Yes, and apparently all you have to do is heat it up and you are good-to-go! They found honey in the Pyramids and is was supposed to be still good to eat.
Real honey actually should crystalize, fake honey usually doesnt. if you want do decrystalize it, you heat it in a steam bath to around 40 degrees Celsius and it should be smooth again.
+Grove332 Yep, I agree, real honey crystalized. You can also just put the jar or whatever in some warm water for a while and it will have the same effect.
+SchaumaMan real honey doesn't expire, but the container often does, if it is in plastic long enough, it may have some chemicals or other things contaminating it. The thing is, it doesn't expire, it gets contaminated.
There is no need to heat up the smaller cans :) The bigger one of them, "konserwa tyrolska", is a type of luncheon meat, the standard way of eating it is just slice it down in the can, take it out slice by slice, and put on the bread. The smaller one "mielonka drobiowa" looks like pate to me :) Just spread it. The beverages are the type of granulated, instant tea; citrus and raspberry flavour. Kids like to eat it dry, without the water :) The honey is a real honey. Natural honey crystalizes when it gets older. You could heat it a little to be liquid. It was realli nice to hear you talking in superlatives about this polish ration :) It made my day ^^
the most sh.t is the product are same of biedronka :))) krakus with his cans and pack of ready meals are the same and instant tea and only one who you cant get in hydrolysed fruit :)).
fake honey can cristalize after 3 months too - just mix glucose, fructose and water in right proportions, it also depends on temperature ... Liquid natural honey can also be "creamed" its a process that makes crystalisation longer...
This actually looks really good, food like this is really nice to have after a hard day of fighting and a real morale booster. Those cups are really nice to have too, I know they are rare for rations and bags are sometimes used as substitutes for liquid holders. Really great ration!
here in Poland we like to joke about the Suchary Specjalne, that they use these for tank armour, that there are only three materials known to man that surpass the diamond in terms of hardness - Nokia 3310, Chuck Norris' beard and Suchary Specjalne SR-1, and so on. By the way, you can't easily get them in regular grocery stores, they're pretty much sold only in MRE-s.
+Maciej Kowalski no ale skąd miał wiedzieć? Na początku ogarnął że to chyba coś pasztetopodobnego ale potem postanowił podgrzać. :P No chuj, nie miał pojęcia więc się nie ma co dopierdalać.
+Kiwi Dude Hehe, thank you! My Polish half does feel surprisingly proud. And my German half was too. You seemed to be quite fond of those rations as well (especially the bread :P) - as was The Boss. By the way, loved the annotation edits.
Two things: Yes, those are caraway seed! Cumin is typically a powder and has a flavour akin to armpits, while caraway has a pleasant, mildly earthy flavour that adds a nice bit of something to breads. Secondly: Its pretty normal for honey to crystalize like that, especially if its hot, cold or has been in a package for too long. Still perfectly safe to eat! We've kept bees for a long time and I've never seen honey go bad. I don't think it can.
You couldn't be more accurate. In fact in Poland there is still a lot of people who have their own bee hives (not sure if this is a proper name). Since it doesn't require much attention, people maintain them after working hours. Most of them keep about 5-10% of the production for themselves and their relatives, selling the rest on the market. It isn't difficult to get a real honey in Poland, although recent problems with around the world bees depopulation, was also noticed in there.
+Kiwi Dude I had several of these bars from a German ration and dutifully peeled the rice paper on each one. Just learned was a dunce I was when I saw this!
watching those reviews remind me of time when i was around 7 i think, and in Poland we had this huuuuuge flood. it got to my house, it pretty much destroyed everything. we had to go to red cross for food, and it looked like military rations. i always looked for ones with candy inside :DDD
+mallariasart while those military rations are so huge, im sitting here thinking. Poland is kinda demilitarized. young guys dont go to army anymore. and Yet we have THE WORST food in hospitals... (which are public, and i pay taxes for it, so you would think people at least would have something nice to eat) But no. Its totall crap. o.O literally...
+mallariasart Well our government believes that we don't need people who are capable to fight anymore. Good old days when most of young men goes for basic military training. To dumb for colledge? Basic military training! To lazy for work? Basic military training.
Every time I watch one of your (or Gundog's or GSchultz's) videos I have this urge to go down to the basement, grab something at random from the "cache" and give it a taste test. Hey Kiwi Dude... there is some stuff for the Boss in the one from Canada that is time sensitive!
+Baneheart666 I'm well aware what asmr is, the asmr reddit brought me to his videos. But I don't even get asmr from it! I just watch it and can't friggin' stop!
