Currently training with the British army may I tell you that that accessory pack is a brew kit a life saving item in our eyes 😂 Also the coffee creamers if thrown onto a fire cause a mini flare/explosion (we get bored and cold)
I achieved a flame stack three stories tall with a can of creamer liberated from a university cafeteria. I was on the second floor, leaning over the railing.
Hey emmy!! I work in the factory where the vegetable korma is made, its sectioned off from the rest of the factory and is put through lots of tests to make sure our troops that require Halal food arent eating contaminated food :)
"Vegetarian cuisine is halal if it does not contain alcohol." Also very easy to cross contaminate food ingredients from other dishes in a factory. Nice to hear from expert Cathyn!
Hindus(Indian culture) have more stringent food requirements as compared to halal preparation. BTW halal is an Islamic thing. Since meat consumption usually involves killing and or torture(and those actions against any living thing is a sin), so meat consumption is more like a guilty pleasure for Sikh, Hindus/Buddists who would consume them. With regards to beef consumption, it is the same as how westerners cringe at the thought of dog meat consumption. Cows along with elephants in Indian society are very important domestic animals(pet) in Indian civilization, atleast till Brits arrived at India (lol).
Yes Emmy, I'm a squeezer. When my husband was in Marines he did cold weather training on Mt. Fuji Japan. He said that there was never enough calories in these packets to keep you from being hungry. He died in 2015 so I like seeing some of the rations he might have been given.
"Absolutely delightful" is how I would describe your videos. Very informative, descriptive, not overbearing with a overly fake enthusiastic cheer a lot of youtubers these days seem to have. Your also honest but not rude when you don't like something. I think you got yourself another sub to add to the pile lol.
although this had 4000 calories in it for the whole day (meant for a solider with a lot of muscle and physical activity), but Emmy only eats like 1300 per day (I think I remember her saying that at some point) so it actually would probably be *too* much for her
For me I think it’s the whole ritual of constructing the meal it’s like assembling a doll house kit or building a model. So satisfying to see it all come together.
I really only watch Steve1989MREinfo usually. He really makes tasting MRE interesting and funny but I've been following Emmy since she was back in Japan when she was tasting Japanese candies and snacks
Mostly for me it's to find what's good for camping and hiking. For example, from Steve1989MREInfo's channel and also you can see here, those British Ration wipes are widely considered the best in rations for size and durability, so I look out for lots of them on eBay. You also get the cool little tricks of crackers to add texture to food, or making Ranger Pudding from peanut butter, hot chocolate, coffee and creamer.
From an old and bold Brit Para, the meals are light years ahead of what we had. However, ours were about one quarter the size and most of the packaging could be burned and it wasn't shinny. As per SOP' we brought along extra tea bags, Worstershire sauce and more salt and pepper. Now to get the feel of the rat pack properly, go out into the garden, preferably winter time, have someone spray water on you constantly and go without sleep for 36 hours. At that stage, cardboard tastes good. We had a thing called Airborne stew, it was great...in the field...tried it at home, it was horrible. Oat biscuits could be used to make a pie (don't ask), missing are the ships/dog biscuits, which I quite liked with meat spread. Bear in mind, that much of the time one 24 hour rat pack would have to last 48 or even 72 hours...you soon learned to cook, or starve, your choice. Many Malay vets brought along precooked rice. Great but frugal and hard times. Glad the boys and girls are getting better treated, let’s face it they couldn't do worse (oh yes they can).
Classical Carpenter Thank you so much for input. I am old too and while I never had to eat rations in the field we had them in cadets when we went camping. They were dreadful.
I know you wanted to show how the water purification tabs work and taste alone which can be gross, but we were taught to add the drink mixes to those to cover the taste of the iodine or chlorine tabs/drops. Just a helpful fyi, great vid still.
Technically, for Sikhi, our meat doesn't have to be killed in a certain way in order for us to eat it. We actually aren't allowed to eat ritually killed meat, halal, or kosher meat. We *should* also be vegetarian but some aren't, for example, I'm not vegetarian but that's mainly medical reasons. Also, cows are only considered sacred in Hinduism, not Sikhi, if I remember correctly.
Why are y’all arguing about eating beef your Hindu your not suppose to eat beef no matter what part of india but some people change there customs and I understand that but as a Hindu I don’t eat beef
@B Bhatt lol someone deciding not to follow ancient and out dated customs is not akin to "being converted". It just means they are more progressive (and, honestly, more intelligent) than you. The entire western world eats beef and nothing bad has ever happened.... So clearly any reverence you have towards cows is misplaced and wrong. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to believe what you want to believe, and do whatever you want to do. But fuck off judging other people just because they have shed the shackles of their past. When the ideas of your customs are proven to not really matter, why hold on to them? A lot of others countries who don't follow your ancient cultures are doing a lot better than your country. That should tell you something Im only being so harsh about this because you passed judgement first. Don't judge others unless you yourself wish to be judged. There is nothing about your customs that are meaningful beyond the meaning you yourself give to them. Thats fine. But it also means your customs are ultimately irrelevant, and are of no need to someone who is living a modern life. This has nothing to do with "identity" and everything to do with common sense, scientific fact, logic and moving forward into a better future for everyone, instead of desperately clinging to the past. A past that was defined by people who didn't know what we do know today. You are only limiting yourself for imaginary reasons
Aryavarta Bharat that's just a forum and those are lines that serve as metaphors They just don't eat it because in respect for the Hindus Plus in India cow is used for a lot of things like giving milk or ploughing the fields providing fertilizers etc But people do eat beef when the cow is really old especially the bull
Emmy. Never change. You are truly such a beautiful person. Love watching your old and new stuff. You are such a serene person. You legit take my anxiety away. You make a difference in people's lives just by being who you are. Thank you.
