I’m surprised you didn’t get the vacuum Sealed beef jerky that feels like your chewing wood chips. I died when you said “Canadians must have good jawlines” 😂
Canada also uses flameless heaters, they're distributed separately because you could also use a Coleman stove and a pressure cooker if you're in an admin posture and want to cook like 15 rats at the same time. Also UK/Canadian chocolate doesn't use as much corn syrup compared to US choc
Tic Tacs are very symbolic in Canadian culture. They are included in rations to honour all the lost Canadian teeth from the Rite of Hockey that each Canadian must participate in to assume the age of majority. Like the Mars Bar and Entrees, Tic Tacs are also used to barter with other nations troops for soft food.
Canadian MREs are the comfort food of my childhood, my dad is a retired combat engineer and I was always stoked when he brought MREs home, the honey in a tube was great. My friend's kids that are in cadets bring me MREs when they have some left over from camp.
Dude when I was deployed, any kind of canned fruit kept in some cold water over night and then enjoyed after a patrol.....hot damn that was currency man. You best believe them nice chilled pears are going to get you a lot of stuff lol
A little note to mention about Hershey's in Canada (may also apply to the UK): Hershey's outsources their chocolate manufacturing. Ours is made by Nestle, who makes Dairy Milk, so Canadian Hershey's tastes like Dairy Milk.
@Anonymous Commenter I know. I am from the country that poutine was invented. Where the other Commenter is from, they are called chips... not sure what the issue is. In other places they are called French Fries, in other places called chippers. Not sure what the issue is. Just pointed out to you the obvious, what they are called depends on where you are from. Still the same thing,
We eat UK chocolate bars in Canada, Cadbury products, Coffee Crisps, Smarties which are like your m&m only they taste better. We have some US chocolates as well.
Owning a candy store, the Canadian Mars more matches the milky way in color and ingredients than it does the UK version. A lot of the Canadian candy is not sold in the US but its made there and imported to Canada. The Canadian Oh Henry is differs from the American version. Something a lot people don't know, is our Rockets are made at the Smarties Company in Union, NJ and imported by Regal Canada. Why UK, US and Canada can have the same candies, the recipes are not always the same. Kit Kats are Hershey in the US but Nestle in Canada and most other parts of the world. The Canadian version also has 3 grams more of chocolate than the US. Things I have to know cause when I ship orders to the USA, if it was made in the US. No custom charges but it if was manufactured in Canada my US customers have to pay duty on it.
I would put peanut butter and jam on those tortillas. Also someone mentioned the hardest beef jerky in the world, would still try to trade anything for it, love that jerky life in the field
MARS was started in Minnesota. Franklin Clarence Mars, whose mother taught him to hand dip candy, sold candy by age 19. He started the Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with Ethel V. Mars, his second wife, in Tacoma, Washington. This factory produced and sold fresh candy wholesale, but ultimately the venture failed because there was a better established business, Brown & Haley, also operating in Tacoma. By 1920, Mars had returned to his home state, Minnesota, where the earliest incarnation of the present day Mars company was founded that year as Mar-O-Bar Co., in Minneapolis and later incorporated there as Mars, Incorporated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%2C_Incorporated?wprov=sfla1
that was pretty funny about canadian jaws, that made me laugh...those little napkin tablets fit perfectly in a water bottle cap (instructions on my pkg told me that lol), i use them on trail rides...crunchy only and forever and now im craving beef-a-roni... thx
To your credit, you didn't spit anything out. Your reactions made me laugh out loud. I like you. You are smart, articulate and curious. All good traits. I watched a few of your other videos. I'm glad you acknowledged Canadians in your other videos. Thanks so much. I have subscribed and looking forward to watching your videos.
Growing up in Canada (I'm 55 now), I used to see the Sunny D commercials and always wanted to try it because we only got frozen concentrate. I totally agree with your definition of Sunny D!!
Welcome aboard brother. The Mars bar has been a British staple in the outdoors for decades. One soccer team went on strike because their new nutritionist said they couldn't have Mars bars because they are too unhealthy!!
