Trying an MRE
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The "rock or something" will always be my favorite printed instructions
It really says that on the package? That’s great lol
yeah haha! you can see it a few seconds into the video. made me have a giggle lol
@@Shiesteyyes I actually had to look at one I have it does say that
Honestly thank you, that made me laugh
My “rock or something” was just once the side of someone’s foot who was cold-cocked out asleep
"MREs, theyre edible" is the only way to accurately describe an MRE
They don’t take up much room in your stomach either. I’ve always been hungry unless I ate 2 per meal
Some taste good
my cousin in the Canadian navy smuggled me and another cousin out a pulled pork Imp or MRE in the states when he was at training in the arctic. Legit 8/10 meal but i was also kinda stoned so take that with a grain of salt
Depends on which number you pull
@@samurai_8917 being stoned changes a 4/10 meal to a 8/10
When you’re wet, cold and exhausted in the middle of the woods. A warm MRE is bussin.
Very true. A friend gave me this same one and a few others. I was moving to another county back in 2009. They were left and forgotten in my car for about 5mth. Things got crazy with the move. I went back to my home town. 578 miles away. There was a horrible freeze/snow storm about 250 miles in. My car froze up and left me on the road for 71 HOURS! No one could get to me. I had my dog as well. I did stop and load up a cooler with water and sodas for the trip. I was only 45 miles from my hotel. Fortunately I had blankets that were my dogs and all her goodies for the stay in my home town. Her food and such. I did have extra clothing. But not really any food for me. I was moving this around to sleep while waiting on help and the roads to clear. I found the MRES!!! LOL this was the one I ate first. Not bad at all. I've never been so excited to find missing items in my life. Lol
When is hot as heck out, a cold MRE ain’t bad either. Room temp works for normal inside…
bussin bussin fr fr on my momma
Lets get this out on your tray
NICE
Shh... Only intelligent people know what you're saying.
🤙 a fellow man of culture
Nice hiss.
@@Sniperboy5551 💯
Steve is king
For those who don’t know, MREs that need to be heated in the bag literally have a diagram of the bag resting on the heating element against a rock labeled “Rock Or Something”.
“Rock Or Something” army precision work lmao
Came to comment that. Always cracks me up.
"I don't know, find something. Quit fuckin' bothering me."
I'd usually sit down and use my boot sole for it
Its actually because marines were starving because they couldnt find rocks so they had to add the "or something"
Yeah my brother who is in the army came home and he gave us a box full of mres. I tried one and i noticed it said that on the bag and i thought it was funny
Your buddy loves you, he gave you the best one.
Nah, the best one is the fajitas.
@@bigdaddydons6241The worst one I ever had was ham omelet... Literally guys throwing up. It was bad to be the last guy's back from patrol that day!! Nothing left but ham omelet.
@@maxxcarver5502 I've heard horror stories about people using their omelets like bouncy balls.
I'm pretty sure it's been taken out of production from the bad reception
@bigdaddydons6241 I'm pretty sure you're right. I've looked for them after i've gotten out. Just to show people how horrific they were. Saw a video on youtube where they talked about the worst m r e's in the world. I got all excited and it was expecting to see it there on the list. nope. Apparently I was especially blessed while I was in the military. Like I said we got back from patrol. All that was left was ham Omelet. Sergeant Boone was older than us and knew better. He ate everything in the packet including the gum and drank the hot sauce. But he would Not eat the ham omelet meal!!
lol. have a good one
Back in the day the best was chili Mac. Highlight dessert would be M&M's😅
My stepdad got his hands on some MRE's when I was a teenager. They weren't great, but they weren't horrible either. It was an interesting experience.
It all depends on which one you get and perspective I suppose. I ate the tuna one and still remember the awful taste.
Same here, dad brought some in we were struggling at the time, when you're really hungry they're good 😅 I didn't like a couple of them tho
@@sabrinareneekelly3777 If you're hungry enough, you eat whatever is put in front of you, and you don't complain. I had a childhood like that, before my mom married my stepdad.
Exactly! Times were hard, my grandparents always said you can either eat what's in front of you or starve. When you're that hungry you'll eat it and be thankful, dad always said we gonna have poke and grits, poke your feet under the table and geit your teeth.
