Norwegian MRE food rations.
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- These MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) food packs were sent to me from Norway by Christian (along with some interesting Norwegian chocolate). There's a breakfast version based on a Muesli and a main meal version. From the stylish packaging I think these are probably aimed at both military and recreational markets.
MREs are like a culinary lucky bag for adults. All manner of edible treats and oddities inside, with a distinct culinary twist according to the country of origin. If you enjoy seeing them reviewed then the grand master of MRE reviews is Steve at:-
/ @steve1989mre
These ones were very enjoyable. The muesli was quite rich and the freeze dried hot meal was intriguing and very tasty. The chicken was in the form of processed strips which actually reconstituted well.
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As a former Norwegian air force medic, not gonna lie. Some of the best meals I've ever had were MRE's sitting inside the tent with my squad in -30 degree winter weather, drying clothes and reheating from the snowstorm blowing outside.
The environment does make a huge difference. Like stopping for a cup of tea and a cookie on a long walk.
@@bigclivedotcom Best cuppa I remember was in England, at some jousting demonstration at a castle I don't remember the name of when it was raining. Afterward in the car park was a caravan selling hot drinks and snacks and I wanted to get some hot cocoa for my five year old daughter who had the shivers. It was truly sublime. Oh, I'm an American btw who was stationed there in the 1980s.
yeah right - hunger makes every bullshit special. old romanian saying. period.
bet the polish mre would be like christmas for an norvegian.
Woow
"That is completely acceptable" defines living as a single bloke in one phrase
I'd be pretty happy if some company actually made Bachelor Chow like they advertise on Futurama. Make it reasonably priced, quick with basically no prep and acceptable flavor with enough nutrition to live on and I'm in.
"Soylent Green is people!"
@Leadchipmunk
Read 'Make Room! Make Room!', by Harry Harrison. Which was made into a film called "Soylent Green." Harrison invented the name, IIRC.
I pretty much live on frozen dinners. There's quite a large variety where I live. Between $3-5. Bung in the microwave for 8 minutes. Scoff. Tray in bin. Dust hands.
@Leadchipmunk
Right. Soylent Green wasn't people in the book. They had to amp it up for the movie...
Let's get this out onto a Scottish workbench
Nice!
VidarOdinson79 mkay!
Well anyway, this was Big Clive off BigClive.com. Hope you liked the video. Clive'll be coming back at you soon with something electric. Or explosive. Cool. See ya.
Right off the bat...
Oh, nice hiss. Can be a good and a bad thing.
Aww man, there's black mold on it...and OH GAWD that's foul! Like, what in the heck do I do?!
*[TASTES IT]*
So I'm sitting in California, watching a Scottish man eat a Norwegian MRE. Oh, Internet! You never stop giving, do you?
and he's doing it on the Isle Of Man
And eating beef jerky made in New Zealand by an American company.
And it's not even jerky! Its marketed as kippered beef in the US. Jerky (in the US at least) is a lot drier. And he does all this stuff so we don't have to! Thank you Big Clive!
And it's Jack Links, so it's actually American.
Norwegian Mammoth Jerky would have been more authentic.
I was stationed at Thule, Greenland, sporadically for damn near 12 years. Twice each month, we were ordered to draw rations, and report to a remote area of the base, for a "survival and endurance exercise". We knew we had lucked out, when we pulled MRE's supplied by Norway, Denmark, or Canada. Their rations staved-off hunger for longer periods of time, than rations issued by other NATO/OTAN members; they also had stews which "warmed you down to your toes", after returning from outdoor adventures. Norwegian MRE's sometimes had a lingonberry cake-like desert, which was better than "mom's homemade pies". Hopefully, you'll get to try that desert sometime.
'fucking hell' best reaction to a spicy sauce.😆
wcoke I mean he could have dry heaved a la the Nauseous Rift. :P
I love how you analyze the MRE and go into detail: breaking down how much each component adds to the total calories and how you sometimes inspect the ingredients of some components. I also like how you immediately tried to identify the sweetening agent in the energy drink. Please do more of these as a side thing or as a separate channel.
Clive, for what this is worth, I reallllllly enjoy your MRE videos. It's your personality and voice so you don't have to ever worry about not being as good as Steve or any thing like that.
I could watch you do random mres forever. I like your commentary about ingredients and calories too.
So if you enjoy doing them, I hope you keep going with them. I bet a lot of people would echo my thought.
