I'll be honest, our cuisine is one of the best in the world, especially in terms of flavor, even our sweets. If you ever come to Brazil, you'll see that our food is not the same as the MRE packages. They use cheap food to make these packages, but they make up for it in the amount of items inside.
@@miltoncarvalho1081 Depende do tipo de doce, tem uns que são meio amargos e outros são até bem diferenciados, principalmente os que tem algum tipo de gosto que lembra amendoim. De todos que já provei, a maioria é açucarada porque tenho vício por doces kkk.
@@miltoncarvalho1081 Curau/Canjica, nosso Bolo de Cenoura é totalmente diferente dos estrangeiros, chuvisco, paçoca. São doces Brasileiros que não se encaixam nessa regra. Historicamente nossos doces são simples pq nosso clima quente é difícil de armazenar doces mas ainda assim muito saborosos, simples e rápidos de fazer para consumir logo. Enquanto que tem vários doces estrangeiros que apesar de famosos são bem ruinzinhos, só pra dar um exemplo tive oportunidade de experimentar um de bolo britânico de alta gastronomia e na boa, decepcionado... não era ruim mas era basicamente um suspiro gigante glorificado.
40:17 because it is pure sugar, it is sugar cane but more compact and concentrated, it is rich in iron and fluoride, eating a little is good for your teeth because of the fluoride, but eating a lot is bad for them because it has a lot fluorine. Rapadura is a typical sweet from here, usually mixed with peanuts and milk or pure like this.
Don't worry about expiration dates, my dad was a signals officer (army) and he used to bring A LOT of these home when I was younger when they expired (otherwise they would be just thrown out. The only reason is because there is a nonsense law that everything edible has to have an max expiration date of two years, even though they can last up to some ten). Best meals I've ever had, I can't believe anybody dislikes MRE's. I'd always bring some to go camping with my friends in my teenage and we all loved it. By the way, brazilian marines are part of the brazilian navy, basically the navy's infantry. 10:22 "bom exercício" means "have a good training; excercise" 11:11 these used to be a lot more sturdy some fifthteen years ago, they were a thick tin can and the gel was a pink hard disk, but from ~2010 onward they just started to make them like this (probably because is cheaper) 12:28 yes, they do come from a "store shelf" these food itens are made by standard food companies, but they also have contracts to sell it to the goverment as well. 15:50 well that's funny, I remember them always having a set of disposable cutlery (a fork, a spoon and a knife), maybe they've got removed as well. 36:07 Goiaba is a south american fruit, which is what this jam is made from (I personaly don't like it, but I do like the jam, I like the strawberry better. There's also grape and orange jam as well, but they come at random in these MREs) 40:08 no please don't, you are eating it the proper way haha
It's noticeable that in Brazil the expiration dates are written differently from USA, while for them is month-day-year, for Brazil is the day-month-year order. It can be tricky.
Im glad you liked feijoada. If you liked this bland version, you should definitely try homemade. This ration probably has few seasonings because we are used to more natural seasonings like garlic and onion and those dont support much time inside a bag. Also, homemade feijoada has more fat, using parts of the pig like cheeks, foot, and other collagen rich pieces. As for the farinha, we usually serve it as a dish called "farofa", with seasoning, garlic, butter and fried to become more crunchy. Cheers from Curitiba 🇧🇷
Remembering that the "Brazilian Marines" are the Navy's elite force.Remembering that the "Brazilian Marines" are the Navy's elite force. Marines enter the Navy through a competitive exam, the rest are through enlistment.
I just watched the video you uploaded 3 months ago trying the previous brazilian army MRE and now we got this fresh video of the new one and i'm very excited to watch it! Let's gooo!! 🔥🔥🔥
In Brazil, most(if not all) commercial alcohol intended to be used as a cleaning product or fuel(like this one on the package) has a chemical added to it that induces vomit, so the solder will most likely not drink it.
It's funny How much of our culture shows just in a military ration bag hahaha😂 they give you coffee with milk for breakfast and a little pack of insta coffee for after lunch (this is SO brazilian😂). In the instructions: "BOM EXERCÍCIO" means "Have a good exercise". And the RAPADURA bar, is a candy from the northern region of brazil. It is not everyone's favorite, but since my family is from the northeast, i love it. We in brazil eat out candies REALLY REALLY sweet, i know in the US might be strange hahahaha but it is Pure energy. PS: Feijoada (beans, pork and white rice) are the most classical brazilian food. It is really heavy and full of flavor, so heavy that most restaurants make it only on fridays😅 but i guess a heavy seasoned food for troopers wouldn't work really well. Specially when they are in mid training. I'm no soldier, but i find your content HUGELY entertaining hahaha keep it up!
About the coffee, we drink it HOT as lava 😂 no matter if the sun is burning us alive, we drink it so hot it would burn your tongue. BUT, now and then we drink some ice coffee drinks. I love a good ice frapuccino.
@@KlavierMenn Ouch, i feel bad for you. It's crazy that ppl here are sweating from the heat, and still drink it hot like it's nothing hahaha Generally i pour some milk on it to balance things. Nor too hot, not cold.
That little bar is a rapadura bar, it is a pure suga-cane bar... so MUCH sweet, it is usually eaten in Brazil Northeast... as I am a Brazilian from the Southeast I can not understand why people likes it that much
I love rapadura, but my family is from the northeast, where the most ppl like it. It's a regional thing, i HATE tea, so the southern chimarrão is a no no for me😂
Rapadura is basically a concentrated sugar cane juice, you ate it all at once! I was waiting for your reaction after the big bite 💀🤣 You need to eat it in small pieces, it can also be used to sweeten your coffee!
"Fahoada", ahaha! In Portuguese, J doesn't sound like hard R like in Spanish, it's more like "fageeoah-dah" Most of the other words you said quite right!
Yeah when people say you can season the farinha they mean to make a side dish called "farofa". Very very popular here in Brazil. And you can make it along with many things like onions, peppers, garlic, sausage, beef, bacon, etc. It's delicious! Goes perfectly with meals that have too much sauce on them, like Feijoada for example and other stews. Great video bro!
"Bom exercício" means good exercise. Those gummies usually have different flavors depending on the colors if you buy a good brand, those from the military aren't the finest. And about the seasoning, we usually season our food a lot, specially in the north and northeast regions, "pato no tucupi" is a great example. It's basically a duck dish with some exotic seasoning from the amazon.
If you evaluate it, you'll see that it's a high-calorie food, with lots of glucose (sugar) to give to the soldier a considerable energy charge to withstand adverse conditions on the battlefield. I think it's one of the most interesting rations I've ever seen. Coffee keeps the soldier alert when needed (caffeine) and also provides a warm and comforting drink. In extreme cases, this diet can be split up to 48 hours.
The "Paraná matches" are made here in Paraná, the state where I was born and live... it's an everyday product here so I'm very proud to hear you saying "Paraná" :D
here in Brazil outside the army/navy, there are other flours(Farinha or farofa) that can contain pepper, sausage and other condiments that add extra flavor to feijoadas and barbecues! And the common thing is that the food is well seasoned, especially depending on where in Brazil you are! But as others have said here in the comments, military foods are made more to meet the need for food, many are made in a simple and cheap way mainly to cut costs. But we also really value quantity, so even if the taste isn't good, there's plenty of food!
