Not just for military service. If you’re in the position that you need a usable meal that does not need time to fix or clean up after, then something like this might help for a few days. I’m currently in this position - I need meals that don’t involve cooking or cleaning. Same for traveling, either by train or bicycle. Did train-travel in May of 2021, and I was sort of prepared for the return trip.
I learnt how great those pockets were while a army ranger in the early to mid 80’s. After leaving the army I still loved my BDU’s and those cargo pockets. Now while fishing I used them to carry my beer cans, and a pint of Jack in my back pocket. They hold A-LOT of beer cans ! Good times from what I can remember. 😂
According to the book "Rations of the German Wehrmacht in WWII" the "German Assault Ration" had some variations in content (probably due to delivery issues. Some rations contained XOX Kraftkekse (which seemed to taste like sweet dog bisquits according to the U.S. report) instead of bisquits, some Milupa chocolate caramels. But all of them seemed to contain cigarettes of different makers. Sometimes the bisuits weren't wrapped at all, sometimes in celophane, sometimes in commercial-looking wrappers. The entire ration seemed to be a wild mish-mash.
Much in common with the D ration. The coffee/chocolate bard probably has caffeine in it like the ShoKaKola chocolate so you downed the equivalent of about 1-2 cups of coffee
This is more of a supplemental pack vice a meal. Whenever possible German soldiers were fed from field kitchens. Jim Pool's two books on Wehrmacht rations cover this and many other items.
Exactly! Most European armies continued to do "hot field meals" up to the 90's....... Americans thinking that this was the "normal issue" they are kidding themselves 😆
The soldiers at the front more often had real coffee than the civilians at home. At home they had "Ersatzkaffee". It was a mashup from 50% real coffee and 50% Mukkefuk (roaster grain and chicoré roots)
you can cut off a chunk of the fruit bar, and put it in a cup of hot water and make a fruit tea quite easily. That would go well with the butter biscuits.
Most likely very few German soldiers would have ever had these rations? Almost all German soldiers ate food from mobile kitchens with the troops or foraged food from the local areas! According to every military history I have read!
In the USSR the orders were "live off the land", but with the Russians practicing scorched earth, wasn't much to live off of. Yes, definitely a lot of field kitchens in the rear areas, with runners bringing hot chow forward. This is standard practice in every military, soldiers want hot chow as often as possible. No one wants to eat field rations for long. This was basically a pack of sugary treats. A supplement to brighten your day once in a while. This was not a meal.
@@MREScout Also very much a last resort thing if you're cut off from the supply lines. Wont make you well fed but would def help morale more than some canned meat which could be very benefitial I imagine in certain situations
Two similar Rations the Germans issued were the- "Zusatzverpflegung für Frontkämpfer im Infanterieverband "(Additional ration for front-line infantry units). And the "Für Frontkämpfer im Großkampf" (For front-line soldiers participating in large battles). By War's end, the Rations were being issued in mere Cellophane Bags !
Too Bad You were not able to include the Pervitin ration that came with the food rations for the Germans. Meth amphetamine was a huge driving force in the German Army. I am loving the video series . Check out the history of canned meat rations and Napoleon's Battle strategies.
There was no chewing gum in a WW2 german ration. Actualy even in my Time in the german army (1993-1994) there was chewing gum in the MRE (EPA in German) but, all hell would break lose if you were seen chewing it. German army was never found of the Ami shit ;-)
Lmfao yeah American rations are utterly terrible! I knew a lot of people who would swap alot of stuff to get those spice that had paprika and pepper in it
That Fruchtriegel, we still have that kind of candy around here (Sweden), classic candy. You can even get hand made with few if any preservatives other than sugar. Love it..
It's not "Flanner". The Chocolate is from "Manner" a Viennese Chocolate factory which Produces chocolates and chocolate wafers of many different sorts until today.
I had a quite decent horsemeat casserole in France recently, as well as an osso-bucco style of horse shanks with seasonal vegetables. I preferred the casserole.