About Canadian MRE, I have many memories of ratatouille when i was in the Canadian Army Cadet (2972 Mercier) because I was the only one to eat it and I understand a little why. The smell is terrible when you fart but it's really funny to see the reaction of others when you open your sleeping bag in the morning after a hot summer night in a small room without air conditioning. There's also a legend talking about Poutine in the Canadian MRE.
No lie, we lost a guy on exercise to that trail mix. He was just chilling in the shade having a snack and *pop* his back molar explodes. Had to be pulled out and given serious dental
Dental pain sucks, and having a tooth break is pretty traumatic to the system, I always get a bit spacey when I loose a chunk off of a tooth. Having the dentin exposed never feels right and it tastes bad too. I have really bad teeth though, so most of the time I’m just loosing old fillings that are attached to a bit of broken tooth wall, I love my dentist and thankfully emergency dental procedures including fillings are covered by ODSP.
I served in 1990s our MREs came in like a big envelope my favorite was the Salisbury steak they also had ribs, beef stew, beef chili and egg omelette, Canadian Army is one of the best fed armies in the world I miss the food and that's saying a lot. :-) :-)
The IMPs used to include bread, which was replaced by a hamburger bun, which was replaced by the tortillas. The peanut butter and jam are a holdover from back when bread used to be standard, so I think it's meant to go with the tortillas now? The heaters are issued separately, though I think that's changing with the new IMPs and they'll come included. As for the milk chocolate here (and most of the rest of the world), yeah, it's different. US chocolate tends to be waxier and have more temperature stabilizers in it (the consequences of having to worry about warmer temperatures down south). European (and Canadian) chocolate tends to be more 'pure' (but it has a lower melting point).
I loved the bread even that taste (I assume a preservative). Had one after I was out and man it brought back memories. Lasagna was my fave. Had Chocolate creme Dare Cookies and a Mirage bar. Hated that baked cherry cake desert.
always had to find ways to chill the fruit. in the winter it was easy, leave the pouch outside for an hour. in the summer, not so easy, you usually got to "enjoy" them warm. my favourite dessert was the Cherry Cake, it was in the same pouch as the fruit, but was more like a thick cherry-flavoured tortilla, with bits of (presumably) cherry all through it. the MRE's now are a bit different than what we had 30 years ago, but we had the beef-mac then too, we called "Combat Boyardee". some MRE's were better than others, with specific menus for all 3 meals per day. the turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy and stuffing was AWESOME, despite the powdered potatoes. you just took the gravy from the turkey pouch and make the potatoes with that. Back then, we had a propane-stove for a section when in the tent, plus a small, folding steel stove that you'd put a little fuel puck into. it was smokeless, and most often, several of us would just use one to save the fuel, though the stoves could burn wood as well. they probably have something similar today.
Hi I’m retired Canadian army, I love and can live on the mre I love sunny d. What year was that meal cause some of them do come with heater bags. Plus we cut or take that cardboard boxes in half and place the hot meal pouch in the bottom half so u do not burn ur hands up with the hot pouch.
@@johnribey1861 don't know about you John but having been on exercise in all weather conditions, a hot meal at Sun down was better than a warm bed, ahhh.
As a kid, my dad (Canadian Air Force) would bring these home for us when we went camping, and it seemed really cool to have mac&cheese boiled in the aluminum packaging and just ate it from the pouch. we used the tortilla bread to make peanut butter and jam sandwiches. I also never liked the pears, they always tasted off, but the peaches were good.
The Scheer fact that you referred to it as a chocolate bar numerous times, as opposed to a candy bar. You good Sir judt got a new Subscriber. Best wishes from Yellowknife 🇨🇦
It’s actually US MRE’s are similar to Canadian IMP’s. (Individual Meal Package). I was on an exercise in the early 1980s where the visiting American troops were trialling our AVGP’s and IMP’s iand we got to walk and eat C rations. We definitely got the worst of that exchange. Sometime later your American MRE’s came out and then you started re-equipping with LAV 25 and then Strykers which were based on the AVGP which was in turn based on the Swiss Piraña.
Was a member Canadian Rangers (part time reserves, recruiting Captain described it as Boy Scouts for adults LOL) for 14 years, so ate a lot of these. :-) Canadian MRE drink crystals tasted more like Gatorade than a fruit drink, kind of salty. Nescafé instant coffee is huge improvement over what the MREs I had back then.