Feijoada is a food that can change depending on where you are in Brazil, but mainly it is black beans, sausage, jerky, pork ribs, bacon, garlic, salt. Many also make it with other parts of pork, and the feijoada itself usually only has pepper from the sausage, because it is served with a type of broth that has pepper, so the person can choose to eat it with or without pepper!
The five stars in the coat of arms show the constellation Cruzeiro do Sul (Southern Cross), which appears in the southern hemisphere sky. Nice video. I' ve enjoyed.
43:20 yeah this are the cheapest gummies ever, we do have way more tastier gummy's but we can tell by the brand that they send cheap gummy to the soldiers.
Also, the coffe i think (I can be wrong) you put too much watter in it. In Brazil we do prefer incorporated and strong coffe, but in small portions compared to Americans.
The choice for alchool, in my mind... Is because the cold and florest circunstances in Brazil, maybe can save your life in "First Aid" circunstances, clean your hands or something like this. And you can make fire with this in cold nights. Its a "multiple-use item".
chat GPT : Rapadura is a traditional Brazilian sweet made from sugarcane juice. The process begins by extracting the juice from the sugarcane, which is then boiled in large pans until it thickens and reaches a syrup-like consistency. This thick syrup is continuously stirred until it begins to solidify. Once the desired thickness is achieved, the mixture is poured into molds and allowed to cool and harden, forming blocks or bars of rapadura. The final product is a solid, unrefined sugar with a rich, caramel-like flavor.
We usually carry just a couple of those, enough to last like 3 to 4 days without being resupplied! And yeah, they weight a lot, specially with the tent, food utensils (metal ones, just like the ones the US uses), extra ammo, extra underwear, socks, batteries, etc. Still seems that my bad knee & spine are not "service related" hahaha
This ration (as we call it) is from the Brazilian Navy, but aimed at the Marine Corps, which in Brazil belongs to the Navy, it is not a separate force like in the United States. Here they are one, I served in the Brazilian Navy for many years.
Its sooooo cool to see that you really read the comments and learn from them! I just came back from the first brazillian mre video and for sure you're one of the best guys to watch! Really talking what you think about the food and always opened to new experiences and knowledge about every country that you do a MRE, your videos just flows dude and I don't even see the time pass while watching them! About the juice, it depends on your own taste or how many people are going to drink It, since you could do it for a whole liter, but if you rather take it all by yourself, sure u can pour less water to make it stronger or more water to make more juice! Now going to the food's lack of flavour, in my country we really have a looooot of different foods, and speacially, different ways to prepare every single dish, so, along with your thought on the video about "pleasing everyone's palates", we also have to remember that it's a long life operational ration, making it hard to come up with more spices that aren't full of sodium or other unhealthy stuff, but I can assure you, in a typical feijoada, we use a looooot more of natural rich and good spices, just like the spanish that your commented!
Just saw both your videos about brazilian MRE. Loved them both. Let me address some points: Soldiers in Brazil may drink that alcohol gel mixed with water and the lime juice (electrolyte beverage), but only on special occasions (and without any officers on sight). The light green meal packs go directly above the fire. The packets are flame-resistant (you just poke a hole on it so it doesn't build up pressure). Feijoada (pronounced "FAY - jho - AH - dah") is a brazilian classic. It's a stew of beans and pork. And it really mixes really well with the cassava flour. We don't season our food as much as spanish latin countries. But the MREs are really bland compared to our usual cuisine. Rapadura is basically brown sugar, before being refined. We may use it as a sweetener or eat it by itself. Some people even sparkle it on bread (we're creative with our food). And we do have those gumdrops in the supermarket. But the military version is a bit worse than the store-bought version. Great video!
Cool review, sir. thumbs up! As a child, my cousins and I used to go camping and eat some of this stuff. Our uncle was from the Navy and he would get us some of those rations from time to time. This brings back good memories from my childhood.
A gringo who knows how to eat farinha hahaha finally! Usually foreigners eat a spon full of it, but you should add a bit to rice and beans like you did :) It was fun watching you try our foods, tnkx
The fork, knife, spoons and the pan are provided to the navy (or other military organization ). So it's a personal item! Great review! Tks from Brazil. 🙏🏾
In Brazil, feijoada is a very popular dish, especially among the poorer communities. It’s a very old dish, and legend has it that it was created by slaves who were given leftover meats and cooked them with beans, using pig's feet, ears, snout, and other cheap cuts. This dish is deeply rooted in Brazilian culture. I enjoy eating it with plenty of cassava flour, and some people take the bean broth and make a thick porridge with the flour called "pirão."
Bro u're just awesome, I can assure you that every content that you make with Brasil there'll be tons of us commenting and engaging. We just love people from abroad remembering that Brasil is a real deal country, not a spanish speaking , not a just jungle and Rio de Janeiro country, but the 9th economy in the world. So thank you so much for that video, I was amazed how gentle and truthful you were. Appreciated for your videos. ps.: You definitely should pay a visit to a brazilian restaurant and record your review for us, our food is absolutely stunning
The "farinha" given is a cassava flour, some people like to sprinkle it on top of their food - just like you did - or mix it with their feijoada or plain boiling water to make a kind of simple porridge we call "pirão". When made with water, we usually season it a little and serve it with something else - I particularly like it with some stew I have to admit, it's kind of an acquired taste tho, I didn't like it much when I was a kid - But nowaday, sometimes I find myself craving for it lol
It's actually hard to say what is usual and what is unusual for Brazilians because our country is really big (even bigger than the USA if you don't include Alaska) and we have an estimated population of about 220 million people. Additionally, each Brazilian state has a different cultural scenario. However, in general, Brazilians do not use this "farinha de mandioca" (yucca flour) in all dishes. It is usually added to feijoada and other similar dishes like our daily rice, beans, etc., which is probably what most people really eat, along with some meat (or chicken, fish, sausage, etc.) and salad or vegetables. However, as I mentioned before, there are a lot of Brazilians, and each one has a different palate. So, I believe that some people love farinha so much that they put it in almost any dish, even in some dishes that most Brazilians wouldn't. I'd say that it would be interesting to see your reaction to trying some farofa because it's seasoned, crunchy, and not bland like the farinha you tried. Just make sure to try farofa temperada (seasoned farofa). You can choose farofa de mandioca (yucca) or farofa de milho (corn). I like both. When you tried rapadura (a sugar cane sweet bar), I think you thought it would be paçoca (a candy made of peanuts). I know it may sound crazy, but some people really enjoy rapadura even though it tastes like pure sugar. Actually, I really like rapadura and I'm used to it despite being a resident of the southeast of Brazil (rapadura is more appreciated in the northeast of Brazil). Good job trying this Brazilian MRE. You sounded honest but respectful even when you didn't like something you tried. It's totally ok because some things you tried aren't really that good since they're not in their best version. Even the feijoada looked like a cheaper or simpler version, but I understand that it's supposed to be this way considering it's an MRE version.
I got a couple of the army ones out of curiosity a few years ago. The chicken strogonoff is really bad, but the beef with vegetables is decent. Loved the accesory kit!
If you want 'farinha de mandioca' to taste good, you have to fry it while adding seasoning, making it 'farofa'. The easy way to do it is to brown some shredded onions and garlic in a pan before adding the 'Farinha' and frying it until it changes color all over.