I find these very interesting to watch and yummy. It makes me want to stock up on these mre's for emergencies. I found your channel from watching Steve1989 mre info. Keep the interesting mre's coming.
Hi Kiwi Dude, Somehow, through the mystery of the TH-cam algorithm, your old video popped up. I always enjoyed watching your videos, so this is like a blast from the past. I hope your wife has forgiven you for burning her cutting board. Say Hi to Crystal (I hope I spelled her name right). Cheers from Canada :-)
I agree with you about this ration, KiwiDude. To state it another way, if my American sons were in the military I would want them to have a ration like this. High quality food, nicely made and thought out, and a lot of it. Looks like the Polish people care about their troops.
+Daniel Taylor This is the second Polish ration I've had now and it's great to see a positive theme flowing from the single meal rations through to the 24hr packs. It's the little touches that make all the difference. This would rate in my 'top 5' of 24hr packs.
+Daniel Taylor Funny (sad) thing is Polish soldiers traded their food with US soldiers on missions for their used stuff, like bulletpoof vests or Sapi plates.
I really don't think that You can fight one kind of fanaticism with a different kind of fanaticism, but this is not the place for this sort of discussion.
I watched the canadian pack before this vid and we can clearly see a difference in the amount proteins betweem the two packs. The polish one contains a lot more proteins than the canadian one, the Can one has more carbs. Also the quality of carbs in the Polish one is better with honey, dried fruits, rough bread. But ye a lot more protein in here
Most of canned food in Poland are made of pork and eventually some chicken or turkey; beef is hardly to be seen :D and as you say the canned meat looks better and is in better shape, yes it is, but it is heavier aswell : ) BTW both of the drinks were 'tea', it literally says "tea concentrate" but its more or less ice tea, one is lemon flavor, second would be raspberry. The Kofik candy isn't just coffee flavored, but contains caffeine so is good on the run. AH ! and the "bitter chocolate" is just roughly translated from polish, since we call "Dark Chocolate" - "Gorzka Czekolada" which literally means "bitter~" Have fun with rest of the foreing rations, congratz on eating the 'paper' this time (saves a lot of time, huh?:D), and keep up the good job reviewing :) hope to see more soon, cheers!
I'm quite sure you just heated what we call leverpastej in Swedish witch is a "pate" that you have on bread or just eat as it is. The point is that it's served cold. 😜
Haha, you heated and ate the tyrolean straight from the can :D Glad you realised that you need to put in on a crisp bread :) It's normal for honey to crystallize, the honey that is sold in shops actually had to be liquified. (Liquification can actually destroy the nutritiens if done poorly).
The hardtack has caraway seeds baked in. The reason some people said it has cumin is in polish language caraway translates to "kminek". Kminek -> Cumin. Easy mistake to make. Cumin on the other hand is "kmin" in polish, a completely different spice.
Hey kiwi dude love the videos! Just a quick thing - there was nothing particularly strange about the honey - in fact it's closer to how 'real' raw honey looks (it can crystallize a little over time). Seems it may actually be some half decent quality stuff they put in this ration, not that highly processed crap most people think is honey that looks like syrup in a squeezy tube!
"Might have to do more translation" LOL! I agree with the what-is-it meats, at least with the actual military SR-G. There are codes to help you decipher if you know how to read them. The Arpol versions have labels to help you figure stuff out. These SR, SR-G's are top notch and I'm a fan of them too. Cheers KD!
+icey Lol..I used to think all sachet instant coffees were created equal. I've now had so many through rations I'm beginning to taste differences. You'll be replacing your milk with powdered creamer soon enough too ;-)
In real honey the sugar crystalises over time, or when it gets cold. Just warm it up a bit and it'll be smooth and golden again! It's still safe to eat, nothing wrong with it at all!
I hope you and the Boss managed to polish the rest of that off (puns always intended) when she got home. I bet she gave it her Stamp of Yummy approval.
I got to check that dried fruit label/description, "liofilizowanych", I'm Polish and this was the first time I ever saw this word being used, turns out It's a sophisticated way to say "freeze-dried" :D
Kiwi Dude Glad to hear and yep, I'm doing great :) I'm curious, have you ever had any rations from the Defence Forces in Ireland? We have such a tiny military that I'm not even sure if there is a specifical Irish one or whether it's just imported from a larger country ala Britain or Germany. Love your vids :)
Kiwi Dude I just Googled it and indeed Ireland makes its own rations, seems to all be managed by An Óglaigh na hÉireann (Defence Forces). The choices in terms of mains seem to be Beef Casserole, Irish Stew, Chicken Curry, or a vegetarian option. I personally wouldn't mind some stew myself 😁😁 Other things are instant soup, ramen noodles, oatmeal block, a protein bar, brown and fruit biscuits, sweets, and drink mixes. + Dessert (chocolate pudding, syrup pudding, fruit dumplings) and a mint bar and fruit lozenges. Seems to include other stuff which seems fairly standard and also plasters and something called "foot powder" which I'm not entirely sure what it is! With the exception of Irish Stew would that sound fairly standard or does anything stand out?