@@sabrinareneekelly3777 lol! Never heard that one before, but it's good. Though I did hear "eat it or starve" quite a bit. There were weeks where all we had in the house was popcorn or pancake mix. I was born to a single mom in the early '70's. My grandparents helped her when they could, but they obviously didn't approve. That's were I learned " it is what it is" and "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit."
In the 1980s, in the West, we were given MRE's to eat when on forest fire duty. I don't know where the US Forest Service got them they were a bit old. However after a day of hard work outdoors I found most items to be pretty palatable.
Officially MRE means Meal, Ready to Eat. But we had to play with that of course, and came up with Meals Rejected by Everyone!
They have improved vastly in the last few years. I got chili Mac that came with fritos. Actually very good.
If you have the chance
To stash up on some, can be the difference between eating nothing or those.😮
I'm not even sure if it's possible for MREs to expire... at least the modern ones. I can't remember seeing expiration date on the packaging.
MRE’s are meant to be high calorie generally high carb meals because they are for field work And you’re burning calories (and probably not getting that much sleep) in the field. You used them in the right conditions to make them taste good 😂. Like that first sip of water after a tough hike, it hits different than on your couch
Loooooool
Meals Refusing to Exit
Ive heard stories of soldiers in the field hating the raisins until they found a way to collect them as a group and distil brandy with them
Or just add them to the cereal mix. The point of raisins is not just sugary and (leftover) vitamins, but to counteract the constipation from the peanut butter.
@@pteppig this is new information to me. I didn't know peanut butter was a driver of constipation. I'm eating. A peanut butter sandwich right now. I don't understand constipation anyway, never been constipated in my 46 years, not after surgery, or on 7 years of opiate maintenance therapy. Idk I drink lots of water. 3 quarts a day
@@johnhurtme you don't know constipation until you've been in the field for a week and haven't shit once. MRE's should be considered as treatment for diorea, they're that bad. You need every bit of help you can get.
@@wyattroncin941 Depends on the person. MREs pass right through me. It will even smell like the entree!
@@wyattroncin941 I've always drank... drunk... consumed a lot of water. Never been a problem. I have a quart stainless tankard that I drink full twice in the morning and once in the afternoon, plus at least a pot of coffee, and a coke or two a day. That's if I'm not sweating bad, just at the house
This is a very fair assessment of an mre, I’ve had thousands while on active duty
There some really really good MREs. Ive tried many from different countries. I think one american had some kind of spicy cheese cream but i forgot which one. That was so fucking good.
The longer the war
The fatter our pocket
- Military Industrial Complex
@@quackatit jalapeño cheddar spread
Better than K rations
The British rat packs are shit I belive in Afghan our lads would go and Nick your American MREs because they where 100 times better 😂
When you’re out in the field, those raisins SLAP!
My favorite MRE was the tuna salad one. It is starkiss tuna, relish, mayo and, a tortilla. It also has chocolate covered coffee beans that are a must have for a 3 am guard shift or an all night convoy.
I remember the first time I had an MRE. It was more memorable just because it was new to me. Though The Jalepeno cheese spread is the best part.
Either that or the chocolate peanut butter! Both are gems to find in the field 😂
Oh hell yeah! The cheese spreads were so good. Ate a bunch of them after Katrina, they would just throw cases into your car.
Jalapeño cheese spread and bread/crackers in the main meal is always the way to go.
Nah try a proper British rat pack once had one older than me nothing in them is good but the energy powder which some lads snort or use as snuf not good
In airborne school we had a kid eat 27 packets of those. Bad day
I can't believe you didn't get out a tray...
“Nice,ok”
No "hiss" either
Its my people!
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@@spilcerkingodeath welcome home!
When I was a kid, I was in the Civil Air Patrol, and we ate a lot of MREs during our training. Cheese spread on the cracker was awesome. And the BBQ pulled pork was amazing. They also came with 10 year old m&ms at the time. Not sure if they still do that.
Ate some MREs this past fall.
They had skittles in them! And they weren’t expired yet, lol
After the 2 different hurricanes I've lived through. Mres were handed out to the people of my city. Boxes of them. They kept us fed, and since i was a teenager, it was actually enough food for my body lol
The trick with the heater is to put salt in before the water, and shake it all up until it's hard to hold with the cardboard sleeve, then prop it up mostly flat (just at enough of an angle to keep the water in) with the heating element below the meal. Knead the package as much as you can manage until you feel it become more smooth, almost like a liquid. Let it cool a bit, and enjoy. My favorite one is chili with beans, do the above with it and crumble some cornbread in and it can turn a bad, rainy field op into a slightly less bad, rainy field op
I hope in my time of survival I am with someone like you!
