The Horrifying Truth About Stormtrooper Rations
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NYC stable, LMAO
For some reason, I can envision stormtroopers eating only hot dogs...
Alan if you had a crystal ball you would never said New York City is stable it's more like a judge dredd maga city in chaos full of illegal immigrants
During WW2 the US Navy had created Ice Cream Ships to keep moral up and provide frozen treats to all allied forces.
I imagine it has ridiculous amount of weapons emplacements on it to protect it from ice cream thieves
@@GenerationTech sadly, no, it was just a ship made of concrete that delivered delicious frozen treats. But the Marines on board, those, are the real weapons that you shouldn't f with.
If memory serves me correctly there was a Japanese commander who despaired when he learned of the existence of American ice cream ships, since your average Japanese serviceman would get little more than a couple handfuls of rice and dried fish for their daily rations. They had no hope of competing with an enemy supply supply chain so extensive that it could regularly feed its soldiers luxury food like ice cream.
@@sentrysapper45 I think so??? Not exactly sure, but wouldn't surprise me lmfao
Like what the hell would you do after seeing the insane supply chain an enemy faction has? I'd sure as hell would try to think of a way to just find a means of keeping my guys alive and if it means surrendering to live another day (if it isn't the Russians) I'd go for it if it was like the USA that offered it. There is no shame or dishonor in surrendering to survive.
Only for a few naval ships
Not for marines
My dad told me that, while he was in the military, one of the most important members of his group was the one who always brought spices with him and knew how to cook.
That would be me as I'm not much good at anything else
Always take spices and Tobasco with you when you deploy.
Pain is MRE's leaving the body...
@@fyreantz2555 Meals Refuse to Exit.
If you can spice or salt up your MREs, you're set.
If you want to see a telescoped course in bargaining and haggling, watch a group of soldiers in the field when ration packs (like MRE's) are passed out. If a soldier gets stuck with an unappetizing main course but a sought-after dessert item, the entire group will converge on him, offering a better entree in return for his dessert, along with various other side items like cookies, slices of ration bread (MRE bread was surprisingly good), and so on. If all went well, everyone in the unit would come away with something he liked to eat.
Market economy is what humanity does best ;)
Oh yes been there done that
Thats some shit we do at the cafeteria lunch table when a nigga brings a lunch box😊
In Burma during WW2 the British troops would trade their dried fish to the Gurkhas (who regarded it as a delicacy) in return for their chapatis. It was a win-win!
A whole box of Omlet with Ham MREs. It looked like the seat foam of my Humvee. I think the seat would have tasted betterm
I remember in Jedi Fallen Order, one of the random bits of dialogue Stormtroopers can have while you're exploring has one of them blame their infamously bad aim on the rations.
I will not be surprised if that was true consider how bad food can affect someone who react to it in negative ways.
Hard to use that fancy blaster if you feel like Ewoks are chewing on your insides.
@@twistedyogert using that saying is how karma sends you to Space Vietnam™
@@genericuser984In that case their insides really were being chewed on by Ewoks.
If Order 66 was enough to nearly give Yoda a heart attack, what would someone being butchered do? Does Yoda even have a heart?
So they're all hypoglycemic?
What's more important is Grogu's lack of rations. Why do you think he is grabbing and eating whatever he can? Din Jarin is starving him.
This is why the Mandalorians had to be wiped out.
-Imperial media.
😂 It’s kind of true.
Grogu's species literally eats whatever it can get its' hands on. Yoda does this as well. These aliens can gobble up anything, and enjoy it. Yoda lived, for decades, alone on Dagobah. What exactly do you think was in those soups and broths that he fed to Luke, when Luke was training with Yoda? Hint: It sure as hell was NOT prime rib...
@@jacob4920 I thought Luke had his own rations in the X-wing.
