Great review Nathan and really happy you enjoyed the ration! The mains always look so fresh in the French rations. Now i really hope one of my other French rations has the fish soup! Also drove up my sub count quite a bit. Really appreciate that and always glad to support the channel. Cheers!
These are awesome rations, would love to try one. But that soup.... the french got the name right poison LOL. I hate fish. I would eat this one all except the fish soup. Thanks for the great review.
Love these videos, especially the vintage MREs. Only complaint that I have is that I can never find the link for his knife. And I keep looking. Anyway, thanks for spreading the knowledge about the taste of MREs
Happened to stumble upon your channel and really like it! Great stuff bud. Subbed! Also I checked out your Amazon store, are you a fellow German car owner? BMW? I got a Audi. They sure make great cars!!
The pork is totally ok IT IS NOT A PÂTÉ it is "RILLETTES" a traditional meal with mixed shredded pork meat and pork grease. That is why you have some white sometimes and this texture, it is totally normal for rillettes. You are supposed to eat some with baguette bread (paradise).
The French components are all good to me except the fish pate (menu 14 I think) and the peach bar..that tastes like wax. Overall good food. Nice review ☺ Edit- I think the curry one is best soup. Fish one only when outdoors and really hungry lol
Holy cow! This is almost a meal for 3! I would eat that! And naturally, you enjoy it to the fullest. You and Steve1989MRE, are the experts. (By the way, no need for an apostrophe in Thanks.)
it's a ration meant to be nibbled on throughout the day. for example the biscuits are meant to be munched on while walking. It also includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The chocolate pudding is actually pudding and cake. It is very popular in France. There are two kinds of pate. There are the real smooth one and a coarser chopped one. The coarse style is called country style. The fish soup is excellent. It is almost a gravy. I saved mine and used it as such over mashed potatoes. Tasty.
It seems a lot of the European rations have main entrees that are tinned or in thick aluminum foil type containers. Some of those meals look really well prepared and really tasty. Is there anywhere those individual entrees can be purchased? Any importers? I've not seen them in stores...only frozen junk here in the U.S.
I think the difference with the hot chocolate is it's not a heated chocolate milk as it is a traditional Hot Coco which is generally Coco powder, water and a bit of suger. (I grew up drinking both as my Grandmother made Hot Coco in the mid-west winters)
With the French ration packs you get exactly what it says on the tin. If it says pork and potatoes you get lumps of pork and slices of potatoes. Awesome 👍
U're right it is not Chickpeas but Pasta AND Lentils in the salad. Which for authenticities sake you should have tried a mouthful of it cold, before heating it up (philistine). Nearly all the food in the MRE is pretty familiar to the French squaddie. It's all stuff you can get in French (super)markets and pretty good brands too. Maybe not the powdered Iced Tea, but the bottled tea (avec peche) is as popular (if not more popular) than Cola here. I think you'd probably wet yourself with anticipation if you wandered down the canned goods aisle of my local Intermarche. "In between pudding and cake, not bread" Gateau ;p Protip: Check if cans are blown rather then rely on Best Before date. Oh and Hot Musilli? Sacre Bleu, Do you think that is a Scottish MRE that you must cook the oats? How do you think you would portion this out through the day? Tip: In France the main meal is eaten at noon, and lunch break is 2 hours.
I love your review videos! I am definitely gonna have to try a foreign MRE soon! My home school kids want to try some so bad! They love your videos as well!!
