1899-1902 British Emergency Ration Field Service Oldest MRE Beef Eaten Survival Food Review Test
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- Check out what British soldiers ate during The Second Boer Conflict of 1899-1902 when in a last ditch effort ! This is the second oldest thing I've ever eaten (Oldest was that Hardtack) and much unexpected considering this MRE's condition. It was quite the experience. And for old rations up next we will see the next generation in Emergency Rations - (1918). This is pioneering in food technology - the beef was still edible. It was a pulverized, slow cooked, dried, and compressed meat by-product bar. Way ahead of it's time - this was food tech that was adopted by the U.S. Quartermaster Corps of Sustenance and Natick Food Labs decades later.
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LET'S GET THIS OUT ONTO A TRAY, NICE™
NICE HISS™
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Not a single human involved in the farming, production, distribution, or development of this ration is still alive.
lmfao thats true
Not a single human on the planet (baby or otherwise) from this year is alive either
I'm pretty sure there is like some 120 year old Asian grandma somewhere in the mountains of Western China or some shit like that
@@TurquazCannabiz hahaha probably
Ilker G you might be right actually
*eats 118 year old beef*
“It’s lacking in flavor”
😆🤣
Fr lmao
OMG im crying 🤣🤣🤣
Was just about to type that ahahaha
I'm dead💀
I don’t know if I’m more impressed that you found a 120 year old MRE or that fact that you ate it.
Hahahahhahahaha 😂😂😂
All MREs are rations, but not all rations are MREs
@@portee9113 makes sense
@@portee9113 wouldn’t want the POWs eating your MREs
The fact he ate it, how is he still alive? There would be so many germs and bacteria and some that his body wouldnt be used to
The gradual progression of Steve saying he wasn't going to eat anything, then chipping away at the fossilized beef and making the decision that he SHOULD eat some of it was more tense and unnerving than a psychological thriller.
Then he’s like, I’ll freeze this 😂
😂
the insatiable human urge to eat anything with complete disregard for its edibility
Today on tasting history
They probably never thought that the last battle of the Boer war would happen more than a century later in some guy's digestive system.
lmaoooooo
He will pass out, and wake up in the 1899 British Army. " Remember men, get in there and fight!, and keep a stiff upper lip !!!".
🤣
Nor would they think that a maggot-infested hardtack from 1863 would end up in this guy's rectum
Haha that is hilarious
Steve might be the last victim of the Boer war
😂😂😂
The Boer war is still being fought.
😂
LOL.....
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
The cow expired when Queen Victoria was still alive, and this man goes and have a wee taste. Legend.
A British officer busts in "I didn’t say you could fucking open that"
I can see it now. He’s a British officer with the walrus mustache, pith helmet, khaki uniform.
A zombie* British officer
I can hear Professor Oak's voice echoing... Now is not the time to use that!
The fact he ate the ration without the order of an officer boggles my mind. This man is bold.
The disrespect!
Shocking! Such audacious insubordination is indeed absolutely unacceptable and needs to be dealt with accordingly right away.
I'd suggest raising an eyebrow in a very disapproving manner - and if that won't do, it may even be necessary to address the soldier in question in a reprehensive tone.
The dead officers are probably laughing and saying he is authorized!
It's how he asserts dominance over any and all officers ever in the history of the world.
The way this man literally consumes history is sublime. It is like a ritualistic, magickal, sacramental act. It is archaeology, anthropology, poetry, performance art.
Gotta love the apologies for being nervous about eating 120-year old meat.
“It smells like foul meat”
Ho Ming Lee
**Me muttering to myself**
«Maybe because it is»
He ate this and was completely fine, but a two year old chinese MRE nearly took him out. Mindboggling.
Which one is that?
@@ddd4040 The 2019 Chinese PLA Navy ration.
@@ddd4040and a 2014 russian MRE, that made him sick too ... and you could see that the beef was not good anymore.
Don't fuck with bad rice
Says a lot with everything they do.
Gordon Ramsey: is the beef fresh?
Steve: Yes
😂😂😂 underrated Hahaha
LOL!!
Fresh, frozen from a can.
RAMSAY*
Ramsey: bollocks
Never let this man near any Pharaoh‘s tomb.
LMFAO 😂😂😂
Lemao! 🤣
Imagine he would apologize first then tuck in 😁
Hmm kinda salty and feels dry inside mouth
They actually found edible honey on a pharaos tomb
"Scientists find dinosaur DNA"
Steve: Let's get that out on a tray.
Mammoths, he'll have woolly mammoth stew.😊
3:29 i love how even back in the day, in british MRES, during the war, during emergency survival situations where rations are scarce... *it still gives you instructions on making tea*
You need to give people instructions when you train them not to do anything without being instructed to do so.