You know, I never thought about that, basically the little pouch inside that bag turns into essentially a short circuited battery when it comes in contact with water, and I know that salt can increase the conductivity of water...
Chili with beans is pretty good
Brooooo it was either chili with beans, chili Mac, or another one I vaguely remember that was a sausage gravy oriented one 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Good to know.
Steve was all of our MRE gurus and you cannot deny that fact.
Is! He's back!
U scared me for a sec I thought he was … gone gone
Nah crazy russian hacker pashtiet for life
I kept a few in the truck in case i got stuck out in a produce field or something, 15 years ago.
They came with a chalk energy bar back then.
During a hurricane I was hooked on this shit. I was also stoned the entire time but I thought it was so cool eating and heating meals without fire lol😊
Heater works better if you shake it after adding water but before you put the meal in. Also putting the cardboard piece around the heater bag after you put the meal in keeps the steam and such in the bag.
I did exactly this and we’d also lay the heater down with the heater side on the ground so it’d heat quicker. It says not to on the instructions but when it’s cold out and you want a warm meal fast 🤷🏻
Putting the heater back in the cardboard is pro tech. Spoken like a true warfighter. Never forget “nutrition is a force multiplier” haha
Yeah also some of the heaters are duds, if filling it to the line doesn't work just put a tiny bit more in there. I've gotten them to be boiling hot at which point the MRE is no worse than canned spaghetti and meatballs which is what it's based off of. Still hurts the stomach tho because of all the preservatives.
I’ve always had good results giving the heater packet a twist, like giving it an Indian burn before adding the meal pouch.
add salt to the water before adding it. I think for whatever reason the salt that is in them cakes up, or was removed, or they are sourcing them from shitty suppliers. It almost always makes them functional again. and the MRE comes with more than enough salt to power the reaction in the seasoning/accessory bag.
MREs are great especially when you are in a area that deals with tornado and hurricanes.
Living in South Louisiana I ate my share of them. Definitely good after a few days of sandwichs, and no power or natural gas to cook
All I had to eat for a month were MREs back when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, I hope I never have to go through that again
If there’s wood there’s ways to cook
When you are starving that's when you break out these cullinary masterpieces.
@@imnotagamer22without electricity, no stores are open, and everything in the fridge and freezer goes bad. What will you cook with your fire then? I do agree though, for the beginning . Every hurricane we get here in Louisiana, I make a fire, & cook all of the meat we have, and everything else that I have time to, without wasting food. However, after a week with no power, anything in the fridge is bad, but the power and water can stay off for several weeks. This has happened several times in my life, and the MREs are really good at that time.
@@imnotagamer22 you can’t just cook on all wood. You gonna cook on pine buddy? 😂 Plus, idk if you know this or not hurricane season is during the hottest part of the year. Last thing anyone wants to do when it’s hot outside and you have no a/c because you have no power or even if you do have a generator you’re not running the a/c because it’s not essential, is to cook over a hot open fire.
what i would do for the main courses is put just like a splash of water and not even bother heating it up. much better texture and you can eat it quicker that way
Hey, when a soldier is hungry, they will eat just about anything. My dad and husband ate C rations. Husband was a combat engineer. He said he would put the cans (they came in o d green cans).
On the exhaust manifolds of the trucks or heavy equipment that had been running. To heat up their food.
I love MREs. The vegetable crackers and jalapeno cheese spread are the best. Chilimac is the most popular. My mom got tonnes of boxes of warfighter rations for free because my dad would bring them home from training. So me and my sister could eat them all we want in between hurricane seasons.
This man speaks truth, chili mac and the pepper cheese both slapped
also the pound cake
@@danlorett2184 tbh most of the MRE desserts are pretty great
You sound like dano seasoning guy 😂😂
I still have MRE withdrawal from hurricane Irma and Ian. Love them no matter how bad they actually are.