Wouldn’t it be an awesome episode if you actually sat down with a person in the army or a veteran and test out the MRE’s? If you had a veteran join you, they could tell you how the MRE’s today differ from what they would have received before. ☺️☺️☺️. Love your videos and your channel!
That would be cool. But it'd probably be a little difficult to contact someone currently serving or retired from every military force she tries rations from. Especially since some of them are from countries either in heated conflicts with each other...
I was really hoping you'd dip a cheddar biscuit into the soup, they seem like a natural combo. This all looks really good, and very plentiful for a 24 hour ration.
Cheese biscuits have the consistency of shortbread, but aren't sweet at all and taste like cheese. They are phenomenal and difficult to find in the States.
Emmy, you are great. You are into the spirit of trying things and letting us know how you feel about taste without being a snob. You really are wonderful.
The general American population is genuinely missing out so much with how *uncommon* the orange and chocolate combination is. You can find a few kinds of chocolates with candied orange or orange flavoring inside, but they’re usually few and far between. My personal favorite is the Möser Roth orange and almond chocolate bars from Aldi (most likely not an American brand 😅)
My cousin (a British soldier) used to sent ration packs for me when I was younger in barrels, I would find it so fascinating to eat what strong men and woman ate as they saved our countries, and would literally force myself to eat the packets, in hope to be stronger as them one day, I became more confident as I thought to myself that I'm as strong as a warrior...XD sometimes I can't help but giggle at what I was thinking back then.
Flavoured hot chocolates from twinings or whittard are common Christmas eve box items in the UK for kids, if you ever see them available jump at the chance (but don't pay ridiculous postage) they taste like nostalgia and winter though tbf the orange one isn't my favourite that award goes to white chocolate and praline
I place my teabag onto my spoon and wind the string around it to squeeze it, so yes I'm a squeezer! As kids my younger brother and I used to drink lots of mint tea and at the end we'd just plop the cold teabag in our mouth and suck on it… very highbrow, i know! Heh heh
RE why they can include branded coffee and non branded. The answer is they didn't the second one was Douwe Egberts coffee which is usually superior to nescafe.
You try to divide contracts up to ensure supply even if one or another company goes belly up due to whatever, or demand outstrips supply. When Grumman was making Avenger Torpedo Bombers in WW2, the demand far outstripped their capacity to provide. So Grumman subcontracted out to General Motors (GM) and Brewster for additional units to help make deadlines and expand production base.
And it protects the wartime government from being pressured upon by unscrupulous tycoons willing to threaten slowdown or even shutdown of production for political (or other) purposes.
DE stands for Douwe Egberts, It's a Dutch brand and definitely not generic. It is the most common brand of coffee in the Netherlands, the country with the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world. It is now owned by Mondelez. I'm quite surprised to see it in this package, though.
Inaccurate though. You are referring to endlessly perpetuated false statistics of average Finnish coffee consumption per coffee consumer, not per capita. Google can give you any information you desire, I thought the Finnish were excellent at filtering out fake news. I don't know exactly how the coffee smuggling activities to Russia effect the statistics. Coffee culture in Finland, the Netherlands and most other countries in the northern hemisphere that experience distinct seasons, is fairly similar. Like the Brits have their tea time, we all have our coffee time at set moments throughout the day. Coffee is cheap and often free in the NL. It also "helps" that having been the colonial overlords of Java(synonymous with coffee) has brought the goods to our country and the general public en masse cheaply very early....passing by the expensive Arabian/Italian variations. I did make the mistake of saying DE is now owned my Modelez. They do own 49% and have merged all global coffee activities of the two, but the majority of the shares in the hands of German investors.
These look yummy! I live in Puerto Rico, and had my first experience with MREs last year due to hurricane Maria hitting the island. The packaging is almost the same. I'm a tea bag squeezer. lol
I live in PR too! The ones I tried were quite different. I think they were kind of old. They had hard mints that had melted and got all over the packaging attracting ants and the Skittles were definitely expired. No tea or beverages in ours, nor water purifier. The way to heat them was a saline solution poured into a sleeve with something that created a chemical reaction to heat up. That was pretty neat.
When I was traveling during my gap year, I would sometimes for breakfast brew a strong cup of black tea, add milk, crush up some tea biscuits into it and stir it around until it was this thick porridge, and just eat it with a spoon...it was actually pretty good.
More importantly for Sikhs, the wet wipe is large enough to clean your beard.... ;-) Yep, I squeeze my tea bags: if it can't bend a spoon it isn't strong enough... The spork might be so deep so that it's easier to eat the food right out of the bag. With a normal shallow spoon, you'd be struggling to 'get under' the food to pick it up.
Oh man, you missed a trick with the hot chocolate, it tastes best when you mix in two of those creamer packs. Best thing ever when you're freezing in the sideways rain! :')
I squeeze my tea bag. I feel like Im squeezing out some concentrated tea (love my tea strong) and saves dripping it over the floor from the bench to the bin.
Peanuts in a can are actually very common in Germany (although the cans are usually bigger than this one). Also cashews, almonds and macadamia nuts. How are they packaged where you come from?
I don't know why but I'm becoming slowly but surely addicted to the soft-spoken and collegiate analysis of everything. I think if you were a professor of a course I happened to be taking, I'd have an immediate and awkward crush on you. I wonder if for the potatoes in the curry stuff they were specifically not cooked all the way so as to let the reheat finish the cooking process, although I imagine in the scheme of sealing it, it would have needed to be pasteurized anyway.
