I've been homeless, and the Salvation Army people used to give out various hot cans like this. Trust me, living on the Birmingham streets in winter, these things are amazing life savers. (and the volunteers who give them out are just fucking awesome, lovely, incredible humans....)
The self heating can seems less of something meant to be marketed as "hassle free" and more as an alternative for people without access to cooking implements at all (homeless, frequent campers, really low income, etc.) and on that front, it's pretty good, as a concept.
I had to sleep on a park bench for 2 weeks and i would love to have that can, back there. It doesn't look to great, but you have to admit that having a full can of warm food without fire can be a lifesaver.
It's only "good" based on a dire situation. same for anything. If you're starving you'd happily eat a half eaten apple no question. It doesn't get bonus points just out of the perspective it COULD be all you have to eat. At the end of the day it's still just a ready meal that is "alright" but in terms of quality it will always pale in comparison to the real thing.
It's an FRH. You have a water permeable pouch containing magnesium, iron, and salt. When you add water(there's a bladder being pierced in this heating unit) it has an exothermic(oxidation-reduction) reaction. This is, as stated, used in self-heating bentos. It's also in MREs, both civilian and military. Considerably safer and easier to package than an Esbit stove. More likely to fail and non-reusable though(rations with Esbits tend to include multiple fuel tabs to accommodate daily rather than single serving rations) If you want to see cooking cans with an Esbit, lookup steve1989mreinfo and his Italian MRE videos.
I always come back to this video, every year. I will continue to do so. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season, everyone reading this comment, and you too, Ashens.
It could be Christmas dinner for starving Africans. I see it now: The pastor passes cans of Christmas Dinner to the congregation, who receive them, puzzled and wondering what to do with the metal devices. The pastor demonstrates the steps labelled on the can, and half of the Africans proceed to poke their eyes with the metal stick. The other half suffer hand injuries from wrestling with the can. Everyone waits for the food to heat up, during which the pastor says grace and the others awkwardly imitate the sounds that he makes. As the scene draws to a close, Jesus pops up with loaves of bread and fishes while Santa gives all the children a year's supply of appetite suppressants.
Every christmas gets sadder and sadder for me. The only stable point giving me some comfort, i don't know why, is rewatching this video. Knowing that when the rest of my family will be gone i will be eating one of these cans all alone. I hope that next year i won't need to watch this video once again, meaning something has changed. Also the comment about the man having been homeless is always there and i read it everytime
@CiceroCAPM I swear we do not have years any longer we have months. Time sure does fly by. And now I just read that they no longer make R2D2 self heater cans any longer. Are we not allowed some type of peace?
It is. The point of suicide prevention is trying to make life liveable, instead of pressuring suffering (to the point of wanting to die) people into staying alive for the sake of some moralising twat's conscience..
The thing is, "this can save you" only really works if someone gives it to you. If you're homeless, for the price of this, you could get a lot more. Sure the food would be cheaper, but you'd get more.
I see a person who has been divorced about a thousand times, given up on life, sat in a dimly lit one room flat in a crap part of the city with wallpaper coming off the walls, peirces the can and injures themselves in the process, sits on an airbed that falls apart when they sit on it, it is 1am and they are sat in the dark in tears eating it, wondering what the hell they have done with their life.
Sprouts not included, thank god. You've not been at my family's place after my grandmother and the dog have been at the sprouts. It's like the Somme 1916, chlorine gas, mustard gas.
weird they go with the sprout as well, the sprout is well known for it's divisive quality. I'm personally a big fan but there is a significant subsection of society that see the common household sprout as nothing more than the devil's testicles. As this fine product lack's the sprout , I'm wondering if maybe there is a message that us mortal's do not get, or maybe they had brought a lot of Sprout stock images and had to use them before the new year, is the deep state Brussel's sprout industrial complex using this as a nefarious ploy to increase Sprout adoption.
@Henry Revell I'm not. Especially compared to the other things he's tried, this actually looks like food. Then again, he DID say that he wouldn't recommend it to anyone, sooo...
I've eaten quite a few Hot Cans when I've been camping and such, for what they are they are really good. I'd imagine they'd be good in survival situations too.
+Ryan Harper no, in survival situations you would hunt and gather food sourced from this lush planet you live in just like your ancestors did and the only reason you are on this planet today. you would be that one survivor who died of starvation next to a field of grazing sheep and chickens and a fresh-water river full of spawning salmon just because you finished your last can of emergency food a few days ago wouldn't you? -.-
Made something like this one year when most of my family was under the weather and no one really was in the mood to cook and sit down to eat a big meal even for Christmas. I ended up working with my sister because out of everyone we were the two least sick, to grab the biggest stock pot that we could find and throw in a bunch of turkey thighs, cubes of ham, potatoes, other various veggies and soup accoutrements, a few crushed cranberries, and the seasoning that we were going to use for the gravy, and made a soup of Christmas dinner. It was a hit
Considering most of us are alone on Christmas these days, eating out of a can seems like a strict upgrade from eating a sandwich next to the kitchen sink...