I dunno why people don't like them. Every MRE I've eaten has been fine and some really good. Maybe them having to eat them constantly ruins it. They are a bitch to open everything etc. Seems like it could be streamlined somehow to be less trash.
"alright, let's get this out on a tray"
n i c e
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mkay 💯
You got the best one and there's tricks to getting the heater to work perfect
Wrap the food pouch in the heater nice and tight and then stuff it back in the box the food pouch came in. The heater works wonder as long as you have something to insulate it on the outside.
I'll be honest, 95% of the MREs are fine/good as long as you're not picky. I'll admit that I'm especially not picky (loving eating soup straight from the can, unheated) so MREs were delicious for me.
The best MRE side I've ever had though was crushed blueberries with milk powder. You add water, and it's like a blueberry smoothie.
Also, shoutout to all the comments about how the phrasing on the pack is literally "rock or something". One of my favorite details about it.
MREs are great. You just don't want to live off them for a day or two. But it's like a four course meal in a little packet.
The freeze dried peaches from the 90s were soo good I loved those things lol.
There are some that are fantastic in my opinion like beef stew and chili Mac. Chili Mac comes with jalapeño cheese spread. Then there are straight awful ones I refuse to touch, like the beef patty option. I liken it to dog food.
Unheated soup out of the can. Can't go there
Put the peanut butter in the heater with the main course and it's much better. Also wiggle the heater in the water for a bit and wait for it to start getting warm then put the stuff in. Takes around 10-15 mins for it to get hot
I tried making an mre for the first time the other day and the instructions acted like you'd die if you used slightly more water than it said lol. But I ended up needing to use like 2x as much as it said
@@enb3810 you do have to be careful because technically it is possible for it to either catch fire or pop with a fairly loud bang. But the military has to idiot proof everything because some poor sap somewhere fucked things up
@@enb3810 because fresh and new too much water makes it too hot and ruins the heater... But these are old, so...
If you ever get one of these again do that whole heater thing but it put it back in the box sleeve that the meal came in. That way it traps the lid down and keeps all that heat and steam in
The coco beverage powder/chocolate milk is the best drink hands down.
I legit love MREs my dad had a garage full of them after he left the army and we ate them every now and again for years
You left the heater's flap toward the top. You gotta trap the heat so make sure the opening stays closed with the box or use a rock or something. But fold the opening the other way
Those are the best.! Sometimes they have skittles or some chocolate bars in them . We got a box when had a hurricane hit our area . And lost power for two weeks.
"The bread's not that good." Never heard a more accurate thing in my entire life
Ah yes the notorious wheat snack bread. Only being beaten in a competition of disgust by rice cakes and chow hall eggs.
I had one while hunting with my dad a little bit ago. I can't remember what the the meal was but there was a pound cake in it and it was really good and even moist.
The one I like the most is the brisket and gravy. It also comes with scalloped potatoes or mashed potatoes. They are delicious.
I used to leave an mre on my dashboard when I went into work in the morning. By lunch the sun had moved just far enough to hit the mre through the windshield and get it nice and hot for me.
The heater may be old. That and they’re SUPER easy to screw up if you’re not meticulous about it. Most of the time (as long as it’s a good one), you do it just right and those things get hotter than a stove. I also wouldn’t recommend heating it inside, it releases some less than ideal fumes from the chemical reactions.
Oh god. As a teenager, i was sent to military camp. (It was a program for kids who have a parent in the military. They put you through mini boot camp, let you crawl in tanks, etc). We ate MRE's every day. So over them.. this brought back memories though!
Lived off these and jarred veggies from garden after Katrina.. Later on, other Marines thought I was nuts off rip because I liked em all.. And I still took a dook everyday.
The MREs we had did not have the heater. We’d either lay them on a warm engine block or just eat them cold. That was back in the early 1990s.
did they at least come with a rock or something?
They are MUCH worse cold and over the last 20 years many of the different meals are much better than in the 90s. Some of those would cure your hunger by nausea
I think heaters were late 1990s. I remember getting them in 1997. You can also use the fumes to make you go to sleep automatically. 60 infantry guys on a bus windows closed using MRE heaters was recipe for an accident
Having a taste of home while being far, far away really pushes your moral! Never underestimate that! 🥰
In my experience that doesn't taste like home😅😅😅😅
Morale*
Dankesehr! 🥰 @@Victor-bl2ge
Mres are great to keep around I highly recommend keeping one in your truck
Proved absolutely handy & Yummy little bit sticky waste at end is ok cuz dere was no way out especially having such illustrious bear kept tidy
We keep boxes of these for camping, kayak, and hiking trips. Also because we live on 80 acres of woodlands, so when the weather gets bad we’re kinda trapped. As long as you have water and an MRE, you’re good!