@@twistedyogert which Yoda promptly stole and ate
Well, I was U.S. Army, infantry and an NCO from 1986 to 1994 and we used to call our MRE (Meal, Ready to Eat), the Morale Reducing Element... Some of these offerings really brought out some of the most visceral, ugly responses from soldiers as the tastes could go from average (beef and gravy), to surprisingly good (dehydrated peaches or the fruit cup were excellent), to the awful like the scrambled eggs... jokingly, I recall that we would make up different menu options. Like MRE Menu No. 14: Beer and Cigarettes. Ah, those were the days. As I was an Anti-Armor Specialist and usually was attached to a HMMWV, we would carry some extra canned goods to add a little spice to life. I used to also carry a cartoon of cigarettes. Not to smoke, but it was like currency and good for trading, especially with those creatures that inhabited supply depots.
Don't MREs also give you diarrhea?
@@twistedyogert It's been along time since I ate one, but more likely the opposite. Best to drink a bunch of water with it, but your mileage may vary.
@@twistedyogert what you really mean probably constipation..
MREs anywhere almost always emphasized on proteins, vitamins, nutrients less fiber and less carbo which in turn lead to constipation but YMMV...
@@dureteheiral1793 A guess it's useful not needing to stop and poop every few hours.
Thanks for the warning. As someone with a temperamental stomach I'll know to keep clear unless I have to.
As a 5 year army vet...there's much truth to this in the real world...in my final assignment before getting out of the military the food we received was such garbage i was insulted as a human that a couple occasions i refused to eat.
Yeah, the defac messed up my stomach so much I couldn't eat there anymore. I straight up got sep rats because I was medically incapable of consuming the defac's rations. I wasn't even deployed at the time.
@@Zachomara I'd rather eat the food I had when deployed as at least that never made me nauseous
I had only made military service in France Navy in Fusiliers marins but ... the NATO approved RCIR (ration de combat individuelle réchauffable) - Combat Ration Individual Reheatable - is pretty good it's 1500g (3.3 lbs), 294L x 149W x 63H (11.6″ x 5.9″ x 2.5″) cardboard box in plastic wrap for 24 hours...
It has a good quality control:
The choice of products depends 70% on quality, and 30% on price. The quality is judged by a jury of 8 to 15 soldiers who test the menus blind.
Not like I'm medically eligible to serve, but it makes me wonder. I have fodmap issues and a food allergy- I would get sick from some rations and straight up not be safe to eat others. How would they handle that?
@amberkat8147 honestly it be something to bring up from the beginning and even then if you get a bad one out of the bunch it can be pretty bad
Good rations mean good morale. Never mess with a soldiers pay or food and they will do as they are asked.
Except there are still people who complain about the taste of the rations sometimes saying they're barely even edible
They have improved quite a bit but some of those meals really are inedible. If you're lucky you can trade with a buddy who freakishly likes it but we used to just dump in Tabasco to hide the flavor. Unfortunately the new MRE's no longer have that life line 😢
Food is fuel for the body. If you are fighting non-stop for a day or 7, you are going to need to eat and eat well. Having the rations even taste even somewhat good can be a real boost to morale. I know that the US Army does a huge focus on their field kitchens being able to put out food that is simple and tasty that will feed a person that has just fought through hell. The cooks at a field kitchen should get a smile from the soldier when they get their tray, even if everything else has has gone wrong that day.
@@KnightsWithoutATableLMAOOO cooks have a horrible reputation. the bottom of the barrel ends up as cooks. i’ve met one that was actually a cool guy. most are the shittiest of shitbags.
Which is exactly why blockades, and siege tactics, are so vital to wearing your enemies down.
I worked as a civilian contractor for a state air guard unit for 7 years. It was a stateside base with what you called Garrison cuisine. These folks ate well, basically civilian food.
No restaurant I ever worked in had more polite customers, but these folks Were under military discipline, and had to behave as such.
I spent enough time in the military where I grew to enjoy those MREs good times.
The US military endeavors to have the best food it can provide. I wouldn't say that US base and field kitchen food is the best out there, but a lot goes into the budget compared to other militaries to ensure that the food is at least OK to good.
@@brothersbornmediabeef strips be BUSSIN
We dont have to behave a certain way. We have integrity and honor that was instilled in us since boot camp or our parents. Thats why us service members active or retired are polite(for the most part).