I love these MRE videos! Keep them coming! We have Mars bars here in Finland too and they are one of my favorites. I've been to the US and have tasted Hershey's bars and I see with you mean. They taste absolutely horrible.
Thanks for sharing. When I was young I used to want to join the Canadian Army (couldn't due to medical issues), it's interesting to see what rations are like. Actually the rations seem pretty good, with all the snacks and stuff could easily keep you going for half a day.
For our IMPs, we either have a coleman stove or we get issued chemical heating bags. The reason is to not waste all the bags when we do training cus we would use the stove most of the time.
you keep your compressed napkins in your pocket for a deep bush dump. For the main meal you just throw the bag in boiling water while you eat the other stuff, keep the small stuff for field snacks. the tortilla you throw on top of the boiling cup, the steam makes them soft and you can make tacos or wraps
We used to get a breakfast pouch that was Eggs and Ham, you just threw the pouch in boiling water or heated it on the manifold of your vehicle etc. It was nicknamed "Lung" because it came out of the pouch a sickly grey colour and was kind of slimy. It tasted okay mind you but it looked *terrible*. I am pretty sure I recall getting Coffee Crisp chocolate bars in the rats as well, and those are probably the best chocolate bars in Canada.
I was a gunner in a Canadian artillery unit back in the late 80's...... we always ate our IMP's...... Individual Meal Pack, which is what Canadian MRE's are called..... we ate them cold. Downtime from moving or tossing rounds downrange was best used getting some rest. Heating them up didn't seem to make them any better. They were pretty decent to be honest..... when I can find them for sale now I will pick one up once in a while. They're great for camping... lol.
To be fair, it is hard to make the MRE's into gourmet food, given the storage and nutritional requirements - plus they have to be squaddie / grunt proof!
I served in the mid 80's when IMP's first came out. There weren't to many menu's but they were good. I would trade mine for Corned Beef Hash. The only problem was in that we had to heat water up to cook them. If you could not heat up water they were eaten cold. The freeze dried fruit I would eat dry. If memory serves there was a Rolo with it also. The Peanut Butter and Honey came in tubes which we were told not to eat. You also got a bun which was really good, coffee, hot chocolate, fruit drinks, and gum. Good times.
I use to hate the baked cherry desert we got in the 90's. Lasagna was the best one. A few times Sgts or MCpls pulled rank for them. Chocolate dare cookies and Mirage bars with them. Loved the bread we use to get in it.
Use the tortilla, add the trail mix and put in peanut butter. That would make it all better. Boom trail mix peanut butter sandwich. Or take tortilla add peanut butter. Add fruit. Sandwich again.
A lot of chocolate in the States is made using butyric acid in it's manufacturing, giving it a slightly sour flavour and smell (it's what's in vomit and parmasean cheese that gives it that same charateristic) . Hershey's started using it as a cost effective and time efficient way to break down the milk solids during the manufacturing process for mass production, and it just caught on. People got use to the taste in the US and now it's just the standard chocolate flavour profile there.
Canadian chocolate is similar to chocolate from the UK. Here chocolate isn't allowed to be sweetened with any artificial sweeteners. So you usually will never find candy bars unless they are imported from the states. The government also has loads of regulations on the making of chocolate. The coffee is a 3 in 1. They are very common in Canada
the new imp bag is plastic and resealable. i think it was the year after the one you have is when it changed. theres no boxes anymore either iirc. also that trial mix is probably the best. also we get ration heaters or use a pressure cooker, or a boiling vessel in a vehicle
I like the mre videos could you please try the Republic of Croatia ration I’ve seen other TH-camrs do it and they said it’s good Also the baby yoda with the marines hat looks really funny
That MRE looks a feast compared to the old IMP's that I had in the 90's. I still can't look (or smell) a "green lung" without getting nauseous. Green lung = ham omelet for those of you wondering ... and yes it was literally green and when you took it out of the pouch, it resembled a lung.