While in training, my fiancé and some others in the reserves didn’t want their MRE’s. Always up for a new experience, I ate them. There were a couple that were genuinely good, most were average. Nothing inedible. I’m glad I had the opportunity.
oh my god the Menu 24 Chipotle tacos i had once from my buddies old MRE was actually pretty solid for something meant to last 20+ years
I remember when I was in foods class someone from the military came in with a bunch of MRE’s and we had a competition to see what group could make the MRE taste the best. It was fun
You're a brave man. Also you can get that heater hotter, but yours maybhave been defective from being old.
Just like me 😢. Jk!
Me and a friend and his dad bought like 2 or 3 boxes of MREs for a road trip. They were actually pretty good, downside is that we got the ones like spaghetti or ravioli, his dad would get maple syrup paddy or hash browns. I've tried a bunch, I honestly enjoy them as a meal but that means you won't shit for a good min.
Also wanted to add that those heating pads either never worked or worked too well to the point of seeing a lot of steam, heat, and fizzing noises. First time, I thought it was about to explode
I've never had enough time in the field to actually heat them up. Plus, it doesn't make them that much more palatable.
the heater (normally) works pretty well actually, but you have to make sure that the water actually comes into contact with it and in my experience, it works better when its almost flat, raised just enough so that water doesnt get out of the bag
My Dad brought home some MREs in the 80s when I was a little kid after he got home from his summer training camp. Hadn’t thought about them in years but this video unlocked a really vivid memory for me! I could almost smell and taste the food as you opened it up! Listened to a pod cast about the science behind making MREs. It was impressive and fascinating. A LOT of hardcore science goes into those weird little pouches of food!
A tip for the heater, take a decent sip of water in your mouth then spit it around on both sides of the heater. Then kinda ruffle the haters a little so the water spreads better
Oh boy, that whole process really sounds appetizing! 😜
I used to do that out in the field I also found a trick to get the whole heater evenly hot is to close the end of the bag and tilt the water and press down on the pad and it would get the whole heater pretty hot
You got one of the good MREs! I'm jealous.
i miss mres some ppl hate em but i loved them. well, most of them. most of the time we traded in basic or traded different parts of our mres. he did give you a good one. my fav was the mac.
If you want to get it nice and hot, put the meal and heater back in the box. With the meal on top of the heater and the pouch folded over.
Just make sure you let it vent and keep it away from ignition sources, because the heater produces hydrogen and oxygen gases as a byproduct.
i am an absolute foodie, but for me, MRE's have a nostalgic appeal to them, they remind me of trying new ones with my dad, and to be honest, most are impressively decent to me.
This man really added salt to the MRE
they have salt packs included for a reason.... 🤪
@@rustybricks1924 it’s not like it’ll taste any better😅
@@saddoombringer2149he said that it wasn't bad at all and salt makes everything better. Idk what you're on about.
Haha, yeah I was surprised by that too since they already contain like 1000% of our daily salt allowance.
@@MrGibberish525I’ve been in the Marine Corps for almost 2 years. I have eaten countless MREs by now. Never, not ONCE, have I ever used a salt packet, even if I’m eating an MRE of my own accord. It’s just too much and I can’t imagine using that much in a single main meal bag
As a kiddo, we lost our house during Katrina. We stayed at a fire station and ate MREs every day for every meal. I remember my dad convincing us we were at a mini boot camp, where we would run around and exercise and play games to stay busy. It worked, we were very exhausted but constipated from the exercise MREs. Remember, always eat the gum! Helps the bowel movements lol
If I were hungry and in a situation where there was no fire, I'd be thankful af to have that meal! Even the raisins!😅
Say true 👍
Best tip I can give to using the mre heater is to add a lot more water than the fill line says. Your food will get PLENTY hot
No, they lose their zip big time, when they are “new” they get hot AF though.
I got so excited to see the raisins. Semi sweet healthy treat.