Im pretty sure anyone who gets a hot meal that was not made in a processing plant would make most happy or polite.
Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. We had field kitchens in Desert Storm. The food they served was a nice break from MREs.
Ever eat hot As
Mres were better
Did you ever try the vegetable omelette, I heard that was not a well received ration.
@@therookie7060- truly awful.
@@grayflaneur4854 I'm guessing you've had it?
@@therookie7060- Oh yes.. I suppose it is why they include a small bottle of Tobasco sauce in the condiment pack so you could choke it down.
Still better than Corpse-starch ...
Attention citizen we have been informed by multiple third party individuals that you have complained about your corpse starch this is a breach of several passages of the book of judgment
You are what you eat. And there's nothing better than being human.
No it's not
Anything is better than corpse starch
Where do you think the troublesome batches of clones went 🤔
There is nothing wrong with good MREs.
Loved it when I got Corned Beef Hash or Beef and Noodles.
The dried "Desert" bar was great to munch on and could be broken up as snacks when it had no water.
Corned beef hash was a favorite of mine as well
A lot of times i preferred my MRE's to field chow especially the breakfasts. Eggs came in two forms, chalk or slightly thick soup.
That said, there definitely are a few stinkers in those MRE boxes. My least favorite of all time was Tuna noodle casserole.
For those thinking about trying an MRE, avoid the breakfast MRE's, avoid trendy items like hamburgers or burritos, and remember that the veggie meals almost always have the best snacks. Anything and rice is almost always good, if it is usually a batch made item like chili Mac it'll probably be good. Above all else, don't eat the crackers dry, it's a safety hazard.
@@bigmekboy175 forgot about tuna casserole 🤮
@@bigmekboy175 Ukrainian army MRE is kinda good, a lot of meat there
The only bad thing about MRE is the time, you got no time for anything
Better than the empty plates the clones were eating from in Episode 2.
considering the kaminoan style, i guess the food was white, too
@@Spooglecraftyeah it was tofu so I would blend in with the plate I guess
Lets not forget during WW2, the US Navy had literal freezer ships that were used to haul ice cream along for the troops on the front lines. This tidbit of intelligence struck a major blow to enemy morale, particularly for the Japanese I believe whose troops were all having to survive on standard field rations without any of the luxury foods of home
None which made it to front line troops
They didn't even have the luxury of "standard rations". They got a few handfuls of dried rice and maybe some dried fish.
@@tomhenry897it made it to combat pilots at least.
United States had ice cream to raise morale. The Japanese used "comfort women", which is a lot less wholesome.
@@userequaltoNullSometimes they ate their prisoners.
Are you tired of living the same routine?
Are you ready to see the galaxy and commit war crimes?
Then join the Empire! They have Taco Fridays.
Taco tuesdays!
In Empire Strikes Back Luke had a ration that looked suspiciously like a pepperoni sausage. To quote Yoda's reaction to trying it "How do you get so big, eating food of this kind?"
The rest looked like Tokyo Mix.
Once again love how you combine Star Wars with real life in your topics. Very fascinating videos.
A quote that has stuck with me:
“Good military leaders talk about tactics. Great military leaders talk about logistics.”
Battles are won or lost by your ability to supply and feed your forces.
🤖
Yeah, like how war happen in history. The one who can maintain their logistic supply properly is the one who will won the war. Yeah, good tactic can make you a win a couple of battle, but with working logistic its mean you can give your army more chance to stay fighting even after lose some battle.
Which is why it makes me facepalm every time some idiots call ex-Stormtrooper Finn (from the SW sequels) a "janitor", when Finn was a trained ground trooper who worked in Logistics. An army without food, equipment, medicines, and yes, latrines and toilet paper, can't function.
Don’t forget the “Donut Dollies” during WW1 and onward through Viet Nam who provided donuts and coffee to the front lines. Those ladies deserve mention.
If I was an Imperial Stormtrooper I would just go hungry or steal food from civilians because I'm not eating those rations .