10:24 "Bom exercício" means "nice/good exercise", the manufacturer is wishing the soldier a good military exercise as these rations are mostly used in training camps (where most military exercises and combat simulations take place, even though they sometimes take place in urban environments where there is not as much need for these rations)
Hi brave belly, there's another reason as to why the food is not as seasoned, they avoid putting too much salt or sugar on these MREs for health reasons, since in case of a war the soldiers wouldn't have the time to go take a pill if their blood pressure spiked after eating too much salt. I recommend going to a Brazilian restaurant or finding a Brazilian market and authentic recipes and attempt to make your own dishes
Just so you know. Desjejum e Almoço = Breakfast and Lunch Jantar e Ceia = Dinner and ... second dinner I guess. Rapadura is pretty much just concentrated sugar cane juice so yeah, it's basically a bar of brown sugar and it is eaten as a snack in small bites. It's cheap, holds for a long time and gives you a lot of energy so low income workers that do a lot of heavy physical labor all day love it. With the exception of the main meals thenselves, everything is just off the shelf stuff you can find at your local grocery store, that's why they "look cheap", because they are. Also, the sale of military MREs is forbidden over here.
Here in Brazil we do use a lot of season on our food, especially on feijoada; It's just an MRE thing, being on the bland side, I guess, it's usually basic as it gets. Really enjoyed the video.
Just saw the first video a few hours ago and now this upload, talk about lucky, and yeah we don´t usualy drink coffee out here even if it is hot as 104F (40ºC) The first dish is a pork and bean stew that is the national dish for Brazil, always served with Yuca flour/farinha. It originates from Portugal and was modified to better fit the palate of the natives and slaves, thus using yucca and it's flour, as well as the fattier and less desired pieces of pork (some feijoadas are served with tails, ears, nose and lips of the pork) The second one is a simple potato and meat stew in wich I believe people don´t eat with farinha, but as you said it is a good complement to it. The juice flavors are the most "comon" orderered and consumed in Brazil if I so recall, grape and orange ( but in the previous video there was also the tutti-frutti or "mixed flavor" juice, as a quick way to get more sugary intake for the day) The lime eletrolite drink is just the "blandest" one, the staple one in here, and yes it is suposed to be mixed with 1L of water (33.8oz) The sugary green bar, the Rapadura is simply just a suggar cane bar, so literaly is just plain unrefined suggar made into a bar for energy, you can use it to sweeten something as it is soluble-ish but here we just eat it whole and pure. On the instruction papers is does say the following: "The food in this package was designed for survival purpose only, meaning it will be benefical even in the absence of water. When eaten wholely by a man, it will sustain him for the next 24 hours to keep effective in survival [...] Do remeber that this was designed to be pleasent (aka EDIBLE) for every palate (aka it is BLAND), as it's main purpose is to provide a balanced meal." And the last message, "Bom exercício" as someone said, means good exercise or in the case of military could mean to wish for a good execution of duty (exercício can mean both exercise/work out AND the act of doing something, exercitar x exercer pra quem entender português).
I hate beans, but for some mystical reason, i REALLY like feijoada. I try to avoid too much of the beans itself and get more of the juice, but it is delicious AF
12:51 You can dilute the brown sugar bar in water, and you will have a sweet, extremely caloric drink, basically a natural energy drink to help you 'last longer' in a hard situation. For really, its cane sugar compacted.
Love your videos on Brazilian MRE. By the way, you were right at the beginning, the juices are made for like half a gallon, but if you enjoy it like that it works too hahaha
Just a cultural difference: As you can see by the "lemon" drink, for us Brazilian, green is the color of "lemon"... because it's actually lime. In Brazilian Portuguese, we use the same word (limão) for lime and lemon, and the green one is much more popular. Actually, the yellow one I could just see in supermarkets just in recent years, and they are much more expensive. We call them "limão taiti" (Tahiti lemon = lime ) and "limão siciliano" (Sicilian lemon = lemon). But when we just say "limão" we are usually just talk about lime. So, when we see a yellow candy, we do not associate it to lemon, but with pineapple. The green one that usualy taste lime. PS: Everything sweet you see in this package is from cheap brands you can find here in supermarkets, but we have better brands with better quality and flavor.
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Great video, I just watched the previous one, I loved these MREs, I still have some at home kept as a souvenir. When I was in the army they gave me about 5-10 of these per month, cuz one of the battalions I worked in was the one who supplies. (i have like 120-130 of this stoves hahaha They are great for camping, and if you read the instructions, you can control the air intake by bending it in different ways) Just a few random pieces of information: -meals are 150% tastier if prepared in the sealed packages dipped in boiling water. -Unfortunately in the other video you got the worst flavor, but all the others are very good. -Until a few years ago almost all items were produced by Celier, the Farinha De Mandioca was 15/10 while this new one is at most 5/10. The toasts were vacuum-packed in the same way as the cream cracker, so they didn't come broken. The jam was from another brand, I've been looking for it in the grocery stores for years and I can't find it, it was simply a 129292/10 while this new one is a 4/10. The juices from celier tasted like colored sugar, so these new ones are much better. The celier chocolate was tastier. -U prepared the fruit salad with a loooot of water, 20% less would be perfect for the flavor and consistency. -Coffee with milk and sugar should be prepared with less than half the water you used, and so should chocolate milk. With this amount of water the flavor is weak and not creamy. The other coffee (small package) should be prepared with 50ml of water, its like a few spoons of water. -The old version came with protein bars from a very popular brand in Brazil, they were the best available in stores. the Rapadura too, it was solid and tasteful. And the candies were from the best brand in Brazil, like, the expensive sh1 t😂😂😂 And there were random types of candy, not just these gummies. -the old version came with fork, knife and spoon. -The crackers are the best I've ever eaten in my life, it looks like they just left the factory, super fresh. I wish they would sell them in the grocery store. I hope you can make more videos about the other mre variations of the Brazilian army. Try to translate the instructions and information using google translate, it will help a lot to understand about the items and how to prepare. And how, just how u could eat this much of food and drink at once, i was just mesmerized in the other video hahaha
Tem que colocar sal na comida, essas comidas quase sempre vem com muito pouco sal!!! Outra coisa que a gente tem que fazia e levar pessoalmente pimenta, sal e alguns saquinhos de tempero tipo "sazon" (ajuda muito se a comida tiver mal temperada, ou você tiver comer algo que não gosta 😂). E essas comidas precisam cozinhar, Tem que olhar bem mas se eu não me engano esse tipo tem que cozinhar com a embalagem fechada (isso intensifica como se tivesse fazendo algo no "vapor / panela fechada" e a comida fica com uma textura bem melhor e com menos gosto de coisa enlatada). Mas tem que ler as instruções para descobrir como é que são esses, coloca o celular com o Google se eu não me engano ele faz a tradução só de ver a imagem. 🙃✌🏻 sobre o arroz é melhor você dar uma esmagada nele antes de tirar do saquinho. Eu tô realmente achando que devia fazer com a embalagem fechada na água fervendo, Por que aquele arroz parecer tá muito duro e como se não tivesse cozinhado direito. Mesma coisa para as bebidas, repara bem na quantidade de de água que tem que colocar. O normal é se você quer uma bebida um pouco mais intensa, você coloca menos água do que o recomendado, e a medida exata costuma sempre ser um pouquinho aguada (não ao ponto de ser ruim, mas poderia ser mais "consistente") Rapadura é feita para ser basicamente uma comida de sobrevivência, é colocado no bolso e de vez em quando pegar um pedacinho pequeno para adoçar a boca e ganhar alguma energia (ou levantar um pouco a moral quando se tiver muito tempo sem sentir gosto de nada, ou com gosto ruim na boca por causa do cheiro de pólvora / "de caminhada" e por ai. Relembrando: Veja a quantidade de água (menos água mais forte), coloca sal (a tendência é vir como se fosse de hospital), olha a forma correta de cozinhar. Posso estar errado mas eu tenho quase certeza que eles não estão mais fazendo comida "que joga na panela", justamente para você só esquentar água e deixar ali cozinhando em banho-maria por assim dizer. Não costuma ser rápido mesmo não, não é o tipo de comida muito prática para se dizer que você vai fazer em 2 minutos, demora mais (olha as instruções caraca ahahhahaha) 🙃✌🏻👊🏻
Thanks youtube for recommending this, I enlisted in the 19th mountain mobile infantry in 2006 for 1 mandatory year in Brazil in the southernmost state. Feijoada is the soul of brazilian meals, i don't know about USA but think about that one national dish that 99% of the whole country loves, that's feijoada. I wont blame you for prepering it wrong 😂 brazilians would do it properly, it's not mixing they all in but you've got 80% of it. Nice 💪 great channel, i have never seen another army's rations in my life.