I would say give a Canadian variety a try. I remember those ones because we use them for a camping trip for 3 weeks. We wound up flipping our bus into a ditch and it turned out our captain had a week's worth of Canadian rations as a reward sitting for us in the bus so we wound up stuck there for four more days eating the best rations yet
You know, we went through Hurricane Ian...no power, no water. The Army National Guard really came through for the entire community. Cases of bottled water and MREs. I am a military veteran, and we were damn glad to get this.
Raisins were the most beneficial part of that meal....lol
Peanut butter is damn near a super food. It's one of the most nutrient and calorically dense foods, period. 2 tablespoons and you've got a decent percent of your daily vitamins.
Legume goop is underrated.
@@Phearsum nuts tie you up tho.
Sometimes you have to kind of knead the heater to help them activate if it's an old one.
I'm dying at the fact that the MRE package actually said: "rock or something".
Military grade baby!
Right, I always laugh when products are advertised as military grade. My response is always "so made by the lowest bidder, from the cheapest materials, in the shortest development/QC/production time? Yeah no thanks"
Don't let Minion get a hold of any of those raisins, please.
So I've heard that raisins can kill dogs.
But there are also raisin dog biscuits at the pet store?
@@coledibiase5971Huh?? Are you sure that they’re actually raisin and not some kind of substitute? Because raisins are so dangerous that they make chocolate seem like acceptable dog treats
@@coledibiase5971 depending on the size of the dog, a single raisin can be enough to bring on sudden kidney failure. Raisins/ grapes and currants are deadly to dogs. They're likely using a substitute like when carob is used and called "chocolate" for dogs.
Many things that are completely harmless to us like garlic, onions and paracetamol/acetaminophen can lead to an incredibly painful end to our pets.
Even basic indoor plants can be lethal to them.
@@jorlejocano not really, even a puppy would still need to eat a few for that to occur 😂 a 12 pound dog would need to eat around dozen.
@@axuwu6939y miniature dachshund pokey ate 24 full size school sale milk chocolate bars, he had the runs for a couple of days and that was it, the vet told me that it would take a much smaller dog to have died from that, so chocolate isn't as bad as everyone says, I still wouldn't feed it to my dog and I should add in no one should feed it to their dog, but it's not deadly, but a few raisins are, they can kill a dog in days
If you fill the bag with water and shake a little and then put it back in the box it came in for bout 10 mins, take it out and flip it to the other side, and wait ten more mins. That thing’ll be plenty hot. Add in a few squirts of jalapeño cheese spread or siracha and you’re golden. Gotta eat as much spicy stuff with them as possible so it’ll come out the other end
The thing about M.R.E's is that the heater has a relatively short life span where it will work with just putting water in. The secret is to put the water in and twist it like youd be getting water out a towel.
"On a rock... or something". I love that it says that
Them MREs are a lot better than advertised
gotta love minions calm smile at the beginning :D
The trick to the heater is to add just a half a thimble's worth of water, enough to activate heater not enough to cool the heater.
There's a channel called "The Courtesy Flush" that does games, RPGs, and a podcast bit. They have developed an MRE Wednesday series. Started as a bad decision to open an ancient MRE, but it has grown into people sending them MRE's from all over the world. Got so many they set up a randomizer to choose which one to crack open. Best I've seen has been the Brazilian and the Japanese MRE's.
The instructional picture legit says “rock or something” some of these soldiers must need it😂
I don’t think the word “legit” is needed in your comment.
@@XploreAz i don’t think your comment was needed nerd
@@collingalbraith4343 it was. Someone has to try and stop brainless people from saying “legit” all of the time. It’s like you all just learned a new word and then try to throw into every comment. Dummy.
@@collingalbraith4343 it was. Someone has to try and stop brainless people from saying “legit” all of the time. It’s like you all just learned a new word and then try to throw into every comment.
when I was in, the frankfurter MRE was the only one I considered to be edible. It came with a miniature bottle of Tabasco sauce which helped a lot. And you could also take the hot chocolate powder, add a bare minimum of water, and eat it as pudding instead of hot chocolate.
My dad used to bring home MRE's from work when I was a kid, and we'd eat them for fun at the kitchen table sometimes... almost all of them were gross, except for some of the pasta or stew options. The beef stew was pretty decent. My favorite parts were always the giant square cracker, which was ridiculously hard and dry, and the teeny-tiny glass bottle of tobasco sauce.