Remember that scene in the star wars carton, where Anakin eats bugs? that would be perferable.
Say that again, after 5-10 days without ANY food. I guarantee you will eat the rations and be thankful for them.
@@bigwhitehoundI can just steal food from Civilians
@@mikkelnpetersenIndeed
@@thorpeaaron1110 Depending on your Imperial CO you might get away with that or you might get shot.
I remembered when I was watching Tasting History about bread pudding, it turned out the hospital foods during the American Civil War tasted a lot better than the hospital foods in nowadays. Now, imagine a bunch of Imperial officers and Stormtroopers who get to taste the hospital foods that turned out to be delicious and willingly injured themselves on the front line just so they can come back and eat foods that are not rations. I'm making this point because the foods serving for the troops on the fronts and the ones who are being hospitalized will be different, right? After all, during the American Civil War, making coffees out of potatoes is an ideal choice only because they tasted like coffees but not because they are actual coffees.
Hospital rations were better only ifthe hospitals were far behind the front lines. Mobile frontline MASH units didnt have that luxury. But you want to get injured or sick soldiers to get better, thus the better rations. While armies in the field historically often plundered the countryside for additional fresh food, stealing animals or extorting supplies from the population.
But soldiers who injure themselves voluntarily to be relieved of duty will be either court-martialed or (in brutal regimes) executed without bothering with a court first.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog I mean they voluntarily put themselves in the lines of enemy's fires so that they can get hospitalized and better foods, of course.
My dad was a director of us Army mobile food service and housing r&d in the 90s/00s. Their number one concern was how to get soldiers to eat all the food. An army that chooses not to finish the ration is one not fighting the best the next day. They didn't always succeed (I remember some 140f certified chocolate samples), but they were trying hard. You can thank them for the tiny ass Tabasco bottles :D
Having had times where i'd go 2 weeks with American MREs (and having tried a few other militaries field rations) even good field rations don't compare to bad garrison food. a good spice selection brought along can help but you're still dealing with the same limited rotation of premade foods. also keep in mind most field rations are also being made with the mind set of being quick to consume and easily transported so that soldiers are both able to carry a larger supply easily and spend less time in a more vulnerable state while eatting.
All you need is a little time, some water, and a rock or something.
I still hate that they took away the Tabasco.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher eh, I always brought ghost pepper or some of my own other hot sauce even when that was a thing.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher The tabasco is still in rotation! Though it was so rare I question mentioning it. I bought 2 dozen MREs and 2 had it in place of instant coffee or drink mix
Love these more niche topics, sometimes a galaxy far far away can bring things at home into perspective
Yeah one of the benefits of not having new shows out is we have a chance to cover more nuanced topics.
@@GenerationTech I love it when shows about sci-fi/fantasy/military cover topics beyond "The Top Ten Big Machines That Shoot Big Boom"
Join the Stormtroopers, they said. It will be fun, they said.
When I was in the service we always joked that M.R.E. stood for Meals Rarely Eaten or there were three lies 1: It was a meal, 2: It was ready, 3: You could actually eat it. We always joked with the Civilians " Don't worry, If you get hungry enough they taste pretty good."
You eat civilians?
@@vladimirmihnev9702 No, the reference was to the MRE's tasting good if you were hungry enough.
@ vladimirmihnev9702 if you’re hungry enough
I always enjoy the real life vs fantasy aspect of your vids
I have to say this. I'm glad this channel finds things to talk about in the Star Wars universe without always focusing on how Star Wars is "ruined" every other video. Giving criticism when it's due and moving on to the things that fans do love. Kudos.
Ive made videos exploring MREs and rations from militaries around the world and humanitarian aids.
Yes, I am interested in this kind of stuff haha great video.
Man, that green audio equalizer is distracting.
"This might not be the most interesting video" me as a chef: Oh, it is interesting, my dude. Would love to hear more.
There definitely are a lot of similarities between a well run kitchen and a well run military unit
You forgot the imperial student rations: cheap ramen noodles from a galaxy far far away and canned Ewok meat. I demand more imperial credits! I am so over canned Ewok meat! MRE's with Ewok meat are also known as "Meal Rejected by the Enemy".