Here in Scotland you can go into a chip shop (where you can get potato chips & deep fried fich or sausage etc with a batter over it ) & ask for a deep fried MARS BAR ! I KID YOU NOT ! But as a Scotsman i have never tried one & never will lol
The Orange drink is probably TANG a powdered mix with water. The Coffee is mixed we send them to the food banks all the time. You can't beat the mars bar for shure. Made by Forrest Mars.Sr 1932 in Slough England.
Your first mistake was at 1:50 - you shouldn't expect a lot. 🤣🤣 I remember expecting a lot from the poutine IMP... I was shattered! I expect my PTSD stemmed from that awful memory 😢😔. Oh, yes, the Tabasco is essential kit! I never went anywhere without a jar of Tabasco in my ruck... just tape it up with duct tape to make it more secure from breakage.
Traditional Canadian cooking (outside of Quebec of course) is a mixture of Scottish/English cooking. Plain, overcooked, spices are salt and pepper. Basic meat and potatoes, none of that foreign muck. I still remember my grandmother's comments about garlic and the ethnic groups who use it. Thankfully Canada has received a large influx of immigrants from all over the world since WW2, so any type of cooking you prefer is readily available
10:20 we do not. if possibe tge cooking method is boiling water either by the chemical reaction bags or just a pot of boiling water. but a lot of times we eat cold :/ at least thats been my experience.
These are great, once in a while they show up near their expiry date in various stores, I pick them up to go camping. They're made by a company called Freddy Chef, who used to sell the foil pouches as regular food. Oh, and you also don't have Coffee Crisp down there either!
The father of the guy who created the Mars bar was an American and his creation was the Milky Way bar. His son went to England and tinkered with the Milky Way formula to make it more appealing to Europeans and called the result the Mars Bar. The family name was Mars.
In Canada (and the UK) chocolate has to have a certain percentage of cocoa in it. Whereas US "chocolate" bars do not and may have little if any, as this is cheaper to manufacture. Because of this US chocolate bars are called "candy bars".
Never had tortillas in the older IMPs I'm familiar with, but I'd take the thin tortilla and spread PB and jam on it. Thinking I'd use the napkin as asswipe.
The Mars Bar is a British thing we copy here in Canada. In England the Deep Fried Mars Bar is the Boss of Desert, I had one here in Canada at a British Fish and Chips joint in Mission BC that my wife and I were sharing and let me tell you that was a fork fight just to get a taste out of her she loved the deep fried version so much.
Love this fella!! Dope channel!!! Spot on with hersey bars compared to dairy milk or Toblerone!! And I bet you wouldn't be leaving me on my own in a bar fight!!!! Love from London and Dublin!
In Canada, we call these IMP's, for Individual Meal Pack. They are meant for one meal only. In my day, we also had RP4's, which were a 24 hour ration. The tablets that came with the stoves made gas that was poisonous, so they got rid of them (early 80's I think). We got issued a camp stove, and pot for cooking the boil in a foil pouches, although 1 section I knew built something on their truck engine so they would have a hot meal waiting after a move. We got MRE's from the US a few times, but they were too sweet, and too salty for us.
Canadians and Americans have always had food trades for the longest time and Canada had sent a huge portion of food supply to China because China had all there crops ruined so we usually have a lot of our natural foods from America which makes sense for the Peanut butter
We have SunnyD here in Canada. Have you ever done a video on Audie Murphy? The most decorated American soldier ever? He went on to a movie career after his service(WW11). His cemetery site is the 2nd most visited in Arlington Cemetary after JFK. Even though he was a medal of honour winner. He did not want the gold plating on his headstone that all the others have.
The tortilla is to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. My Dad was CF, and when we were little he’d bring home ironrats. I remember the chilli being really good. Those Nescafe single serves are great for camping, and they’re actually pretty good. Sunny D is f’ing awful. Always has been.
FYI, the difference in the milk chocolate in Canada, the UK, and the US is due to the dominant milk chocolate manufacturer in each country. It's Cadbury in the UK and all of its previous colonies, including Canada. Mars is its own brand but originates from England. I don't think any English chocolate brands exist in the US (outside of in areas close to the Canadian border). Hershey's is the major milk chocolate producer in the US and their milk chocolate has a higher ratio of cacao beans. It why Hershey's M&Ms and Cadbury Smarties taste so different to each other. In Canada we get both. What Americans call Smarties, we call Rocket candy that are mainly only seen around Halloween. They were completely not tradeable booty among kids.