+Kiwi Dude My guess is Alan S is from the Republic of Ireland, a free state that is not part of the United Kingdom. I'd be interested in Irish rations too. Dan
If I remember good, the small can is pork with chicken spam and the bigger one is pork, all the cans have nummbers on them printed and you can read from the paper list what's inside(it's in polish , sorry:), the best one is SRG4 with bigos or the one with beans with kiełbasa, I belive SRG2, sometimes instead of small can of spam you get a pate. If have questions, feel free to ask
I was super excited to have a new video this morning! My kids and I are thinking about making our version of an mre. just in the planning phases. Should be interesting to see what a 7 and 9 year old think we should include.
+Cynthia Plummer Sounds like a great project for you and the kids. I'm sure it'll be awesome. Perhaps you can eat the homemade MRE's during a backyard campout ;-)
Just to clarify - the two smaller cans with meat are not supposed to be heated - we eat them cold - sliced and put straight on the bread. And both teas - HOT WATER! NOT COLD! XD Nice video btw.
FYI, part of the reason more mre kits don't include freeze dried fruits (as well as other freeze dried products) is that without a lot of water, they can actually cause gut obstructions. Americans mres actually have a little warning on the side of the freeze dried fruit instructing you to either reconstitute it first or to drink it with lots and lots of water.
Crystallization is something normal as a good quality honey can crystallize itself after very short period of time( sometimes even 2 weeks after picking). Everything depends on the amount of glucose. Nice reviews, good job!.
Honey is cristalized, one can fix with and make it liquid again just by heating it to 35-40 °C for a time. Thanks for the nice video - i like the part when you use the field heating parts of the ration in your vid.
+Kiwi Dude It was sended 27.03.2015 from Poland, same day as Gundog pakage. And You recive pakage before 19.07.20015. So why You have waited soo long to make rev???
+Kiwi Dude I've always wanted to start a MRE channel for about 2 years. I can't find where to get them (not the American ones) can you help me out with getting my first ration? (email me) enjoyed the video cheers!
just a tip for you, steve and other food ration reviewers. when you have a drink mix that has solidified, pour a little hot water to dissolve the mix then put cold water.
Kiwi Dude - Those big ones are sometimes called "Gopher Matches" or "Gophers" in camping supplies. Yes, they're designed for starting fires under adverse conditions, because if nothing else, they will burn a bit longer and hotter than regular matches.
With honey, if it chrystalised it just means it's a pure honey that has aged. Pastured honey tends not to do it. Good products!!
Polish Army Ration SRG-4
Meal A:
Luncheon meat, poultry - 100g
Meatballs in vegetable sauce - 300g
Multiflorous nectar honey - 25g
Instant tea beverage concentrate raspberry flavor - 15g
Rye crisp bread - 50g (8 sheets)
Plastic lid - 2 pcs.
Meal B:
Chuck steak in a sauce with vegetables - 300g
Special rusks - 90g (2x45g)
The beverage concentrate instant tea with lemon flavor - 30g (2x15g)
A mix of dried fruit - 15g
Plastic lid - 1 pc.
Meal C:
Corned Tyrolean - 200g
Rye crisp bread - 50g (8 sheets)
Strawberry jam - 25g
Instant tea beverage concentrate raspberry flavor - 30g (2x15g)
Plastic lid - 1 pc.
Additional accessories:
Natural coffee extract - 4g
Sugar - 10g
Candy containing vitamin C - 3 pieces.
Candy containing natural coffee extract - 3 pieces.
Chewing gum - 3 pieces.
Special Bitter Chocolate - 100g
Baton cereal and fruit - 1 pc.
Salt - 2g
Ground Black Pepper - 0.4g
Plastic bag - 1 pc.
Plastic bag with a zipper - 2 pcs.
Foil pouch to carry out disinfection of water to drink - 1 pc.
Hydrated napkin - 3 pieces.
Set to heat up meals - 1 set.
Disposable cutlery - spoon, knife, fork, spoon - 2 pcs.
- Spoon, fork - 1 set.
Disposable cup - 4 pieces.
Toilet paper - 200 cm.