Oh nooo! 🥲 I know army food it’s not ment to be super delicious but I feel bad that you ate this food that looks nothing like our homemade food. Our Feijoada is so good and rich! Just by the look of your’s I knew it was going to be blend and boring, and this is the worst sausage of our market😅. You need to come to Brazil one day to try our real food! 😊
First time I see feijoada with toast 😂😂 but kinda makes sense coz if you crush the toast it will turn in farinha which is great with rice and beans. Great video!
Rapadura is one of the first steps towards making sugar cane sugar. It's just sugar cane juice, boiled and solidified. You are completely correct in asserting it tastes like pure sugar, because it kind of is. I'd define it as a bar of raw sugar.
"It tastes like pure sugar" Yes, it is the source with the most sugar in the world. Rapadura is a block of sugarcane juice boiled until all the water evaporates, so you can still taste the woody flavor, without any additives, a pure source of natural carbohydrates.
The rapadura (the bar in the green plastic) is an extremely sweet candy and that's because it is a brick of compressed sugar-cane sugar, i personally like it but you gotta eat it in small chunks so it doesn't overwhelm you with sweetness, i'm not sure if its the best choice for a military snack but yeah, a lot of people here also don't like rapadura a lot because its just too sweet lol also, in Brazil drinking iced coffee or cold coffee in general is very uncommon, i actually never saw that before lol, when coffee gets cold brazillians drink it like "oh no, i didn't drink my coffee in time and it's cold now :(" awesome video
You are right. Nights can be could. Our country is very large. We do have very low temperatures specially in the south. Rapadura is sugarcane juice boiled to solid state.
Man, if you had a chance to come to Brasil and try the real Feijoada, from a good restaurant or some bars (yeah, we have bars who serve feijoada and other dishes) you should do it. Cheers from Brasil mate!!
"BOM EXERCÍCIO!" means "have a good exercise!" And by that, what they're meaning is "do whatever you need to do". Brazil is a peaceful country. Our armed forces try to keep well trained, but "it's difficult". Sometimes we go on some UN peace missions to carry on another countries, or join on some countries joint exercises (Red Flag like, for example), but usually our armed forces only try to keep the pace with the modern military countries. South American uses to be a peacefull region (We know... Venezuela is the "black sheep" around here).
Goiaba means guava, it's a guava jam, but like strawberry ones, those are much artificial flavored. The other brown block that you've bitten thinking it could be banana sweet, is actually pure brown sugar called "rapadura" and this is a unique dessert in Brazil that is very contradictory, most people here don't like it though (I love it by the way). Some people use rapadura as sweetener to coffee
What a coincidence, i just saw your MRE brazilian video yesterday!!! Amazing, nice review
Thank you!
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I like your honesty about the food, you dont have fear thats good
No fear! Thanks :)
I'll be honest, our cuisine is one of the best in the world, especially in terms of flavor, even our sweets. If you ever come to Brazil, you'll see that our food is not the same as the MRE packages. They use cheap food to make these packages, but they make up for it in the amount of items inside.
I bet! Would love to visit!
Não concordo, nossos doces são extremamente simples, sempre é alguma fruta com um monte de açúcar
@@miltoncarvalho1081 Depende do tipo de doce, tem uns que são meio amargos e outros são até bem diferenciados, principalmente os que tem algum tipo de gosto que lembra amendoim. De todos que já provei, a maioria é açucarada porque tenho vício por doces kkk.
@@miltoncarvalho1081 Curau/Canjica, nosso Bolo de Cenoura é totalmente diferente dos estrangeiros, chuvisco, paçoca.
São doces Brasileiros que não se encaixam nessa regra.
Historicamente nossos doces são simples pq nosso clima quente é difícil de armazenar doces mas ainda assim muito saborosos, simples e rápidos de fazer para consumir logo.
Enquanto que tem vários doces estrangeiros que apesar de famosos são bem ruinzinhos, só pra dar um exemplo tive oportunidade de experimentar um de bolo britânico de alta gastronomia e na boa, decepcionado... não era ruim mas era basicamente um suspiro gigante glorificado.
Doce brasileiro se resume a açúcar e leite condensado.
40:17 because it is pure sugar, it is sugar cane but more compact and concentrated, it is rich in iron and fluoride, eating a little is good for your teeth because of the fluoride, but eating a lot is bad for them because it has a lot fluorine. Rapadura is a typical sweet from here, usually mixed with peanuts and milk or pure like this.
Don't worry about expiration dates, my dad was a signals officer (army) and he used to bring A LOT of these home when I was younger when they expired (otherwise they would be just thrown out. The only reason is because there is a nonsense law that everything edible has to have an max expiration date of two years, even though they can last up to some ten). Best meals I've ever had, I can't believe anybody dislikes MRE's. I'd always bring some to go camping with my friends in my teenage and we all loved it.
By the way, brazilian marines are part of the brazilian navy, basically the navy's infantry.
10:22 "bom exercício" means "have a good training; excercise"
11:11 these used to be a lot more sturdy some fifthteen years ago, they were a thick tin can and the gel was a pink hard disk, but from ~2010 onward they just started to make them like this (probably because is cheaper)
12:28 yes, they do come from a "store shelf" these food itens are made by standard food companies, but they also have contracts to sell it to the goverment as well.
15:50 well that's funny, I remember them always having a set of disposable cutlery (a fork, a spoon and a knife), maybe they've got removed as well.
36:07 Goiaba is a south american fruit, which is what this jam is made from (I personaly don't like it, but I do like the jam, I like the strawberry better. There's also grape and orange jam as well, but they come at random in these MREs)
40:08 no please don't, you are eating it the proper way haha
Thank you so much for All the great info! I greatly appreciate it 👌🏼
It's noticeable that in Brazil the expiration dates are written differently from USA, while for them is month-day-year, for Brazil is the day-month-year order. It can be tricky.
@@MarkHobbes we do that in dates in general dd mm yyyy
Im glad you liked feijoada. If you liked this bland version, you should definitely try homemade. This ration probably has few seasonings because we are used to more natural seasonings like garlic and onion and those dont support much time inside a bag. Also, homemade feijoada has more fat, using parts of the pig like cheeks, foot, and other collagen rich pieces.