@@addisonm5423 right saying wow emmy is pretty or something is one thing but coming up with this whole scenario and talking about your "awkward crush" with her as your imaginary professor is fukn weird hahaha
I served in the British Army for many years, the reason you get multiple options was to give you variety as you could be living on them for weeks if not months. These ration packs has so much more improved what was on offer in 2003 I wish I got shit like this.
@@paulwilson2651 did I insult her ? No . Was I rude ? No . Was I out of line ? No . Did i say anything negative ? No Was I simply making a statement of what she genuinely does ? Yes ! Does my opinion matter ? No Does your opinion matter , to me ? No ..
typically a good british brew is strong and a little milky. you give the teabag a good squeeze, a good rule being it gets dark enough that you can't seen the bottom of the mug, and then add a splash of milk!
How about taste testing the International Delights and/or Nestle's CoffeMate creamers? And the hot chocolate reminded me of those chocolate oranges...The kind you can SMACK against the hard surface to break them into slices. That was the fun part! And I squeeze my tea bags! Waste not want not!
15:28 hiya, just to clear up we normally ate our meals straight out of the bags cause we didn't have plates and it saved on doing dishes for our mess tins. So yh the deep spoon Is effective when eating out of the bag. Love the vid 😁
Most British soldier will have their tea 'NATO' White with two sugars. Conflicting stories about why it's called NATO but the most popular one seems to be 'Normal Army Tea Order'. You can also get a 'Whoopi Goldberg' Black with no sugar (taken from Sister Act: Black, Nun) or a 'Julie Andrews' White with no sugar (taken from The Sound of Music: White, Nun)
I really enjoy watching you and listening to you. You have a calming quality about you, smart, beautiful yet unpretentious. I would LOVE to see you do a cooking show with different exotic foods you have never tried...that would be enjoyable. Your personality is perfect for TV!!!! A class act!
If you want good tea, try Yorkshire Gold. The orange hot chocolate is amazing with half a shot of a shot of a nice rum in it. Excellent for cold nights.
Two teabags for twenty four hours is quite stingy. Brits might have a tea with every meal and on ‘breaks’. 4 or 5 cups a day would probably be normal- I was a heavy user bringing 20-24oz at a time.
I used to do cadets, and when we went on our annual camp, we had to spend 72 hours in the field. We had to find out ration pack on this camp, and I’m was it worth it. The food was a lot nicer than expected. I had the Orange hot chocolate in mine and it was so good! Definitely one of the better things in that ration
Can anyone from Britain tell what the popularity of orange and chocolate is there? I know that Terry's chocolate orange is really popular there too. I ordered one from there a while back and it was so good 😍
Looks real good to me. In the marines I never used the heating packet. Took too long and you never usually have a lot of time to eat so I always ate it as is. Instead I saved the heating packets and extracted the thermal powder from all of them and saved it. That stuff is amazing with a 20 oz bottle and a little water ; ). I don't recommend you try it as it does get hot and builds pressure and can go boom really loud.
Emmy, I love your videos so much! I love how you speak to your viewers in such a nice, comforting way Also, I squeeze my tea bags, but I'm also not british haha If you like peanuts but not peanut butter, do you like crunchy peanut butter?
@Shinobu Tsurubushi You're beyond ignorant. First off, science has proven there to be many benefits to a vegetarian diet. It has been also proven that vegetarians have a longer life expectancy than non-vegetarians. Please do your research before spitting nonsense into the comments section. And second of all. I'm Indian and Hindu. And I live in the USA, not the UK. But that doesn't matter. Wherever I go, my culture and religion comes with me. Just because one leaves one country and moves to another doesn't mean they should leave behind their entire identity and faith. But someone as narrowminded as you wouldn't understand that, now would you?
Hey Emmy.. can I make a request? Can you please make a craft, of any sort, for a video? Maybe an original design or something? I'm curious what you'll come up with. If so, THANKS! ☺💚
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I’m sitting here with food poisoning and watch people eat food.. I miss the good old times when I could eat too
Callum it’s like when your nose gets stuffy during the winter and you realize how much you took breathing for granted
Get better soon!
водка Holy crap
Ha! I'm doing the same thing
Cara Ann hope u get better soon bb
Currently training with the British army may I tell you that that accessory pack is a brew kit a life saving item in our eyes 😂 Also the coffee creamers if thrown onto a fire cause a mini flare/explosion (we get bored and cold)
Mate I recommend the rice pudding. That shit is fucking ally.
I achieved a flame stack three stories tall with a can of creamer liberated from a university cafeteria. I was on the second floor, leaning over the railing.
I learned that with my ex-husband who was a Manchu in the US Army. I'm excited to know that people still have fun with the coffee creamer.
Interesting :3
"We got bored."
How it usually starts.
😁
Hey emmy!! I work in the factory where the vegetable korma is made, its sectioned off from the rest of the factory and is put through lots of tests to make sure our troops that require Halal food arent eating contaminated food :)
"Vegetarian cuisine is halal if it does not contain alcohol." Also very easy to cross contaminate food ingredients from other dishes in a factory. Nice to hear from expert Cathyn!
Burnt.
Apparently😕
Hindus(Indian culture) have more stringent food requirements as compared to halal preparation. BTW halal is an Islamic thing.
Since meat consumption usually involves killing and or torture(and those actions against any living thing is a sin), so meat consumption is more like a guilty pleasure for Sikh, Hindus/Buddists who would consume them.
With regards to beef consumption, it is the same as how westerners cringe at the thought of dog meat consumption. Cows along with elephants in Indian society are very important domestic animals(pet) in Indian civilization, atleast till Brits arrived at India (lol).
@Corvo@AZ 1. Sikhism is a religion not a nationality and 2. You are British if you are part of the British army you dumbass troll
Yes Emmy, I'm a squeezer. When my husband was in Marines he did cold weather training on Mt. Fuji Japan. He said that there was never enough calories in these packets to keep you from being hungry. He died in 2015 so I like seeing some of the rations he might have been given.