A tablet for disinfecting drinking water - 4 pcs
mleko
Real honey crystalises.
that honey was crystalised lol
Yes, and apparently all you have to do is heat it up and you are good-to-go! They found honey in the Pyramids and is was supposed to be still good to eat.
Real honey looks like that. In Canada we pasteurize and add water ... other countries may do the same.
Honey doesn't spoil, the sugar has just crystallized out of the solution.
Real honey actually should crystalize, fake honey usually doesnt. if you want do decrystalize it, you heat it in a steam bath to around 40 degrees Celsius and it should be smooth again.
+SchaumaMan Only pasturised real honey crystalises
***** Nope, doesn't have to be pasteurised.
t. my grandmother is a beekeeper.
+Grove332 Yep, I agree, real honey crystalized. You can also just put the jar or whatever in some warm water for a while and it will have the same effect.
+SchaumaMan real honey doesn't expire, but the container often does, if it is in plastic long enough, it may have some chemicals or other things contaminating it. The thing is, it doesn't expire, it gets contaminated.
There is no need to heat up the smaller cans :)
The bigger one of them, "konserwa tyrolska", is a type of luncheon meat, the standard way of eating it is just slice it down in the can, take it out slice by slice, and put on the bread. The smaller one "mielonka drobiowa" looks like pate to me :) Just spread it.
The beverages are the type of granulated, instant tea; citrus and raspberry flavour. Kids like to eat it dry, without the water :)
The honey is a real honey. Natural honey crystalizes when it gets older. You could heat it a little to be liquid.
It was realli nice to hear you talking in superlatives about this polish ration :) It made my day ^^
+avarill Thanks for the additional info! Really impressed with this ration, it stands up among the best.
+Kiwi Dude and if you add warm water to this tea it will be much better and easier to dissolve, it's kind of very sweet when all is dissolved.
This instant tea is every polish childhood flavor
the most sh.t is the product are same of biedronka :))) krakus with his cans and pack of ready meals are the same and instant tea and only one who you cant get in hydrolysed fruit :)).
The Polish really know how to take care of their soldiers.
+John Doe They sure do!
We Polish got Prowerb "hungry Polish is angry - very"
Natural honey crystalayz after 3 months, if you but in shoop liquid honey thats need to be very fresh, or just fake.
fake honey can cristalize after 3 months too - just mix glucose, fructose and water in right proportions, it also depends on temperature ... Liquid natural honey can also be "creamed" its a process that makes crystalisation longer...
Cool that you liked our Polish MRE :D Can't wait for more reviews of MRE's from all over the world :D
+Cavi587 It ticked all the boxes for me. Very nice :-)
This actually looks really good, food like this is really nice to have after a hard day of fighting and a real morale booster. Those cups are really nice to have too, I know they are rare for rations and bags are sometimes used as substitutes for liquid holders. Really great ration!
These polish rations are monsters!
+stickyfingaz745 They sure are!
+Kiwi Dude the ambient noise is awesome lol. Keep the vids coming, KiwiDude!
here in Poland we like to joke about the Suchary Specjalne, that they use these for tank armour, that there are only three materials known to man that surpass the diamond in terms of hardness - Nokia 3310, Chuck Norris' beard and Suchary Specjalne SR-1, and so on. By the way, you can't easily get them in regular grocery stores, they're pretty much sold only in MRE-s.
neoqueto allegro.pl/listing?string=Suchary%20Wojskowe&order=m&bmatch=ss-base-relevance-floki-5-nga-hcp-col-1-4-1003
Nokia is MARIUSZ PUDZIANOWSKI
Yup, nowadays you can only buy "Bieszczadzkie Suchary" very similar but not the same :/
I love smell of the cumin :D
I remember, that some guys in military call them "panzercrackers"
Nie ma to jak gotować pasztet...
+Maciej Kowalski no ale skąd miał wiedzieć? Na początku ogarnął że to chyba coś pasztetopodobnego ale potem postanowił podgrzać. :P No chuj, nie miał pojęcia więc się nie ma co dopierdalać.
+Maciej Kowalski Chciał podgrzać, żeby zabić ewentualne bakterie, które mogły się pojawić.
Maciej Kowalski Hehehe
Faktycznie....pasztet z patelni :)
Chodziło mu tylko o jakąś ewentualną "dezynfekcję" bo całość była już trochu po terminie ważności.
Greetings from Poland :)
+PterodaktyL Powinieneś być dumny. Polska stanowi doskonałą racja żywnościowa.
+Kiwi Dude ta śliwki w guwnie , posypane rodzynkami
xDDDDDD
I love how all MREs are packaged. I find opening them very soothing.