Jason Miller the powergrid of the USA is way worse then the power grid of Europe. You're constantly at risk for major blackouts because of the age and state of the major power grids that haven't bin updated in the past decades.
I was homeless for a large portion of my life (family disowned me as soon as they were legally able to) and HotCans saved my fucking life when I was staying at a shelter. They do look like shit, but when you've been on the street for 5 years, this looks like a god damn gourmet dinner. When I was one of those poor chaps on the sidewalk outside the grocery store begging for a pound and someone gave me anything like this, I'd cry out of joy. But yeah, now that I live with my friend in the US and I have normal food, this does look... Very different to me. Odd to think about how I used to worship these and now they almost look inedible.
Glad that you got outta that shitty situation, fuck your parents and gl with the rest of your life, may it be 100x better than what you have already faced. cheers
"Ashens reviewed our limited edition Christmas dinner in a Can, smells good, tastes good but it’s not an alternative to a real Christmas dinner. We agree! " - HotCan Company Yes that is a quote from the people who made it.
I was thinking that too. That this is like those self heating ramen noodles they have in that show. But that said I've had self heating coffee and hot chocolate stuff. As well as meals. But generally they come in a box with a tray to heat in after adding the water to the lime. It started as military tech.
Is it weird that my first instinct was to worry about the couch? It's just too vital part of the series; maybe even more important than Ashen himself. Like it'd ruin everything if one day he loaded a video from a faux leather recliner or something.
these old ashens food reviews are SO nostalgic to me. Reminds me of being up late at night before school trying to binge watch as much content as I can before having to go to bed 😂
this doesn’t look bad. looks like some of the stew my grandma would make and it always tasted amazing. also looks like school food though and i was not a huge fan of the school food. i think grandmas seasonings are what made it good
This is actually kinda sad. Like, imagine a homeless guy, on Christmas, in the snow, eating this with nobody to love him, except maybe his dog, whom he occasionally feeds from the can, as a single tear falls down his cheek.
Of all the elements of a Christmas dinner to promote, why choose the polarising one - the brussel sprout? Particularly when it's not even in the damn thing.
i think that they should sell these everywhere for the homeless ..its great one pund for a heated dinner ..they need these sorta things all around the world for one dollar ..the homeless could use it and still have a hot meal and best of all eat :) not just for christamas either ..all year around :) like if you agree
I know your heart's in the right place (the MLP avatar is a sure sign), but if the stuff inside the "magic can" is garbage I couldn't choke down myself, I could not, in all good conscience, offer these to the less-fortunate. The homeless and those in emergencies deserve some nutrition and flavor...food prepared with love and respect for their humanity and dignity, not reheated, rehydrated chemical chunks. A simple homemade hamburger soup, stew, or chili served from a kitchen and enjoyed in a warm hall is light-years better than a Hot Can in some alley. For the same reasons, when I buy food to donate, I try to get the best for nutrition and taste, like whole-grain pasta and a flavorful sauce instead of white spaghetti and Ragu. I hope I don't come off as some Mr. Superior, but, having gone hungry a couple of times, I feel keenly that food is about savoriness, sustaining all one's nutrient needs, and love in action, not just a can of random stuff with fancy heat.
No, eating that for 365 days would probably kill them with kidney failure. It's better to just start an organisation whereby restaurants can donate unsold food which are to be served in suburbs/area with a large amount of homeless people which were to be handed out hot.
Realtalk, both pop bubble and chrischoy9 have the right ideas. The way things are going, the more methods we have for solving hunger (especially among the homeless), the better.
these are crash cans. there are loads of different ones and are meant to be used in situations where you cant cook, like half way up a mountain or as back-up rations
This is what they feed firefighters whilst we're on big jobs though I've never had a christmas dinner one. Usually irish stew or sausage and beans. they're not that bad when you're exhausted and hungry.
That might be a bit of undigested beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato in that dinner. If you see you old dead friend wrapped in chains, locks and strong boxes that might be the dinner or someone come to teach you a lesson, more likely the dinner. Merry Christmas Ashens and God bless ya! :)
What pains me is that presumably, there would have been a project team that came up with this idea, planned and schemed it out, developed it, tasted it, made it as best as they could and then genuinely thought that they could, as you said, market it as Christmas Dinner and not "chunky soup" or something.
This might be for somebody who travels a lot, truck drivers and railroad engineers in particular. Considering that this is a self heating can, it may have been made for people who is cold climates, such as Canada and Russia. The only thing that I think this would be useful for is making stews and soups.