@@christopherkozicki9597 wow. missed the point completely. Must be British....
Man even their modern day tanks come with kettles to boil tea
@@christopherkozicki9597 must be a brit
@@CoolAndrew89 in WWI, they'd shoot their machine guns to overheat them on purpose to make tea
His immune system is fighting harder than those soldiers in the boer war.
MultiTomatojuice his stomach is fighting the Third World War
His butthole is fighting the war
Oh my god. My sides. xD
@@AssassinDawn LOL HAHAHA FUNNY AF RIGHT?!?!
He is young. One day, all those pathogens he stored in his liver will awake when he is older and kick his butt!
Steve: *eats 120 year old meat*
"That's kind of lacking in flavor."
😂
I thought the aging of the beef would have deepened its umami flavors.
Instantly went to the ER
😭
He might file a complaint to the producing company.
Reminder, this MRE he had consumed was unopened throughout the rest of the Boer War, the Titanic sinking, WW1, the Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, WW2, The Korean War, JFK's assassination, The Vietnam War, the Yom-Kippur War, the Yugoslav Civil War, the Iraq-Iran War, the Gulf War, 9/11, The war in Afghanistan, the 2nd invasion of Iraq, and the rise and peak of ISIS.
And don't forget about The Falklands War!
Or when we invaded Panama and took that Noriega character out of power!
They probably could have used this ration then, but didn't. 🤷♂️
@@straybullitt *Eighties by Killing Joke plays*
Basically through the most important century in history, it is history, in a can!
There was no yugoslav civil war, just serbia trying to maintain its little empire.
Yet despite its accolades astounding and decorated with honour and grace, it was no match for the tray.
Steve: "This is so abnormal, and probably not safe"
Also Steve: Immediately takes another bite
You ate something older than the Titanic
Lmao uhkaay!!!
Wait wasen't the titanic only a year old? Build in 1911 sank in 1912?
@@Mr_Fancypants yea
Perhaps there are cans with food on board of Titanic. Cooperation of Cameron and Steve needed.
@@Mr_Fancypants I think they mean before the Titanic, I mean it's actually like 119 years old. Just sank
"It's just cheap meat."
Well, yeah.....that and the fact that it pre-dates the Ford Model A.
😂
It also predates ww1 the 19th amendment and many other things
Literally made around the time of Red Dead Redemption 2. Arthur Morgan could’ve been alive to eat it.
That thing predates me
@@SandvichTrolli48 lol
Steve at 14:17 "Thats disgusting, I'm not eating anymore of this"
Us "Steve thats perfectly ok to not want to eat 100+ year old beef"
Steve 2 seconds later *Eats another piece of it*
Steve looking at 120 year old shredded pulverized dry mummified beef: “That right there… actually looks pretty good.”
Steve after eating the beef: “That literally tastes like dirt” “It’s nerve-wracking, what am I even doing?”
Steve asks a girl over to his house for dinner
pulls out a 115 year old can of dried beef and cocoa powder
nice
nice
Steve gets all the girls
Steve asks out a BOY. I think Steve is gay : )
*drops panties* guess I won’t be needing these...where’s the toilet?
Teknitula Spacenoise I think he is married and with a Daughter.
His immune system probably looks like an accurate depiction of the trenches used in the Boer War.
😂😂
Immortal!
Holiday Armadillo 😹😹
I feel like Steve has a better shot of surviving the apocalypse then the vast majority of humans.
He definitely has a shit ton of MREs in his museum and the experience and knowledge to know when they can be eaten
Like if a British MRE can be eaten 119 years later then I can easily see Steve2189 eating a US MRE from 2020s
I recon he would easily lol 🤣👍
This mans gut has a weapons system in it. Bro is immune to foodborn illness
Either that or he will be patient 0
What's a cockroach taste like? Answers kinda like a rotten potato. 😩
It really amazes me that everyone that touched this from the packaging company, transport crews, quartermaster, and possibly even the soldier carrying this have been long dead for years
Props to the soldier who said that "Imma keep this shit for years" then it ends up at some guy's stomach more than a century later
I love how he says the stuff is awful, inedible and then eats it.
"Wow, it smells so foul! NICE"
The soldiers back then did exactly the same thing...
@@beaker-yt They had no choice.
@@InnannasRainbow its either eat or get eaten
Crazy to think that a cow is being eaten that died well over 100 years ago
Oh, Bossie, who knew?
A British cow at that
Yeah next morbid thought the person who processed that cow is long dead to.