Always squeeze for Two reasons
One, the best flavour
Two, to remove excess water. Just think of the mess a soggy tea bag leaves
So sorry for your loss, miss. God bless You. 😢
Your husband will rest in paradise.
...sorry for your loss...😢
Sorry for your loss.
I learned in a different TH-cam video a person needs almost double calories to work in extreme cold. The shivering burns calories
"Absolutely delightful" is how I would describe your videos. Very informative, descriptive, not overbearing with a overly fake enthusiastic cheer a lot of youtubers these days seem to have. Your also honest but not rude when you don't like something. I think you got yourself another sub to add to the pile lol.
Is that Tiffany?
I think it’d be fun to watch a 24 hour ration to be eaten over a 24 hour period. See how satisfying these things really are. Lol
Sarah Anne that's a really good idea!
Sarah Anne, I agree. That's a fantastic idea! That's what I thought she was going to.
although this had 4000 calories in it for the whole day (meant for a solider with a lot of muscle and physical activity), but Emmy only eats like 1300 per day (I think I remember her saying that at some point) so it actually would probably be *too* much for her
go to steve1989’s channel! he does them all the time
Aleen Souvannavong came to say this 😁
DE is not generic, it a coffee brand just like nescafe but I guess not as wellknown. DE stands for Douwe Egberts, it's a Dutch brand :)
Marjol I once had a jar of douwe egberts coffee sent by a friend from London, it is so much better than cheap ass bitter nescafe
Their factory in Utrecht always smells so nice.
Still strange they'd put two different brands
I was just about to say this! Much better flavour than Nescafe as well ;)
I love Douwe Egberts
So...hold up, are Lunchables kid-oriented MRE's?
By God, Lunchables work with the government to get us red to eat MRE while we're young.
@@hiraunia Deep State theory confirmed
Fuck
I dunno but I do remember one family day our kitchen staff made kiddie MREs and they were inspired by Lunchables type packages
There was this popular theory that lunchables where a created post ear to prepare for the dangers of the cold war
Idk why I like watching people eat MREs lol maybe it's seeing all the cool ways they package and preserve the food for a long shelf life.
Same!
For me I think it’s the whole ritual of constructing the meal it’s like assembling a doll house kit or building a model. So satisfying to see it all come together.
I really only watch Steve1989MREinfo usually. He really makes tasting MRE interesting and funny but I've been following Emmy since she was back in Japan when she was tasting Japanese candies and snacks
Mostly for me it's to find what's good for camping and hiking. For example, from Steve1989MREInfo's channel and also you can see here, those British Ration wipes are widely considered the best in rations for size and durability, so I look out for lots of them on eBay.
You also get the cool little tricks of crackers to add texture to food, or making Ranger Pudding from peanut butter, hot chocolate, coffee and creamer.
From an old and bold Brit Para, the meals are light years ahead of what we had. However, ours were about one quarter the size and most of the packaging could be burned and it wasn't shinny. As per SOP' we brought along extra tea bags, Worstershire sauce and more salt and pepper. Now to get the feel of the rat pack properly, go out into the garden, preferably winter time, have someone spray water on you constantly and go without sleep for 36 hours. At that stage, cardboard tastes good. We had a thing called Airborne stew, it was great...in the field...tried it at home, it was horrible. Oat biscuits could be used to make a pie (don't ask), missing are the ships/dog biscuits, which I quite liked with meat spread. Bear in mind, that much of the time one 24 hour rat pack would have to last 48 or even 72 hours...you soon learned to cook, or starve, your choice. Many Malay vets brought along precooked rice. Great but frugal and hard times. Glad the boys and girls are getting better treated, let’s face it they couldn't do worse (oh yes they can).
Classical Carpenter Thank you so much for input. I am old too and while I never had to eat rations in the field we had them in cadets when we went camping. They were dreadful.
this 🎖️ is if for my respect. Thank you.
I remember when they had the special Yorkie bars in! My dad was 1 Para and had tons of the cardboard box rations, I loved the Arctic ones the best
Biscuits Brown were a phenomenon…..
I know you wanted to show how the water purification tabs work and taste alone which can be gross, but we were taught to add the drink mixes to those to cover the taste of the iodine or chlorine tabs/drops. Just a helpful fyi, great vid still.
Technically, for Sikhi, our meat doesn't have to be killed in a certain way in order for us to eat it. We actually aren't allowed to eat ritually killed meat, halal, or kosher meat.
We *should* also be vegetarian but some aren't, for example, I'm not vegetarian but that's mainly medical reasons.
Also, cows are only considered sacred in Hinduism, not Sikhi, if I remember correctly.
but sikhs don't eat beef traditionally
Why are y’all arguing about eating beef your Hindu your not suppose to eat beef no matter what part of india but some people change there customs and I understand that but as a Hindu I don’t eat beef
Jeanne Milo and if she eats beef let her eat it she’s still Hindu so why can’t us Hindus just unite and not bash each other
@B Bhatt lol someone deciding not to follow ancient and out dated customs is not akin to "being converted". It just means they are more progressive (and, honestly, more intelligent) than you. The entire western world eats beef and nothing bad has ever happened.... So clearly any reverence you have towards cows is misplaced and wrong. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to believe what you want to believe, and do whatever you want to do. But fuck off judging other people just because they have shed the shackles of their past.
When the ideas of your customs are proven to not really matter, why hold on to them? A lot of others countries who don't follow your ancient cultures are doing a lot better than your country. That should tell you something
Im only being so harsh about this because you passed judgement first. Don't judge others unless you yourself wish to be judged. There is nothing about your customs that are meaningful beyond the meaning you yourself give to them. Thats fine. But it also means your customs are ultimately irrelevant, and are of no need to someone who is living a modern life.
