I ate a bunch of C Rats when i was in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968-69. Apricots came in slices in syrup, very tasty. Them napkins are Toilet Paper. The chocolate was great. Anything with meat in it was good. Sometimes we would make a stew out of different C Rats mixed up and cook them in a helmet. Yum Yum 👍 Meals you didn't like you could always trade with your buddies.
I had K-rats in the military. Wasn't that good. Seems like I always got a can of poundcake. It was disgusting. All K-rats had cigarettes. Different brands. Best thing in the box. You should have kept the matches and cigarettes unopened as collector items. The paper was toilet paper. Second best thing in the box.
IF I remember correctly the P38 can openers were packaged seperately they came in the cases of the C rations most of us back then had a few of them, one on our dog tag chain maybe another on a key ring. Many of us had a Swiss Army type knife that had a can opener on it. I was in the Air Force and we still had a few around in 1985, but by then the MRE were being issued. In the Air Force we only ate during Exercises or Deployments.
I was in the Marine Corps from 1964 to 1968, and ate tons of C-Rations. Most of the entrees were quite good. But they were loaded with calories, so many guys gained weight during the times when C-Rations were their main food.
I ate my share of those C rations in Vietnam 50 years ago. Some were definitely better than others. I especially liked the boned chicken. The cigarettes were great, too. I didn't smoke, so I traded my Camels for warm generic-brand pop when it was available. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
LexiiLV the smokes are fine to smoke stale if you want a headache and a cough. us smokers can tell if our brand has been on the shelf at store for 2 months or longer because they turn stale so fast. I'd smoke them as an emergency cigarette.
I believe it was the second can with the beef that leaked out. The apricot jam can (puffed can) opened first still had pressurised air inside which meant that the can seal wasn't broken but the second can's lid just gave way and was clearly broken already.
I love your videos today I had to put down my dog and I was having a terrible day I get home and I watch your videos and they instantly made me feel better thank you for everything you do you are my favorite TH-camr thank you so much
If he actually smoked one of those vintage cigarettes, he would be one of the few people on TH-cam to have actually smoked a cigarette from around 1950
Taras, the manufacture date should be stamped into the cans. Beef with sauce was the "good" C-ration, back in the day! If the C-ration came with cigarettes, it was 1974, or earlier, probably 1968-74 vintage, looking at the Marlboro package
the apricots fermented and then turned to vinegar in the can and the smokes you should have left it the plastic that is one of the vintage things that can go for good $.
Taras, buddy! Those aren’t napkins. Remember, these are ‘Combat Rats’. No toilet rolls hanging ‘round in the Vietnam Nam Bush. And believe it when I tell you one learns to make the paper last, especially when you get the runs. And the runs run frequently in the bush. Great Site, this and your ‘Hacker’ Site.
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He really just gagged after that giant sniff😂😂😂
Fernando Bonilla “It still smells like, BLERGH apricot” you sure Taras haha 🤣🤣🤣
Fernando Bonilla gagged*
Best part of the video. Almost peed myself.
I think that initial gagging was the hit of botulism hitting the lungs
Fernando Bonilla ik im still laughing😂😂😂
This MRE will seriously make your toilet go BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw in tomato gadjets vidyo
Beef jerky
ziljin hahahahahaha
Yeah you'll be shittin your guts out for weeks
Just watched a few of your videos. Worth it.
I bet those smokes were worth alot before u opened them
$25 USD
Regular Person multi millionaire
boomllionare
Love this guys uploads, but he didn't even think twice. That's history that other you tubers already did.
"It does still smell like *gag* apricots"
😂😂😂🤣 I was looking for this comment
I ate a bunch of C Rats when i was in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968-69. Apricots came in slices in syrup, very tasty. Them napkins are Toilet Paper. The chocolate was great. Anything with meat in it was good. Sometimes we would make a stew out of different C Rats mixed up and cook them in a helmet. Yum Yum 👍 Meals you didn't like you could always trade with your buddies.
pjbikerful thank you for your service !
pjbikerful that was very interesting to learn 😄 thank you for your service
Dad was in around that time.. Two purple hearts,. Thank you brother
Thank You, Anthony, Yes it was hard times back then. I was one of the lucky ones that made it back in one piece.
Ammar Syria What are we supposed to do? Vilify the people that were forced to be sent to Vietnam by the government? What's your point?
Bruh that malboro pack would be so expencive lol he just opens it😩😩😩
Nicklas Högström nah u can still buy the same pack as in video here in sebia
moze moze nek se nocas pije rakija sampanjac
Nicklas Högström IKR
Nicklas Högström vintage marlboro yeah
Nicklas Högström I know right so missed off at this video
Love how it includes smokes...Gotta have those...shooting at ppl and getting shot at also kills ppl.
