Seeing the meals and hearing how they taste wether there new or old mre, is really cool but i always come to watch your videos because i really enjoy hearing all your stories from military service time. Great content
I'm pretty sure they stopped putting the entree in the cardboard box at least a decade ago. The newer rations just have the pouch out of a box with a cardboard sleeve with the dietary info separate. I guess the guy made a mistake thinking it was 2019 instead of 2009. Wth don't the US army use a normal date code? 😂 It was really cool having a look inside that A&N store, it was HUGE! We have a few over here (UK) dotted around, but they're probably 1/10 the size and have about 5% of the stock. Love the story. You could write a book full of your experiences and it would sell so well, I'd definitely buy it :) Awesome review as always!
I'm not gonna lie I'd love to go shopping with ace and pops in this store a whole video in here just pops explaining different things and items in there
He and I experienced military service around the same time. This means we were both eating the 'First Generation' MREs. The first generation MRE entrees of the 1980s included: chicken a la king; dehydrated pork patty; chicken loaf; chicken and ham loaf; beef chunks in gravy; four, small hot dogs; beef stew; corned beef hash; and spaghetti. The entrees were smaller, at 5 ounces. The next generation MREs in the late 1980s increased the entree to 8 ounces, a longer brown plastic spoon. The flameless ration heater came out and proved a big hit with the soldiers.
I remember when I was a kid that my mom would take my two brothers and I to the small army surplus store in a nearby town. We would get MREs often. Your all's trip brought back good memories. Stay safe guys!
Checking in as my trading day (night on this side of the big pond) draws to a close. We are thankful to see lots of views and comments. Keep up the good work and sharing.
the corn had peppers in it, resembled mexican street corn a little but i agree it looks older. great video you two pull it together nicely. great as always :)
I've eaten Humanitarian meals 13-14 years old, I've even eaten a German Einman Packen that was 24 years old. Amazingly they were all editable with the exception of the German crackers that somehow absorbed the wax from the wax paper wrapping and tasted awful. The longevity of American MRE 's are the best as far as I know. That still looked like a fine meal to me. Discoloration is normal
Army vet here. We would always heat up the cheese with the chili (I didn’t eat the corn) in the ration heater then crumble the crackers and mix all 3 together. The cheese thickened up the chili and the cracker pieces gave it a crunch.
awesome channel Devildog been watching for a while now today I noticed this video dropped on Oct 15, Oct 15 is the day I arrived on the Island oh so many years ago. keep the good videos and old Marine stories coming.
I once found a pic online of some foreign troops (Asian I think) who were frying eggs in their entrenching tool over a fire. Another interesting use! Only once in the Navy did I ever do mess duty. I was between tech schools and we were put on working parties. So I get assigned to the mess hall for an evening dinner with about 300 Navy officers' wives. I stayed back in the kitchen. So after these "ladies" were gone, we come out to clean up. It was a shambles! Chairs turned over, plates of food on the floor, just a huge mess. That was when I lost all respect for officers's wives! Looked worse than a drunken frat house party. 🙄
I remember 10 years ago going to the local weekend flea market and vendors would have tables full of MREs for $3-$4 each. Now lucky to find any for under $20.
I like this new format! Great review y looove surplus store my friend back in italy owns one I spends 100 of hours hanging around pile of old stuff lol
I've been wanting to subscribe since you and Ace were talking about your channel. Looked down and saw the link this morning that the cold is blowing in in Idaho, and here you are. Eating MREs, which it's rumored were a plot by the government to kill us off before we could collect too much retirement. (I may or may not have started that rumor). I ate that stuff, always left me feeling plugged up and high BP :)). We met at the buiz and you did a great job, smart and strait up, and we had good conversation. I live by your Buhl Neighbor Jarvis. He talked about you, I told him to watch Ace and Mikas vids.
I speculate that over the years, the iron particles component of the flameless heater corroded into what might be rust dust. Hence, it was a, 'dead' heater.