This has nothing to do with "identity" and everything to do with common sense, scientific fact, logic and moving forward into a better future for everyone, instead of desperately clinging to the past. A past that was defined by people who didn't know what we do know today. You are only limiting yourself for imaginary reasons
Aryavarta Bharat that's just a forum and those are lines that serve as metaphors
They just don't eat it because in respect for the Hindus
Plus in India cow is used for a lot of things like giving milk or ploughing the fields providing fertilizers etc
But people do eat beef when the cow is really old especially the bull
So many tea bag squeezers...😅
emmymadeinjapan make a jiggle cheesecake!!! Lol
emmymadeinjapan if I don't squeeze I literally get anxiety
sometimes I do sometimes I don't it depends on my mood haha
emmymadeinjapan I squeeze my tea bag and then put it back in my tea... needless to say I like strongly brewed tea.
I say don't squeeze the tea bag!
It's my understanding it causes added bitterness but I'm not sure how true that is. Due to that I don't squeeze.
Emmy. Never change. You are truly such a beautiful person. Love watching your old and new stuff. You are such a serene person. You legit take my anxiety away. You make a difference in people's lives just by being who you are. Thank you.
This has to be the most appetizing MRE I've ever seen, I wish more MRE's could be this useful and helpful.
Some of the American mres are pretty good. Lord knows though you don't wanna be the one stuck with the "scrambled eggs" out in the field 🤮
Meals prepared according to religious rules are usually made with better quality/fresher ingredients than the average. Same with Kosher meals.
The French one she did looked actually good.
@@RealSlendermanSon I agree. The French one to me looks like the yummiest one yet!🙂
@Caltara Z looks are different than tastes.. S.Asian cuisine tends to be more flavorful.
Wouldn’t it be an awesome episode if you actually sat down with a person in the army or a veteran and test out the MRE’s? If you had a veteran join you, they could tell you how the MRE’s today differ from what they would have received before. ☺️☺️☺️. Love your videos and your channel!
Maria A cool idea! I hope she does this sometime
Oh, what a brilliant idea! I hope that happens, that would be great. x
That would be cool. But it'd probably be a little difficult to contact someone currently serving or retired from every military force she tries rations from. Especially since some of them are from countries either in heated conflicts with each other...
She would just need to say she wants to do it and they'll contact her.
Randomness of Ging I’ve watched a handful of these videos with my dad who was a US Marine and all he could talk about was how much MREs sucked lmao
I was really hoping you'd dip a cheddar biscuit into the soup, they seem like a natural combo.
This all looks really good, and very plentiful for a 24 hour ration.
Cheese biscuits have the consistency of shortbread, but aren't sweet at all and taste like cheese. They are phenomenal and difficult to find in the States.
Mmmmm cheddar biscuits ☺️
shanidar Sounds like cheese straws, minus a lot of black pepper
Emmy, you are great. You are into the spirit of trying things and letting us know how you feel about taste without being a snob. You really are wonderful.
the most un-snobby host on youtube!
I’m from England and orange chocolate is VERY common 😂
Kate Burnett orange chocolate yes, but not orange hot chocolate😂
Jamiee Leigh 😂😂
The general American population is genuinely missing out so much with how *uncommon* the orange and chocolate combination is.
You can find a few kinds of chocolates with candied orange or orange flavoring inside, but they’re usually few and far between.
My personal favorite is the Möser Roth orange and almond chocolate bars from Aldi (most likely not an American brand 😅)
It seems tasty ;-; i must consume some
@@iridescentaurora268 we have orange and chocolate everywhere though? Especially around the holidays
My cousin (a British soldier) used to sent ration packs for me when I was younger in barrels, I would find it so fascinating to eat what strong men and woman ate as they saved our countries, and would literally force myself to eat the packets, in hope to be stronger as them one day, I became more confident as I thought to myself that I'm as strong as a warrior...XD sometimes I can't help but giggle at what I was thinking back then.
Whenever a package comes with peanut butter.
*Emmy tastes it*
“🌚 I’m not a huge peanut butter fan”
Hi ur from 2018
Orange flavored hot chocolate! Never seen that before it reminds me of them orange chocolates that brake apart like an actual orange
Britty Brad Terrys Chocolate Oranges.
Britty Brad lol that's what I was thinking this entire video!
Me too
We have a British aisle in our grocery store that offers TERRY’S CHOCOLATE ORANGE BAR - OMG - so good.
Flavoured hot chocolates from twinings or whittard are common Christmas eve box items in the UK for kids, if you ever see them available jump at the chance (but don't pay ridiculous postage) they taste like nostalgia and winter though tbf the orange one isn't my favourite that award goes to white chocolate and praline
I had to bust out laughing when you tried the soup and you made the yum sound followed IMMEDIATELY by the nope never mind sound 😂
I love tea, I'm British, so I drink a LOT of tea 😂🤣 I have it stupidly strong and damn right I squeeze the tea bag lol.
British here too and I always squeeze my tea bags. I couldn't function without my cups of tea!!
I don't drink tea much but when I do, I drink Yorkshire AND squeeze the teabag 😅
Wait it is normal to squeeze them, I'm asking from across the pond.
I'm an American
@@memecream5834 yep its a British thing! Gotta get the most out of the bloody tea bag!
i don’t even take it out lmao
The bag looks like a grocery store rotisserie chicken bag lmao
LMAO YES
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking that 😂
I place my teabag onto my spoon
and wind the string around it to
squeeze it, so yes I'm a squeezer!