Looting is generally very common in wars I guess. Weapons are also often taken and some are really sought after. And others are left behind because they are so bad 😅
Two similar Rations the Germans also issued were the- Frontkämpfer im Grosskampf (Front Line Fighter Large Battle) ration. And the Zusatzverpflegung für Frontkämpfer im Infanterieverband "(Additional ration for front-line infantry units)
Hello, US ARMY 1968-1971 here. We were fed WW2 era rations @Ft. Bragg, NV in July 1968. After I got out of the Army I joined my father's Candy brokerage business in Maryland and worked it for 25 years. I am very familiar with many of the Candy companies that sold to the US military and to companies that made up rations for them. I remember seeing pallets of Hershey Desert War chocolate bars in one of my civilian customers warehouses. The boxes and wrappers were desert sand in color. The owner told me to taste one. It was horrible and I spit it out. I cannot imagine any American eating it and figured it was refused by the troops. It was like trying to eat beeswax. Did you ever encounter these in Iraq ?
@@markusmaier2277 dont say waffles it confuses english speakers. Call them waffers. Can't tell you how often i see sad Americans confusidly leaving the manner shop because they thought they could get a hot waffle. But yess definitely one of the best austrian sweets in my book
Say you should review the current Australian 24 hour ration packs A through to H, they are great, and there is still the dehydrated long range patrol versions.
@@carrisasteveinnes1596 Yes in the late 1970's i was eating 24 hour ration packs packed during the late 1960's. Cereal block, etc, mind you the tinned cheese and fruit salad was good.
Back when I was a kid they had a candy that was peanuts I’m trying to remember the name of it I think it was called like a squirrel chew have peanut some nuggets and chocolate covered sounds like that type of candy but the nugget was more like a caramel very stiff
My grandfather bought after the war in 1945 two big boxes of "iron rations" from somewhere (was the time, when they starved nearly in Germany) to bring his family through the hard times. I found three of them left in the basement, after my grandfather had died. They contained each a can of meat, some "Knäckebrot" (a kind of triple baked bread, that nearly can't get bad) and dry pie-soup; no chocolate or cigarettes or whatever. I am sure, this packet you had, was some "sweets&fun-pack" for the soldiers and not something like the real iron-rations, each German soldier had...
My other grandpa, driver of a Sdkfz 251 APC, told my he like the candy but hate to get this packet. It mean a offensiv of the russian must start the next days.
Yes, they also had Pervitin which was a tablet like a pill or in a powder, that was also an amphetamine. Germany wasn’t the only country issuing meth pills to its soldiers, the US had emergency survival rations with similar pills in them, they probably still do to this day. Anything to stay awake. Also some rations are designed to not “pass” easily through the body meaning less chance to be caught in a gunfight with your pants down
You said that these were introduced late in the war, does that mean 1944 or 1945 or what? I noticed that one of the wrappers was dated 1941. That's fairly early.
K rats were discontinued after WW2. The early MREs were in use during the Gulf War. A lot of menu improvements were made for the MREs during the mid/late 1990s and were actually quite good overall by the time OIF came about. We had plenty of kosher/halal certified MREs downrange, which were mainly commercial items and of excellent quality. I was downrange in both conflicts.
It's not an authentic ration. It's a re-creation of how the rations would have looked back then. The production date is just there to make it give it a more authentic feel. That said, there ARE rations from ww2 and even before that that are actually still kinda "edible"
Sorry folks, I just couldn't wait to publish this. The follow on US military K Ration video will be out soon.
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🤔😅😑were can I buy This WW2 Ration Wehrmacht' reproduction pack & others in the us??
That fruit bar I imagine would've been boiled in some hot water by some imaginative soldiers to make it into a jam spread for those biscuits.
Where did you find this as I would like to get some of these?
Most non military personnel won't understand the convenience of being able to cargo pocket rations. Your literally a walking convenient store.
Not just for military service.
If you’re in the position that you need a usable meal that does not need time to fix or clean up after, then something like this might help for a few days. I’m currently in this position - I need meals that don’t involve cooking or cleaning.
Same for traveling, either by train or bicycle. Did train-travel in May of 2021, and I was sort of prepared for the return trip.
IDF Loofah sucked because the cans were round. SPAM style cans would have been more convenient.
I learnt how great those pockets were while a army ranger in the early to mid 80’s. After leaving the army I still loved my BDU’s and those cargo pockets. Now while fishing I used them to carry my beer cans, and a pint of Jack in my back pocket. They hold A-LOT of beer cans ! Good times from what I can remember. 😂
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If you are a factory worker, you will. We have to have special permission to go to the bathroom. We just work.
According to the book "Rations of the German Wehrmacht in WWII" the "German Assault Ration" had some variations in content (probably due to delivery issues. Some rations contained XOX Kraftkekse (which seemed to taste like sweet dog bisquits according to the U.S. report) instead of bisquits, some Milupa chocolate caramels. But all of them seemed to contain cigarettes of different makers.