As for the farinha, we usually serve it as a dish called "farofa", with seasoning, garlic, butter and fried to become more crunchy.
Cheers from Curitiba 🇧🇷
Primeira vez que vejo alguém comer feijoada com biscoito 😅
You're a treasure dude! Greetings from Brasil!
Thank you so much! Greetings 👋🏼
Brazilian Marines Corps are part of Brazilian Navy, not a autonomous force, like US Marines. So, this MRE is made for Marines
Good to know!!
Remembering that the "Brazilian Marines" are the Navy's elite force.Remembering that the "Brazilian Marines" are the Navy's elite force. Marines enter the Navy through a competitive exam, the rest are through enlistment.
I just watched the video you uploaded 3 months ago trying the previous brazilian army MRE and now we got this fresh video of the new one and i'm very excited to watch it! Let's gooo!! 🔥🔥🔥
sim mano, eu acabei de ver o outro vídeo ele já lançou esse, que sorte, 2 videos top pra assistir seguidos.
same
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk eu tava assistindo esse tmb, tava no final, quando vi que tinha um outro ja vim correndo
@@evertomhenri sorte ou não pra mim pq acabei de ver o outro e tô vendo esse quase 22h e a fome crescendo 😂😂😂😂
In Brazil, most(if not all) commercial alcohol intended to be used as a cleaning product or fuel(like this one on the package) has a chemical added to it that induces vomit, so the solder will most likely not drink it.
Oh but bored grunts will try! And trust me, it'll be a very bad couple of days for them hahahaha
@@ThomasAdsumus 😂😂😂 For sure.
It's funny How much of our culture shows just in a military ration bag hahaha😂 they give you coffee with milk for breakfast and a little pack of insta coffee for after lunch (this is SO brazilian😂).
In the instructions: "BOM EXERCÍCIO" means "Have a good exercise".
And the RAPADURA bar, is a candy from the northern region of brazil. It is not everyone's favorite, but since my family is from the northeast, i love it. We in brazil eat out candies REALLY REALLY sweet, i know in the US might be strange hahahaha but it is Pure energy.
PS: Feijoada (beans, pork and white rice) are the most classical brazilian food. It is really heavy and full of flavor, so heavy that most restaurants make it only on fridays😅 but i guess a heavy seasoned food for troopers wouldn't work really well. Specially when they are in mid training. I'm no soldier, but i find your content HUGELY entertaining hahaha keep it up!
About the coffee, we drink it HOT as lava 😂 no matter if the sun is burning us alive, we drink it so hot it would burn your tongue. BUT, now and then we drink some ice coffee drinks. I love a good ice frapuccino.
@@micmarduk I cannot drink nothing hot coz I have a very sensitive mouth roof. when it burns it BURNS, to the point that the whole skin flakes off
@@KlavierMenn Ouch, i feel bad for you. It's crazy that ppl here are sweating from the heat, and still drink it hot like it's nothing hahaha Generally i pour some milk on it to balance things. Nor too hot, not cold.
That little bar is a rapadura bar, it is a pure suga-cane bar... so MUCH sweet, it is usually eaten in Brazil Northeast... as I am a Brazilian from the Southeast I can not understand why people likes it that much
Yeah, I'm also from Southeast i can relate, i dont like rapadura's bar at all
@@gugapadilha6945 it is like pure sugar... it should be used with beverages, and not as a candy
Energia pura e imediata
It's like a chocolate bar or leftover birthday cake. You eat whenever you feel like it lol But it's a good dessert.
I love rapadura, but my family is from the northeast, where the most ppl like it. It's a regional thing, i HATE tea, so the southern chimarrão is a no no for me😂
Rapadura is basically a concentrated sugar cane juice, you ate it all at once! I was waiting for your reaction after the big bite 💀🤣 You need to eat it in small pieces, it can also be used to sweeten your coffee!
Isn't it paçoca?
@@Lordicus21 paçoca 😂
@@Lordicus21 No, paçoca is made from ground peanuts
If you ever visit Brazil, there are many kinds of "Farinhas"....we love them all, also helps in the...."Digestion Process"
"Fahoada", ahaha!
In Portuguese, J doesn't sound like hard R like in Spanish, it's more like "fageeoah-dah"
Most of the other words you said quite right!
Thanks
@@Bravebelly"fae-joe-ah-dah" would be a better way to say it
Yeah when people say you can season the farinha they mean to make a side dish called "farofa". Very very popular here in Brazil. And you can make it along with many things like onions, peppers, garlic, sausage, beef, bacon, etc. It's delicious! Goes perfectly with meals that have too much sauce on them, like Feijoada for example and other stews. Great video bro!
"Bom exercício" translates to something like have a good exercise
Ta mais pra "tenha um bom exercicio"
"Bom exercício" means good exercise. Those gummies usually have different flavors depending on the colors if you buy a good brand, those from the military aren't the finest. And about the seasoning, we usually season our food a lot, specially in the north and northeast regions, "pato no tucupi" is a great example. It's basically a duck dish with some exotic seasoning from the amazon.
feijoada is the best food of Brasil, comida simples, honesta, nutritiva e deliciosa
If you evaluate it, you'll see that it's a high-calorie food, with lots of glucose (sugar) to give to the soldier a considerable energy charge to withstand adverse conditions on the battlefield. I think it's one of the most interesting rations I've ever seen. Coffee keeps the soldier alert when needed (caffeine) and also provides a warm and comforting drink. In extreme cases, this diet can be split up to 48 hours.
The "Paraná matches" are made here in Paraná, the state where I was born and live... it's an everyday product here so I'm very proud to hear you saying "Paraná" :D
here in Brazil outside the army/navy, there are other flours(Farinha or farofa) that can contain pepper, sausage and other condiments that add extra flavor to feijoadas and barbecues!
And the common thing is that the food is well seasoned, especially depending on where in Brazil you are!
But as others have said here in the comments, military foods are made more to meet the need for food, many are made in a simple and cheap way mainly to cut costs.
But we also really value quantity, so even if the taste isn't good, there's plenty of food!
Feijoada is a food that can change depending on where you are in Brazil, but mainly it is black beans, sausage, jerky, pork ribs, bacon, garlic, salt.
Many also make it with other parts of pork, and the feijoada itself usually only has pepper from the sausage, because it is served with a type of broth that has pepper, so the person can choose to eat it with or without pepper!
Good to know. Thank you!
The five stars in the coat of arms show the constellation Cruzeiro do Sul (Southern Cross), which appears in the southern hemisphere sky. Nice video. I' ve enjoyed.
I’m glad you liked it. Thank you :)
43:20 yeah this are the cheapest gummies ever, we do have way more tastier gummy's but we can tell by the brand that they send cheap gummy to the soldiers.
Also, the coffe i think (I can be wrong) you put too much watter in it. In Brazil we do prefer incorporated and strong coffe, but in small portions compared to Americans.
I believe you are right. It tasted a bit too watery.
Yah..That’s typical in most military MREs
Nice video. Thanks for bringing this content. As a Brazilian, it's an honor have you talking about our military rations.
The choice for alchool, in my mind... Is because the cold and florest circunstances in Brazil, maybe can save your life in "First Aid" circunstances, clean your hands or something like this. And you can make fire with this in cold nights. Its a "multiple-use item".