*sniffs*
"It still does smell *urgh* " *almost pukes* *
> Keeps going like nothing happened
Valekon lol
This is the way.
I had K-rats in the military.
Wasn't that good. Seems like I always got a can of poundcake. It was disgusting.
All K-rats had cigarettes. Different brands. Best thing in the box.
You should have kept the matches and cigarettes unopened as collector items.
The paper was toilet paper. Second best thing in the box.
Steve1989MREInfo would say NICE!
ziljin I was just watching him lol
Steve is the best MRE reviewer, this guy, ruins everything, and doesnt know what to do. all he likes its his fuking "Pashtiate"
Steve will eat all of it. :)))
ziljin "let's get this out on a try. All right, nice!"
He would also eat all of it
Can you say BOTULISM?
Jeanine Renee 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
its pretty comon in those mri's ....
Ja Nana BOTULISM
NICE LETS GET THIS ON A TRAY!
Lol that gag though😂
IF I remember correctly the P38 can openers were packaged seperately they came in the cases of the C rations most of us back then had a few of them, one on our dog tag chain maybe another on a key ring.
Many of us had a Swiss Army type knife that had a can opener on it.
I was in the Air Force and we still had a few around in 1985, but by then the MRE were being issued. In the Air Force we only ate during Exercises or Deployments.
Donald Kline Photography got my first one by finding it in the top flap of my ALICE. Still have it.
Donald Kline Photography Very cool information. Thank you and thank you for your service
If I remember correctly 5 or 6 P38s came to a case..they were loose on top of the C rations.
Donald Kline Photography thanks
There's four p38s in each case of 12 MCIs. That equals one for every one day of food or 3 rations per can opener.
"It actually tastes good!",
*spits it out*
I love how many people here also watch steve1989mreinfo NICE!
Dan macchio yeah..
m'kay
I was in the Marine Corps from 1964 to 1968, and ate tons of C-Rations. Most of the entrees were quite good. But they were loaded with calories, so many guys gained weight during the times when C-Rations were their main food.
Botulism is a real thing. Apricots in this C-Rat quite likely an example of botulism contamination.
Any bulging can is a sign of botulism. Doesn't matter what's in it. I would have never even opened it.
TARAS! YOU JUST WASTED A ONE HUNDRED PACK OF MARLBORO CIGARETTES!
Good
i'm glad he did i would too
Pt0wN973b0iI no way those were cool!!!
everyone knos what a cigarette looks like!
wut a maroon!!!
Cigarettes are disgusting
Martha Yoder right ciggarettes are trash
*>Likes video before even watching*
*>Regret nothing*
*B O O M*
It still does smell... ack! (Gagging) 😂😂
"Mmm *sniffs* it still does smell *aulll* (Seal sound)😂
I know, I was like "Dude, why?!?!"
“Has just a leetle bit of stinch (stink and stench) to it”
Those napkins was toilet paper!
Nice hiss!
Flamingo haha nice steve1989 reference
Flamingo Steve 1989
M'kay...Let's get this out onto a tray...
Steve would get a heart attack if he saw what Taras is doing with this mre 😂
I ate my share of those C rations in Vietnam 50 years ago. Some were definitely better than others. I especially liked the boned chicken. The cigarettes were great, too. I didn't smoke, so I traded my Camels for warm generic-brand pop when it was available. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
I wish that I could have seen you're face after you sniffed that can of apricot. 😂😂 (GAGGED)!!
steve1989mreinfo is probably crying over you calling them cigarettes stale. he would enjoy them!
Nice hiss
Taras your legendary how else thinks he coolest youtuber
Get a life u simp
Looking at the cigarettes I would think closer to the 70s
Steve1989 would have eaten it all and smoke them cig's..
Zombie Native Steve who
Who is this steve
But first he would of put it out onto a tray. Nice.
Steve1989MREInfo He does reviews on MRE's. He even ate hardtack from 1863.
Lol. Let's get this out on a tray.
PLEASE keep making these MRE eating videos, I love them! They are so entertaining!
I guarantee you that the Malboros and PB is perfectly fine and smokable/edible, aswell as the gum.
LexiiLV
the smokes are fine to smoke stale if you want a headache and a cough. us smokers can tell if our brand has been on the shelf at store for 2 months or longer because they turn stale so fast. I'd smoke them as an emergency cigarette.
Let’s get this on to a tray Nice.
He swallows it "I spit it all out"
"Its still smells like..."
*gaggs*
"Yeah it stills smells like appricaote"
When he went to smell the apricot and gagged I laughed so hard
Nice hiss, let's get this on a tray, Nice
*lets get that onto a tray ... NICE*
*GAGS* still smells like apricots
Taras: I wouldn't risk it
Steve1989: *eats something 30 years older*
Nice!