Sometimes the bisuits weren't wrapped at all, sometimes in celophane, sometimes in commercial-looking wrappers. The entire ration seemed to be a wild mish-mash.
Have both volumes. Indeed, there was a lot of variation in these rations, due to delivery and supply issues.
@@mdmarko when feeding is on the line, regs on packing go out the window 🤣
Much in common with the D ration. The coffee/chocolate bard probably has caffeine in it like the ShoKaKola chocolate so you downed the equivalent of about 1-2 cups of coffee
Maybe that's why I couldn't sleep that night.
Very likely
This is more of a supplemental pack vice a meal. Whenever possible German soldiers were fed from field kitchens. Jim Pool's two books on Wehrmacht rations cover this and many other items.
Exactly! Most European armies continued to do "hot field meals" up to the 90's....... Americans thinking that this was the "normal issue" they are kidding themselves 😆
Looks like the kind of snack pack that will pick you up fast and let you down hard. Who needs coffee with all of that chocolate.
I could actually see how this kind of ration would salvage morale in a unit for a good while.
Sugar has that effect on young men. So does nicotine. Too bad about the lack of coffee though.
@@MREScout this ration also may have had PERVITIN in it to supplement it
The Germans just didn't have coffee in any amount during the war. Most people drank "ersatz" which was mostly oak foliage and other available plants.
The soldiers at the front more often had real coffee than the civilians at home.
At home they had "Ersatzkaffee". It was a mashup from 50% real coffee and 50% Mukkefuk (roaster grain and chicoré roots)
you can cut off a chunk of the fruit bar, and put it in a cup of hot water and make a fruit tea quite easily. That would go well with the butter biscuits.
Germans also had chocolate with high does of caffeine. A company still makes it
Shok A Kola........ it's still issued in Austria and Switzerland
They had meth chocolate in pilot and tank driver strength.
Most likely very few German soldiers would have ever had these rations? Almost all German soldiers ate food from mobile kitchens with the troops or foraged food from the local areas! According to every military history I have read!
In the USSR the orders were "live off the land", but with the Russians practicing scorched earth, wasn't much to live off of. Yes, definitely a lot of field kitchens in the rear areas, with runners bringing hot chow forward. This is standard practice in every military, soldiers want hot chow as often as possible. No one wants to eat field rations for long. This was basically a pack of sugary treats. A supplement to brighten your day once in a while. This was not a meal.
@@MREScout Also very much a last resort thing if you're cut off from the supply lines. Wont make you well fed but would def help morale more than some canned meat which could be very benefitial I imagine in certain situations
This ration was not used to feed the troops but as additional ration before or after a successful battle.
The butterkeks and fruit bar are still sold in every German supermarket.
Greetings from the German/ Luxembourg border.
Two similar Rations the Germans issued were the- "Zusatzverpflegung für Frontkämpfer im
Infanterieverband "(Additional ration for
front-line infantry units). And the
"Für Frontkämpfer im Großkampf" (For
front-line soldiers participating in large
battles).
By War's end, the Rations were being issued in mere Cellophane Bags !
Too Bad You were not able to include the Pervitin ration that came with the food rations for the Germans. Meth amphetamine was a huge driving force in the German Army. I am loving the video series . Check out the history of canned meat rations and Napoleon's Battle strategies.
Leibniz Butterkeks is still one of the most selled Cookies in germany today.
New subscriber here.. very nice work man, i started watcu all your videos, they are very good quality
The biscuits look like milk arrowroot biscuits in Australia. I’d rather my good old American Graham crackers.
butterkekse ... a childhood special with nutella between two of them ;)
There was no chewing gum in a WW2 german ration.
Actualy even in my Time in the german army (1993-1994) there was chewing gum in the MRE (EPA in German) but, all hell would break lose if you were seen chewing it.
German army was never found of the Ami shit ;-)
Lmfao yeah American rations are utterly terrible!
I knew a lot of people who would swap alot of stuff to get those spice that had paprika and pepper in it
Wow a wannabe 11B. I didn’t know that those still existed. Lol. Enjoyed the video thank you.
That Fruchtriegel, we still have that kind of candy around here (Sweden), classic candy. You can even get hand made with few if any preservatives other than sugar. Love it..
Hi Darren, I'm a 91-D. Almost weird. In my MASH unit, I was basically chief cook and bottle washer. I cleaned medical instruments...