Or "Mess Rejected Ewok"
Im pretty sure the chunks of grisle and inedible crap i found in an mre were in fact dog or ewok meat lol😂😂😂
Logistics is I'd argue perhaps the most complicated part of running a military, which also makes it one of the most interesting parts.
To have war heroes on the battlefield, you must first have the unsung heroes in the Logistics office making sure everyone is properly supplied and fed.
actually hardtack was edible but, you would have to break it up in a stew, it was called Hellfire stew
2:25 these are Field Rations, NOT garrison rations.
There are different kinds of field rations. These are called "Hot Rats". They are cooked in the field and delivered via your friendly acquisitions specialist.
To give an example of the logistics involved, each of those foods has a different "turn around time"; i.e. how long before we take it back to the cooks because it is no longer safe to eat.
Yet somehow, it always ends up mixed with rice and left over night at the TOC... that is the breakfast of Heroes.
Now start factoring in the logistics of getting those foods to the front lines, and you can see how fresh food can be difficult to receive, let alone arrive to the trooper in a tasty way.
An Army marches on its stomach.
You can send a trooper in without ammo, but only if you feed him first.
The Navy has better meals than the army. The only MREs the Navy eats are in boot camp.
Food is ammo for the body.
As Napoleon states, "An army travels on its stomach."
Is there any chance American Ben can do a cameo? You two were a dynamic duo. The Eminem and Dr. Dre of Star Wars.
Keep up the good work! For the Republic!
We need British Ben
I’m sure Stormtroopers would love having a Turbo Dog
I didn't know that the "portions" that Rey was eating at the beginning of The Force Awakens were Imperial Stormtrooper rations. It kinda makes sense.
Pilfered mil-rations sold on the black market is a long & honorable tradition.
Imperial or new republic could’ve either. Janky was basically one large graveyard for military ships loaded with rations
@@GenerationTech You don't want to eat MRE's that have been left out in the sun, trust me. I shudder at the fact that you CAN do that with Imp rations.
Very interesting about Star Wars logistics. I loved the BBC tv series 'Bullets boots and bandages' by Military Historian Saul David. Really good history of how armies were fed in the field from Napoleonic period to the present day.
This is one of the reasons why I love the Republic Commando series.
When I was in the Army my unit had a MKT or mobile kitchen that came with our battery in the field/deployment. We got a hot breakfast and dinner. We had MREs for lunch. The food from the MKT wasn't the best but it was good to get a hot meal. The only thing was you had to perform security during your meal because it would be a time for the enemy to attack. Half on security and half eating. The taste of your food depended on the cooks that got supplied to your unit. Most cooks hate going to the field. Especially with a firing battery. Because we never stayed in one place. They had to take their MKT down every time we moved sites.
No they didn’t
The ALOC Nevered moved
Trucked the food out to you
@tomhenry897 yes it did. How are you going to question my own military service. Look up MKT.
In Patriot missile batteries we had actual MKT because we didn't go back to the rear. Our tact sites worked as mini FOBs
Active USMC cook here, We also serve breakfast and dinner but we usually don't use MKT. Instead all we needed was a TRHS and either a humvee, JLTV, or MTVR to the field.
@XGhostReignX what is that? Must be something new? I been out almost 20 years
This is one reason wehy Sloan made a good admirial, while she was guarding count vidian she learned logistics and how important they are to opperations
The Horrifying Truth about Stormtrooper rations is that they are...irrational
I've been lied to my entire life, they always told me the Dark Side would have cookies.
Nice episode! When I was a WWII reenactor, I supplied repop edible K-rats for my unit with everything but the cigs
Ruined a couple printers forcing cardboard through them but it worked
I find it crazy how you seem to find a interesting topic for every video.
This video brings back some memories of my time in the U.S. Navy. I never saw war or a conflict of any kind. I was on an aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, and we had large stores of food and supplies. Two mess halls for the enlisted, large kitchens. We also carried resupplies for the other ships in our task force. I never had to eat field rations because we took our kitchen with us wherever we may go. We also had options for food 24/7 as the ship was active every minute of the day and night.