I'm a car salesman and part time truck driver (on weekends) and I do have trucker friends. No this isn't it. No trucker with self respect would bother with canned food, or any of this. At the very least they'd find a good donner kebab shop and eat there on their break. Railroad crews... don't know, but I assume there are laws governing how long they can be away from home too. Truckers find amazing food places at highway rest areas, or near highways. Usually the info is shared on CB, or nowadays in trucking groups on facebook. Personally I've had amazing lunch in the Czech republic, while on my break. Lunch cost me about 9 Euro. It was barded meat, had garlic, carrots and celery in it, flavored to perfection, with mashed potatoes on the side and gravy. It would be a good treat for someone like a soldier, who's been out in the field for some time... a warm meal is a warm meal and a moral booster... or maybe as a thing you take when camping. If you've been trekking all day, something like this hot can would become the most delicious thing you've ever eaten. I love trekking and camping, so I obviously buy some canned foods and they are delicious when you've worked up an appetite. However, I would never buy any of those canned foods at home where I have a normal kitchen where I can cook high quality food and don't expend as much energy, cause my job revolves around sitting in an office all day.
I can just imagine a fellow neckbeard in his mums basement shivering and is eating out of the can with a spork wearing a chrismas hat and wrapped in a blanket. Aawww poor thing.
Matt James I meant it like "Oh that poor guy." not like "Oh, that poor guy is all poor." Hell, in that case I'm pretty poor myself. I don't know if you're like joking back with me or if you're serious but I meant it to be funny. Just think about the sort that would consider this Christmas dinner. Ever see "Lonely Guy" with Steve Martin?
Actually I saw a comment on here a while ago, about how they have out these meals for homeless around winter, and summer. Pretty much it was great if they couldn't get to a homeless shelter or if they were all full. They also last a while, and for them having food that is warm is great. So it's really good for that.
Ill try it it looks very good back when I had no money and could afford no food I had to eat trash to survive so this looks very good to me I'll try a can!
***** unless youve been in his situation you have absolutely no right to judge him. As someone who's been homeless as a child, i can say that not everyone is as lucky as you are. Get your head out of your ass and maybe open your eyes to the world around you.
I've been homeless, and the Salvation Army people used to give out various hot cans like this. Trust me, living on the Birmingham streets in winter, these things are amazing life savers. (and the volunteers who give them out are just fucking awesome, lovely, incredible humans....)
Glad you are no longer homeless, cheers.
Congragulations :)
+Anna Path thats my dad be nice
+dan saunders she is being nice
No microwave. No kettle. No family. Living alone in a house. Hot can.
Not everybody has a family.
i know right its awesome
You think people who can afford a house would eat this?
More like "living alone in a tiny 1-room studio apartment".
A pig. In a cage. On antibiotics.
@@aaclovern9804 fitter happier more productive
The self heating can seems less of something meant to be marketed as "hassle free" and more as an alternative for people without access to cooking implements at all (homeless, frequent campers, really low income, etc.) and on that front, it's pretty good, as a concept.
That's what I was thinking this is great for those survival prep situations to keep somewhere in case u get lost or something
That drop of food you dropped on the sofa is giving me anxiety still 6 years later. 3:56
No-one cares stupid
Super MAX nigga shut the fuck up
Small Oranges no one cares stupid
krazy • 7 years ago • updated nigga shut the fuck up
Everyone cares, smart
and if you dont open the can after piercing it , you have a Christmas dinner in a cannon
sternleiche how has this comment not received more laughs? What is wrong with you people?
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I had to sleep on a park bench for 2 weeks and i would love to have that can, back there.
It doesn't look to great, but you have to admit that having a full can of warm food without fire can be a lifesaver.
Calila PloyPloy how are you doing three years on?
i wanna know as well. hope you're doing well
Hope things have improved for you
He died eating canned chicken soup
@@jerrysmith8326 oh no
In a nuclear apocalypse, when you're in a bunker, this would probably be a gourmet style meal.
It's only "good" based on a dire situation. same for anything. If you're starving you'd happily eat a half eaten apple no question. It doesn't get bonus points just out of the perspective it COULD be all you have to eat. At the end of the day it's still just a ready meal that is "alright" but in terms of quality it will always pale in comparison to the real thing.
Austendo or zombie apocalypse
star man be real here
well... were almost there...
NintendoMusic Corona virus
Someone get this man a dinner table.
and a sandwich
@MoezMedia 98 until he spills the soup on the couch
In a can
Legendary sofa
Buy- 987,754,666
Sell- 10
Or a brain
"rehydrated water"
just think about that for a bit
Aaron They think that 1+1= I R SMERD
Just add water
It's easier to handle than dehydrated water.
@ichaukan Or alcohol-free vodka.
@@0xlamon that is one of the the few good mistakes that came out of a bad night of drinking
For those bitter sweet post-apocalyptic Christmas dinners... :'(
+Moshugaani Fallout 4? too soon?
pretty much
Vandoeun Long Well I should hope there's christmas-in-a-can in Fallout 4 and it better come with an achievement!
+Moshugaani haha I agree
+10 rads
Food may not be good, but the technology is cool.
I hear some Bento in Japan utilize a similar heating mechanism.