Wow, I was at the same surplus store in March of 2019 and the other one in Crestview. I was at Eglin in 1980 for operation bold eagle while in the army, back then it was c - rats , thanks for the video 👍
The chili looked really hearty, not sure if it was because it wasn't heated up, and the consistency was thicker. I wonder if the heater simply wasn't made correctly, since it's the combination of the chemicals reacting with the water to make the heat. I've seen similar types of products where one entire component was missing, or wasn't there in sufficient quantity, to do its job. Interesting. Great video, The cheese did look suspicious, but, glad it was edible. Looking forward to the next one guys, God bless.
Try pouring a little bit of the salt from your salt sachet if it doesn’t heat up cause from what I’ve seen that sometimes gets the heater working if the heater is pretty old.
i've heard a little trick to help the FRH to work is add a little salt to the water to get it going, if not and you're outside heat it up with a Coleman #533 single burner stove and your mess kit.
Them putting in skittles and such is a early 2000's thing. By the time I joined in 09 them adding that kind of stuff was already rotated out for the most part. It was was what was given to people in basic then after that the newer rotation stuff was given out.
So I am wondering but would the Skittles have an expiration date on them like in a normal store? That would be better to help see how old the MRE is I think.
me, as a person, looking for different mre, watching ppl like u, I wanna ask a few. so, you as a person, who tried different mre from all over the world, can u tell your top 5? and second. if you take all mre you eaten, what kind of ultimate menu would you create?
Like that he stops to explain the poop shovel lol. Split second I was like "shit on a shovel"? Lol my big brother Was a Marine in 1999. I have many fond memories of opening up MRE's. I once got a fishing survival kit in a MRE or in a case of MRE's i forget. I want to say it was in one of the MRE meals.
Thats a 2009 because it has the dairy shake and the mexican corn. 2019 has lemon lime beverage powder and pepperoni pizza cheese filled crackers. Source mreinfo
Yup, thats a 2009, cornbread is in the 2019, and the veg lasagna stopped in 2013, so that guy wasn't too accurate about the expiration🤣. Either way $8 is about half price nowadays, even for older ones, you should have grabbed them all.
Great video. It almost looks like. It was stored in hotter conditions. I ran into one that date was right but found out it was stored wrong and looked like that but anyway. God bless both of you.
That army navy store is pretty cool, here in Canada, we don't have anything like that, but here it's illegal to wear military clothing, (current issued clothing) if you're not enlisted. We are very strict regarding "Stolen Valor" tho I'd love to spend lots of time in that store.
Makes sense, I guess. When I was a kid, we loved wearing anything we could fit into from the Army surplus store. Being so small, there wasn't much. All the items I recall were from the WW2 and Korean era. TFW
Normally when I warm my meal's i wouldn't use the heater's I'd put on a pot of water on the stove wait until it starts to get hot and place my meal into the boiling water it works wonders piping hot ready to go 👍
Thats a good one the chili im not to crazy about skittles myself i would swap for half a tin of dip i funny enough did not care for the jalapeno cheese spread either that was a highly tradeable item you can save up the tobasco and make a tear gas bomb with an frh highly amusing great channel
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Very underrated channel. I've been watching for a few months now and I haven't gotten bored of the cool stories and stuff he has to say.
Seeing the meals and hearing how they taste wether there new or old mre, is really cool but i always come to watch your videos because i really enjoy hearing all your stories from military service time. Great content
The same!
I'm pretty sure they stopped putting the entree in the cardboard box at least a decade ago.
The newer rations just have the pouch out of a box with a cardboard sleeve with the dietary info separate.
I guess the guy made a mistake thinking it was 2019 instead of 2009.
Wth don't the US army use a normal date code? 😂
It was really cool having a look inside that A&N store, it was HUGE!
We have a few over here (UK) dotted around, but they're probably 1/10 the size and have about 5% of the stock.
Love the story.
You could write a book full of your experiences and it would sell so well, I'd definitely buy it :)
Awesome review as always!