I miss your videos so much and get SO excited when I see a new one. Haha It becomes top priority on my watch list.
Another great one!
+Aki Mititiuc Cheers! Sorry it takes so long.
I recently just started watching your videos and I'm glad to see you're still making more! Thanks for doing these, they are a lot of fun :)
+Amazonite Welcome to the channel :-) Glad you're enjoying the videos.
Another you tuber eats 60 year old rations and your worried about it expired by a few months lol. This is quite the comprehensive ration, great video!
Great to see that you are still making videos.
Good work!
I need some of these polish heaters, they are so handy
Cheers for another great video Kiwi Dude! Keep up the usage of reference pictures and afterthought annotations, added that little extra.
+WtfWhoops Cheers!
The sugar in the honey crystallized. You just need to heat up a bit to return it normal consistency.
4:48 panzerwaffles :)
I get so excited every time I see one of your new videos! And this time it's from my birth country! Ima watch it while eating breakfast now. Perfect!
+Patryk You should be proud :-) Poland does a great ration.
+Kiwi Dude Hehe, thank you! My Polish half does feel surprisingly proud. And my German half was too. You seemed to be quite fond of those rations as well (especially the bread :P) - as was The Boss.
By the way, loved the annotation edits.
+Patryk I as a german was very proud too!
Two things: Yes, those are caraway seed! Cumin is typically a powder and has a flavour akin to armpits, while caraway has a pleasant, mildly earthy flavour that adds a nice bit of something to breads.
Secondly: Its pretty normal for honey to crystalize like that, especially if its hot, cold or has been in a package for too long. Still perfectly safe to eat! We've kept bees for a long time and I've never seen honey go bad. I don't think it can.
The honey is just crystallized. It just shows it was a natural, genuine honey and not a synthetic one. :)
Very central European! Meat, meat and meat with a side of meat!
+ThePoptartster My kind of ration ;-)
Kiwi Dude
I must admit it DID look lovely. ^.~
We are Eastern Europe m8
@@PolskiProdigy No we're not. Poland lies in central Europe. Europe is not only the EU.
So glad to see that number next to your name on the notification! :)
natural unprocessed honey tends to crystalise.
At least Kiwi was not trying to peel off the crystals out of honey HAHAHA :d
+swirekster Lol!
You couldn't be more accurate. In fact in Poland there is still a lot of people who have their own bee hives (not sure if this is a proper name). Since it doesn't require much attention, people maintain them after working hours. Most of them keep about 5-10% of the production for themselves and their relatives, selling the rest on the market. It isn't difficult to get a real honey in Poland, although recent problems with around the world bees depopulation, was also noticed in there.
good to see people still have distance to themselves
it wasn't me, it was Jane. I have to speak with her about using my YT channel... ;)
Andrew Wiggin actually it is the proper name bee hive or in Polish Ule when are more than one Ul when is one
Just in time I was getting hungry bro
CHEESEBURGER FREEDOM MAN COMMENTED ON THIS VIDEO!! Also the corned meet is spam or luncheon meat.
I still remember,when u tried to peel that paper off... :D
+Dave K. I was waiting for the moment to redeem myself. Finally :-)
+Kiwi Dude I had several of these bars from a German ration and dutifully peeled the rice paper on each one. Just learned was a dunce I was when I saw this!
+Daniel Taylor Lol! Don't worry, I 'dunced' it in my last Polish ration.
Nice to see a new video up, cheers from the States mate!
+Jaster Skirata Cheers from New Zealand!
The sound of your voice and the packaging is just...great
Thanks Kiwi Dude for another informative video. As always I really enjoy them.
Great to hear! Cheers Mate.
Good to see you back, Kiwi Dude! Looking forward to seeing some new MRE reviews.
+TBNTX Cheers!
watching those reviews remind me of time when i was around 7 i think, and in Poland we had this huuuuuge flood. it got to my house, it pretty much destroyed everything. we had to go to red cross for food, and it looked like military rations. i always looked for ones with candy inside :DDD
+mallariasart while those military rations are so huge, im sitting here thinking. Poland is kinda demilitarized. young guys dont go to army anymore. and Yet we have THE WORST food in hospitals... (which are public, and i pay taxes for it, so you would think people at least would have something nice to eat) But no. Its totall crap. o.O literally...
+mallariasart Well our government believes that we don't need people who are capable to fight anymore. Good old days when most of young men goes for basic military training. To dumb for colledge? Basic military training! To lazy for work? Basic military training.
There are plenty of volunteers. No need for mandatory conscription.