So
Steve's hard to beat with MREs, but like all of Clive's videos this one is filled with Clivey goodness.
agreed. I Love Steve as well but Clive has an even more ASMR voice and sound setup (imo.)
✔✔✔👍👍👍
Way back when Christ was a Corporal, I was in the US Army, over in Vietnam. We lived on the old Army C-Rations, and in order to add a bit of ZZZZINg to them, most of us carried a bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce in our packs. A few drops of that could make the worst spiced beef in sauce taste like a grill steak, well if you closed your eyes and used your imagination. Still though, we all seemed to find a favorite, but the meals were distributed by the NCO in charge of your squad, so after the boxes were opened to reveal their contents, trading went on back and forth until everyone had what they liked the best. For me it was scrambled eggs with ham, they looked like shit, and the consistency was a sort of blend between jello and a hot dog, but they had a taste that I simply loved! A bit of tabasco and I could live on that wonderful meal, and the best thing about it was that NOBODY else liked it, so I could always trade anything for the ham and eggs, hell even ham and mother-fuckers (Lima Beans with ham) would get me a can of green eggs and ham (ya they did look a bit green in that olive drab can! You could eat them hot or cold depending on the nature of the break and if you could burn a heat tab without getting your balls shot off by the little yellow mother fuckers who lived in the jungle. I thought perhaps that was what that spicy sauce was in your MRE. I gotta tell you though, those MRE's that they serve now days sure look a hell of a lot better then C-Rations, and from what the lifers who were in the Army back when the K-Rations were served told us that the C-Rations were much better then the K's so I guess we were lucky to get what we did. Oh each and every C-ration came with a tiny pack of cigarettes, usually so old that they were extremely dry, since I smoked Kools, I could easialy trade mine for Salem's, which were in about half of the C-rats, seems I usually got Lucky Strikes in mine.
I remember getting those old c-rats or in-flight meals when doing field training in the Air Force in the 1980s. The best dessert was the pound cake in a can. The worst was the chocolate nut roll which was so dry you drank half a canteen to wash it down.
I’m glad you liked it. I’ve eaten plenty of these during my time in the Norwegian Army. They also sell civilian versions of it under the name “real turmat”, and they are actually quite common for hikers.
Thanks for the video
BearKire I would even go as far as: the real turmat meals are among the best freeze dried rations there are.. When bought in an outdoor shop, they are quite expensive, but well worth the money.. Tasty and they have bits to chew on where other dried meals are often grinded to a small uniform size to save fuel when heating..
I second the fact that they are the best ones out there. Took these out everyday when I went to Svalbard and they were very edible, unlike some of the similar products available here in UK hiking shops.
underwaterdick I grew up at Svalbard 👏🏼😊 have eaten plenty of these! They are delicious 😋
Clive: "arctic" in MRE title usually means that all food is freeze dried so it doesn't freeze to inedible piece of ice when left outside.
Actually, at least with US, 'Arctic' MRE's contain up to five times the calorie content of standard MRE's, as extreme cold requires more energy to operate the body.
The same goes for our Norwegian MREs. More calories. We also have tropical versions.
That freeze drying also probably further increases the shelf life, even at room temperature, that said, in the right conditions I expect this to last many, many years
It's entertaining to see a man with such broad standards of acceptable food review food.
I recently started to love mre packages, just to see what they can put in such small package. it's hard to get some of them from different countries but with some searching and time its nice hobby. Not to mention that I like idea of having small pack of food hidden somewhere in kitchen that can be eaten without too much work when you have one of this lazy day where you dont even have energy to order pizza...
Excellent review! These Norwegian rations are some of my favorites.. high quality and top notch 👍👍
Pro trick for the breakfast. Mix in the dark chocolate with cereal. Makes the dish come to life after eating it for a week :D
I was given some of that coffee recently by a Dutch lorry driver. It's best drunk without milk. I added sugar to mine, and enjoyed it, even though I don't normally drink coffee.
You didn't measure it's resistance, nor even check if it's isolated. Completely dissapointed.
This vacuum-packed bag has a voltage rating of...
It's bachelor chow, it's definitely isolated.
@@Milamberinx Bitter. Very Bitter.
Or earthed?
If you need a tray to lay it out on, your explosion-containment-pie-dish should do nicely.
buillioncubes The battery guts give it a real zing!
Yeah! If you lost your FRH, just open up a couple NiMH cells!
it is important to keep your electrolytes at their appropriate levels
Thought I had a Steve1989MREInfo video to watch for a second, but Clive is just as good
AnarchistAaron
You made me look him up. Thanks!