I'm not gonna lie I'd love to go shopping with ace and pops in this store a whole video in here just pops explaining different things and items in there
He and I experienced military service around the same time. This means we were both eating the 'First Generation' MREs.
The first generation MRE entrees of the 1980s included: chicken a la king; dehydrated pork patty; chicken loaf; chicken and ham loaf; beef chunks in gravy; four, small hot dogs; beef stew; corned beef hash; and spaghetti. The entrees were smaller, at 5 ounces. The next generation MREs in the late 1980s increased the entree to 8 ounces, a longer brown plastic spoon. The flameless ration heater came out and proved a big hit with the soldiers.
I was around that time. Never felt good eating MREs, lol. We were out in the African Desert and threw em up on the Hummer dash under the window.
12 years and still editable. Thanks for sharing with us.
I remember when I was a kid that my mom would take my two brothers and I to the small army surplus store in a nearby town. We would get MREs often. Your all's trip brought back good memories. Stay safe guys!
We don't have many army and navy stores left in the UK 🇬🇧 they were quite big in the 80s...there huge over there...good ration you picked.
I’ve had that menu with the chili with beans. It’s pretty good. As I recall, there was peanut butter and some jelly to go with the bread.
Checking in as my trading day (night on this side of the big pond) draws to a close. We are thankful to see lots of views and comments. Keep up the good work and sharing.
the corn had peppers in it, resembled mexican street corn a little but i agree it looks older. great video you two pull it together nicely. great as always :)
Thank you for your service and thank you for your TH-cam videos you have an amazing family all y'all make great videos
I plan on joining the U.S. Marine Corps pretty soon and I just want to say that you sir are a very wonderful man. God bless you, sir.
Love your stories from your Marine Core days and all the content here. A favorite channel for sure!
*corps
I've eaten Humanitarian meals 13-14 years old, I've even eaten a German Einman Packen that was 24 years old. Amazingly they were all editable with the exception of the German crackers that somehow absorbed the wax from the wax paper wrapping and tasted awful. The longevity of American MRE 's are the best as far as I know. That still looked like a fine meal to me. Discoloration is normal
Army vet here. We would always heat up the cheese with the chili (I didn’t eat the corn) in the ration heater then crumble the crackers and mix all 3 together. The cheese thickened up the chili and the cracker pieces gave it a crunch.
awesome channel Devildog been watching for a while now today I noticed this video dropped on Oct 15, Oct 15 is the day I arrived on the Island oh so many years ago. keep the good videos and old Marine stories coming.
As always, great video! We have a really cool army store here where I live. It's always fun to look around in there.
Thanks for the tour chief !
I once found a pic online of some foreign troops (Asian I think) who were frying eggs in their entrenching tool over a fire. Another interesting use!
Only once in the Navy did I ever do mess duty. I was between tech schools and we were put on working parties. So I get assigned to the mess hall for an evening dinner with about 300 Navy officers' wives. I stayed back in the kitchen. So after these "ladies" were gone, we come out to clean up. It was a shambles! Chairs turned over, plates of food on the floor, just a huge mess. That was when I lost all respect for officers's wives! Looked worse than a drunken frat house party. 🙄
The day just got better! Gonna enjoy the video!
Menu #1 is my favorite, thanks for sharing love the videos.
Love your videos and everything you make, God bless ☦️🙏🏻
All the way from Russia
I remember 10 years ago going to the local weekend flea market and vendors would have tables full of MREs for $3-$4 each. Now lucky to find any for under $20.
Ahhhhh, those were the days, my friend! TFW, Mike!