It's an FRH. You have a water permeable pouch containing magnesium, iron, and salt. When you add water(there's a bladder being pierced in this heating unit) it has an exothermic(oxidation-reduction) reaction. This is, as stated, used in self-heating bentos. It's also in MREs, both civilian and military.
Considerably safer and easier to package than an Esbit stove. More likely to fail and non-reusable though(rations with Esbits tend to include multiple fuel tabs to accommodate daily rather than single serving rations) If you want to see cooking cans with an Esbit, lookup steve1989mreinfo and his Italian MRE videos.
The food is not bad - it just doesn't quite have the whole ethos of Christmas dinner.
China they have a self heated hot pot box, pretty impressive thing were made
I could see it do better with stews and chilis.
I always come back to this video, every year. I will continue to do so. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season, everyone reading this comment, and you too, Ashens.
Thank you!
This might be nice for homeless people without access to a stove or microwave.
exactly what I was thinking
better than an MRE, having eaten two myself. But, i was pushing the shelf life, mine was ten years of age!
***** maybe, but again,they say ten year shelf life. So i ate some from the late 90's, early 2000's. You can see the difference it could make!
It could be Christmas dinner for starving Africans. I see it now:
The pastor passes cans of Christmas Dinner to the congregation, who receive them, puzzled and wondering what to do with the metal devices.
The pastor demonstrates the steps labelled on the can, and half of the Africans proceed to poke their eyes with the metal stick. The other half suffer hand injuries from wrestling with the can.
Everyone waits for the food to heat up, during which the pastor says grace and the others awkwardly imitate the sounds that he makes.
As the scene draws to a close, Jesus pops up with loaves of bread and fishes while Santa gives all the children a year's supply of appetite suppressants.
also might be a good idea for college students, probably better for you then rammen at least
You have to admit though, this is pretty innovative stuff!
That and the fact that it's delicious. I'd actually eat from that.
A. Theil its a really cute present for homeless people that make their christmas much better :)
Rick Sanchez Thats a great idea
Yeah if you like eating decay
It's literally an MRE with a flameless ration heater, can form. It's been in use since the early 21st century
Every christmas gets sadder and sadder for me. The only stable point giving me some comfort, i don't know why, is rewatching this video. Knowing that when the rest of my family will be gone i will be eating one of these cans all alone. I hope that next year i won't need to watch this video once again, meaning something has changed.
Also the comment about the man having been homeless is always there and i read it everytime
They no longer exist unfortunately mate, I ate the last ever tin produced in 2015 and am forever grateful.
I feel the pain homie. Sadly here I am watching the r2d2 can video now.
@@FallenWolf64 hi friend. Here we go another year, again... neverending nightmare.
@CiceroCAPM I swear we do not have years any longer we have months. Time sure does fly by. And now I just read that they no longer make R2D2 self heater cans any longer. Are we not allowed some type of peace?
Hope this year is better
It makes me sad to think about someone who would have no other way of getting a warm meal on christmas
But in a plus side, it’s better than not having a warm meal at all.
If You're homeless, This can save you. If you are not, And You're eating This alone on christmas... Remember that suicide isn't an option
Nor taking your frustration out on your landlord who gave you crap for so many years because he's just a pure d**k.
It is. The point of suicide prevention is trying to make life liveable, instead of pressuring suffering (to the point of wanting to die) people into staying alive for the sake of some moralising twat's conscience..
you spelled "is" wrong
+heart.1994 live in what way exactly? XD
The thing is, "this can save you" only really works if someone gives it to you. If you're homeless, for the price of this, you could get a lot more. Sure the food would be cheaper, but you'd get more.
There is something horribly depressing about this idea...
True the very thought of having to eat that for Christmas dinner is like something out of a modern day version of A Christmas Carol.
I was thinking the same thing throughout the whole video :(
I can see someone eating this on christmas alone in their apartment
I see a person who has been divorced about a thousand times, given up on life, sat in a dimly lit one room flat in a crap part of the city with wallpaper coming off the walls, peirces the can and injures themselves in the process, sits on an airbed that falls apart when they sit on it, it is 1am and they are sat in the dark in tears eating it, wondering what the hell they have done with their life.
A moment of silence for those who actually had this for their Christmas Dinner.
I had a ham and cheese sandwich for dinner on Christmas ⛄🎄
@@ikitclaw3299 im 90% sure i ate ramen noodles for xmas meal
that little drop on the sofa was driving me absolutely insane. aahhhhh
Right? Clean that up before it sets! It's all I could think about.
Bitch don't come for them. We all sittin here watching a stranger eat canned shit.
Adrian Ibarra LMFAOOOO😭😂😂😂😂😂
Legend has it that it still hasn't been cleared away to this day!
Why tf he opening it on a sofa anyway
Seems like a decent thing to buy in bulk and distribute to the homeless I think.
Graylord too expensive but for an occasion I guess
@@itachi_uchiha1538 perhaps christmas? smh
poisoncurls yeah that’s what I was saying
poisoncurls smh
@@itachi_uchiha1538 lol
The fact that this exists made my cry just a little bit.