Nice review 🇧🇷
Thank you
chat GPT : Rapadura is a traditional Brazilian sweet made from sugarcane juice. The process begins by extracting the juice from the sugarcane, which is then boiled in large pans until it thickens and reaches a syrup-like consistency. This thick syrup is continuously stirred until it begins to solidify. Once the desired thickness is achieved, the mixture is poured into molds and allowed to cool and harden, forming blocks or bars of rapadura. The final product is a solid, unrefined sugar with a rich, caramel-like flavor.
That is the biggest most gigantic MRE pack I have ever seen in my life that is massive well everybody let's see what the review shows us
We usually carry just a couple of those, enough to last like 3 to 4 days without being resupplied! And yeah, they weight a lot, specially with the tent, food utensils (metal ones, just like the ones the US uses), extra ammo, extra underwear, socks, batteries, etc. Still seems that my bad knee & spine are not "service related" hahaha
This ration (as we call it) is from the Brazilian Navy, but aimed at the Marine Corps, which in Brazil belongs to the Navy, it is not a separate force like in the United States. Here they are one, I served in the Brazilian Navy for many years.
Its sooooo cool to see that you really read the comments and learn from them! I just came back from the first brazillian mre video and for sure you're one of the best guys to watch! Really talking what you think about the food and always opened to new experiences and knowledge about every country that you do a MRE, your videos just flows dude and I don't even see the time pass while watching them!
About the juice, it depends on your own taste or how many people are going to drink It, since you could do it for a whole liter, but if you rather take it all by yourself, sure u can pour less water to make it stronger or more water to make more juice!
Now going to the food's lack of flavour, in my country we really have a looooot of different foods, and speacially, different ways to prepare every single dish, so, along with your thought on the video about "pleasing everyone's palates", we also have to remember that it's a long life operational ration, making it hard to come up with more spices that aren't full of sodium or other unhealthy stuff, but I can assure you, in a typical feijoada, we use a looooot more of natural rich and good spices, just like the spanish that your commented!
32:21 I thought I was weird for doing this, french fries inside the burger is so nice
Game changer 👌🏼
Ei cara, adorei esta idéia de ver o que há dentro destes kits de sobrevivência de cada país. Muito divertido. Parabéns pelo canal.
Thank you! Yes I enjoy the experience
As a Brazilian I´m Very Happy To See This, Our Food It´s The Best In The Whole World, So Much Tasty Things To Eat And Drink......🔥🔥👍👍
Just saw both your videos about brazilian MRE. Loved them both.
Let me address some points:
Soldiers in Brazil may drink that alcohol gel mixed with water and the lime juice (electrolyte beverage), but only on special occasions (and without any officers on sight).
The light green meal packs go directly above the fire. The packets are flame-resistant (you just poke a hole on it so it doesn't build up pressure).
Feijoada (pronounced "FAY - jho - AH - dah") is a brazilian classic. It's a stew of beans and pork. And it really mixes really well with the cassava flour.
We don't season our food as much as spanish latin countries. But the MREs are really bland compared to our usual cuisine.
Rapadura is basically brown sugar, before being refined. We may use it as a sweetener or eat it by itself. Some people even sparkle it on bread (we're creative with our food).
And we do have those gumdrops in the supermarket. But the military version is a bit worse than the store-bought version.
Great video!
Cool review, sir. thumbs up! As a child, my cousins and I used to go camping and eat some of this stuff. Our uncle was from the Navy and he would get us some of those rations from time to time. This brings back good memories from my childhood.
Thank you I appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed the video! More to come 🔜
A gringo who knows how to eat farinha hahaha finally!
Usually foreigners eat a spon full of it, but you should add a bit to rice and beans like you did :)
It was fun watching you try our foods, tnkx
The green sweet packet is rapadura. A sweet made out of sugar cane. It's not for everyone, it's really sweet.
The fork, knife, spoons and the pan are provided to the navy (or other military organization ). So it's a personal item! Great review! Tks from Brazil. 🙏🏾
Muito bom vídeo, parabéns pelo trabalho, será muito brm vindo aqui no Brasil.
Thank you
In Brazil, feijoada is a very popular dish, especially among the poorer communities. It’s a very old dish, and legend has it that it was created by slaves who were given leftover meats and cooked them with beans, using pig's feet, ears, snout, and other cheap cuts. This dish is deeply rooted in Brazilian culture. I enjoy eating it with plenty of cassava flour, and some people take the bean broth and make a thick porridge with the flour called "pirão."
Bro u're just awesome, I can assure you that every content that you make with Brasil there'll be tons of us commenting and engaging. We just love people from abroad remembering that Brasil is a real deal country, not a spanish speaking , not a just jungle and Rio de Janeiro country, but the 9th economy in the world. So thank you so much for that video, I was amazed how gentle and truthful you were. Appreciated for your videos.
ps.: You definitely should pay a visit to a brazilian restaurant and record your review for us, our food is absolutely stunning
13:00 you are talking about paçoca, but that thing you have is rapadura, which is basically dried out sugar can juice. Its full of sugar
The "farinha" given is a cassava flour, some people like to sprinkle it on top of their food - just like you did - or mix it with their feijoada or plain boiling water to make a kind of simple porridge we call "pirão".
When made with water, we usually season it a little and serve it with something else - I particularly like it with some stew
I have to admit, it's kind of an acquired taste tho, I didn't like it much when I was a kid - But nowaday, sometimes I find myself craving for it lol
It's actually hard to say what is usual and what is unusual for Brazilians because our country is really big (even bigger than the USA if you don't include Alaska) and we have an estimated population of about 220 million people.
Additionally, each Brazilian state has a different cultural scenario. However, in general, Brazilians do not use this "farinha de mandioca" (yucca flour) in all dishes. It is usually added to feijoada and other similar dishes like our daily rice, beans, etc., which is probably what most people really eat, along with some meat (or chicken, fish, sausage, etc.) and salad or vegetables.
However, as I mentioned before, there are a lot of Brazilians, and each one has a different palate. So, I believe that some people love farinha so much that they put it in almost any dish, even in some dishes that most Brazilians wouldn't.
I'd say that it would be interesting to see your reaction to trying some farofa because it's seasoned, crunchy, and not bland like the farinha you tried. Just make sure to try farofa temperada (seasoned farofa). You can choose farofa de mandioca (yucca) or farofa de milho (corn). I like both.
When you tried rapadura (a sugar cane sweet bar), I think you thought it would be paçoca (a candy made of peanuts). I know it may sound crazy, but some people really enjoy rapadura even though it tastes like pure sugar. Actually, I really like rapadura and I'm used to it despite being a resident of the southeast of Brazil (rapadura is more appreciated in the northeast of Brazil).
Good job trying this Brazilian MRE. You sounded honest but respectful even when you didn't like something you tried. It's totally ok because some things you tried aren't really that good since they're not in their best version. Even the feijoada looked like a cheaper or simpler version, but I understand that it's supposed to be this way considering it's an MRE version.
I got a couple of the army ones out of curiosity a few years ago. The chicken strogonoff is really bad, but the beef with vegetables is decent. Loved the accesory kit!
Tbh this one looks way cheaper than the ones I got like 7 years ago. Those candies look like government issued stuff... oh wait.
I love how he continue to make 1 liter portion of juice in one cup
Tip: use the google translator app so you can translate everything in the bags with you phone's camera
Oh men, so you ate arroz com feijão e farofa. Drunk Ki-suco. You re a truly brazilian now, you got our respect.