Those mini bottles of tobasco are a lot harder to find in MRE's these days; now they come in small packets, like ketchup does. One day my husband (while prepping his lunch in the field) found one of these tiny bottles. He saved it for me and brought it home, and I keep it, unopened, in my spice cupboard. 😊
If he'd given you a veggie omelet, the friendship would be irreparable.
All ones I've had were pretty good except for that omelette You're right on that.
Ah yes the vomelet
@@benpeters-brown5317 😜
vomlet
I had that exactly one time during basic and still gag thinking of it
Army wife, here! This is one of the best MRE’s that they made! Surprised there wasn’t cheese, instead of peanut butter.
the cheese is rare, most had peanut butter. When i was in if you got the cheeze packet it was like winning a scratch off.
@@badjuju2612 that’s some good cheese! 🤣🤣
As a combat veteran.... when I was hungry, I appreciated food. Some MREs are awesome some not so good.. when I was truly hungry. I appreciated the food. The peanut butter or Jalapeno cheddar cheese was best and could be swapped for something I liked.
Short form... when I was hungry, it was good. Us soldiers learned take what you get, be happy, continue mission.
I survived, and now I learned a bit more respect for spaghettios.
Totally different experience but I lived on the streets as a teen and was generally starving. A local church provided a hot meal three days a week and holy heck you learn to appreciate food no matter what it is! When you’re really hungry, food takes on a whole other meaning. Even a plain slice of bread 💚 So yeah while my experience is very different from yours I do understand what you’re saying ^_^
Thank you for your service 🙏🏻
I like to use the saying “hunger is the best seasoning” when you are grateful for anything to eat when you’re starving or have been out all day working yourself ragged.
@@whiterabbit6148 I call it “hunger sauce” - makes everything taste better ^_^
I personally love mres and I’ve never even been in the service I just love that there healthy balanced easily prepared meals and you got one of the best ones for sure
You can put salt in the heater it makes it hotter. Or if you really wanna warm it up getting it going a little bit roll it up until it inflates with the fumes then quickly open it and light the fumes on fire a fireball will shoot down into the heat for a second and it’ll get it real hot real fast
I live in LA and our WSHTF supplies include MRE’s. Before Covid hit you could get a case for $40-$60. Now they’re about triple that. Thanks for your videos!
Me and my friend would sit in his car in college eating only these all semester lol they're pretty good tbh
Actually, MREs are great, but if you have no other options they are GREAT.
I’m excited to see you eat it! Also nervous for your digestion… but excited first!!
I’m a sailor, and I remember trading things we had in our shop for MRE’s low key half the time they were better than what ever we were getting from the galley
Steve1989 would be proud
HELL YEAH BROTHER THAT'S THE COMMENT IM LOOKING FOR
He didn’t get it out onto a tray though, 2/10 barely watchable /s
These are what Burt Gummer lives on and if they’re good enough for that legendary homesteader they’re good enough for anyone.
It’s 3 AM for me right now and you just made me hungry
Overseas we were told to mix everything as is salt for your meal, peanut butter for your bread and your pastry and it was a full meal. You got all of your carbs and nutrients from that one packet and if you’re feeling froggy, you can make fun little pocket bombs out of the heater packs
Anyone that can eat American MRE casually deserves respect
People need to keep in mind; MRE is meant to give you a high caloric intake sufficient to allow you to live. Tasting good is a luxury.
The three cheese tortellini with smarties, a pound cake, and the jerky is the pinnacle of MREs and I would literally prefer it to a 3 michellin star restaurant
For future reference, if your heater is not working, use your hands to massage the heater a bit. Isn't 100% effective but it works most of the time
tried an mre once, would actually kill to have one again. you’d think they’re awful, but they are so good!!
Ye MRE's aren t as bad as every one leads to believe...that or they are just pansies haha
Ive had a couple of good ones... Im all about the cheese spread heh
I had a friend who used to go to a local food pantry. One time they were passing out MRE's to people needing food. So we tried it just like you found out. It wasn't absolutely horrible , but it wasn't great. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get. I think you needed to put the raisins on the peanut butter.
The heater pack works better in sunlight.