. Much easier to stow than a rigid box. Same with the older British 24hr. ration packs - a box which had to be broken down and stowed among your pack, pouches and pockets. Useful for munching on the go though.

@InquisitorShepard

Жыл бұрын

I imagine a bag is a lot easier to store in a bag or in a pocket in the field, but I imagine they chose boxes because those are a lot easier to stack on pallets and ship to the front line in trains.

@simongee8928

Жыл бұрын

@@InquisitorShepard Good point. As I said, as soon as a squaddie was issued with his boxed rat pack, he promptly broke it down and stowed it about him to his personal preference. Officially, we were supposed to keep the box as a useful fire starter if push came to shove. But you know British squaddies - ! 😆

@AppalachianTemplar

Жыл бұрын

@@InquisitorShepard MREs come tightly packed in boxes of 12, each box is slightly larger than a cinder block. They pack and palletize very well.

To be fair, anti-tank weapons turn all tanks to scrap. M1 Abrams will turn to scrap if hit with a copper jet munitions. So dont be hard on the T90, it does what it was designed to do, does it well but nothing can survive a copperhead missile.

@jesuszamora6949

10 ай бұрын

True, but the Abrams doesn't fall apart quite as catastrophically, and the crew tends to live. Give and take, I suppose.

@John-100

10 ай бұрын

@jesuszamora6949 the Abrams in Iraq that got toasted didn't look all that much better. I can not say how the tank crews did, I hope you are right. the survivability of the crew after a copperhead strike is good design. But I doubt it would survive that.

My favorite MRE tool is definitely the Gerber multi tool. Great video.

Back in the early/ mid ' 80s, when we switched from c-rats to mre's. At first we really liked the change, but soon enough began harassing the logistics to include the c-rats just for variety. MRE's just didn't cut it those first few years.

@michaeltaylor4984

Жыл бұрын

My butthole still hurts. 1st gen MREs were teh debbil. Especially in the desert

Teeth breaking just hearing that biscuit snap 😆 🤣 😂 😹

Hi from 🇬🇧 Just wanted to drop a note to say I enjoy your content, and as an Army veteran myself I completely understand what you’re saying regarding the way we enjoy the nostalgia factor of rations. I also share your ‘hobby’ of sampling different nations military rations. My personal favourites are the current French issue and also the British Army ones which if you haven’t tried I’d definitely recommend. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

Love your presentations amd your honesty about the taste, sire some things might have been designed to be heated and woild love to see you do a segment where you prepare the ration as it would have been in combat. saying that, we also have to realize that likely many times they are eaten as is out of the package because thats all time or conditions allow!

You ever consider heating them up like they are meant to be before you eat them? Probably would help….like if you eat one of those microwave rice packs cold it’s gross.

@MREScout

Жыл бұрын

No mate... well, not true occasionally but facts are that in the field, most soldiers do not heat them unless it's below freezing out. No time, not worth the effort. I'm old school like that.

I'm laughing at the beginning, I speak basic Bulgarian and I read "Sahar" which is Russian for sugar, similar to "Zahar" in Bulgarian. "Is it coffee" And I'm just waiting, knowing its the sugar for the tea.

As someone who knows russian, its realy amusing to watch you try and identify components, great vid.

HAPPY NEW YEARS 2023

The mre´s had something for everyone, in sweden we had candy and liver paste among the things in the pack, as I am not delighted in sweets and candy I often traded away my candy for the small liver paste can which was in the packs, and since most ppl liked sweets it led to bidding wars. When my time was served I had 130 cans of liver paste which was my favorite. Nostalgia makes me want them more than I should now that I am older. The mre's at least when I served were like a trading card game.

I was in the exchange program from my university and stayed in Russia for 2 years. My campus cantin sold these mre boxs and the jam you put it in warm water to drink. These Russian mre generally pack with high calories food and I love it

box might take up more room but mass storage would be easier plus using the cardboard to start a fire in colder weather regions is always ideal for a morale/survival advantage

pretty much what i figure. the crackers are for everything. my best guess (i cant read russian) the can with the veggies on it looks like Ikra which is a vegetable spread. the jam im not sure because i cant taste it but i know ive seen apple jam in russian MRE's before. the main is definetly some sort of buckwheat porridge with meat

Where are you able to find these MREs? Watching your videos and some of like to try myself after your review.

Hardtack in German Federal Defence EPA also wasn't salted or sugared; that's why you get sugar (sachar) and salt separately. You can take a taste-less hardtack and put jam on it, and you have a sweet dish; you can put corned beef or the like on it, and you have a spicy meal; or you can put boot polish on them and use them as a fire starter. That wouldn't work if they were salted or sweetened. You have seen the way to deal with it, just sweeten the jam or put the spices in the puree/meal. Maybe that also increases shelf life as the jam/puree/lard meat tend to be sealed better.