Rilette is soooo good, its not a pate its almost like pulled pork but different. The fat on top is to keep it preserved, I personally font eat it but its very good. And the peach drink was a peach iced tea lol
NATHAN whats the best mre ? French, Russia ? I want to hold a Christmas MRE party with Japanese candy box for desert, everybody gets a number and then blind choice of MRE
Again, no dang milk or creamer for the coffee. I'd be packing some commercial creamer like Coffeemate® in my kit, along with a pepper grinder and a couple of bottles of hot sauce. Great review of a fantastic looking meal kit. Re the rillettes au porc. I pinched this from Wikipedia to save me time typing: "Rillettes (/riˈɛt(s)/; French: [ʁijɛt]) are a preparation of meat similar to pâté. Commonly made from pork, the meat is cubed or chopped, salted heavily and cooked slowly in fat until it is tender enough to be easily shredded, and then cooled with enough of the fat to form a paste. They are normally used as spread on bread or toast and served at room temperature." There's usually a fatty layer on top. By way of comparison, with Russian MRE's, it should be closer to the фарш- farsh than the паштет- paté. I'm not a fan of almond nougat. Even freshly made, it still smells a bit weird to me. We have something that usually gets called potato bake, which is just sliced potato and onion with lardons of bacon or bits of ham, cheese and cream in a casserole dish and baked in the oven. That tartiflette looks very similar.
More fun Nathan thanks for Sharing!!! The jelly candy just stirred up an old memory from my childhood my dear old Mom brought home Chinese jelly candies when I was kid! Thanks again!!!
"Milky Desert" !! Who writes their menus?? A six year old!!!! Not bad for French COTS foods......Nothing but the best for French Military since they could buy it all at a local grocery store there. (face palm)
Nice review of this RCIR Nathan. Had the RCIR with Ostriche stew a while ago. It was awesome. The only thing i didn't like was the peach drink. It tasted not that good as i expected, a little bit strange to me. The bars were the same to your ration. They are great, especially the nougat bar. Yummi.
The peach drink is not supposed to be well tasty its just supposed to be efficient because it is an ISOTONIC DRINK to hydrate your cells with mineral SALTS. The peach flavor is just a bonus a make it better. The goal of this product is not to be a flavored drink, it's for your physical condition.
Great review Nathan and really happy you enjoyed the ration! The mains always look so fresh in the French rations. Now i really hope one of my other French rations has the fish soup! Also drove up my sub count quite a bit. Really appreciate that and always glad to support the channel. Cheers!
Good to hear Steve just seen your video, thanks again for the ration
The French sure know how to eat right.
Those mains on the French rations are fantastic.
I tried the Menu 4 French ration and the mains were fantastic!
There's no level of joy like Nathan with a French RCIR.
Spoiled by the French food. Decent meal for a change, enjoy. Great review, I’ll getting spoiled by these great reviews.
Every time I see a French RCIR (MRE) ….I just know I joined the wrong damn military. *sigh*
A gastronomic tour de force. As always, your attention to detail is magnifique.
Hello from France :)
You can use the first plastic as a bag too :)
Nice open card board open this time !
ENJOY :)
Great review Nathan. Thank you for the shout out.
Thanks for watching guys
Biscuits de CAMPAGNE the Best in the Wolrd,sweet and salty.Greetings from Germany!Top Video ;-)
These are awesome rations, would love to try one. But that soup.... the french got the name right poison LOL. I hate fish. I would eat this one all except the fish soup. Thanks for the great review.
French are Best 🤙🏻👍🏻😎
Love these videos, especially the vintage MREs.
Only complaint that I have is that I can never find the link for his knife. And I keep looking.
Anyway, thanks for spreading the knowledge about the taste of MREs
Well that was some timing. I have just tugged in to a few bit from my Menu 2 that I had left over. These ration are some of the best. Cheers Tim.
I got an RCIR and my fruit patte bar was the raspberry one and was my favorite item in the ration
Happened to stumble upon your channel and really like it! Great stuff bud. Subbed! Also I checked out your Amazon store, are you a fellow German car owner? BMW? I got a Audi. They sure make great cars!!
The pork is totally ok IT IS NOT A PÂTÉ it is "RILLETTES" a traditional meal with mixed shredded pork meat and pork grease. That is why you have some white sometimes and this texture, it is totally normal for rillettes. You are supposed to eat some with baguette bread (paradise).