As kids my younger brother and I
used to drink lots of mint tea and
at the end we'd just plop the cold
teabag in our mouth and suck on
it… very highbrow, i know! Heh heh
Frank Gavin Moratalla Lol I do that too! 😂
Don't squeeze !!! The leaves in a boiled bag are bitter and taint the taste . Tea faux pas !
I like doing that
The 40 year old vegan that's how I squeeze my bags too lol
I grew up watching my Mum squeeze her teabags like that. 😁
I just squish mine against the side of the cup...so unrefined. 😁
RE why they can include branded coffee and non branded. The answer is they didn't the second one was Douwe Egberts coffee which is usually superior to nescafe.
Yeah, Douwe Egberts is _good._ Maybe they don't get it in the US? Nescafe is pretty horrible.
always been two brands of coffee in the MRE ,its so they can swap with another etc
You try to divide contracts up to ensure supply even if one or another company goes belly up due to whatever, or demand outstrips supply. When Grumman was making Avenger Torpedo Bombers in WW2, the demand far outstripped their capacity to provide. So Grumman subcontracted out to General Motors (GM) and Brewster for additional units to help make deadlines and expand production base.
And it protects the wartime government from being pressured upon by unscrupulous tycoons willing to threaten slowdown or even shutdown of production for political (or other) purposes.
DE stands for Douwe Egberts, It's a Dutch brand and definitely not generic. It is the most common brand of coffee in the Netherlands, the country with the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world. It is now owned by Mondelez. I'm quite surprised to see it in this package, though.
D'oh...thanks so much for sharing.
Finland has the highest coffee consumption in the world per capita, way ahead of any other country. ;) Google is your friend
Inaccurate though. You are referring to endlessly perpetuated false statistics of average Finnish coffee consumption per coffee consumer, not per capita. Google can give you any information you desire, I thought the Finnish were excellent at filtering out fake news. I don't know exactly how the coffee smuggling activities to Russia effect the statistics.
Coffee culture in Finland, the Netherlands and most other countries in the northern hemisphere that experience distinct seasons, is fairly similar. Like the Brits have their tea time, we all have our coffee time at set moments throughout the day. Coffee is cheap and often free in the NL. It also "helps" that having been the colonial overlords of Java(synonymous with coffee) has brought the goods to our country and the general public en masse cheaply very early....passing by the expensive Arabian/Italian variations.
I did make the mistake of saying DE is now owned my Modelez. They do own 49% and have merged all global coffee activities of the two, but the majority of the shares in the hands of German investors.
Janman Nique Douwe Egberts is pretty common here in the UK, I think it's probably known as one of the best dried/instant coffee brands.
World War Coffee, over here. LOL. You tell them, Janman! 😂
You are the Mr. Rogers of survival food- a very good soul with healing properties.
Gosh, that food looks good. Stores should have survival shelves. Make it easier for the average person to get a hold of.
Or you can buy Wise Company foods, ready wise and Patriots foods. They all have survival foods which is similar to these.
These look yummy! I live in Puerto Rico, and had my first experience with MREs last year due to hurricane Maria hitting the island. The packaging is almost the same. I'm a tea bag squeezer. lol
I live in PR too! The ones I tried were quite different. I think they were kind of old. They had hard mints that had melted and got all over the packaging attracting ants and the Skittles were definitely expired. No tea or beverages in ours, nor water purifier. The way to heat them was a saline solution poured into a sleeve with something that created a chemical reaction to heat up. That was pretty neat.
Gabriela Bianchi I’m new to these episodes what’s MRE. THANKS
Margaret Kaufman Meal Ready to Eat :)
That's a really weird job.
Hello 👋 how are you doing
So, did you keep that spork? I totally would have.
Glamour N' Nail I know right
Honestly all the best "disposable" spoons come from MREs. I kept many of mine.
Oh so it’s not an asian thing
D E N C H LMAO
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When I was traveling during my gap year, I would sometimes for breakfast brew a strong cup of black tea, add milk, crush up some tea biscuits into it and stir it around until it was this thick porridge, and just eat it with a spoon...it was actually pretty good.
That sounds like something I'd like to try!
I’m kind of triggered that you never heated up the korma 😩
I agree, between the korma and the tomato soup I know which one I would prefer cold ... and it's _not_ the korma.
Same.
Our neighbors across the pond know how to treat their military well. The MRE we keep in case of an earthquake, SUCK.
More importantly for Sikhs, the wet wipe is large enough to clean your beard.... ;-)
Yep, I squeeze my tea bags: if it can't bend a spoon it isn't strong enough...
The spork might be so deep so that it's easier to eat the food right out of the bag. With a normal shallow spoon, you'd be struggling to 'get under' the food to pick it up.
Don't be silly about cleaning their beards
Shut the fuck up your mouth
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@@icansurviveuniversity.imra1405 ===?
I squeeze until the teabag doesnt drip anymore. Cant have a drippy bag.
Even though I know this is an MRE I still expected those flying snakes to come out of the peanut can.
That's so stinking funny!!
Olivia Sher that’s racist
@@eathrudhd Lol, how?
@@jupitersworld9871
Stereotyping??
@@mtraa.942 I just lost braincells reading this
Oh man, you missed a trick with the hot chocolate, it tastes best when you mix in two of those creamer packs. Best thing ever when you're freezing in the sideways rain! :')
You are the personification of warm charm blended perfectly with respect for other cultures and history. You were made to do this.
I squeeze my tea bag. I feel like Im squeezing out some concentrated tea (love my tea strong) and saves dripping it over the floor from the bench to the bin.
FF sake
That spork is seriously HUGE! I didn’t really notice its ridiculous size until you used it to try the muesli!