I didn't see a tray :(
Aay
He's awesome :)
*O O F*
Justin Y. Nice hiss
I believe it was the second can with the beef that leaked out. The apricot jam can (puffed can) opened first still had pressurised air inside which meant that the can seal wasn't broken but the second can's lid just gave way and was clearly broken already.
That gag was the best!! Ah, I love You, Taras. You're too good.
I remember my family members talking about these types of food. Pretty cool to see what they were talking about.
Holds the chocolate cookie.
You know what this actually tastes good..
Spits into the grass.
CRH: I wouldn’t eat any of this stuff at all
Also CRH *eating some of the food*
Taras: points out water damage twice, gives a potential explanation for damage then says it looks like it has no damage.
"Let's get this onto a tray... Nice! M'kay...."
I was so scared he was going to eat something...AND THEN HE DID! BLEGH
I love your videos today I had to put down my dog and I was having a terrible day I get home and I watch your videos and they instantly made me feel better thank you for everything you do you are my favorite TH-camr thank you so much
I almost cried when he smelled those apricots
This MRE had no soul :D
crh: it actually tastes good.
crh: "Spits it out"
He's no steve1989 but still oddly interesting for some reason
The gag when he smells the apricot😂
can you do a collab with Steve1989MREinfo
Nick Aldarelli why haven't i heard of this guy before
You should watch some his videos they are really interesting.
*bear plays csgo*
*bear kills candy with his awp (128 in 1 hit)*
*bear teabags candy*
bear: get canne'd
Those aren't napkins, Taras...
PlantBased Bill ☹☹☹☹☹
PlantBased Bill then wut r they. 😐
Toiletpaper xD
the beast nightmare ，toilet paper
Wow they even gave you a mini pack of smokes.
Brave, brave man...I salute you.
Dude, I’m sitting here eating shawarma..
Dry heave at 5.03 loool made me laugh so much
I'm doing fine, thanks for asking. 😁
This is how zombie apocalypse starts! LOL
It still does smell brrrrr like apricot 😂😂😂
I wonder where he manages to get these from. All the mres I see on amazon seem like they're just partial mres and expensive as heck.
im pretty sure they removed cigarettes from the mres in the 70s and there are codes on the cans that say the day of the year and the year
great video T 🤯 wouldn't have expected to see Marlboros in there
If he actually smoked one of those vintage cigarettes, he would be one of the few people on TH-cam to have actually smoked a cigarette from around 1950
that chocolate disk looked tempting lol
Taras, the manufacture date should be stamped into the cans.
Beef with sauce was the "good" C-ration, back in the day!
If the C-ration came with cigarettes, it was 1974, or earlier, probably 1968-74 vintage, looking at the Marlboro package
the apricots fermented and then turned to vinegar in the can and the smokes you should have left it the plastic that is one of the vintage things that can go for good $.
This is probably what inside the 1950’s Civil Defense Rations look like still sitting in the Basements of the older buildings in US Cities?
It was apricots within syrup
Reason why apricots popped is because of sugar which if heated will explode
Did you just say "never had candy before" XD
I have been watching your videos all day
Taras, buddy! Those aren’t napkins. Remember, these are ‘Combat Rats’. No toilet rolls hanging ‘round in the Vietnam Nam Bush. And believe it when I tell you one learns to make the paper last, especially when you get the runs. And the runs run frequently in the bush. Great Site, this and your ‘Hacker’ Site.
SO INTERESTING! No sarcasm o loved this video!
Why did the chocolate cookie like chocolate didn’t melt for 50 years?
C-rats are what I are for the first few years of my military years. We finally graduated to mre’s.
Oh,, I just watched the beginning of this video and we had c-rays in 82, 83 and 84.
Thank god it wasn’t that stove commercial
Yippee! It's The Taras Show. Yippee!
I was smoking wile watching this video 😂
Thank you taras my grandpa have these like yours the video is best
And suddenly the apricots overheated and busted the can open 😂😂😂 a nice ration! Keep on reviewing!
The apricots looked so disgusting 😝
Nice hiss.
lets put that onto a tray.....
BOOM
5:02 that legendary gag 😁😁😁
"Let's get that out on a tray....nice!"
So how does chocolate didn't melt if it was stored somewhere really really hot?
Dude the cigarettes are the best parts of MCI's
Fun fact, gum stays good forever and never decomposes.
It's amazing that there isn't much difference at all between the C-rat and early MRE accessory packs! Except the cigarettes.
Let's get this out onto a tray, NICE!
Military can opener would be a KA-BAR
Taras you should do more MRE videos like this!! Specially vintage style MREs!!😀
what a bummer these didn't hold up too well but still a nice piece of ration history
If Taras put this stuff on a tray it would be really....nice