Every time I watch one of your (or Gundog's or GSchultz's) videos I have this urge to go down to the basement, grab something at random from the "cache" and give it a taste test.
Hey Kiwi Dude... there is some stuff for the Boss in the one from Canada that is time sensitive!
+CP140405 Oh.. thanks for the heads-up! We'll crack in shortly :-)
Why is watching this kiwi dude eat military food so addictive
I don't understand
You're addicted to the sounds the opening of boxes or plastic pouches, its called ASMR look it up :)
+Baneheart666 I'm well aware what asmr is, the asmr reddit brought me to his videos.
But I don't even get asmr from it! I just watch it and can't friggin' stop!
Oh that looked like a proper ration and I'm glad you liked it. greetings from a Pole
I find these very interesting to watch and yummy. It makes me want to stock up on these mre's for emergencies. I found your channel from watching Steve1989 mre info. Keep the interesting mre's coming.
Hi Kiwi Dude, Somehow, through the mystery of the TH-cam algorithm, your old video popped up. I always enjoyed watching your videos, so this is like a blast from the past. I hope your wife has forgiven you for burning her cutting board. Say Hi to Crystal (I hope I spelled her name right). Cheers from Canada :-)
Wisniewski is a surname, you'v hidden the name xD
+Gzyms But it's a popular name so that is not a problem I think :D
Who gives a fuck?
Easy there cute keyboard marauder.
It looks like name was Przemysław :P
I agree with you about this ration, KiwiDude. To state it another way, if my American sons were in the military I would want them to have a ration like this. High quality food, nicely made and thought out, and a lot of it. Looks like the Polish people care about their troops.
+Daniel Taylor This is the second Polish ration I've had now and it's great to see a positive theme flowing from the single meal rations through to the 24hr packs. It's the little touches that make all the difference. This would rate in my 'top 5' of 24hr packs.
+Daniel Taylor Funny (sad) thing is Polish soldiers traded their food with US soldiers on missions for their used stuff, like bulletpoof vests or Sapi plates.
That IS sad. Good we could help them out, though.
The crispbread would probably be good for soaking up some of the sauces, too.
Wouldbe good for meatballs.
Meatball and crispbread sandwich. Sounds good.
If it goes about the meatballs, I suppose they might be pork/beef mix, the beef alone is rather rare and expensive here in Poland.
+Jacek Neumann Powinieneś być dumny. Polska stanowi doskonałą racja żywnościowa.
+Kiwi Dude yaaaaay you know polish
No it isn't. It just makes no sense to put good quality meat into cans...
With a healthy dose of racism, homophobia, and religious nuttery...
I really don't think that You can fight one kind of fanaticism with a different kind of fanaticism, but this is not the place for this sort of discussion.
NEVER BEEN THIS EARLY!! Great Video once again Kiwi Dude!!
+Pinkcookie Thanks. Glad you're enjoying it.
thanks for liking our MRE
Yusssss another great video in a while hope you can do another review soon!
+Rojotay We definitely plan to :-)
Hey Kiwi Dude, Enjoyed The Review. Keep 'Em Coming.
I'll never understand why these videos work like appetizers :D
Greetings from Poland.
+Soldium Designs Pozdrowienia z Nowej Zelandii!
I watched the canadian pack before this vid and we can clearly see a difference in the amount proteins betweem the two packs. The polish one contains a lot more proteins than the canadian one, the Can one has more carbs. Also the quality of carbs in the Polish one is better with honey, dried fruits, rough bread. But ye a lot more protein in here
Most of canned food in Poland are made of pork and eventually some chicken or turkey; beef is hardly to be seen :D
and as you say the canned meat looks better and is in better shape, yes it is, but it is heavier aswell : )
BTW both of the drinks were 'tea', it literally says "tea concentrate" but its more or less ice tea, one is lemon flavor, second would be raspberry. The Kofik candy isn't just coffee flavored, but contains caffeine so is good on the run. AH ! and the "bitter chocolate" is just roughly translated from polish, since we call "Dark Chocolate" - "Gorzka Czekolada" which literally means "bitter~"
Have fun with rest of the foreing rations, congratz on eating the 'paper' this time (saves a lot of time, huh?:D), and keep up the good job reviewing :)
hope to see more soon, cheers!
+Kamil Migas Thanks for the additional info :-) Was great to conquer the 'paper' demons finally.
nice spot on with the MRE reviews again
I've seen lots of mre videos this polish 1 was really packed well impressed
I'm quite sure you just heated what we call leverpastej in Swedish witch is a "pate" that you have on bread or just eat as it is. The point is that it's served cold. 😜
Long time old bud. Ain't seen that board in awhile. I'm in poland right. And it's nice to see what my counterpart eats. Thanks for the vid
Haha, you heated and ate the tyrolean straight from the can :D Glad you realised that you need to put in on a crisp bread :)
It's normal for honey to crystallize, the honey that is sold in shops actually had to be liquified. (Liquification can actually destroy the nutritiens if done poorly).