$20 is the new $4 🥴🤦♂️😥😢😢😭😭😭
I like this new format! Great review y looove surplus store my friend back in italy owns one I spends 100 of hours hanging around pile of old stuff lol
I've been wanting to subscribe since you and Ace were talking about your channel. Looked down and saw the link this morning that the cold is blowing in in Idaho, and here you are. Eating MREs, which it's rumored were a plot by the government to kill us off before we could collect too much retirement. (I may or may not have started that rumor). I ate that stuff, always left me feeling plugged up and high BP :)). We met at the buiz and you did a great job, smart and strait up, and we had good conversation. I live by your Buhl Neighbor Jarvis. He talked about you, I told him to watch Ace and Mikas vids.
Glad to see you back and uploading!
Hope y’all are having a good weekend! Thanks for the upload
Your subs keep going up can't wait to see you reach the 100.000 mark and get that play buttons
I speculate that over the years, the iron particles component of the flameless heater corroded into what might be rust dust. Hence, it was a, 'dead' heater.
You can try adding the salt to the heater to give it a boost when trying to activity the it.
I would love to go to an army and navy store like that, here in the UK we don't have stores that good. I could get lost for days in there!
Those longer wood handle fold shovels also served as the standard issue seat. I always added salt to the water and heating element to speed heat.
SEMPER FI my brother great video great meal and the story was funny as always 0311 is in the house
Thank you for your service
Big ups to you Me Ancient Mayne, you do make that meal look desirable 😋😊👍
Wow, I was at the same surplus store in March of 2019 and the other one in Crestview. I was at Eglin in 1980 for operation bold eagle while in the army, back then it was c - rats , thanks for the video 👍
Use your canteen heater add some charcoal and a heating cube to it. I do that when I forget my small Webber grill.
I have had the chili with beans. And loved it.
Thank you for another entertaining video.
The chili looked really hearty, not sure if it was because it wasn't heated up, and the consistency was thicker. I wonder if the heater simply wasn't made correctly, since it's the combination of the chemicals reacting with the water to make the heat. I've seen similar types of products where one entire component was missing, or wasn't there in sufficient quantity, to do its job. Interesting. Great video, The cheese did look suspicious, but, glad it was edible. Looking forward to the next one guys, God bless.
Try pouring a little bit of the salt from your salt sachet if it doesn’t heat up cause from what I’ve seen that sometimes gets the heater working if the heater is pretty old.
i've heard a little trick to help the FRH to work is add a little salt to the water to get it going, if not and you're outside heat it up with a Coleman #533 single burner stove and your mess kit.
The chili with beans is so good, when it’s newer. You should try it again, when it’s more newer. I highly recommend
Where've you been o'l man? It's been wayyy too long my friend, keep up the good work you absolute legend 👌🇬🇧
Them putting in skittles and such is a early 2000's thing. By the time I joined in 09 them adding that kind of stuff was already rotated out for the most part. It was was what was given to people in basic then after that the newer rotation stuff was given out.
Always rotating MREs......TFW
Great Video👍
Cool store i miss going to them .chilli and beans hpw can you go wrong .lol except the cheese lol cool het love the s.f hat they had there
The chili with beans sounds pretty interesting I bet it was good
Great video guys the corn and cheese looked a little iffy for sure
Welcome to my neck a the woods sir and Semper Fi to you .
Horse food to cat food.... cameraman is great.
I cannot be the only one watching the cheese and thinking whether I would eat that or not.
That cheese looks like something that came out of Ace's cat, Miss Piggy. 😜
"Let's think about this" what's there to think? Buy all three!
So I am wondering but would the Skittles have an expiration date on them like in a normal store? That would be better to help see how old the MRE is I think.
love the channel!!!
I love your videos, you are a brave man eating this MRE. I got bubble guts just looking at this one.
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fleetwood mac❤❤❤❤
Taste like vanilla pudding..I like it like that
Wow! What a store! USA forever, forever USA! ❤
Oh you should have gone an seen the knives. That would have been cool. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
A very funny story and a decent mre,thanks me ancient 🙂
me, as a person, looking for different mre, watching ppl like u, I wanna ask a few. so, you as a person, who tried different mre from all over the world, can u tell your top 5? and second. if you take all mre you eaten, what kind of ultimate menu would you create?