AnarchistAaron ahahaha me too I'm starting it right now hopefully it is just as good brother!!!
Yeah he is the bob ross of mre.
Eric Salidbar I thought he did a pretty good job abit more disorganised than Steve but I think it keeps you interested
Ura Nium I agree I can’t even see the abbreviation MRE without thinking of Steve
"like steve"? Nice!
Mhh, no hiss.
"Nice hiss" 3:38
MRE Clive, nice!
I wanna know why Steve shaves his arm's...
+Chris Cheltenham --> I wrote him a private msg on TH-cam asking him this question and he said he did it to show off the muscle tone on his arms. I guess this sorta makes sense as he does have some nice muscles and body builders often shave their arms and chest for the same reason.
Oh man, jack links, that stuff is awesome. It's a standard retail brand here in NZ, available in supermarkets, gas stations and bottle stores. Great power snack with the weekend beers.
Could do a collab with Ashens...
C: "Well, that's actually very acceptable"
A: "...THIS IS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER TASTED!"
I would sell my kidneys (both of them fuck being alive I'll just have dialysis for the length of the video) just to see that
My neighbor is a rancher. One day he was out working and got very hungry. Found a tin of tuna under the seat of his truck from about 2005. This was in 2014. He said, "that's the only thing that has ever made me feel a little off".
Same guy, I walk up and he is eating a bag of chips. (Crisps) There are ants on the chips and when questioned about them "ah, it's just some extra protein"
@@herpnderpn2484 that's the kind of person to survive the apocalypse saying he thought it was a tuesday
ashens is a cool guy
Considering that most military-only MREs are in camouflage color and has no link to Instagram page, yes, this is aimed at both military and civilian use.
The ones I know of have a olive drab outer sleeve around a box containing the components.
Depends. Canadian IMPs are a mix of commercial (Nescafe coffee, fruitsource bars) and drab packaging. The Lightweight Meal, Combat is a bag of commercial products and one or two drab package things like trail mix.
Could well be; Norway is a small country so they may offset the cost of production by selling commercially, or allow the supplier to do so in exchange for better pricing.
Having had some Canadian IMPs, I'd love to try this, it looks pretty good, and with the freeze drying, it should last effectively to the end of time
Your voice is so calm and soothing, very British. It's prefect to go to sleep by
I kept reading "Soylent Green" in the package name.
Me too
AND IT IS MADE OF PEOPLE!!!
I could watch ya taste test these for hours. You implement the perfect amount of (for the lack of a better word lip smacking) as any of us do during tasting something for the first time. I swear I can almost taste the meals. Great job.
4:24 Whoops, I misread that as:
ENERGY DRINK
WITH A TASTE OF BLEACH
Fucking hell so did I, Christ
Same for a sec
One of the few people I find entertaining enough to watch even though you chew with your mouth open and make me want to stab my self in the ear drums. Man I wish that noise didn't drive me insane, it would make eating with others so much more enjoyable.
I feel like a video series featuring you and your brother eating these things and drinking awful alcoholic concoctions would be pure gold.
He's done at least one with Ralfy that I remember.
I've had several of the Canadian MRE's and I'll admit... They are very delicious. Simple psychology says a huge component of good morale is good food.
"Let's get this out on to a tray.... Nice!"
I have found myself really enjoying these videos, despite not really having much knowledge of electronics. I know this video isn't necessarily electryical-related, but in general I find your videos to be quite informative and enjoyable. Not to mention, they have a very accidental ASMR quality, as your voice is very pleasant to listen to.
You saying "Fuuuckinng hell!" like that made me laugh so loud!
I just found your channel last night. I have been a watcher of Steve1989 for quite awhile. I am so excited to find you. I think you are brilliantly funny. You made me laugh out loud several times. I live in the United States but I am of Scottish descent so I find your accent so soothing.
Please tell me that "Solgryn" isn't norwegian for "Soylent Green"?!
atkelar no coincidence I suspect!!
atkelar they sell bottles of "Soylent" drink in the gym by my office. Most of it is coffee flavor. I can't even think of trying it.
atkelar Oatmeal
Killing what the heck is that made out of FFS! Uter what?
The literal translation would be "Sun Oats" which indicates that it probably only has trace amounts of people in it.
I love your humor. Great videos. I quite enjoy them here in the States!
16:20 When Clive tastes the spicy sauce! I spat my beer out! LOL
As much as I like watching Steve, I could happily watch a series of clive doing MRE's. Steve eats massively out of date stuff, clive drinks mentholated spirits :D
Did I miss the Glaswegian MRE?