That’s so cool you served on an carrier, very few people can say they did those things are engineering marvels
My daughter is on the Abraham Lincoln. She says the food 'isn't that great'. My dad was a POW Guard in Korea. He said the food was nearly inedible, and the C rations were worse. He said the POW's ate better than he did.
@@PhantomQueenOne I remember watching the keel being laid out for the Abraham Lincoln in Newport News. My memories of chow are 35 years out of date. Maybe it was better back then. I don't know.
Hey, at least it is not Corpse Starch like the Imperial Guard have.
Napoleon and Frederick the Great are attributed saying “an army marches on its stomach”. Apparently the Imperial military didn’t get the memo.
I’d also add that the US Army also had chocolate bars designed to not melt in extreme heat if I remember correctly. Suffice it to say a military needs a good food supply.
Absolutely. If memory serves, Napoleon was one of the first adopters of canning, so his armies wouldn't have to rely as heavily on foraging. Not only did that mean his armies could move faster (because they didn't have to zigzag their routes to ensure they had raidable cities within reach as much), but they could be much larger, because they could support more troops with only a modest increase in the number of supply wagons they'd need to bring.
I haven't heard about heat-resistant chocolate _bars_ specifically, but I have heard that having chocolate that wouldn't just melt into a puddle during the heat of a Pacific Theater day is where M&M's came from.
Actually M&M’s we’re developed because the soldiers chocolate bars were melting on them in the field.
The hard candy shell prevented the chocolate from melting. The shell came only in brown and they were sold in a tin tube similar to the ones that M&M Minis came in.
They never came up with a chocolate bar that couldn’t melt but I think this is what you’re referring to.
Never served have you
To keep the troops from eating it to fast was made un eatable
Yes they were called Hershey's Tropical bars
I find videos like this extremely interesting, also the videos you've made about the ships and the economy in galaxy far, far away.
As far as the Civil War rations goes, the marching rations were most often salt pork, hardtack, and coffee. The full ration includes stuff like beans, rice, candles, soap, and other relatively shelf stable items. It was common practice in the 18th & 19th century for forts in North America to maintain a garden. Some times they might even have a few pigs and one or two cows.
Military rations aren't all that great, but I am actively fearful of what an empire that didn't actually give a crap about ANYBODY would see as a 'edible'.
Corpse starch if you are in a different fantasy empire with an even worse track record for human rights or giving a fuck about its citizens/soldiers
My dad served with the 237th Stormtrooper Legion under General Baxx. He said the only thing they despised more than the field rations was Kathleen Kennedy
For a moment i was thinking of the Kathleen Kennedy (Who died in a plane crash in 1948) and was confused as such.
Given that I am a history nerd with a penchant for military history in particular, nothing about the realworld stuff mentioned early in the video was new to me. However I can appreciate how, for someone who isn't well versed in topics such as feeding an army or a city, that part of the video could very well be a great jumping off point for actually starting to learn about such topics.
It is with such sentiment that I will always defend videos/channels like this from people who say there is no real point to lore discussions. (Not that I think they actually even need a pragmatic reason to exist other than being interesting, but some people do, so this tends to be the reason I give.)
Yeah if you’re interested in the lore there’s no reason why you can’t be interested in real life lore ;)
@@GenerationTech Utilizing a connection between the real and the fictional has been part of Star Wars since it was being storyboarded. Indeed it is part of the foundation of the franchise as a whole (or at least, it used to be) There is no reason that needs to stop when the film ends.
I would also argue that any informed discussion (or even something like a diatribe), regardless if it is about the real world, the lore of some fictional one or some combo thereof, is good mental exercise. Sure a conversation on how a hyperdrive works in a setting might not have much to do with the real world, but the critical thinking skills required to actually have such a conversation very much do apply.