Peanuts in a can remind me of that old 'snake in a can' novelty gag product. Haha
adam mac lol
adam mac it does
Peanuts in a can are actually very common in Germany (although the cans are usually bigger than this one). Also cashews, almonds and macadamia nuts. How are they packaged where you come from?
Spongebob😂
adam mac i get you
I'm British and I'm offended by how little you brewed that tea lol
Love the video.
I think (hope) that it was edited for brevity.
That apple turnover looks like one of those fruit-filled cereal bars. 😂
I though of a fig newton but I would totally agree with you! 😂
I love these MRE Videos
Aiyana Perez yes
I literally scream when emmy uploads an mre video 😂 thanks for making my Saturday emmy 💕💕
+Sean Flatten 🙃
I agree with you I squealed when I saw this episode!
Me too, they're my favorite!
Yes!!
I don't know why but I'm becoming slowly but surely addicted to the soft-spoken and collegiate analysis of everything. I think if you were a professor of a course I happened to be taking, I'd have an immediate and awkward crush on you.
I wonder if for the potatoes in the curry stuff they were specifically not cooked all the way so as to let the reheat finish the cooking process, although I imagine in the scheme of sealing it, it would have needed to be pasteurized anyway.
Harry that’s very creepy no offense
@@addisonm5423 right saying wow emmy is pretty or something is one thing but coming up with this whole scenario and talking about your "awkward crush" with her as your imaginary professor is fukn weird hahaha
Freak
I served in the British Army for many years, the reason you get multiple options was to give you variety as you could be living on them for weeks if not months. These ration packs has so much more improved what was on offer in 2003 I wish I got shit like this.
Emmy: *eats something *
Emmy: hmmm hmmm
EVERY SINGLE TIME
When she just gives one hmmm I know she didn't really like it
Lol I watched 4 of her videos back to back n noticed how often she says it lol
Love her though !!!!
@@ms.artichokecheesepizzawst3239 Who cares? I only watch them to see her!!!!!!
@@paulwilson2651 um, a little fast on the trigger , dont ya think ?
@@paulwilson2651 did I insult her ? No . Was I rude ? No . Was I out of line ? No . Did i say anything negative ? No
Was I simply making a statement of what she genuinely does ?
Yes ! Does my opinion matter ? No
Does your opinion matter , to me ?
No ..
typically a good british brew is strong and a little milky. you give the teabag a good squeeze, a good rule being it gets dark enough that you can't seen the bottom of the mug, and then add a splash of milk!
Ezmay Grace My mum gave me a lesson in how to make good strong British tea. She always said it mustn't look like 'gnat's pee'!
TheLondonLass are you sure she doesn’t say “gnats p*ss” 😂😂
Emmy is lactose intolerant so she doesn't normally drink regular milk.
To quote The Great Escape: "Tea without milk is so uncivilised."
Aye now there's a lass that knows how to make a cuppa!
How about taste testing the International Delights and/or Nestle's CoffeMate creamers? And the hot chocolate reminded me of those chocolate oranges...The kind you can SMACK against the hard surface to break them into slices. That was the fun part! And I squeeze my tea bags! Waste not want not!
It depends on the type of tea! I don’t squeeze any that get super bitter. But when I drink chamomile at night I usually squeeze the bag.
Al Funcoot no theres chamomile tea out there, its supposed to help you relax and sleep
15:28 hiya, just to clear up we normally ate our meals straight out of the bags cause we didn't have plates and it saved on doing dishes for our mess tins. So yh the deep spoon Is effective when eating out of the bag. Love the vid 😁
I know I'm a year late to the party, but I do squeeze my teabag, because if I don't, my clumsy self gets tea drippings all over the place. :O
Most British soldier will have their tea 'NATO' White with two sugars. Conflicting stories about why it's called NATO but the most popular one seems to be 'Normal Army Tea Order'.
You can also get a 'Whoopi Goldberg' Black with no sugar (taken from Sister Act: Black, Nun) or a 'Julie Andrews' White with no sugar (taken from The Sound of Music: White, Nun)
I miss the old camera angles where we could see what you are preparing
Emmy hope u reach million subs before the year ends! Congrats in advance!!
Me too! Thanks for the love.
you have managed to capture and share with us the excitement of opening or trying something new! thanks :) this is delightful; it’s making me smile.
I love this!!! You literally tested the match. :) Hey you know those cheesy oat biscuits where probably meant to be your grilled cheese for the soup.
I was almost expecting snakes to pop out when you opened the can of peanuts
Your MRE videos are how I discovered you after falling down a TH-cam hole a few months ago... love them!
I used to be an army cadet in the early 90s and I can tell you the quality of ration packs have vastly improved since then.
I’m not sure how I feel about having a snack including the word “explosion” in an MRE for soldiers. 😄
Lukas Oitzl 🙈🙈
I really enjoy watching you and listening to you. You have a calming quality about you, smart, beautiful yet unpretentious. I would LOVE to see you do a cooking show with different exotic foods you have never tried...that would be enjoyable. Your personality is perfect for TV!!!! A class act!
One of the BEST review/reviewers I've seen. Well done. 👍
I love how you go mhmmm every time you try something, it's so cute haha
Wow, the MRE’s I had in the US Army, were def no where near as sophisticated as this packet is 😱
Another great video Emmy 👍
This is definitely one of the more interesting food rations. These videos are addicting.
