Wow, $200 and all you got is a great cup of coffee and some meh mains. So sorry bro. It's the ration game. Sometimes this game sucks and sometimes it's amazeballs. Your review will give us all a warning. Hopefully the other one is much better or worse. Could make for a great video. I so enjoy just like a lot of other people and look forward to every time you post. Thanks brother, you are da man.
I would not have it any other way! It is no fun alone.....well it is, but it is more fun to have people to talk about it with! Thank you for watching and commenting!
I cannot fathom why they put the flame-less ration heaters in there. The 3 mains are all freeze dried so you'd need safe water to reconstitute them, so that automatically rules out using the hot chem water that the heaters make unless they found a magic chemical that reacts violently enough with water to boil it but also is safe enough to consume. After checking out the website for that exact heater, nothing suggests that it's any different from a normal flame-less ration heater. Not just a useless component, but actively harmful if you hand it to someone who doesn't know any better.
All true! This ration is poorly designed at best in my opinion. I am sure they would have options to purify water, but it would still be better to have added an esbit stove to heat water for the mains. Thank you for watching and commenting!
That’s the same coffee the French out in their “festive/holiday” ration for this time of the year. Steve just reviewed one and he liked the coffee as well
@@RationNerd I watched Steve eat Civil War hardtack that had come from a museum that had closed and auctioned their collection. He spoke of the mothball flavor as they had been used to preserve the hardtack from rodents and insects while on display.
No worries Faith! I am just glad you watch and comment when you can! I was butt-hurt that the coffees were soooooo small. And the food was less than good! Thank you! Coffee and Pate' hugs!
Those are civilian food items not military but still a dam good looking piece of kit. Those coffee's are brilliant unless they get accidentally popped in transit.
Hi, it's me again, do you still remember me? Your previous video would have been fun to continue the conversation, but you deleted my message so you wanted to create an image for people that I left the conversation on my own. You naughty boy.
I delete nothing from the channel. If your comments disappeared, it was because you felt foolish and deleted them. As always, thank you for the comment. It helps the channel. Go ahead with this weeks nonsense. I am looking forward to it! Thank you for watching and comments!
Was in the US Marine mountain warfare battalion for a while(e coast) I agree about the lack of protein. Your muscles would begin breaking down in short order from the strain without the repair materials. It is also low calorie. We used to burn 3000-5000 calories a day and feel like we were starving depending on what we were doing. Closer to 6000 in the winter. No meat? whats the point of eating it ? coffee is a neat idea though. It can keep you going while you fix a real cup when its -30 outside.
First and foremost, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! I agree 100%. I am no doctor, or a nutritionist, but this is designed all wrong. It is exactly as you called it! Thank you for watching and commenting!
@@RationNerd Yeah, exactly, except no onions for me. I fucking hate onions. Hated that crap since child. I guess it's to me like seafood is to you. 😂😂😂 What I really don't get is, why give soldiers crappy food? To make the angry? Well, they can get angry and the have guns... So what if they turn against their leaders because they are forced to fight hungry because the military doesn't bother to give them at least decent food...
@@AzagXul666 Exactly! Even if you do not appreciate all your soldiers do, and want to feed them good for that. At least don't make them angry enough to shoot you for a bad meal(s)!!!!!
Well that was a mess! I wonder if they use freeze dried due to the Italian Alps are cold and retort pouches can freeze. But even though it’s a vegetarian meal it looks horrible. That was painful to watch! Took one for the team you did.
LOL. Thank you James. I would imagine it is a weight thing. Lots of cold weather gear to carry. But this was horrible. Also, the coffee could potentially freeze as well. So I still think the regular Italian freeze dried would have been better and even lighter. Thank you for watching and commenting.
I tried finding this as a normally issued mountain ration. Could only find the MRE types. This feels like a special unit ration or additional food to take the standard 24 hour mountain ration and amp it up a bit? To be honest I would take the lighter weight of this over other rations but it is very light on calories for a mountain ration. 2,400? I would expect 4-5,000 as you are burning much more calories in mountains and in the cold. Just seems that it is too light to be the full days ration.