Well, that and the fact that most holidays work like this for me.
suppose its good for homeless people
+Dan Rowbotham Yes because I'm sure homeless people have the money to spend on instant-meals. :)
+BenjaminGoose no but you and I may have enough to spend on them :) :) :)
These cost a pound, I think. I'm sure that most homeless people can spare a pound for a self-heating meal.
ZeroClarkThirty sorry i dont keep record of the economics of homeless people or canned self heating christmas dinners
+ZeroClarkThirty Ashens used the phrase "Far more expensive," which is not generally something I'd associate with a one pound product.
the thought of a lonely old man eating this at christmas makes me sob gently
He might be lonely but rich?
@@tonyatthebeach there's much more to life than money! From the lonely 'old' man...
@@maxshep2829 How am I support a family without money? I hate the system but I can't escape it
@@tonyatthebeachI doubt a rich man would be eating this at Christmas.
@@garymac5571 True
At least it looks better than the whole chicken in a can, which looks nasty.
The can itself is a pretty neat invention. I can see myself taking some with chilli or pasta with me while I'm going hiking.
*****
Yah they work pretty damn good for things like soup though it's expensive.
+Inkshooter I remember seeing these types of cans marketed for hikers and such.
I've had a hot chocolate can... or a mug with me on a hike.
+Janne Tiensuu It is the sort of thing that comes in quite handy when you're in the middle of nowhere, isn't it?
TheDevilbuster Especially in the winter, when there's a meter of snow on the ground.
:-D
Sprouts not included, thank god. You've not been at my family's place after my grandmother and the dog have been at the sprouts. It's like the Somme 1916, chlorine gas, mustard gas.
You cant beat a few sprouts! 😋
The false advertising of that sprout on the can really pissed me off. How dare they!
Oh damn, didnt expect to find an old comment from you here :D been subbed for a while
weird they go with the sprout as well, the sprout is well known for it's divisive quality.
I'm personally a big fan but there is a significant subsection of society that see the common household sprout as nothing more than the devil's testicles.
As this fine product lack's the sprout , I'm wondering if maybe there is a message that us mortal's do not get, or maybe they had brought a lot of Sprout stock images and had to use them before the new year, is the deep state Brussel's sprout industrial complex using this as a nefarious ploy to increase Sprout adoption.
I thought the imagery was clear: if you expect a brussel sprout in this concoction, get forked!
This actually looks somewhat decent and I kinda wanna try it now.
I really hope you are joking my friend
@Henry Revell I'm not. Especially compared to the other things he's tried, this actually looks like food.
Then again, he DID say that he wouldn't recommend it to anyone, sooo...
I mean it's basically a turkey stew in heavy beef gravy with potatoes and carrots.
I'd eat it.
Coco I kinda wanna try it too
@@cocoelacanth I think when he said he wouldn't recommend it he was saying that because of the price for what you would be getting.
I've eaten quite a few Hot Cans when I've been camping and such, for what they are they are really good. I'd imagine they'd be good in survival situations too.
I've only had the chocolate ones, and they're surprisingly nice.
+Ryan Harper no, in survival situations you would hunt and gather food sourced from this lush planet you live in just like your ancestors did and the only reason you are on this planet today.
you would be that one survivor who died of starvation next to a field of grazing sheep and chickens and a fresh-water river full of spawning salmon just because you finished your last can of emergency food a few days ago wouldn't you? -.-
lmfao
+ntwa dumela Someone must have shit in your cheerios.
I assume there are better options than the christmas dinner
Made something like this one year when most of my family was under the weather and no one really was in the mood to cook and sit down to eat a big meal even for Christmas. I ended up working with my sister because out of everyone we were the two least sick, to grab the biggest stock pot that we could find and throw in a bunch of turkey thighs, cubes of ham, potatoes, other various veggies and soup accoutrements, a few crushed cranberries, and the seasoning that we were going to use for the gravy, and made a soup of Christmas dinner. It was a hit
If you pour it over mash I bet it would taste fantastic.
if you cook it in the whole chicken in a can fat and dip the trekking burger in it how would it taste.
+Jelley Peanuts it would come alife.
Stuff like this is really good over white bread
Jelley Peanuts Oh god, not the canned chicken
Jelley Peanuts WHY XD
'an excellent disappointment' - Chef Excellence
"An excellent anticlimax"
"An excellent comment."
"An Excellent Breakdown"
OP's quote is from "Chef Excellence Showcase", BTW.
You got me at "maybe horse"
he got me at "You have to eat it with an allen key"
and the "Your seal of quality" referring to the qr code
Top notch humour
If there was nothing else, I think I would be thankful for this.
I can see Bill from King of the Hill eating this
Yeah, they all eat this, Zoidberg from Futurama, Moe from the Simpsons, Meg from the Family Guy... You name it.
I think it looked quite tasty actually...
+ANIMAL MOTHER I feel the need to throw in an obligatory "I've eaten worse".