The hardtack has caraway seeds baked in. The reason some people said it has cumin is in polish language caraway translates to "kminek". Kminek -> Cumin. Easy mistake to make. Cumin on the other hand is "kmin" in polish, a completely different spice.
mieszanka owoców liofilizowanych + hot water + 4 minutes = nice food
It's fanny watching it when you are from Poland :D
no racja :D
ej, piszesz funny bo fanny znaczy coś zupełnie innego - bardziej przyziemnego i jest to część kobiety LOOOL. Dość schowana część....
Hey kiwi dude love the videos! Just a quick thing - there was nothing particularly strange about the honey - in fact it's closer to how 'real' raw honey looks (it can crystallize a little over time). Seems it may actually be some half decent quality stuff they put in this ration, not that highly processed crap most people think is honey that looks like syrup in a squeezy tube!
+mattitudev3 Thanks. It was actually really nice. Sweeter than the honey I'm used to, but that's a bonus in my books :-)
Looks like a luxurious ration!
+Alex Jackson Hi Alex, it definitely rates highly with me. The Polish know how to do a good ration!
Kiwi Dude You gave a great review, as well! I actually just uploaded a video looking at some C-Rats, you should check it out!
+Alex Jackson Cheers Alex. I'll check it out when I get home from work.
Nice review Kiwi. Makes me want to go and order some rations !
"Might have to do more translation" LOL! I agree with the what-is-it meats, at least with the actual military SR-G. There are codes to help you decipher if you know how to read them. The Arpol versions have labels to help you figure stuff out. These SR, SR-G's are top notch and I'm a fan of them too. Cheers KD!
+gundog4314 Cheers Gundog. I was stoked with the quality, quantity and attention to detail. it's 2 for 2 on the Polish experiences!
I'm proud of you for not peeling this ;)
What a nice and huge ration, I would love to try any foreign ration, polish rations are super serious. Great Review 👍 God bless you and your family
btw kiwi, the stove gets bent 2 legs to keep it from burning on the board and 2 to hold the can while cooking
How come this guy only has 60k subs?
This is a well thought out ration with the paper cups and the plastic lids to keep the bugs,water,or snow out of the can.
that paper stuff is nice, they used to sell all kinds of flavours when i was a kid, big sheets too
Watching you make so many coffees over these videos has turned me into drinking coffee. I was a hardcore tea drinker once.
+icey Lol..I used to think all sachet instant coffees were created equal. I've now had so many through rations I'm beginning to taste differences. You'll be replacing your milk with powdered creamer soon enough too ;-)
Where's the boss ? I was looking forward to her verdict ? Anyway, nice review, it looks like Poland did a good job with their rations !
In real honey the sugar crystalises over time, or when it gets cold. Just warm it up a bit and it'll be smooth and golden again! It's still safe to eat, nothing wrong with it at all!
+Kelsey Snyder Thanks.
I hope you and the Boss managed to polish the rest of that off (puns always intended) when she got home. I bet she gave it her Stamp of Yummy approval.
I got to check that dried fruit label/description, "liofilizowanych", I'm Polish and this was the first time I ever saw this word being used, turns out It's a sophisticated way to say "freeze-dried" :D
I was so happy to see you've uploaded again. Welcome back man, hope you're keeping well! :)
+Alan S Cheers Alan. We're well, thanks. Hope you and yours are too.
Kiwi Dude Glad to hear and yep, I'm doing great :) I'm curious, have you ever had any rations from the Defence Forces in Ireland? We have such a tiny military that I'm not even sure if there is a specifical Irish one or whether it's just imported from a larger country ala Britain or Germany. Love your vids :)
+Alan S I've not had anything from Ireland. I would assume they'd be the same as the British M.O.D issue?
Kiwi Dude I just Googled it and indeed Ireland makes its own rations, seems to all be managed by An Óglaigh na hÉireann (Defence Forces). The choices in terms of mains seem to be Beef Casserole, Irish Stew, Chicken Curry, or a vegetarian option. I personally wouldn't mind some stew myself 😁😁 Other things are instant soup, ramen noodles, oatmeal block, a protein bar, brown and fruit biscuits, sweets, and drink mixes. + Dessert (chocolate pudding, syrup pudding, fruit dumplings) and a mint bar and fruit lozenges. Seems to include other stuff which seems fairly standard and also plasters and something called "foot powder" which I'm not entirely sure what it is! With the exception of Irish Stew would that sound fairly standard or does anything stand out?