I've not seen this one Amigo, Agreed. Different and cool. Components look good. Some items I have seen, but never tried them. Self heating sweet coffee, never heard or seen?? LOL. Luck on figuring it out Brother. Lots of it. Sounds good. Some necessities seem to be missing. Normal items. Agreed. Kind of odd. Force of habit for me, I always use just A little less water than required. I can always add more. Better than having soup. Some are too thick as well. OOPS on first coffee. Now we know how to pour. Good coffee, just too little. Coffee shots? Understood. Surprised some items are bland, some too strong. You picked your meals nicely. Luck of the draw Taste wise. Never know on rations, even if expensive ones. Off record, I quit saving ration bags some time ago. I had enough to wallpaper my house as well, LOL. FRH'S seem to work good at least. Pop goes the weasel. Many times. Just not heat this type of ration. Your meal looked good friend. It looks good overall. Some extras would be nice, more coffee would as well. We get what we get. Maybe next time will be more exciting? Stay safe. Peace from Kentucky, John.
Italians don't drink bucket loads of garbage coffee like Americans do, preferring instead small amounts of really good strong coffee. Don't get me started on lattes!
Seems extremely civilian for me, nothing really special. The weight you save by carrying freeze dryed food you gain by that coffee. And that coffee will likely freeze in cold mountain climate and not get hot by its heater. Homepage via the QR code on the bag seems scatchy...
It is a verified Italian Military ration.....just not a good one! It is a poor design! I was thinking the same thing about the coffee! What if the water inside the heater section bursts due to freezing as well. Premature coffee heating action, then it just freezes again...... Thank you for watching and commenting!
I cant eat Italian food without feeling sick, pizza is south American not Italian so I can eat that. Coffee tastes like dirty mud water 🤮. I wouldn't eat or drink anything from it. Especially lentils, im not from India whose food is also disgusting. I might eat the crackers but would rather not.
LOL. So this was a complete NO for you! I understand. We all have our individual tastes and not everything, is for everyone! Thank you for watching and commenting!
100% agree! I know they were trying to reduce weight, but wow! Have you guys ever heard of Mountain House? This was too few calories for a mountain ration and it just sucked. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Should of brought out a shot glass for that coffee! 🤣🤣
I almost did! It was great coffee, just too damn small of an amount!
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Maybe Italy is different, but I have never met a single soldier who is a vegetarian or vegan.
Neither have I. But I guess they are out there. Even the USA has a vegetarian option(s) in the MRE lineup.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was getting a kick out of the bag popping
Me too DeCarlos! That is why I let it do it so many times. Until it spit nasty FRH water at me! Then it was not funny anymore....LOL
@@RationNerd that’s how it usually is funny until it happens to you 🤣🤣🤣
My mouth is watering for that coffee
That is really the only good component in this ration.
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First one to comment on your video keep up the good work I'm a subscriber to your Channel😊
Thank you Erin! I appreciate the support!
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The coffee reminds me of the product line from The 42 Degrees Company. We use them on hunting trips for our lunch break in the field.
That coffee was absolutely amazing! Just tiny. but I am a big coffee drinker, so to me it was a bummer.
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Wow, $200 and all you got is a great cup of coffee and some meh mains. So sorry bro. It's the ration game. Sometimes this game sucks and sometimes it's amazeballs. Your review will give us all a warning. Hopefully the other one is much better or worse. Could make for a great video. I so enjoy just like a lot of other people and look forward to every time you post. Thanks brother, you are da man.
Thank you my friend! I look forward to you being there every Sunday as well!
Be well my brother!
Awwww No Alcohol In This Italian Ration Because Brandy Coffee Would Have Been Sweet 🤘
Great Vlogs Bro 👍
That would have been awesome!!!!!
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wooohoo, my sunday evening saved! thank you sir!
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I am glad I can bring a little entertainment!