The French components are all good to me except the fish pate (menu 14 I think) and the peach bar..that tastes like wax. Overall good food. Nice review ☺
Edit- I think the curry one is best soup. Fish one only when outdoors and really hungry lol
Oh! It's your favorite Nathan...Zee French MRE! Lol. Thx for another kick ass video! Much love my friend Daphne Bluefield West Virginia USA
Holy cow! This is almost a meal for 3! I would eat that! And naturally, you enjoy it to the fullest. You and Steve1989MRE, are the experts. (By the way, no need for an apostrophe in Thanks.)
Luxurous ration from France! I wonder, does the soldier have time for such a big meal? ;)
it's a ration meant to be nibbled on throughout the day. for example the biscuits are meant to be munched on while walking. It also includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Roger :)
The chocolate pudding is actually pudding and cake. It is very popular in France. There are two kinds of pate. There are the real smooth one and a coarser chopped one. The coarse style is called country style. The fish soup is excellent. It is almost a gravy. I saved mine and used it as such over mashed potatoes. Tasty.
It seems a lot of the European rations have main entrees that are tinned or in thick aluminum foil type containers. Some of those meals look really well prepared and really tasty. Is there anywhere those individual entrees can be purchased? Any importers? I've not seen them in stores...only frozen junk here in the U.S.
I think the difference with the hot chocolate is it's not a heated chocolate milk as it is a traditional Hot Coco which is generally Coco powder, water and a bit of suger. (I grew up drinking both as my Grandmother made Hot Coco in the mid-west winters)
Awesome review nate! just a bit of a french lesson for you, Poisson is pronounced kind of like "pwah-sawn" though more french sounding obviously.
With the French ration packs you get exactly what it says on the tin. If it says pork and potatoes you get lumps of pork and slices of potatoes. Awesome 👍
I remember back when you did reviews, not spent half the video pushing more product than Wal-mart during Christmas season.
Everyone’s saying how great the review is but I’m just thinking about how hungry this made me. Also I love pâté.
It might be more of a British style pudding, where it's usually more of a cake than what we think of as pudding.
nice french mre review nate good job and i will subscribe to Steve's channel budd 😁
Flourless Chocolate Cake... if regular chocolate cake and a chocolate truffle had a love child!! So delicious!
One of the MRE community favourites,French RCIR. Great review Nathan 👍
Wow!!! One heck of an ICIR!!! Great review buddy!!!
Just found a cool MRE website. MRE mountain. It has the caffeinated chocolate stuff
great gift and nice shoutout to his channel!!
Awesome review Nathan, the French sure know how to do a military ration, look at all that good stuff.
Soupe de poisson...tomato and vegetable soup? I can't stop laughing. Help.
Hey Nate! Great review! If any ration does you in, it would be the one with the squid. 😂
we have the same thing as the pork in the can in the uk and its called rigglets exactly the same with a top coating of fat
tartifellet is crazy good i can recomand u guys enought to try making some at home
Do you know of a source for these types of canned mains (just the cans)?
Great video! Excellent review.
U're right it is not Chickpeas but Pasta AND Lentils in the salad. Which for authenticities sake you should have tried a mouthful of it cold, before heating it up (philistine). Nearly all the food in the MRE is pretty familiar to the French squaddie. It's all stuff you can get in French (super)markets and pretty good brands too. Maybe not the powdered Iced Tea, but the bottled tea (avec peche) is as popular (if not more popular) than Cola here.
I think you'd probably wet yourself with anticipation if you wandered down the canned goods aisle of my local Intermarche.
"In between pudding and cake, not bread" Gateau ;p
Protip: Check if cans are blown rather then rely on Best Before date.
Oh and Hot Musilli? Sacre Bleu, Do you think that is a Scottish MRE that you must cook the oats?
How do you think you would portion this out through the day? Tip: In France the main meal is eaten at noon, and lunch break is 2 hours.
that Pate seems more like a terrine not really a smooth Pate.