If you want 'farinha de mandioca' to taste good, you have to fry it while adding seasoning, making it 'farofa'. The easy way to do it is to brown some shredded onions and garlic in a pan before adding the 'Farinha' and frying it until it changes color all over.
10:24 "Bom exercício" means "nice/good exercise", the manufacturer is wishing the soldier a good military exercise as these rations are mostly used in training camps (where most military exercises and combat simulations take place, even though they sometimes take place in urban environments where there is not as much need for these rations)
Another great video, lets go enjoy it! greetings from Brazil
Hi brave belly, there's another reason as to why the food is not as seasoned, they avoid putting too much salt or sugar on these MREs for health reasons, since in case of a war the soldiers wouldn't have the time to go take a pill if their blood pressure spiked after eating too much salt. I recommend going to a Brazilian restaurant or finding a Brazilian market and authentic recipes and attempt to make your own dishes
Se for sal integral, seria bom !
o cara FALA ATÉ PORTUGUES BRASILEIRO, MUITO FODA
Brazil best cooking in the world and our soldiers deserve it! Thanks for vídeo
Feijoada
Obrigada pela apreciação. O Brasil tem muitas coisas boas, diferenciadas, e excepcionais.
Grata.
Just so you know.
Desjejum e Almoço = Breakfast and Lunch
Jantar e Ceia = Dinner and ... second dinner I guess.
Rapadura is pretty much just concentrated sugar cane juice so yeah, it's basically a bar of brown sugar and it is eaten as a snack in small bites. It's cheap, holds for a long time and gives you a lot of energy so low income workers that do a lot of heavy physical labor all day love it.
With the exception of the main meals thenselves, everything is just off the shelf stuff you can find at your local grocery store, that's why they "look cheap", because they are.
Also, the sale of military MREs is forbidden over here.
Here in Brazil we do use a lot of season on our food, especially on feijoada;
It's just an MRE thing, being on the bland side, I guess, it's usually basic as it gets.
Really enjoyed the video.
Loved the review, very interesting insights as well, awesome, keep it up brother
Just saw the first video a few hours ago and now this upload, talk about lucky, and yeah we don´t usualy drink coffee out here even if it is hot as 104F (40ºC)
The first dish is a pork and bean stew that is the national dish for Brazil, always served with Yuca flour/farinha. It originates from Portugal and was modified to better fit the palate of the natives and slaves, thus using yucca and it's flour, as well as the fattier and less desired pieces of pork (some feijoadas are served with tails, ears, nose and lips of the pork)
The second one is a simple potato and meat stew in wich I believe people don´t eat with farinha, but as you said it is a good complement to it.
The juice flavors are the most "comon" orderered and consumed in Brazil if I so recall, grape and orange ( but in the previous video there was also the tutti-frutti or "mixed flavor" juice, as a quick way to get more sugary intake for the day)
The lime eletrolite drink is just the "blandest" one, the staple one in here, and yes it is suposed to be mixed with 1L of water (33.8oz)
The sugary green bar, the Rapadura is simply just a suggar cane bar, so literaly is just plain unrefined suggar made into a bar for energy, you can use it to sweeten something as it is soluble-ish but here we just eat it whole and pure.
On the instruction papers is does say the following:
"The food in this package was designed for survival purpose only, meaning it will be benefical even in the absence of water. When eaten wholely by a man, it will sustain him for the next 24 hours to keep effective in survival [...] Do remeber that this was designed to be pleasent (aka EDIBLE) for every palate (aka it is BLAND), as it's main purpose is to provide a balanced meal."
And the last message, "Bom exercício" as someone said, means good exercise or in the case of military could mean to wish for a good execution of duty (exercício can mean both exercise/work out AND the act of doing something, exercitar x exercer pra quem entender português).
Feijoada is the Brazil's national dish. It is difficult to find someone in this nation of 220 million people who doesn't like it.
I personally don't really like it, especially the proper feijoada with tons of pork/fat. I prefer black beans over the other types though.
I hate beans, but for some mystical reason, i REALLY like feijoada. I try to avoid too much of the beans itself and get more of the juice, but it is delicious AF
I love feijoada. And I agree with you.
@@micmarduk O feijão pega muito o sabor da carne.
Tem eu kkkkkkkkk
12:51 You can dilute the brown sugar bar in water, and you will have a sweet, extremely caloric drink, basically a natural energy drink to help you 'last longer' in a hard situation. For really, its cane sugar compacted.
You usually eat small bites of rapadura as a sweet or you add to your drink as a sweetner, it is basically pure sugar.
nice review!!!congrats!!
Thanks!
Thats crazy! Never thought i would see an american trying our MRE hehe, keep up the good work brother
Your pronunciation is actually very very good!!
everything you ate is found easyly in regular Brazil market... for more Brazil content I think you must go to a Brazilian barbecue restaurant
Love your videos on Brazilian MRE. By the way, you were right at the beginning, the juices are made for like half a gallon, but if you enjoy it like that it works too hahaha
Just a cultural difference:
As you can see by the "lemon" drink, for us Brazilian, green is the color of "lemon"... because it's actually lime. In Brazilian Portuguese, we use the same word (limão) for lime and lemon, and the green one is much more popular. Actually, the yellow one I could just see in supermarkets just in recent years, and they are much more expensive.
We call them "limão taiti" (Tahiti lemon = lime ) and "limão siciliano" (Sicilian lemon = lemon). But when we just say "limão" we are usually just talk about lime.
So, when we see a yellow candy, we do not associate it to lemon, but with pineapple. The green one that usualy taste lime.
PS: Everything sweet you see in this package is from cheap brands you can find here in supermarkets, but we have better brands with better quality and flavor.
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Good video man 🇧🇷✌️
Thanks ✌
Rapadura is cane juice cooked in an iron pan until it's solid. Then you eat it like you did.
It's a really yummy and healthy food, dude. It seems that you didn't like the food a lot, but u ate a delicacy called feijoada.
Toast in feijoada is crazy lol, good video, I love your content. Greetings from Brazil!
Great video, I just watched the previous one, I loved these MREs, I still have some at home kept as a souvenir. When I was in the army they gave me about 5-10 of these per month, cuz one of the battalions I worked in was the one who supplies. (i have like 120-130 of this stoves hahaha They are great for camping, and if you read the instructions, you can control the air intake by bending it in different ways)
Just a few random pieces of information:
-meals are 150% tastier if prepared in the sealed packages dipped in boiling water.
-Unfortunately in the other video you got the worst flavor, but all the others are very good.
-Until a few years ago almost all items were produced by Celier, the Farinha De Mandioca was 15/10 while this new one is at most 5/10. The toasts were vacuum-packed in the same way as the cream cracker, so they didn't come broken. The jam was from another brand, I've been looking for it in the grocery stores for years and I can't find it, it was simply a 129292/10 while this new one is a 4/10. The juices from celier tasted like colored sugar, so these new ones are much better. The celier chocolate was tastier.
-U prepared the fruit salad with a loooot of water, 20% less would be perfect for the flavor and consistency.
-Coffee with milk and sugar should be prepared with less than half the water you used, and so should chocolate milk. With this amount of water the flavor is weak and not creamy. The other coffee (small package) should be prepared with 50ml of water, its like a few spoons of water.