+нет русский
Looks like diarrhea.
+нет русский Can't imagine what's your daily ration then
+не русский I'd smash...
не русский Don't judge food by how it looks.
The can itself is infinitely more awesome than any Poundland item I've seen thus far.
Considering most of us are alone on Christmas these days, eating out of a can seems like a strict upgrade from eating a sandwich next to the kitchen sink...
Genius invention for homeless people or the next time when the power grid will fail a large part of the US
You know what is another genius invention? Fire.
PufferPez lmao
its handy for truckers
Jason Miller the powergrid of the USA is way worse then the power grid of Europe. You're constantly at risk for major blackouts because of the age and state of the major power grids that haven't bin updated in the past decades.
That's what I was thinking good for the homeless
I was homeless for a large portion of my life (family disowned me as soon as they were legally able to) and HotCans saved my fucking life when I was staying at a shelter. They do look like shit, but when you've been on the street for 5 years, this looks like a god damn gourmet dinner. When I was one of those poor chaps on the sidewalk outside the grocery store begging for a pound and someone gave me anything like this, I'd cry out of joy.
But yeah, now that I live with my friend in the US and I have normal food, this does look... Very different to me. Odd to think about how I used to worship these and now they almost look inedible.
Glad that you got outta that shitty situation, fuck your parents and gl with the rest of your life, may it be 100x better than what you have already faced. cheers
Nepeta Leijon What did they disown you for?
~for being the best girl~
Why were you disowned?
TheITChap Aye, because I'm gay. Glad I got out of that homophobic shithole.
"Ashens reviewed our limited edition Christmas dinner in a Can, smells good, tastes good but it’s not an alternative to a real Christmas dinner. We agree! "
- HotCan Company
Yes that is a quote from the people who made it.
Well they own it atleast
I am more amazed about the fact of doing this demonstration on the couch. That drop sitting there the whole time.
This reminds me of those instant instant noodles they have in Cowboy Bebop.
I wish we had those
I was thinking that too. That this is like those self heating ramen noodles they have in that show. But that said I've had self heating coffee and hot chocolate stuff. As well as meals. But generally they come in a box with a tray to heat in after adding the water to the lime. It started as military tech.
I don't remember that. 0_0 What episode?
+The KaBlammer the movie I think
+Steven W That would explain a lot.
I never SAW the movie.
I don't know if it's the whole British Christmas feeling or if it's because of you, but i watch this video at least once a month to get comfortable.
Still do?
@@Klearith I'll be dammed if one day I won't
@@Klearith Merry Christmas
@@enricocarlino7110 thank you! I wish you a merry Christmas as well
What a nice video
If someone actually eats this for christmas, I feel sorry for them.
Feel bad for me
Sanya Bennett #prayforsanya
ty my friend
*****
:(
that would be really sad...
I can just imagine serving this up to my family on Christmas, they'd kick the shit out of me
Is this on Amazon? I want to try it because it really doesn't look half bad. Of course, I don't actually plan to eat it on Christmas.
Probably
Yeah I would eat it too... Not for Christmas obviously.
You're right, it looks *_all_* bad.
I hope not, those poor workers don't deserve to have this explode on them.
What you said at 4:43 just made me spit out my drink and laugh. "I think it's turkey...could be horse."
The fact that just a few weeks after this video got uploaded the huge scandal about the horse meat broke is even funnier
Self-heating? They spelled self-hating wrong.
I thought it was hating haha
This would be lifesaving for the homeless to have in stock.
Or if you really need to save up on gas or electric.
"oh no, not the couch!" LMAO
SOFA. ITS A SOFA.
yeah i'm a New Zealander, not a Yanky. Who cares anyway, you got the idea.
I'm from the UK and call it a couch lol ^^^
Amber Gwillim TRAITORRRRRRRRRRR!!!1!!!1!!11
I'm from the USA and I say both couch and sofa
Is it weird that my first instinct was to worry about the couch? It's just too vital part of the series; maybe even more important than Ashen himself. Like it'd ruin everything if one day he loaded a video from a faux leather recliner or something.
The couch is our life.
I'd still eat that to be honest.
Yes
Alisa Tomasetti I’d drink it lmao
Alisa Tomasetti this is also coming from a girl who drank ketchup and layered everything in ketchup when I was little.
these old ashens food reviews are SO nostalgic to me. Reminds me of being up late at night before school trying to binge watch as much content as I can before having to go to bed 😂
This is the sort of thing wealthy people would give to their pets...
I can just imagine some snooty dog wearing a 50 caret diamond necklace, getting his face burned off by the steam coming off this thing while heating.
+brainjuice654 not just wealthy people!
Cameron Bell Most people wouldn't pay that much for this.
nd den I rape de pets legit hardcore m8
+Sir. Defalt 0 nice me too
One would think this would cost more to manufacture than the price it is sold for.
It's just water,limestone,food and a can.So, not exactly expensive.