Landscaping is such a thankless job✨️

How well does the M1 Abrams do when hit with a modern anti-tank rocket or HIMARS or MPAD?

One advantage of a carboard box is its usefullness in starting & maintaining a fire.

Google translate is your friend. 😂😂😂. Love the reviews 👍

US MRE: take 6 of them in your backpack if you have to russian MRE: just break it down for the love of god and stuff it around your pockets

I've had that side at my Armenian market. It is red pepper, eggplant, and tomato spread to put on your biscuits. Like a savory jam.

6:27 yep, definitely a spoonful mate

It was a bit funny to watch when a pack of apple jam is called "stove fuel" and sugar was not certainly defined before opening) But still a good job, though!

That “can opener” looks really interesting. I’d love to see a video demonstrating its uses and comparing it to other can openers used in various military branches throughout the world, F.R.E.D., P38, etc.

A Panera MRE would be awesome! Lol!! A sandwich main, soup, coffee, and bread!! Makes a perfect lunch MRE meal!

@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527

13 күн бұрын

As someone who has worked in the medical industry, that’s basically what they give us at conferences.

@spicytunarolls777

13 күн бұрын

@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 😂

Are the biscuits stale, or just hard tack preserved? Great video!

@MREScout

Жыл бұрын

Both!

Google translate would help alot . I know some people like the surprise me not so much haha great review is your canteen cup a repo? It looks like it's in great shape!

@MREScout

2 жыл бұрын

Repro? No it’s not milspec but it’s not a reproduction.

The red stuff was a vegetable caviar, usually tomato or Zucchini based. The green wet nap is to clean your eating utensils, the white one is for your hands.. Google translator is your friend, use it to figure out what you are eating. I love Russian/Slavic rations.

Conscript: Comrade Lieutenant! i think my ration is expired. Lieutenant: Maybe you're not hungry enough.

First package he takes out of the box doesn't know whether to eat it or burn it. 🤣

Hi there, you raise some good points but to be totally fair to the video and your viewers, maybe you should consider heating up the meal to allow the flavours to reach your taste buds. It could be the difference between a wow or a meh. Peace ✌️

I tried the non box like russian mre... I was scratching my head, wondering how this could survive in the field. Every package inside was so fragile!

4:22 kinda expecting you to say "Nice!" split second later

at our rifle company we had a cooking team that cooked food out in the Forrest and their food was always delicious.

You do realize you can translate all of this instantly with the camera on you phone.

6:55 that looks like an Ajvar spread usually a combination of peppers tomatoes and eggplant

The jam and your "tomatoe soup" both go on the crackers

Watching you try this is great you're brave.l used to just shovel it down chased down with coffee, the desert we're always my favourite any you should look at expedition food strawberry and porridge its yum yum. Watching from Scotland peace and love to all

I've had one of those before, the first thing you picked up was a jam.

What is it about ration/MRE biscuits/crackers that make them look like they'd be tasty?

I got that same multi tool! However, it got wet one day and rusted up immediately, so I don’t really use it anymore

If the ration is packed in such a tough carboard box, why not bind all your rations together and attach your food to the outside of your pack? It's even colored with a camo pattern.

I swear the moment you opened it I imidiately thought of those Lootcrate packages "aww Sergey got a limited edition Deadpool figure in his, all I got was a crappy Simpsons shirt"

Jam is called "Povidlo", and made only using fresh fruits or berries. Kasha called "Grechka", and strange stuff inside a tiny can called "veggie caviar", and made from bakajan and tomatoes.

The T90 has an auto loader, and the ammo is kept inside the crew compartment, under the turret, correct?

@MREScout

Жыл бұрын

Yes, an autoloader that likes to eat crewmember arms and the spare ammo is under the turret on top of the fuel tank. Seems like a reasonable place to store it.

@insideoutsideupsidedown2218

Жыл бұрын

@@MREScout enjoy you and Ancient Me as well as Steve, although Steve seems awol as of late…

@ljubomirculibrk4097

Жыл бұрын

@@MREScout Dont wory, Abrams is even beter in blowing up. In couple of months whil see on mass.

@Colonel_Obvious

Жыл бұрын

@@ljubomirculibrk4097 Not a chance, troll.

@souscommandantchenier5692

Жыл бұрын

@@ljubomirculibrk4097 moi avoir très hâte de vous voir perdre face... continuez et l'économie kaputt!!!☝️

Kasha is buckwheat grouts. Very healthy, Thanks for the video.

@MREScout

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like the Russians call a lot of different things Kasha. In several Russian meals, I've found grain, not unlike grits labeled Kasha, and what was clearly oatmeal labeled Kasha and meat and potatoes, labeled Kasha.

@cynthiawigington1236

2 жыл бұрын

@@MREScout Oops, sorry. Interesting, didn't know that. I hope you'll get some of the kind folks that send you guys lots of healthy ones from Europe and Scandinavia. No chemicals, simple ingredients. Maybe since they all have national healthcare they feed them healthier food, who knows. Anyway, I like your stories. It's much more interesting than just watching someone eat.