@@jeffwang6460 indian cow
Or the remains of anyone who disagrees with the British Empire lol.
I've read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Given the poor conditions of the meat packing industry at the time, you are a VERY brave man for eating this lol
What percentage of that mre is people
Any highlights?
Upton Sinclair was describing the US meat packing industry not the British.
P.S. I had two slices of toast with Bovril yesterday :)
@@dfgdfg_ yea, insane working conditions. Unheated, unsafe, wet, dark, dangerous. Freezing. Large work gangs of children. Constant injuries and danger.
I went vegetarian. Read this book at age 18. I was like fcuk. Still at it, 19 years later.
@@slamdunktiger you should try Orthodox fasting calendar then
“Is this the oldest beef ever eaten?”
That is one helluva statement, and I’d say pretty damn true.
Some scientists actually ate a 10.000 yo beef from a prehistoric buffallo or something like that, look for it in YT.
Sooner or later he's going to be eating petrified bread from pompeii.
'These Roman rations are just great, maybe a little stale'
"it's lacking flavor"
"It's a little ashy, but"
Kkkkk
"Alright, now that's lay it on the tray!"
Glorious🤣🤣
*eats 120 year old beef*
*apologizes to us*
Lol. I agree.
😂😂😂
"What am I doing?"
John Overthinker lmfao me too lol
XDDD
This is arguably the best content on the internet.
You are a living legend for this. Hope the boys that passed are in heaven smiling down at your content.
They’ll probably meet him soon lol
You know, if Steve got sick, he'd have to tell the doctor "I ate 120-year-old beef", would like to see the doctors face.
Lol
Yeah...I'd sure like to be a fly on the wall in THAT hospital room.🤣
🤣
"Steve, you have the plague...."
Chubbyemu has joined the chat.
+20 rads
+2 health
LMFAO where's the radaway at
Hahahaha
+100 Imperial Germany :D
@@Klendathu_Hotdrop no...
Retro Collected fallout 3
Apparently Steve never read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. There's a chance some of that "beef" wasn't entirely beef.
It can be hard to kill prions!
@@PillarsOfHeaven they're not alive right? Kind of like viruses
Thank you for bringing back those suppressed memories
never thought my knowledge of that book would come to use
Thank you for the history lesson my peoples! haha
“It’s been 2.5 days” oh shit, Steve, I hope it’s not gone bad 🥴
*casually apologizes because he isn’t eating inedible food that could possibly kill him*
He goes on eating it anyway. Just opts to cook it first, is all.
Yeah he's canadian isn't he lol Canada fuck yeah
brayden schoff eh fuck you
Levi Kirkness no, fuck you
He must be Canadian?
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum
Steve: That belongs on a tray
Nice!
So do you!
Correction: *TREH* ... Nice mmkehh
Indiana Jones: GIVE IT TO ME, OR I'LL SHOOT YOU!
Steve: No.
Indiana Jones: I Could Shoot You, But I Can Also Hang You With My Whip!
Steve: *Walks Away.*
Indiana Jones: *Pulls The Trigger, But Indiana Jones Relizes That He Has To Load The Gun.*
Indiana Jones: I'll Save The Bullets For Killing Nazis...
The End!
oh you are wondering why I, shall not laugh?
MY FUCKING JAWS ARE STITCHED TOGETHER AND HURTS TO ADJUST MY MOUTH
“This is disgusting, I’m not eating anymore of this…dry.”
I’ve never seen a TH-cam video that deserves a like and sun more than this. This guys eating 120year old cow flesh for our entertainment … and I guess his too. I love it
Flesh? THE cow.
He literally ate something OLDER than the state he lives in.
Older than our country
@@fork_film3291 i like how you use Our
The oldest thing he's ate is hardtack from the Civil War.
WHYISTHISBOI no lmao 😂😂😂😂😂 no you need to relearn history my friend the United States is 243 years old bud
@@papazype simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union
learn history yourself boi
imagine eating a cow who said his last moo in the 19th century
late 18th Century..
Laughed so hard my eyes waterd!😂😂
Moo.......
Phil Widdifield watered*
@@ra_alf9467 you mooed your last moo
Its amazing to think of all the historical events that happened and this Ration was just hanging out in a storage spot somewhere along for the ride.
Most people eat food. Steve eats history.
That cows soul can finally rest in peace now
Or take over his body.
And then become a supervillain called the Lord Beefazoid.
Glasses&Mouthplates
Beefelzabub
Schiar Chaker you mean rest in $h*t cuz he craps it out sometime
There's more than one cow in there
Haha
His mom must have never had any issues with getting him to eat his dinner.
lol
Oh, too funny!