And besides, you never know what will inspire what. Just look at what franchises like Star Wars or Star Trek have done over the decades in terms of inspiration. How many people became scientists or engineers because they thought lightsabers were awesome or became astronauts because they wanted to be Kirk?
I think you missed another point on why rebel field rations were more varied is they had to feed more species of aliens. The empire were just humans.
It's almost as bad as school cafeteria food.
The military even today are less interested in food that taste good and more interested in food that is good for you. In the field they calculate the calories required for a soldier engaging in combat or other operations and then make food that keeps well and meets the requirement of the calories needed. It's usually not designed for taste. Your expected to eat it for the calories and get back to work. Garrison meals are better usually. Some people still can't cook but it's better than MRE's.
My grandfather was in the Korean war. He told me that the American soldiers regularly traded with the Canadian soldiers because the Canadian rations were a LOT better tasting.
9 years in the army, I loved mre. I even get a box of them every now and then. When i was in we ate them cold, now they have chemical heaters in them and they are even better. Not being sarcastic, I really do like them
thats actually far from true they always try to make a varied amount of foods taste as good as possible while providing the necessary nutrition and calories needed. It's why MREs have so many varied dishes and treats along with drinks and so on. There's been many developments in making these rations better and adding a variety of them for the soldiers.
@@yulfine1688 👍💯
It depends on the military in question. For the US, they more-or-less figured out the required nutritional and caloric intake a soldier should have years - no, _decades_ ago. From there, they worked out ways to get all of those required nutrients and calories into an entire ration, and this was done _long_ before the MRE was ever developed.
The problem is that until the MRE (and even for a while into the MRE's existence), the only way a soldier could get that full intake was to eat the entire ration without excluding any of the food items included, and taste, both from the food and of the individual soldier, rendered that pretty much impossible. Since the first field ration ever in history, soldiers regularly traded one kind of ration for another. Because hardly any specific food item contained all of the required nutrients (how much of said nutrient(s) is in there does not matter as much as it just being in there), this trading ensured that malnutrition would exist, persist, and even spread amongst soldiers. This still happens to this day, which falls in line with your comment... but this is where your comment stops very far from the present.
As for solving this problem, there are only two possible solutions: 1) do anything and everything to prevent soldiers from trading their rations, or 2) give them more and especially tastier options. Militaries by and large figured out that 1) is always going to be impossible to accomplish (just ask Russia how they stopped their soldiers from trading their _all_ of supplies away and not just their rations /s) so they go with 2) instead - or at least they try to go with 2).
For the US, they figured this out even before the K ration and the other rations developed along with it, and this is why the US now dominates when it comes to the taste and variety of field rations through the MRE. Yes, the MRE got off to a rocky start - as all newly developed rations do (the K ration was no exception) - but they have since improved their quality, improved their nutrition, improved their taste, and improved their variety. Since the MRE's launch, they have developed vegetarian options, vegan options, halal (approved for Muslim diets) options, and more.
In short, the US figured out that it is easier to _entice_ soldiers to eat a ration through taste than it is to _force_ them to eat through a likely threat of violence. Today, one of the most popular MRE options in the US military - so popular that it is considered to be the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket of MREs - is the pepperoni pizza, which was NOT one of the original MREs and was actually developed and approved in the 2010s.
Are there militaries that do take the approach you say? Sure - again, ask Russia how well that's been working out. Will field rations ever be at least as good as garrison rations? Maybe, maybe not, but some militaries will certainly try, and the US has been leading the way for decades in this regard.
When talking about Hardtack, I was half expecting Max Miller's hard tack (him banging two pieces together with a look of despair).
Show me the star war equivalent of a F-22 raptor. Something so scary USA IS NOT ALLOWED TO SELL.
Meanwhile in the Astra Militarum: "Here, take this ration made with beef, vegetables, deceased imperial citizens and other ingredients from suspicious sources"
There is actually a middle ground that is a lot more common.... There are tactical kitchens that do deploy with units to provide At least one, maybe 2, hot meals a day. While the other is your combat ration.
Any position you can have any semi permanent infrastructure built around will have a mess hall.... It will also provide portable rations, Hot meals out to outer deployed semifixed positions.