@mfree80286

Жыл бұрын

@@MREScout Dictionary says it's (slavic) generically applied to cooked groats or porridge, so seeing 'Kasha' on Russian packaging is kind of like seeing "Quaker" here.

I think your suppose to mix some of the tomato paste into the main after heating.

So, the food in 2:52 is, i believe, called "marrow caviar". Or at least i think that it would be an appropriate translation from Russian. I personally would eat it spread over the hardtack or biscuit. The one in 3:43 is pearl barley porridge with beef. I probably should clarify that the word "каша" means any kind of porridge (buckwheat, oats, etc). By the way, the porridge would be tastier if heated. To be completely fair, the name of the video looked like a clickbait. Also, the slightly older version of this MRE (or at least it looked kinda similar) had salted pork fat in it (in Russian it's called шпик, i believe), which was kind of a meme thing since it wasn't exactly good tasting (although i heard that it's actually good for frying food).

in the future any chance you could weigh it and compare it to whatever american mre you showed on screen? idk, i'm interested. Eventually you might even build out a cool dataset where you could rank the weights. It's an important factor imo. anyways, good video. cheers.

*opens box* "Hmmmm..." *Pulls out raw turnip*

Those hardtacks, I think they used to dissolve some of that copious amount of sugar in hot water to dip it in. Makes it easier to swallow, and the sugar inhibits certain, uhm, choking sensations, for lack of better words. At least from what I've heard.

I have that same Gerber multi tool, I enjoyed MREs, especially the Taco Pasta

Picks up sugar pack, "this isn't kahvas is it?" 🤣

The T-90 could just as well be an Ahbrams tank, it's getting pasted because it's the equivalent of a land battleship, and the air craft carrier has arrived. Remember what happened at Pearl Harbor. All the American battleships got sent to the bottom of the ocean by little flying airplanes... with torpedos and bombs. It wasn't the arrival of the air plane on the scene that changed the balance of power, but a bomb they could carry that in one blow could take out a battleship (or in this case, tank).

Does anyone else watch so much Tasting History that you instinctively knock on wood whenever you hear the word hardtack?

@MREScout

8 ай бұрын

Tasting history is a great channel.

Seems you didnt like it but t. hat is by far the better of the two vegetable caviar you will find in these. The eggplant one is rough. I'm surprised you didn't get the usual apple jelly, I don't think I've ever seen different.

@MREScout

2 жыл бұрын

It could have been apple. I couldn't really put my finger on it but whatever it was it was delicious.

@tomadams6540

2 жыл бұрын

Stale biscuits and jelly yum 😋

Probably help a bit if you got some rough translations of what it is you're opening... I think Steve89 is the king of MRE reviews.

The tank goes BOOM nice

Nice Gerber. I've got a dozen from RFI laying around in my attic 😂.

The expiration date doesn’t mean the food spoils at that date.

The thing you called corned beef hash and the other you called a dense tomato soup, are supposed to go together as a thick broth soup, to eat with the biscuits you dip in. Always remember the goal of rations is mostly to be able to eat hot, and the easiest thing to heat up is water, always keep that in mind when eating rations.

What a brilliant you tube channel

I once made hardtack for a group I belong too. I don't know how well I made it in terms of being historical, but it was definitely hard. In reference to the biscuits here where they're described as being made of flour and water I remember one of our senior members asked me "Flour and water, isn't that what they make dry wall out of?" I think that says it all, don't you?

@MREScout

Жыл бұрын

I don't think there's a right or wrong way to make hardtack. If it's hard as a rock and made of flour and water, it's a success. As long as you baked multiple times until there's no moisture left in it, it will not go bad.

@schizoidboy

Жыл бұрын

@@MREScout Considering that preservation is a major concern with food supplies it's not a surprise that hardtack was around so long. Although as I understand it no one tried to eat hardtack unless they broke it up or softened it in liquid like coffee (I'd imagine the Russians used tea). I heard in the Civil War they liked to mash it up and put it in with their salt pork while it was cooking. Thanks for your reply.

Someone should combine Iron chefs making gourmet meals out of MREs like they do with fast food.

Carne Al Pastor is what I am eating while I watch this. Pineapple, Cilantro, Onion, lime .. heaven. Russian MREs not so much.

Haha..the “biscuits” are definitely hardtack. You’d really have to soak those things in the tea to make them edible…which probably what a Russian soldier would do. Hardtack are essentially simple grain biscuits (just flour and water) baked until they are so dry that they have a shelf life of ten years or so.

Never heard the weed whacker until you mentioned it.

Gimme those, I need to give Jaeger 2 more

Here's a fun idea. After all items are out of their packages, covers, cans, bags & boxes place them all on a scale and find the weight you would be carrying in just coverings.