Thanks for letting us join you
I would not have it any other way! It is no fun alone.....well it is, but it is more fun to have people to talk about it with!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
I cannot fathom why they put the flame-less ration heaters in there. The 3 mains are all freeze dried so you'd need safe water to reconstitute them, so that automatically rules out using the hot chem water that the heaters make unless they found a magic chemical that reacts violently enough with water to boil it but also is safe enough to consume. After checking out the website for that exact heater, nothing suggests that it's any different from a normal flame-less ration heater. Not just a useless component, but actively harmful if you hand it to someone who doesn't know any better.
All true! This ration is poorly designed at best in my opinion. I am sure they would have options to purify water, but it would still be better to have added an esbit stove to heat water for the mains.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Sorry I missed the premier I didn’t get the notification again this week
Freakin YT! No worries my friend!
That’s the same coffee the French out in their “festive/holiday” ration for this time of the year. Steve just reviewed one and he liked the coffee as well
Edit it’s the same concept not brand
Steve is totally Ration Jesus!
Thank you for coming to my channel as well! No one does it as good as him, but I think I have more fun.
@@RationNerd
I watched Steve eat Civil War hardtack that had come from a museum that had closed and auctioned their collection. He spoke of the mothball flavor as they had been used to preserve the hardtack from rodents and insects while on display.
@@rtqii Sounds like a good time!
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So sorry I have been awol for a while. I missed you. I had high hopes for this one with four coffees. Sorry it was a let down RN. xx
No worries Faith! I am just glad you watch and comment when you can! I was butt-hurt that the coffees were soooooo small. And the food was less than good!
Thank you! Coffee and Pate' hugs!
@@RationNerd 🥰🥰
Great review of a crappy rat. Good one. Not sure how every other word was not cursing! I was cursing for you.
Thank you Matthew. I did curse a lot! But edited most of it out for YT.
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At least with a veggie ration there’s no tuna lol hugs from uk
Well, there is that !!!!! Vegan means no tuna! LOL. Hugs right back at you!
I really appreciate your support!
Those are civilian food items not military but still a dam good looking piece of kit. Those coffee's are brilliant unless they get accidentally popped in transit.
Or freeze solid in the frozen mountains!
Hi, it's me again, do you still remember me? Your previous video would have been fun to continue the conversation, but you deleted my message so you wanted to create an image for people that I left the conversation on my own. You naughty boy.
I delete nothing from the channel. If your comments disappeared, it was because you felt foolish and deleted them. As always, thank you for the comment. It helps the channel. Go ahead with this weeks nonsense. I am looking forward to it!
Thank you for watching and comments!
It's nice to know I'm helpful. Maybe next year you'll hit 2k subscribers. And stop deleting messages. You'll only make yourself look even more stupid.
Notice how Ragetard disappears when you call him out on his BS?
Well done my friend. A bad ration but a good review.
Thank you bro! I appreciate you being there for every premiere!
Was in the US Marine mountain warfare battalion for a while(e coast) I agree about the lack of protein. Your muscles would begin breaking down in short order from the strain without the repair materials. It is also low calorie. We used to burn 3000-5000 calories a day and feel like we were starving depending on what we were doing. Closer to 6000 in the winter. No meat? whats the point of eating it ? coffee is a neat idea though. It can keep you going while you fix a real cup when its -30 outside.
First and foremost, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!
I agree 100%. I am no doctor, or a nutritionist, but this is designed all wrong. It is exactly as you called it!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
The people with no taste buds are called vegan.
ROFLMAO! Correct, that is I think the Webster dictionary definition of Vegan!
This ration would make me pretty angry. I have nothing against vegetables, but I definitely want some meat with them.
LOL. I agree! Vegetables are a great way to make meat look more colorful on my plate!
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@@RationNerd Yeah, exactly, except no onions for me. I fucking hate onions. Hated that crap since child. I guess it's to me like seafood is to you. 😂😂😂
What I really don't get is, why give soldiers crappy food? To make the angry? Well, they can get angry and the have guns... So what if they turn against their leaders because they are forced to fight hungry because the military doesn't bother to give them at least decent food...
@@AzagXul666 Exactly! Even if you do not appreciate all your soldiers do, and want to feed them good for that. At least don't make them angry enough to shoot you for a bad meal(s)!!!!!