It takes very bare bones facilities (often either at the beginning or the end of an operation) logistical isolation, or extended tactical patrols to reduce you to 3 meals a day of MREs for an extended block of time.
One of the details I liked from the Republic Commando books series was the inclusion of ration cubes by the clones and how they preferred eating anything else. I remember at least a few clones would hunt and eat different types of vermin just so they didn't have eat ration cubes again.
Bwtraying Banthas to eat them is wrong, but that doesn't stop the backwards Mandalorian canon Tuskens from doing it, so I can see Imperials chowing down on them too.
I always thought, that Galactic Empire are using some kind of bacterial-photosynthesis process to create some organic mass and then process this organic mass into food rations. In the world of giant city-size spaceships, this is much more logical, than to process a real meat and plants into rations.
I know this probably won’t be seen but I’m wondering you your self was in the military? As someone in the army you say to much military jargon not to be💀
Hard tack is still a valuable ration today because it can keep for a really long time. It's not great on it's won, but sumuch better with soup.
Stormtroopers are raised from birth while Scouts, Pilots, Marines, and Soldiers are enlisted
Yer hat is on crooked, Steve, and it looks like you have a nice home. I found this episode very interesting because I am a Jr. WW II Historian and food played a HUGE part of that Catastrophe! I actually had a modern...K-ration(not sure if that's what they are still called) and this thing even heated up to cook whatever it was! I'm pretty sure it was not bad! So, I'm guessing the Star Destroyer Cafeterias prolly didn't have any pizza or enchiladas? Good episode. \m/
"The deathstar had luxury rations"
I mean the place did have an ommlette bar, a straight up ommlette bar!
Maybe that's why they can't shoot and hit anything; Vitamin A deficiency, can't see anything lol
there's a guy that makes videos reviewing MRE's he's eaten some from the 30's!!
I think having more droids as part of the crew would help. The droids can do the more basic tasks while the organic beings can do the more complex ones somewhat like what the CIS did.
Droids don't need food
How come they don't have lab grown meat in starwars or animals bred to be more like plants
Steve1989mre sitting in the corner breathing heavily
If objects like mask can be possessed by force ghost why not droids
Food is always the movement of an army.
I like the Helmet from the background Stormtrooper in the Thumbnail. AI at it's best :D
My MREs were some very bad and good I would trade with a few different units and nations i would use the powder drinks as a dessert to drink
New York definitely isn't stable anymore bro
As long as the imperial issue toilet paper is available you can survive almost anything..
Have to admit, I’m a huge fan of these logistics videos. Wouldn’t mind more of them
Hello proto (:
Thank you for making videos about the behind the scenes operations and how life would really work in Star Wars
*Star Wars fans:* "Star wars is way more technologically advanced than Star Trek!"
*Star Trek:* _Casually has food replicators._
Just be glad it's not corpse starch
Actually, this was a very interesting video. Logistics is always fascinating. Wonder how popular Mexican food would be if the empire ever invaded Texas?
The US field ration has many Mexican themed dishes. Too bad they don't have any Asian themed rations.
Last Starfighter (1984)
With the scoundrel's cantina from long time. Thx for recommendin. His videos r great too. 😊👍
The haircut/shape up looks top notch Alan, you must have one of the galaxies best barbers!
Lol that's why Earth 🌎🌍 m MREs are better 😂
Did anyone else see that weird visual glitch when he mentioned livestock?
When was that
Looks like nothing to me...
He's been a dolphin for a while now...
Armies run on bullets and beans.
Well explained.
Love the vids.
Great video. Yes, feeding the military is the only way to win a war. This part goes often overlooked in storytelling.
Would the bodies of creatures from one planet know what to do with the proteins from another
Yes, for the same reason that multiple humanoid species from all over can reproduce and be compatible. They were all seeded by a primogenitor race.
what happened to the other guy?
This is the way
6:44 wow, that's some horrible artwork right there. Guess the artist was eating some of these rations themselves
Han's an Elf!
Not my Meiloorun!