I love your review videos! I am definitely gonna have to try a foreign MRE soon! My home school kids want to try some so bad! They love your videos as well!!
Rilette is soooo good, its not a pate its almost like pulled pork but different. The fat on top is to keep it preserved, I personally font eat it but its very good. And the peach drink was a peach iced tea lol
It'll expire a day before my next birthday lol.
Green tea with mint is Moroccan. They drink it like the Arabs drink coffee. Legion Etrangere nostalgia I would imagine.
Rillettes (this kind of pâté) is grainy, it’s normal :)
And In general the coffee in France is more bitter
The French do some pretty good food for there soldiers.
Great review Nathan. Excellent 👍
The pork pate looked like deviled pork spread
NATHAN whats the best mre ? French, Russia ? I want to hold a Christmas MRE party with Japanese candy box for desert, everybody gets a number and then blind choice of MRE
Again, no dang milk or creamer for the coffee. I'd be packing some commercial creamer like Coffeemate® in my kit, along with a pepper grinder and a couple of bottles of hot sauce.
Great review of a fantastic looking meal kit.
Re the rillettes au porc. I pinched this from Wikipedia to save me time typing:
"Rillettes (/riˈɛt(s)/; French: [ʁijɛt]) are a preparation of meat similar to pâté. Commonly made from pork, the meat is cubed or chopped, salted heavily and cooked slowly in fat until it is tender enough to be easily shredded, and then cooled with enough of the fat to form a paste. They are normally used as spread on bread or toast and served at room temperature."
There's usually a fatty layer on top. By way of comparison, with Russian MRE's, it should be closer to the фарш- farsh than the паштет- paté.
I'm not a fan of almond nougat. Even freshly made, it still smells a bit weird to me.
We have something that usually gets called potato bake, which is just sliced potato and onion with lardons of bacon or bits of ham, cheese and cream in a casserole dish and baked in the oven. That tartiflette looks very similar.
I heard you say "worsh" instead of "wash"...are you from PA?
farpointgamingdirect they say it in Wyoming also, drives me up the wall.
Poison soup!?
Jesus in a Tortilla 😂
"Poisson" means "fish"
Lol, soupe de poisson - tomato and vegetable soup
More fun Nathan thanks for Sharing!!! The jelly candy just stirred up an old memory from my childhood my dear old Mom brought home Chinese jelly candies when I was kid! Thanks again!!!
Bonjour i came to say: french is the world cup champion!!!!!
Not fruit pâté (it doesnt exist : pâté is only for meat products). Its pâtE (not pâtÉ) so it means "paste" = fruit paste bar.
I have tried most of this ration. Really didn't like the pasta salad but I did eat it cold :(
love your MRE videos the french rations are the best that and the russians
..more French fine dining.looks yummy..
pâté must be some kind of rillette,
Magnifique!
Gâteau au chocolat = chocolate CAKE. So it's NOT a pudding.
100th like ;) nice video man ;)
Great video as always. love from cape girardeau
Nice to see some locals in the comments, I live about 20 min from cape
5 second rule for that bit on the floor!
Got the knife!
Great man thanks , hope you like it as much as I do
"Milky Desert" !! Who writes their menus?? A six year old!!!!
Not bad for French COTS foods......Nothing but the best for French Military since they could buy it all at a local grocery store there. (face palm)
First in. Love your mre review video
This video made me google "french MRE"
Nice review of this RCIR Nathan. Had the RCIR with Ostriche stew a while ago. It was awesome. The only thing i didn't like was the peach drink. It tasted not that good as i expected, a little bit strange to me. The bars were the same to your ration. They are great, especially the nougat bar. Yummi.
The peach drink is not supposed to be well tasty its just supposed to be efficient because it is an ISOTONIC DRINK to hydrate your cells with mineral SALTS. The peach flavor is just a bonus a make it better. The goal of this product is not to be a flavored drink, it's for your physical condition.
Nathan you are a MRE Francophile lol
Hi
I could live on that ration