🤣😂👌
I can’t breathe!
Uncle do you have asthma?
“I don’t think i can do this anymore. “
Proceeds to essentially finish the portion…
What a legend
Steve there’s something about your voice and the way you annunciate yourself. You remind me of a good friend growing up. Your videos are very easy to listen to and watch. Keep up the good work. Oh, and h would also eat anything. USMC
News outlet: "Neolithic meal found frozen in siberian permafrost"
Steve: *heavy breathing*
well, actually ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Берёзовский_мамонт
"2600BC Sumerian army ration taste test"
@@Journey_to_who_knows well, that is quite a bit younger
I'v read stories that sometimes momoth from permafrost in very good condition were eaten in siberia.
Who ate mammoth?
"That doesn't look too bad under there".... the moment you know Steve is going in.
😂😂 true
He is not Ashens he has limits...
John Duncan damn son i wanna be manly as u fam
Nostalgia Nerd Interesting choice of words. Sounds like a different kind of video...
Nostalgia Nerd another youtuber found in his natural habitat.
Mind you, this ration would have most likely been expired already when the titanic sailed, and he still ate from it
Honestly I swear this guys account is to show how good preservation can be
*inhaling mold*
"Whoa, it still smells like beef."
TangentShadows
Lmao
*big SNIIIIIIIIIFF*
i literally laughed so hard my boogers came out cause i have a flu 😂
And Tin
@@amandiniii753 2 weeks. Hope you made a full recovery. The flu fucking sucks.
*stares at 120 year old petrified beef rock
"that right there actually looks pretty good."
*Gordon Ramsay barges in through the wall*
Dylan Gardner i don’t know what to do, i really want to eat it..... dudes messed
"A little acidic, but pleasantly smooth after-taste. Truly a wholesome and perfect petrified beef rock."
"it's getting better and better now"
Dylan Gardner no it doesn’t! Where u been eating
The solder used for the cans is probably lead - with antimony, also. I'd worry that over the last 120+ years, some of that had leached into the food.
You are a very brave man, lol. Love your passion for history and for rations which have always held an interest for me, but I never thought about . Then I found your channel. Thanks. Love the quote, " I'm not eating anymore of this dry, except this little piece..." That was hilarious 😂
"That doesn't look so bad under there."
Famous last words.
this one may kills
These comments man I’m crying
Fancy seeing Crit Role Highlights here haha.
"planting claymore"
That taste like bread ... lololol
RIP STEVE1989 - 1899
This might be the bravest thing I've ever seen in a TH-cam video. You, my friend, have seriously large balls.
**Eats 100+ year old beef** "Hmm... it's kind of lacking in flavor"
lol
Harsh
It’s bland
120 year old beef...amazing.
"You donkey!"
The Ottoman empire was still on the map when that ration was 20 years old
I know right? I mean... Bruh, why would you eat that?????
AND the Austro-Hungarian Empire too
This beef was from the time Russia still had a tzar and Otto von Bismarck was alive
Preceded by:
Roman Empire
The Rainhill Trials are as far away from when it was created as the Second Red Scare is to us.
My family has a history in the Second Boer War, very interesting to see what they would have ate in the field!
Steve should start looking for ancient egyptian preserved food
Next he's gonna be eating the body of Christ
He's gonna find some of that 10,000 year old wine.
*Eats 120 year old Beef*
Him: Yeah, it's kinda like lacking flavour.....
just read it at the exact moment wow
@@rezlets5017 same
@@Gimmickmantheman lol same
what in the actual fuck, same
Same story here and I'm in tears hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Cow: My ancestors can finally rest in peace.
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
We finally been eaten
Closure.
Lol
This is so awesome. It's from the time of my great grandfather. So cool to open such old things
Sounds like this tasted better than the time you ate the civil war hardtack that tasted like mothballs and old library books! I'd say thats a success 😉 thanks for always sharing these epic videos and getting as excited as i do over historical items and just history in general! You're a legend Steve!
“That’s disgusting I’m not eating any more of this dried beef........ except for this little piece right here.”
Nice
Then continues on to finish the pot
@@alb5769 he said "dried" for a reason
I love that he had to keep asking himself multiple times "what he was doing" as he was compelled to finish eating 120 year old meat paste. Absolute Legend.
Steve, checking out dinosaur bones at the museum: i wonder if there's, like, any marrow left in those...
Lol
It's cloning time
Nice
Great. Now I'm wondering what dinosaur marrow would taste like.
@@hugs2003 chicken marrow
The way you kept going for another bite, baffled me every time. Good job.