-The old version came with protein bars from a very popular brand in Brazil, they were the best available in stores. the Rapadura too, it was solid and tasteful. And the candies were from the best brand in Brazil, like, the expensive sh1 t😂😂😂 And there were random types of candy, not just these gummies.
-the old version came with fork, knife and spoon.
-The crackers are the best I've ever eaten in my life, it looks like they just left the factory, super fresh. I wish they would sell them in the grocery store.
I hope you can make more videos about the other mre variations of the Brazilian army. Try to translate the instructions and information using google translate, it will help a lot to understand about the items and how to prepare. And how, just how u could eat this much of food and drink at once, i was just mesmerized in the other video hahaha
37:40, we drink hot stuff when the weather is unbearably hot; it’s a thing in Brazil. 40ºC outside? Drink the hottest coffee you can!
Tem que colocar sal na comida, essas comidas quase sempre vem com muito pouco sal!!!
Outra coisa que a gente tem que fazia e levar pessoalmente pimenta, sal e alguns saquinhos de tempero tipo "sazon" (ajuda muito se a comida tiver mal temperada, ou você tiver comer algo que não gosta 😂).
E essas comidas precisam cozinhar, Tem que olhar bem mas se eu não me engano esse tipo tem que cozinhar com a embalagem fechada (isso intensifica como se tivesse fazendo algo no "vapor / panela fechada" e a comida fica com uma textura bem melhor e com menos gosto de coisa enlatada).
Mas tem que ler as instruções para descobrir como é que são esses, coloca o celular com o Google se eu não me engano ele faz a tradução só de ver a imagem. 🙃✌🏻
sobre o arroz é melhor você dar uma esmagada nele antes de tirar do saquinho. Eu tô realmente achando que devia fazer com a embalagem fechada na água fervendo, Por que aquele arroz parecer tá muito duro e como se não tivesse cozinhado direito.
Mesma coisa para as bebidas, repara bem na quantidade de de água que tem que colocar. O normal é se você quer uma bebida um pouco mais intensa, você coloca menos água do que o recomendado, e a medida exata costuma sempre ser um pouquinho aguada (não ao ponto de ser ruim, mas poderia ser mais "consistente")
Rapadura é feita para ser basicamente uma comida de sobrevivência, é colocado no bolso e de vez em quando pegar um pedacinho pequeno para adoçar a boca e ganhar alguma energia (ou levantar um pouco a moral quando se tiver muito tempo sem sentir gosto de nada, ou com gosto ruim na boca por causa do cheiro de pólvora / "de caminhada" e por ai.
Relembrando: Veja a quantidade de água (menos água mais forte), coloca sal (a tendência é vir como se fosse de hospital), olha a forma correta de cozinhar.
Posso estar errado mas eu tenho quase certeza que eles não estão mais fazendo comida "que joga na panela", justamente para você só esquentar água e deixar ali cozinhando em banho-maria por assim dizer.
Não costuma ser rápido mesmo não, não é o tipo de comida muito prática para se dizer que você vai fazer em 2 minutos, demora mais (olha as instruções caraca ahahhahaha)
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Thanks youtube for recommending this, I enlisted in the 19th mountain mobile infantry in 2006 for 1 mandatory year in Brazil in the southernmost state. Feijoada is the soul of brazilian meals, i don't know about USA but think about that one national dish that 99% of the whole country loves, that's feijoada. I wont blame you for prepering it wrong 😂 brazilians would do it properly, it's not mixing they all in but you've got 80% of it. Nice 💪 great channel, i have never seen another army's rations in my life.
Oh nooo! 🥲 I know army food it’s not ment to be super delicious but I feel bad that you ate this food that looks nothing like our homemade food. Our Feijoada is so good and rich! Just by the look of your’s I knew it was going to be blend and boring, and this is the worst sausage of our market😅. You need to come to Brazil one day to try our real food! 😊
That’s sweet thank you :) there’s a local small Brazilian supermarket not too far away. They sell hot food, so I will try it and review it shortly 😅
@@BravebellyAww that’s nice! I hope it’s better this time! Love from Brasil! 🤗
@@anabeatrizsilvaazar3552 thank you :))
I bought that Glock knife. You showed a few videos back. Love that thing.
For the money, that thing is sweet.
one detail about brasilians MRE is that the food is supposed to be boiled not dry cooked
First time I see feijoada with toast 😂😂 but kinda makes sense coz if you crush the toast it will turn in farinha which is great with rice and beans.
Great video!
Desejum e Almoco - Breakfast and Lunch. Jantar e ceia - Dinner and late "snacks"
Rapadura is one of the first steps towards making sugar cane sugar. It's just sugar cane juice, boiled and solidified. You are completely correct in asserting it tastes like pure sugar, because it kind of is. I'd define it as a bar of raw sugar.
first time I ever ate rapadura I gone for the big ole bite. a few (a lot ) of water cups after, I'd always bite teeny tiny bites, to this day lol
"It tastes like pure sugar" Yes, it is the source with the most sugar in the world.
Rapadura is a block of sugarcane juice boiled until all the water evaporates, so you can still taste the woody flavor, without any additives, a pure source of natural carbohydrates.
The rice in the food is different from what we normally consume, we use parboiled rice which has a completely different flavor to normal rice.
The rapadura (the bar in the green plastic) is an extremely sweet candy and that's because it is a brick of compressed sugar-cane sugar, i personally like it but you gotta eat it in small chunks so it doesn't overwhelm you with sweetness, i'm not sure if its the best choice for a military snack but yeah, a lot of people here also don't like rapadura a lot because its just too sweet lol
also, in Brazil drinking iced coffee or cold coffee in general is very uncommon, i actually never saw that before lol, when coffee gets cold brazillians drink it like "oh no, i didn't drink my coffee in time and it's cold now :("
awesome video
You are right. Nights can be could. Our country is very large. We do have very low temperatures specially in the south. Rapadura is sugarcane juice boiled to solid state.
Rapadura é açúcar puro 😂
you don't need to mix the farofa (farinha), but yes, these MRE's have less flavour than our homecooking to be more appealing to a broad spectrum
in Brazil we do not drink ice coffe ... for us it is so strange, we usualy has short hot express coffe.. no way with that american huge sizes
15:49 In this case, the soldier receives a metal lunch box with cutlery in his field backpack
Man, if you had a chance to come to Brasil and try the real Feijoada, from a good restaurant or some bars (yeah, we have bars who serve feijoada and other dishes) you should do it. Cheers from Brasil mate!!
I probably will tbh! Thanks bro, cheers 🍻
we DO season our food very well!
"BOM EXERCÍCIO!" means "have a good exercise!"
And by that, what they're meaning is "do whatever you need to do".
Brazil is a peaceful country. Our armed forces try to keep well trained, but "it's difficult". Sometimes we go on some UN peace missions to carry on another countries, or join on some countries joint exercises (Red Flag like, for example), but usually our armed forces only try to keep the pace with the modern military countries.
South American uses to be a peacefull region (We know... Venezuela is the "black sheep" around here).
thank u
My pleasure :)
Goiaba means guava, it's a guava jam, but like strawberry ones, those are much artificial flavored. The other brown block that you've bitten thinking it could be banana sweet, is actually pure brown sugar called "rapadura" and this is a unique dessert in Brazil that is very contradictory, most people here don't like it though (I love it by the way). Some people use rapadura as sweetener to coffee
Parabéns 👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷
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this pack is massive, and looks good.
Rapadura is to eat like you did, but there are drinks made of this also