Quiabo Crasher don't forget plastic and metal ;3
Yea,right
Rogue Quiabo
>food
Are you sure?
*****
No.
it seems like a Christmas dinner for someone who is lost in a forest or on a mountain
this doesn’t look bad. looks like some of the stew my grandma would make and it always tasted amazing. also looks like school food though and i was not a huge fan of the school food. i think grandmas seasonings are what made it good
I feel like only person who loved school food
Those meatballs in gravy or chocolate pudding were so good
@@guser436 school food was the best. seriously i’d rather have a variety every day of that good stuff than the cheap junk i eat now trying to survive
@@Todomo so relatable
the christmas dinner actually looks quite yummy...
no it really doesn't
somekindoflandcow Opinions can't be wrong. They're opinions.
***** Agreed
Ares Craft I love being alone
#Lifeofanautist
***** this one can
I could've sworn I've seen this in a can of Whiskas before now. :P
This is probably the equivalent of high-grade dog food
Was going to say the same thing. Just like Whiskas.
Plasticback samezies
Oh fuck it's Nathan
i’m out here just trying to watch some videos before bed and you’re here
This is actually kinda sad. Like, imagine a homeless guy, on Christmas, in the snow, eating this with nobody to love him, except maybe his dog, whom he occasionally feeds from the can, as a single tear falls down his cheek.
The feels man...
NO GOD
NO GOD PLEASE NO
I CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN
and then someone walks past him
laughs at him
and spits in his face
the feels man
the feels :'(
:(
+Vladimir Poontang ahhahahahaha and theres me in my loveely warm house ahahhahahhahahhahahah
No microwave. No kettle. No taste buds. No dignity. Just Hot Can.
Wow, it's like a civilian MRE. O_o
I'm half tempted to buy some of these.
Of all the elements of a Christmas dinner to promote, why choose the polarising one - the brussel sprout? Particularly when it's not even in the damn thing.
The Concise Statement technically without sprouts that was just a roast dinner in a can
i think that they should sell these everywhere for the homeless ..its great one pund for a heated dinner ..they need these sorta things all around the world for one dollar ..the homeless could use it and still have a hot meal and best of all eat :) not just for christamas either ..all year around :) like if you agree
I know your heart's in the right place (the MLP avatar is a sure sign), but if the stuff inside the "magic can" is garbage I couldn't choke down myself, I could not, in all good conscience, offer these to the less-fortunate. The homeless and those in emergencies deserve some nutrition and flavor...food prepared with love and respect for their humanity and dignity, not reheated, rehydrated chemical chunks. A simple homemade hamburger soup, stew, or chili served from a kitchen and enjoyed in a warm hall is light-years better than a Hot Can in some alley.
For the same reasons, when I buy food to donate, I try to get the best for nutrition and taste, like whole-grain pasta and a flavorful sauce instead of white spaghetti and Ragu.
I hope I don't come off as some Mr. Superior, but, having gone hungry a couple of times, I feel keenly that food is about savoriness, sustaining all one's nutrient needs, and love in action, not just a can of random stuff with fancy heat.
That's an amazing idea
No, eating that for 365 days would probably kill them with kidney failure.
It's better to just start an organisation whereby restaurants can donate unsold food which are to be served in suburbs/area with a large amount of homeless people which were to be handed out hot.
Realtalk, both pop bubble and chrischoy9 have the right ideas. The way things are going, the more methods we have for solving hunger (especially among the homeless), the better.
Truly the best video on TH-cam
these are crash cans. there are loads of different ones and are meant to be used in situations where you cant cook, like half way up a mountain or as back-up rations
The saddest christmas ever.
Less sadder than no food.
This is what they feed firefighters whilst we're on big jobs though I've never had a christmas dinner one. Usually irish stew or sausage and beans. they're not that bad when you're exhausted and hungry.
Nearly Christmas 2020 so I thought I would get in the mood with this gem of a video
This video is as traditional as Slade.
That might be a bit of undigested beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato in that dinner. If you see you old dead friend wrapped in chains, locks and strong boxes that might be the dinner or someone come to teach you a lesson, more likely the dinner. Merry Christmas Ashens and God bless ya! :)
Great reference. God bless us, every one!
God damn, if that isn't true.
Mad Hatter Christmas carol
Mad Hatter had to memorize those lines last year lmao
Looks like the stuff they used to feed us as "school dinner".
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What pains me is that presumably, there would have been a project team that came up with this idea, planned and schemed it out, developed it, tasted it, made it as best as they could and then genuinely thought that they could, as you said, market it as Christmas Dinner and not "chunky soup" or something.
The way he just says merry Christmas at the end gets me every time
Personal tradition to watch this every Christmas Eve
"No microwave, no kettle. Just... HOT CAN" *Thank god* -___-
Never thought I would consider a plate of warm food to be depressing, but here we go.
My friend got hold of some M.O.D food packs once. You place them in boiling water. I have to admit, they were actually really good for camping trips.