Well that was a mess! I wonder if they use freeze dried due to the Italian Alps are cold and retort pouches can freeze.
But even though it’s a vegetarian meal it looks horrible.
That was painful to watch! Took one for the team you did.
LOL. Thank you James. I would imagine it is a weight thing. Lots of cold weather gear to carry. But this was horrible. Also, the coffee could potentially freeze as well. So I still think the regular Italian freeze dried would have been better and even lighter.
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Perhaps it was espresso coffee?
Yes, it just needed more mills !!!!!!
I tried finding this as a normally issued mountain ration. Could only find the MRE types. This feels like a special unit ration or additional food to take the standard 24 hour mountain ration and amp it up a bit? To be honest I would take the lighter weight of this over other rations but it is very light on calories for a mountain ration. 2,400? I would expect 4-5,000 as you are burning much more calories in mountains and in the cold. Just seems that it is too light to be the full days ration.
I agree!!! The light weight is awesome, but the lack of calories is alarming.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
I've not seen this one Amigo, Agreed. Different and cool. Components look good. Some items I have seen, but never tried them. Self heating sweet coffee, never heard or seen?? LOL. Luck on figuring it out Brother. Lots of it. Sounds good. Some necessities seem to be missing. Normal items. Agreed. Kind of odd. Force of habit for me, I always use just A little less water than required. I can always add more. Better than having soup. Some are too thick as well. OOPS on first coffee. Now we know how to pour. Good coffee, just too little. Coffee shots? Understood. Surprised some items are bland, some too strong. You picked your meals nicely. Luck of the draw Taste wise. Never know on rations, even if expensive ones. Off record, I quit saving ration bags some time ago. I had enough to wallpaper my house as well, LOL. FRH'S seem to work good at least. Pop goes the weasel. Many times. Just not heat this type of ration. Your meal looked good friend. It looks good overall. Some extras would be nice, more coffee would as well. We get what we get. Maybe next time will be more exciting? Stay safe. Peace from Kentucky, John.
I appreciate you John! If I get another vegetarian, which I am supposed to, I will give you a shot at it if you want!
@@RationNerd , no, LOL. Too much money to spend, ( waste ) LOL. Awesome to see friend. Take care. Next ration will be better. Peace.
Looks like it’ll keep you regular 🤣🤣🤣 and just think no TP 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Right! I guess you just scrape your cheeks on a rock LOL.
@@RationNerd or they figure fuck it we taught y’all what leaves 🍁 and grass are poisonous 🤣🤣🤣
@@decarlosperry5111 ROFL!!!!!!
Italians don't drink bucket loads of garbage coffee like Americans do, preferring instead small amounts of really good strong coffee. Don't get me started on lattes!
I drink good coffee. It is a myth that Americano coffee is like the coffee here in the US.
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Americano is basically espresso coffee with added hot water , what you had was Americano without the additional hot water 😉
@JLGadgetguy26 Whatever it was, it was amazing. Just too small of an amount.
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Seems extremely civilian for me, nothing really special.
The weight you save by carrying freeze dryed food you gain by that coffee.
And that coffee will likely freeze in cold mountain climate and not get hot by its heater.
Homepage via the QR code on the bag seems scatchy...
It is a verified Italian Military ration.....just not a good one!
It is a poor design! I was thinking the same thing about the coffee! What if the water inside the heater section bursts due to freezing as well. Premature coffee heating action, then it just freezes again......
Thank you for watching and commenting!
I'd rather eat a Russian mountain ration
Agreed!
I cant eat Italian food without feeling sick, pizza is south American not Italian so I can eat that. Coffee tastes like dirty mud water 🤮. I wouldn't eat or drink anything from it. Especially lentils, im not from India whose food is also disgusting. I might eat the crackers but would rather not.
LOL. So this was a complete NO for you! I understand. We all have our individual tastes and not everything, is for everyone!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Too basic for my liking.
100% agree! I know they were trying to reduce weight, but wow! Have you guys ever heard of Mountain House? This was too few calories for a mountain ration and it just sucked.
Thank you for watching and commenting!