Your videos are a joy to see. Well done.🤓❤👍🤟🍀🪖
Next time a heater don't work try adding extra salt It may or may not help I've done it and it has worked for me
I had a Cutter too, in the US Coast Guard. I thought it was called a cutter because if you hold it up and down, the folds on the top resemble????
You sir must have a cast iron gut! Love your stories and videos.
Cool store 👍
Love these videos
Like that he stops to explain the poop shovel lol. Split second I was like "shit on a shovel"? Lol my big brother Was a Marine in 1999. I have many fond memories of opening up MRE's. I once got a fishing survival kit in a MRE or in a case of MRE's i forget. I want to say it was in one of the MRE meals.
I miss true Army Navy stores growing up in the 70's😫
Great vid 😀
Man there $12.00 bucks up here in Massachusetts. Good video. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts. And you can use the shovel for a seat.
Thats a 2009 because it has the dairy shake and the mexican corn. 2019 has lemon lime beverage powder and pepperoni pizza cheese filled crackers. Source mreinfo
Yup, thats a 2009, cornbread is in the 2019, and the veg lasagna stopped in 2013, so that guy wasn't too accurate about the expiration🤣. Either way $8 is about half price nowadays, even for older ones, you should have grabbed them all.
Great video. It almost looks like. It was stored in hotter conditions. I ran into one that date was right but found out it was stored wrong and looked like that but anyway. God bless both of you.
How long are you guys in fort Walton beach. I live in Destin. Welcome to the emerald coast
What are you doing in my town 👀? I live 5 minutes from that store, that’s neat!!!
Good stuff, keep it up mate.
Did that say eight bucks? That's really cheap. I like that store, wish we had one up here
I Watch your videos and I like you I have 1 MRE !!! I am In California❤❤❤❤
I'm pretty sure that the commercial product in the package has a date, so at least you can get to the same decade when it was manufactured.
Hi MFOS 😊
Add half of the salt packet into the heater. Works well.
I wish you would have grabbed the veggie lasagna. Surprisingly was my second favorite. Came with great snacks and a seasoning pack
Next time! TFW
Could have checked bag of skittles for expiration date
Hi Christine 😊
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Wish we still had shops like that, It would be so useful, Unfortunately the only choice is Ebay or Amazon.
Sometimes if you add salt to the heater it will boost it
That army navy store is pretty cool, here in Canada, we don't have anything like that, but here it's illegal to wear military clothing, (current issued clothing) if you're not enlisted. We are very strict regarding "Stolen Valor" tho I'd love to spend lots of time in that store.
Makes sense, I guess. When I was a kid, we loved wearing anything we could fit into from the Army surplus store. Being so small, there wasn't much. All the items I recall were from the WW2 and Korean era. TFW
Cardboard boxes says 2009 to me :-)
Hi Russell 🤝
Yep the cheese is fortified, sharp and salty. It tastes much better after 1 to 2 weeks in the field and you've ran out of pogey bait .
I have probably a dumb question that I’m sure you have answered before lol, but is there any difference between a surplus MRE and a real MRE?
Normally when I warm my meal's i wouldn't use the heater's I'd put on a pot of water on the stove wait until it starts to get hot and place my meal into the boiling water it works wonders piping hot ready to go 👍
I never had much luck with those heaters in those mres
Cool channel
The chili and beans is good
heat the cheese up mix it with the chili add the corn and crackers and spice packet, splash of water and you have your self a great meal
Now you're talking! TFW, Jordan.
Pour your salt packet into the heater water sometimes that can re activate the frh
10-4. TFW
Thats a good one the chili im not to crazy about skittles myself i would swap for half a tin of dip i funny enough did not care for the jalapeno cheese spread either that was a highly tradeable item you can save up the tobasco and make a tear gas bomb with an frh highly amusing great channel
Now there's an idea.........
Do you ever get up to Dothan, Al
Where are these stores I need backpack attachments