Am I the only one who thinks this looks really really fucking nice?
o
I'd eat it for sure. I like stew. :)
I think it looks hilarious.
It certainly looks like a nice survival meal option.
Looks like what happens after the Christmas diner
Oh hey! I knew I recognized that can! That old hobo that lives in a dumpster across the street from me was eating that!
This might be for somebody who travels a lot, truck drivers and railroad engineers in particular. Considering that this is a self heating can, it may have been made for people who is cold climates, such as Canada and Russia. The only thing that I think this would be useful for is making stews and soups.
I'm a car salesman and part time truck driver (on weekends) and I do have trucker friends. No this isn't it. No trucker with self respect would bother with canned food, or any of this. At the very least they'd find a good donner kebab shop and eat there on their break. Railroad crews... don't know, but I assume there are laws governing how long they can be away from home too.
Truckers find amazing food places at highway rest areas, or near highways. Usually the info is shared on CB, or nowadays in trucking groups on facebook.
Personally I've had amazing lunch in the Czech republic, while on my break. Lunch cost me about 9 Euro.
It was barded meat, had garlic, carrots and celery in it, flavored to perfection, with mashed potatoes on the side and gravy.
It would be a good treat for someone like a soldier, who's been out in the field for some time... a warm meal is a warm meal and a moral booster... or maybe as a thing you take when camping. If you've been trekking all day, something like this hot can would become the most delicious thing you've ever eaten. I love trekking and camping, so I obviously buy some canned foods and they are delicious when you've worked up an appetite.
However, I would never buy any of those canned foods at home where I have a normal kitchen where I can cook high quality food and don't expend as much energy, cause my job revolves around sitting in an office all day.
@@Katsabian “strongly disagree” - Germany
You're like the Karl Pilkington of Food
I can just imagine a fellow neckbeard in his mums basement shivering and is eating out of the can with a spork wearing a chrismas hat and wrapped in a blanket.
Aawww poor thing.
LNG Varck
Basement dwelling neckbeards usually have a microwave and mini fridge nearby or subsist on fast food and pizza.
Membrane556 Yup. All those things conveniently right next to the computer, not far from his bed.
And drooling the gravy all over the computer while watching MLP porn
josh kirby Watching MLP is fine but MLP porn? That is just fucked.
LNG Varck Both are pretty fucking bad for a fully grown man.
This is making me depressed just thinking about the poor, sad, pathetic, lonely man who considers this Christmas dinner.
+Paul TheSkeptic what a nice person, calling poor people sad and pathetic
Matt James I meant it like "Oh that poor guy." not like "Oh, that poor guy is all poor." Hell, in that case I'm pretty poor myself.
I don't know if you're like joking back with me or if you're serious but I meant it to be funny. Just think about the sort that would consider this Christmas dinner. Ever see "Lonely Guy" with Steve Martin?
Paul TheSkeptic I guess I just took it the wrong way, I apologise. I don't even know who Steve Martin is :L
Matt James Really? You're missing out. He's really funny.
Ahaha, I imagine myself calling this christmas dinner..
This came out 7 years ago and it feels like it could have yesterday
"Did you bring a can opener?"
"No, I guess I forgot to pack one."
"Then don't knock it, it's got its own key."
While I'm watching this the only thing I can think is
"Man, if I was a hobo, this would be the greatest thing since shopping carts!"
Actually I saw a comment on here a while ago, about how they have out these meals for homeless around winter, and summer. Pretty much it was great if they couldn't get to a homeless shelter or if they were all full. They also last a while, and for them having food that is warm is great. So it's really good for that.
Why couldn't they just call it Turkey Stew. I can see at as useful for camping or maybe emergency food.
or for when the power goes out.
WHY DO I KEEP REWATCHING THESE VIDEOS! I CAN'T STOP...
I’m pretty high right now, but I am giggling at the fact that he is just kneeing at his sofa eating a can of Christmas dinner. It’s so funny.
I work for a homeless ex-service personnel charity.
Our outreach team uses these all the time, we give them out.
Honestly seeing this stuff makes you think in 10 years we're going to have actual bachelor chow.
I come back to this classic every year...
Bachelor chow!
Now with flavor!
I wonder how many Christmas night suicides this meal has preceded..
lol
LOL. And it conveniently doubles as the murder weapon.
Hahaha
That's kinda sad tbh
Ill try it it looks very good back when I had no money and could afford no food I had to eat trash to survive so this looks very good to me I'll try a can!
***** unless youve been in his situation you have absolutely no right to judge him. As someone who's been homeless as a child, i can say that not everyone is as lucky as you are. Get your head out of your ass and maybe open your eyes to the world around you.
Rose Miller too bad its more expensive than more conventional budget food. If you're down to eating garbage this may be a good find out of a dumpster.
This and Home Alone is a mandatory viewing every Xmas eve.
That's some pretty damn impressive technology for an instant hot can meal.
it's just calcium&water packs that you have to puncture it not that impressive it's basic chemistry.
It's just a exothermic reaction............