Man's ate a ration that is 6 times older than him, rusted, and somehow managed to survive to tell the tale. Also did not take a officer's order to open it.
Ah shit he's gonna get reprimanded... good thing he's not British.
As he chisels away at the petrified beef: "That looks edible."
Bruh....no.
Right??
666 likes
"Awww man, that smells so foul, nice!"
*"nice"*
And then he ate it
mmm It *Stinks*
Nice n' good. - Bugs Bunny 2020
Lmao
@@IneptOrange Yes!
I love how he keeps complaining about how bad it is and then eats a big spoonful right after. I love it!
Doctor: So what made you sick?
Steve: I ate a British beef ration from 1899.
Doctor: oh
Doctor: Again?
I prescribe crab.
@@jackc6716 crababa
Doctor: oh shit
Doctor: hmm yes, that could perhaps have something to do with e-coli poisoning.
This is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. Amazing! Thank you.
What kind of health insurance do you have? You’re next level man 🤣🤣🤣
Me: refuses to eat food only a day older than the best by date
Steve:Eats a piece of cow that is older than the titanic
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao
True
Hahahaha
The piece of cow still looks better than the titanic after that long
It’s crazy to think that ration was potentially in a soldier’s possession during a battle and was just saving the ration for later only for it to be consumed by some American fella in 118 years time
ESPECIALLY since america wasnt even foundedd yet thats pretty grazy. I wonder if george warshington ever ate a beef tin like this,,,
@@cadesmandela1935 The US was founded in 1776. Cheers.
@@cadesmandela1935 lmfao
@@cadesmandela1935 did you skip history class lol 😆 😂 🤣
It looks like it was buried for some time and water permeated. Kinda like some metal detectorist found it.
Steve was absolutely hypnotized by the beef
This takes the quote “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” very literal 😂😂😂😂
If I were king, Steve could not be my food taster, because he would probably survive any meal that would kill me.
that would be pointless to you, since you neither know the food was poisoned or not. the point of having a taster was to determined if the food killed him, if it does, its poisoned, and pick a new food taster.
Steve would survive and you would die from eating poisoned food
Adi Safwan Did you even read his comment? He said "could not"
Reading, and comprehending YT comments is an alien concept to many LA Rose.
Perktube1 kinda pointless to poison someone with a lead belly
Shit is older than the titanic
Kef103 yo actually 😱that’s crazy
Literally his shit will be older than the Titanic😂
A lot of things are older than the titanic
By a lot too. Like 15 years.
🤣
19:57 eats over 100 year old meat says “hmm that’s kind of lacking in flavor” 😂 😂
Me: thinking it should be part of a museum
Steve: nah ima just eat it
I'd like to see Steve prepare and eat a nice home cooked meal... He deserves it.
Then get's salmonella.
HAHHAHHAHAHAHAH this made me lose it! thanks Adam!
Austin Schlatter lose what?
In this context, to lose it means “To lose control; blow up.” Specifically, it means to lose your composure, presumably breaking out into laughter.
He's our Savor. He dieted for our sins.
"ugh it smells so foul...... NICE"
Hahahahaha
Haha i think Steve loves foul smelling beef. 😄
just like school lunch
When ur going down on a girl who's hot but smells bad
That beef is literally closer to the US constitution than it is to today
Imagine the flu daring enough to enter this mans body.
impressed at Steve's ability to not only eat inedible meat but read illegible text
Raymoo
There are resources online with the text dummy
you get superpowers like that when you eat 120yo mystery meat on the regular
@@CaptainPupu r/wooosh
@@infernys20 /redditisforfagsandothermentaldegenerates
I've never been more concerned for a stranger's welfare in my life. He might as well be poking at an old landmine.
😬
Or poking at a still live crashed v-1 flying bomb
lets get that landmine on to a tray. nice.
@@vvanguard *BOOM*
Wow, it's got a nice little kick to it. And you can really taste the shortening.
Poking, with a sledgehammer
The whole journey of this single ration from start to get here is crazy!
I bet it tastes like the Boer War.....this man is a legend.
Did he ask his commanding officer if he could open his ration?
he died unfortunately :,(
Officers are idiots, fuck em
Loooooooooool
MISTAKEWASMADE4live you are the big dum dum
"or in extremity." After sampling that stuff one could argue Steve would be "in extremity."
Next episode: 4000years old ancient Egyptian MRE
LOL 🤣
Hahahaha 😂
They've got some bread & cheese from King Tut's tomb in a museum somewhere, make it happen
Eat mummy 😂
@@richardardiwibawa9025 put in tray and BBQ it xD
This guy is eating rotten flesh from Minecraft irl.
What a mad man.