Deep fried Creme Egg and a rusty nail in citric acid labelled " Irn-Bru"?
Look, it's been two years since you posted, but Clive delivered this last week. And damn was it a good watch
Hi Clive , as usual informative, entertaining and amusing, your presentation style is great. Many thanks. From Nr Liverpool.
SOLGRYN is people!
Another classic MRE with Big Clive. Adding the spicy sauce was the highlight along with Clive's reactions 🤣
this looks better then the dinner i just had XD
john grinwis me too lol
Clive,"I don't like spicy things!" Then proceeds to drink some straight from the packet, then nearly croaks! Lol, that's our Clive, does all the testing for us so we know!
Package of the “drops” is translated like a factory making drops in the town of metier. Not from Norwegian but dutch is quite similar.
Love your description of the caloric breakdown. New subscriber if you keep this sort of analysis of your MRE’s
Hi, I'm from three years into the future (2021.)
Are you still subscribed to BigCliveDotCom?
None of the Scandination rations come with any creamer or sweetener, because the Scandinavians take their coffee black-and-none as a rule. The reviewers all note that Poldermill Columbian is the smoothest instant coffee they've ever had as a consequence.
Also goes in a smaller cup.
AgentTasmania The Finnish ones do come with a creamer.
After watching a nail biting episode of Master chef semifinals tonight, it's nice to watch a laid back "non cooking" cooking show.
Non nom nom.
Fuuuucking hell.... Clive responds to his tastebuds getting offended...lmao
Peace
Really enjoying the MRE opening videos. Quite informative and creates a good number of chuckle moments. Keep on eating Clive.
Sweepstake on when the black spot on Clive's left thumbnail finally grows out. I'm going for January 2nd!
These rations look better than 99% of my meals. That chicken in herbal sauce looks delicious
Absolutely acceptable.
I was actually amazed when you jump cut to the cooked/reconstituted chicken meal because of how different it looked.
Big Clive is Delightful!
I really do enjoy your MRE themed vids
Good one Clive! ... look out Steve, there may be a New Kid On The Block who's Hanging Tough. You just need a Nice! tray & you're good to go.
I tried to find one of those trays to do a spoof MRE video, but it appears they are considered a prized collectable these days. Possibly because Steve has created a new market for them.
bigclivedotcom - yes i'd say he has.
That is funny I thought it was a Steve video when I first clicked it when it appeared on my feed :D
Nice!
"Fucking hell !" That made me laugh :)
I haven't thought much about this before, but the double appearance of the "Kamfer drops" bags (Camphor candy) made me wonder if camphor is more common in Scandinavia than it is in the rest of Europe. I haven't researched this yet, but "camphor" has always made me think of anyone from old-school doctors and pharmacists to old wives using camphor as a non-prescription treatment, either in the form of a tincture, ointment, salve, and such. Either used to treat a cold when you don't have access to any proper medicine, or also as an ointment for tender or sore muscles and similar body aches. Nowadays, looking at the candy, I am wondering if the British parallel could be butterscotch or something similar. Any suggestions?
The coffee is weak because it's designed for a coffee cup, not the mug that you were using. I'm not judging, I'm a mug user too.
And no millk ,just drink italiensk black
For a minute I thought this was gonna be a SteveMRE video from the thumbnail, LOL! Love ya Clive!
Hey Clive, need any low sodium American rations? If so I'm glad to send a couple!
rangetimefun send them to him im sure we would all appreciate watching the review videos!!!!
I can't stop replaying your reaction to the hot sauce
*Holding the most common brand of beef jerky in America*
"Very much what you'd expect to find in a chinese shop"
Ironically, in the UK I'm more likely to find that in a Chinese shop than a supermarket.
Lived of those for years, they are very nice with many different types.
"stop eating that Clive." Yep. The dark chocolate is better than that cereal.
HOW STRANGE, I've just rewatched your other MRE review about 5 hours ago,and you upload another the same day.
The 'spicy sauce' looks akin to sriracha, also, very surprised that the Jack Links bar is made in New Zealand
You are absolutely right about how candy drops received their name!
I'd buy E from Big Clive
Also, chili and vinegar? Sounds like really shit tabasco.
Is this one real? The first MRE video I saw was the Scottish army one, and now I don't know what to believe
I simply can't be to sure that this channel isn't uploading MRE parody videos for a laugh - your demeanor is just too smooth and believable haha
The Scottish one is the only fake one.