Hello 👋 how are you doing
So the generic coffee is actually a dutch brand I think: DE (Douwe Egberts)
I'm not sure though, why they would package two different ones
Who else thought her cutting into the turnover at 6:02 was satisfying 😂😂just me ok
Jocelyn Sullivan I thought her taking the food preserver off was satisfying too 🙃
If you want good tea, try Yorkshire Gold. The orange hot chocolate is amazing with half a shot of a shot of a nice rum in it. Excellent for cold nights.
offender AYE!!!
emmy can you make the around the world taste tests? I miss those so much💔🙏
camila People have to send her them though
Minty Pancakez i believe she still receives packages
Two teabags for twenty four hours is quite stingy. Brits might have a tea with every meal and on ‘breaks’. 4 or 5 cups a day would probably be normal- I was a heavy user bringing 20-24oz at a time.
Always thought I was weird drinking sm tea :D Glad I'm not alone.
Haha I always said to my service buddies that I would swap the cola packs with any other drink. Lol
Jeremy Hannaford double figures teabags are required for British
My Irish father in law would probably die with only two teas over the period of 24hrs lol
Emmy, trying the soup: ʰᵐ _hm_
ohmygod you are aDORABLE
Within 6 minutes of being posted... Not bad... Usually I catch Emmy's videos almost 5 hours after she posts them... *Happy Dances*...
"You only get an 'Oooooh' with Typhoo" - was the tag line in their advertising many moons ago - Love Typhoo tea
You can tell she’s a great mother :-)
Emmy! I love that you have no music or sound affects
Just ambient sound and narration it’s great for people like me with sensitive audial sensory
orange hot cocoa sounds so good never heard of it want to try it now if you could get fizzy water for the cola one that would be cool
its popular in UK ,we have mint choc orange choc belgium and cookie hot choc drinks
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/293163600
Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
i don't squeeze my tea bags because it brings out the flavour of the tannins, making the tea bitter and astringent. it also makes the tea cloudy.
Yes! MRE taste test are my favorite videos from you
+Happy From Fairy Tail 😌
I usually squeeze my tea bag, whenever I’m able. I think it gives the tea more flavour
Me too! All that concentrated flavor in the tea bag. Can't waste it!
Also stop the dripping
I squeeze my tea bag by wrapping it around my spoon!
So let's get this out on a tray...nice.
Stephen Morris - nice hiss 👌🏻
Just nothing lime that's gross lol
Just came from that channel 😂😂
@@skylynnwolford6411 same 😂😂
Make a jiggle cheese cake Emmy please!!! 😃😃😃
Vivianna Cruz she’s made some kind of jiggle cake, I just can’t remember what kind!
She has
Vivianna Cruz she did
Vivianna Cruz th-cam.com/video/yzqiBTFF-IE/w-d-xo.html
Vivianna Cruz ya that what i was thinking
She said “NICE” #steve1989MREinfo
I love watching him!
But does she get it out on a tray... ;)
I used to do cadets, and when we went on our annual camp, we had to spend 72 hours in the field. We had to find out ration pack on this camp, and I’m was it worth it. The food was a lot nicer than expected. I had the Orange hot chocolate in mine and it was so good! Definitely one of the better things in that ration
Hello 👋 how are you doing
Can anyone from Britain tell what the popularity of orange and chocolate is there? I know that Terry's chocolate orange is really popular there too. I ordered one from there a while back and it was so good 😍
logan arndt It's quite a common flavour combination! Chocolate oranges are delicious and a Christmas tradition!
Jaffa cakes. 'nuff said.
I love these videos so much!! I got your notification and instantly clicked on it!!!
Emmy is life. Love love all your ration packs. Love u lots ❤🤞 hope to see another one of your amazing videos
"if you like your tea stronger, just squeeze your bag a little longer" thats what my grandmother used to say lol- love your vids! subbed!
Looks real good to me. In the marines I never used the heating packet. Took too long and you never usually have a lot of time to eat so I always ate it as is. Instead I saved the heating packets and extracted the thermal powder from all of them and saved it. That stuff is amazing with a 20 oz bottle and a little water ; ). I don't recommend you try it as it does get hot and builds pressure and can go boom really loud.
Squeezing the tea bag makes it bitter by releasing more tannins. So if you like bitter tea, squeeze away!
I don’t squeeze my tea bag
Easy fix, milk and sugar
Visconte YES!!! 😊
My grandma does that and I find it disgusting .
Thats why, i love squeezing my tea
Emmy, I love your videos so much! I love how you speak to your viewers in such a nice, comforting way
Also, I squeeze my tea bags, but I'm also not british haha
If you like peanuts but not peanut butter, do you like crunchy peanut butter?
Proud Hindu and Vegetarian ❤️
Iman A. I’m a proud Hindu but I just don’t eat beef
I’m a proud atheist and I eat meat but good for you
@Shinobu Tsurubushi You're beyond ignorant. First off, science has proven there to be many benefits to a vegetarian diet. It has been also proven that vegetarians have a longer life expectancy than non-vegetarians. Please do your research before spitting nonsense into the comments section. And second of all. I'm Indian and Hindu. And I live in the USA, not the UK. But that doesn't matter. Wherever I go, my culture and religion comes with me. Just because one leaves one country and moves to another doesn't mean they should leave behind their entire identity and faith. But someone as narrowminded as you wouldn't understand that, now would you?
I love the way she describes the taste of the food❤️!
I like how these meals show so much about the the culture and the kind of food that is considered like typical and good stodgy meals.
Hey Emmy.. can I make a request? Can you please make a craft, of any sort, for a video? Maybe an original design or something? I'm curious what you'll come up with. If so, THANKS! ☺💚
+adam mac Have you seen my other channel?
emmymadeinjapan No.. but that's about to change. Thanks!😅
What other channel?
Princess Lisa Marie she have a channel where she has been making kids crafts and stuff with her boys
Princess Lisa Marie: OTHER CHANNEL: emmymade bit.ly/1zK04SJ
Very interesting!
Teabags: I used to squeeze them, but I found that my cuppa was less bitter if I did not.