It's not "Flanner". The Chocolate is from "Manner" a Viennese Chocolate factory which Produces chocolates and chocolate wafers of many different sorts until today.
Hopefully what they're making tastes better than that bar did.
@@MREScout you can bet on that. Their chocolate Wafers are World famous. 😁
"less processed back in those days"
bro they'd used lead flavour enhancer hahhaha
Yeah, I thought that too. and things like formaldehyde as a preservative.
Great video !
I had a quite decent horsemeat casserole in France recently, as well as an osso-bucco style of horse shanks with seasonal vegetables. I preferred the casserole.
Thanks!!
Great video man! I've had that fruit bar before very delicious
They forgot the Pervatin!
A nice supplement, clearly intended to boost morale, but there's only so much a box of sweets can do when you're in dire straits. ='[.]'=
"Wo ist die Wurst?!" Xmas ration pack.
1:24 - your drill sergeant inspecting your unmilitary collar arrangement. 😉
You're correct about the overall German arrogance towards Allied armies. It was one of our best weapons.
Lets not forget that bread and potatoes were a main stay of the average meal for the troops.
I served several tours in Germany and the originals can stillbe found for sale
I'm digging this channel....
Yeah the whermach loved our k rations so much that sometimes they would go through our deads gear looking for them
We did the same... German cheese in a tube was popular, as were their weisswursts.
They were starving
Looting is generally very common in wars I guess. Weapons are also often taken and some are really sought after. And others are left behind because they are so bad 😅
@@tomhenry897 😂
Two similar Rations the Germans also issued were the-
Frontkämpfer im Grosskampf (Front Line Fighter Large Battle) ration.
And the Zusatzverpflegung für Frontkämpfer im
Infanterieverband "(Additional ration for
front-line infantry units)
Hello, US ARMY 1968-1971 here. We were fed WW2 era rations @Ft. Bragg, NV in July 1968. After I got out of the Army I joined my father's Candy brokerage business in Maryland and worked it for 25 years. I am very familiar with many of the Candy companies that sold to the US military and to companies that made up rations for them. I remember seeing pallets of Hershey Desert War chocolate bars in one of my civilian customers warehouses. The boxes and wrappers were desert sand in color. The owner told me to taste one. It was horrible and I spit it out. I cannot imagine any American eating it and figured it was refused by the troops. It was like trying to eat beeswax. Did you ever encounter these in Iraq ?
I never saw one while in the service, but I did review an old D Ration... tastes like hot coco powder coated in boiled potato. Not very good.
Cool!
The chocolate bar is/was actually made by "Manner" a company that still exists today
Yeah beste Waffles
@@markusmaier2277 dont say waffles it confuses english speakers. Call them waffers. Can't tell you how often i see sad Americans confusidly leaving the manner shop because they thought they could get a hot waffle. But yess definitely one of the best austrian sweets in my book
@@nobodxy Sorry I am Austrian and I dont know this expression
@@markusmaier2277 jo na passt eh. Schene feiertog :D
Manner mag man eben.
I like your birdie.
Say you should review the current Australian 24 hour ration packs A through to H, they are great, and there is still the dehydrated long range patrol versions.
If I find one, I'll eat it. I'm way over due to eat something foreign.
Ha. By the time I got out, we still only had A B C D menu packs with tins in them.
@@carrisasteveinnes1596 Yes in the late 1970's i was eating 24 hour ration packs packed during the late 1960's.
Cereal block, etc, mind you the tinned cheese and fruit salad was good.
@@peterjones4180 the only decent stuff was the tin tube of Carnation milk or Cadbury's Dairy milk tube 😍
@@MREScout by law you can't purchase our rations, since they belong to the Commonwealth of Australia
That’s chocolate that you said tasted like coffee May actually be caffeinated kind of like Scho-Ka-Kola
So when are you going to try Panzerschokolade? 😂
Back when I was a kid they had a candy that was peanuts I’m trying to remember the name of it I think it was called like a squirrel chew have peanut some nuggets and chocolate covered sounds like that type of candy but the nugget was more like a caramel very stiff
Charleston Chew?
Don't forget that some of the troops "enjoyed" the goulash kannon.
So 3 candy bars, some life savers, and crackers? Who put this menu together, a 2nd grader?