I'm always tempted to buy some of these too and test them
Where would you buy something like this?
ElectroBlood steve1989 mentions eBay from time to time, and I think he even named a specific store in some of his recent videos if you want some place to start
nightshine just search mre on eBay. They're pretty much all good.
Thank you very much for the Infos!^^
Try classifieds, I guess its dependant on where your based, in the UK we have gumtree, ebay etc. I get most of mine from ex or even current service men who acquire them and have no use for em :)
Hey Clive, I've been watching sooo much of Steve's videos, now always when opening a package, I say " Well, let's get it out on. a Tray"
I wonder if there's a christmas dinner MRE
Ashens did Christmas Dinner in a Can. It was disappointing as I recall.
I do like your food vids... Thanks for educating and entertaining. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2018, MarcusPS: Your English is very, very good! ;)
Oh Blimey! Geez Clive. You wouldn't survive in my house.
It it vindaloo central?
You are welcome in Newark, DE when you find yourself over the pond. My family takes after me me on the Scoville scale and one of my daughters adds Cayenne Pepper to my Wife's hot chilly. I mean we have bottles of Dave's here that we have with our eggs. We like things hot. I have a room and bathroom for you next time you visit the states. :D
he means his family are serial killers
More Spice for Us! =] Everything except cereal & ice cream
- but . . sweet-n-spicy - why not?
Well, here I am in the largest number of Indian people outside India, and they make curries and such that are capable of clearing any blocked sinus in seconds. There is one that is called Lord of the Ring, and that I find is quite mild, though with a pleasant bite to it. I use it in salads as a dressing instead of mayo or other dressing. Some people find it hot though.
Wonderful response to the hot sauce. Keep up the great videos!
Presumably the French one has very small, but extremely attractive looking, portions?
I assumed it came with a waiter, who ignored you because one is English.
I had some of these while serving the Norwegian army, those i had came in green sealed package exactly same you got :) actually some of them where much nicer than the tin box ones :)
Dual MRE tasting 👍
wish you would do a few more of these, not that i don't like electronics but i do love to hear you talk about food for some reason
Must be for the civilian market since it looks far too palatable for military service.
Glad to see you doing more ration videos. 👍
in Scandinavia we don't put sugar in our coffe :)
If you're stranded in the Arctic, a little bit of chili sauce around the nadgers would certainly keep the cold away.
Chlorate That's why you eat it, because your balls will be sucked up to about the level of your stomach when it's that cold.
as a norwegian homeguard soldier, i can say the biggest problem with this field ration is.
so much garbage.
Trash to throw away, or Garbage food ?
@@iac4357 throw away
The muesli oat meal looks really really delicious
could have added the chocolate to the coffee to make a mocha... yum
That chicken in herbal sauce looks really tasty. Glad I just had dinner otherwise I would be hungry as hell now.
Crazy Scottish electrician
(Play on crazy Russian hacker if you haven't figured it out yet)
culinary reviews of field rations has to be utter peak bachelor
Did the first one say Soylent Green on the label ?? :-)
do they make scottish mre's? irn bru eneergy drink and a deep fried mars bar, no multivitamin as they like scurvy
Malcolm Till that’s what I was about to say but you beat me to it lol
SOL = sun; GRYN=grain/meal
1973 American science fiction film, Soylent Green.
Life imitates art: crowdfunded food pack came in 2007 named SG. I connected SG With Kurt Vonnegut Jr, but I was wrong.
Lmao, that is the first time I have hear Clive say the f word 😆🤣😂
Russian mre = lots of cabbage, and a litre of vodka
Just a heads up on the chocolate. The body does not quickly extract and convert it to sugar, which is why diabetics can eat it. It is medium to low on the "Glycemic index" and is classed as a medium release product, this is due to the fat content which slows down the conversion rather than providing rapid, high but short lived peaks in blood sugar.
My buddy was up in skjold (northern Norway) during his military service and I'm gonna ask him if he had stuff similar to this :D
Please make more videos like this it's amazing
9:28 thought that said uterus
In 1995 the army switched to the new type of food rasjons that you have there. Ihave a old pack that you still can eat it has a 20 years shelflife and consists of a tin that we used to call dead man in a tin that consisted of beef, pork, peas and a 1/2" thick layer of porkfat on the top you could eat it cold or warm. And for breakfast you had a kind of oatmeal (tasted like sawdust) with a lot of dextrose that gave you a very instant boost. It was awefull I'm glad they now have a new kind of emergency rations.