+Kiwi Dude My guess is Alan S is from the Republic of Ireland, a free state that is not part of the United Kingdom. I'd be interested in Irish rations too. Dan
If I remember good, the small can is pork with chicken spam and the bigger one is pork, all the cans have nummbers on them printed and you can read from the paper list what's inside(it's in polish , sorry:), the best one is SRG4 with bigos or the one with beans with kiełbasa, I belive SRG2, sometimes instead of small can of spam you get a pate. If have questions, feel free to ask
This looks so good! ;D
+Yougot spree23 Very tasty.
+Kiwi Dude You could have folded your heater to be a bit more safe. (Two sides up and the rest down)
I was super excited to have a new video this morning!
My kids and I are thinking about making our version of an mre. just in the planning phases. Should be interesting to see what a 7 and 9 year old think we should include.
+Cynthia Plummer Sounds like a great project for you and the kids. I'm sure it'll be awesome. Perhaps you can eat the homemade MRE's during a backyard campout ;-)
+Kiwi Dude we may take them on a real campout. Our tent won't fit in our yard lol
Just to clarify - the two smaller cans with meat are not supposed to be heated - we eat them cold - sliced and put straight on the bread. And both teas - HOT WATER! NOT COLD! XD Nice video btw.
Nice commentary as always.:)
+kelvin serasi Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
32:40 - Looks like Dog the Bounty Hunter standing facing right on the bottom left side of the bean compartment. Cant unsee
I like watch you when you oupen mre. Great video. Thanks for you, you take mre from my country
+zielny You should be proud. Polish rations are awesome :-)
+Kiwi Dude thx man
Nice review, however missing the Bosses touch.
Still it did look really tasty
+Paul Lunn Thanks. She'll be on the next ones :-)
I sure enjoy dried fruit. Dried apricot is my favorite, I think.
FYI, part of the reason more mre kits don't include freeze dried fruits (as well as other freeze dried products) is that without a lot of water, they can actually cause gut obstructions. Americans mres actually have a little warning on the side of the freeze dried fruit instructing you to either reconstitute it first or to drink it with lots and lots of water.
Crystallization is something normal as a good quality honey can crystallize itself after very short period of time( sometimes even 2 weeks after picking). Everything depends on the amount of glucose. Nice reviews, good job!.
You know who I missed, but still a great video :) What a nice sunday morning surprise for us :)
+Anita Nagy I promise she'll be in the next one :-)
+Kiwi Dude Yeaaahh :))) Is that... tomorrow? Maybe? :D :D
+Anita Nagy I would love to say yes, but realistically - unlikely. Soon though :-)
Dammit... But I still cant wait :)
Honey is cristalized, one can fix with and make it liquid again just by heating it to 35-40 °C for a time. Thanks for the nice video - i like the part when you use the field heating parts of the ration in your vid.
(✿◠‿◠)/ ♥ Welcome back, Kiwi! Awesome review! :D
+sleepyfacedangel Cheers!
+Kiwi Dude Only thing missing is a seal of aproval from The Boss
+Kiwi Dude It was sended 27.03.2015 from Poland, same day as Gundog pakage. And You recive pakage before 19.07.20015. So why You have waited soo long to make rev???
+Kiwi Dude I've always wanted to start a MRE channel for about 2 years. I can't find where to get them (not the American ones) can you help me out with getting my first ration? (email me) enjoyed the video cheers!
AWESOME! You ate the paper! Cheers!
If honey crystallizes it means it's pure natural honey... happens in 1week to 1 year since it's collected.
Waiting for him to say, "now let's get that on to a tray"
yes I love your videos so much
I need to try that ration. It,s big and i think its so tasty. Impresive..
You have regained your honor after eating the paper, you shall now ear rations with honor again!
+Duru Lol!
just a tip for you, steve and other food ration reviewers. when you have a drink mix that has solidified, pour a little hot water to dissolve the mix then put cold water.
Kiwi Dude - Those big ones are sometimes called "Gopher Matches" or "Gophers" in camping supplies. Yes, they're designed for starting fires under adverse conditions, because if nothing else, they will burn a bit longer and hotter than regular matches.
+Spotty Skunk They're pretty awesome. Essential supplies.
I agree - I keep some in my storm kit. :)
Thanks for the vids. :)
Looks good. Our MRE's blow.
I cracked up when the ball of honey rolled to the other end of the crisp…not sure why lol