My grandfather bought after the war in 1945 two big boxes of "iron rations" from somewhere (was the time, when they starved nearly in Germany) to bring his family through the hard times. I found three of them left in the basement, after my grandfather had died. They contained each a can of meat, some "Knäckebrot" (a kind of triple baked bread, that nearly can't get bad) and dry pie-soup; no chocolate or cigarettes or whatever. I am sure, this packet you had, was some "sweets&fun-pack" for the soldiers and not something like the real iron-rations, each German soldier had...
Maybe the thing that taste like coffee can be dissolved in water to make the coffee?
No it wouldn't. Boiling it would make it just separate into the various components. It had little to no actual coffee or chocolate in it.
I think the chocolate manufacturer is "Manner", from Austria, then "Ostmark".
I would like to get some repro German and Soviet rations. DO you have a place where we can purchase these?
MRE Mountain. They have both. Along with a lot of others. Soviet ration video coming soon.
@@MREScout appreciate it
Stumbled upon this channel and I really enjoy it. As a German I especially like seeing what we shipped out (and how you pronounce it)
nice video
seemed like a baker's chocolate. I can imagine the stale unpleasant texture and taste.
Tasted like haloween candidate from 1978
Were can I buy this WW2 Ration Wehrmacht' reproduction
Panzerschokolade?
did you have trouble falling asleep after tasting this? just asking
More of a moral ration.
I bet that the mystery "chocolate bar" at 5:53 is actually a hematogen bar, made from cow blood.
By around '41 and def. '44 all of the "choclolate" would have been.
My other grandpa, driver of a Sdkfz 251 APC, told my he like the candy but hate to get this packet. It mean a offensiv of the russian must start the next days.
Probably they started handing out a shot or two of schnapps as well. That's when you knew tomorrow you were going in.
Hey I know this guy. Didn't you used to be Rambling Recruiter or something like that?
Still am buddy. You’re pretty handsome for a cartoon.
It's "Großkampfpackung" actually ;), same as todays Bundeswehr rations are calles "Einmannpackung" --> one man pack
Pirate Ration!!! Arghhh!! eat the bird matey!
Not much meat on him
I often eat Leibniz butterkeks with milk.. I heard some german units or divisions had chocolate laced with methamphetamine. Is that true?
Yes, they also had Pervitin which was a tablet like a pill or in a powder, that was also an amphetamine. Germany wasn’t the only country issuing meth pills to its soldiers, the US had emergency survival rations with similar pills in them, they probably still do to this day. Anything to stay awake. Also some rations are designed to not “pass” easily through the body meaning less chance to be caught in a gunfight with your pants down
Donde puedo comprar una de esas raciones?
You said that these were introduced late in the war, does that mean 1944 or 1945 or what? I noticed that one of the wrappers was dated 1941. That's fairly early.
The components are often far older.
@@MREScout Interesting. So, again, when were these ration packs introduced, '44 or '45?
Where's the link to order your own?
Where can you get these rashons?
Can we buy these?
Can you do maybe a german ration Form today? That would ne awsome!
Coming soon. Have a small stockpile of others to get through
What breed of bird you have?
Scho-Ka-Kola
Nuka Cola
Box of sugar
how can i get one of these?
does the K stand for "kandy"?
🔴No Pervitin inside?
s thinked germans had that Scho-Ka-Kola chocolate in can
It needs some of that pick-me-up chocolate ;)
Chocolate with pervatin. For the busy German housewife...
Shok A Kola is bloody fantastic for the busy business man 🤣
You better like chocolate and horse meat in the German army during world war two.
ChoKolate Ration
Reproduction rations....
W Squril Nut Zippers
There’s a band I haven’t heard in a minute.
What Is k ration during the iraq war look like?
K rats were discontinued after WW2. The early MREs were in use during the Gulf War. A lot of menu improvements were made for the MREs during the mid/late 1990s and were actually quite good overall by the time OIF came about. We had plenty of kosher/halal certified MREs downrange, which were mainly commercial items and of excellent quality. I was downrange in both conflicts.
If this is a "supplemental" ration, I can see why there isn't any coffee. Especially since there's coffee substitute in the iron ration
they forgot the meth
I think the meth came in the chocolate bar back then. Pilots got pervatin pills.
Your whore mother smoked it all up
how many calories?
No meth pills?
Top von 1941 und immer noch essbar
It's not an authentic ration. It's a re-creation of how the rations would have looked back then. The production date is just there to make it give it a more authentic feel.
That said, there ARE rations from ww2 and even before that that are actually still kinda "edible"
Were can you buy these rations.