I know I’m late to the comments, but that napkin is more to clean yourself that’s why they give you a paper towel as well. And milk chocolate in Canada is more similar to uk. We use less sugar than the USA.
The three in one Nescafe was a favorite of mine in Afghanistan. I would put it into a cold bottle of water. It was a bitch to shake and mix but the result was a sort of poor man's ice coffee. The beauty of it was that if l didn't finish it before it got warm, then it was just a hot coffee. Interesting to see your thoughts on our IMP. They've changed over the years, for sure. Some I loved, others l hated. Ham and Egg omelet, we calked it "lung in a bag". The memory still makes me gag, 30 years on.
Thank you for your service! I remember there was a long tradition of awful Ham & _______ hot meals in IMPs. Ham & Raisin sauce, Ham & Pineapple Sauce, Ham & Omelet.
I have a box of the Nescafé espresso sticks. They’re pretty awesome! For an instant package… it doesn’t get any better! I stopped eating the Mars bar… way too sweet for me. Snickers has peanuts which offsets the sweet; so I prefer Snickers.
I always found they often tasted much better than they looked or smelled. Maybe that was because after working in the field for some time you were too hungry to care.
As a Canadian, I have never seen someone so excited to eat a Mars bar lol.
And it's a American Chocolate Bar. LOL
@@kimodland A Canadian Mars bar is different then an American one. Same logos different bar. Its weird.
Lol snickers is better imo
@@kyleg334 Interesting, I didn't know that. I'm Canadian, and Mars bars are my fav chocolate bar!
That one is made in a peanut free facility. The employees can't bring legumes to work to eat, supposedly.
I’m surprised you didn’t get the vacuum
Sealed beef jerky that feels like your chewing wood chips. I died when you said “Canadians must have good jawlines” 😂
I took everyone’s pack in my section on my last FTX lol cause no one liked it
I was the guy with pockets full of jerky from people that didn't want it, chugging down dry instant coffee with swigs of water
The Jerky is delicious. Chew it like a piece of leather.
Canada also uses flameless heaters, they're distributed separately because you could also use a Coleman stove and a pressure cooker if you're in an admin posture and want to cook like 15 rats at the same time.
Also UK/Canadian chocolate doesn't use as much corn syrup compared to US choc
Canadian milk chocolate is similar to British milk chocolate. Canada's brands align with the UK, Cadbury, Mars, etc.
Don't forget home-grown Nielson milk and chocolate.
Canadian soldiers, famous for our minty breath and aggression formed by a lifetime of hockey
We are humble people, but when faced with war look the f out 🇨🇦
@@GreatNorthStacking 🇺🇲🇨🇦
Tic Tacs are very symbolic in Canadian culture.
They are included in rations to honour all the lost Canadian teeth from the Rite of Hockey that each Canadian must participate in to assume the age of majority.
Like the Mars Bar and Entrees, Tic Tacs are also used to barter with other nations troops for soft food.
and strong jaws
hah ha ha .nice.
coffee crisp is the most underrated Canadian chocolate. People just dont know how good it is.
It's one of my favorites.
agreed!!!
Canadian MREs are the comfort food of my childhood, my dad is a retired combat engineer and I was always stoked when he brought MREs home, the honey in a tube was great. My friend's kids that are in cadets bring me MREs when they have some left over from camp.
Dude when I was deployed, any kind of canned fruit kept in some cold water over night and then enjoyed after a patrol.....hot damn that was currency man. You best believe them nice chilled pears are going to get you a lot of stuff lol
You know the score Viksar my friend😂
A little note to mention about Hershey's in Canada (may also apply to the UK): Hershey's outsources their chocolate manufacturing. Ours is made by Nestle, who makes Dairy Milk, so Canadian Hershey's tastes like Dairy Milk.
Any country that has cheesey chips and gravy as their national dish gets my vote!!
@Anonymous Commenter Not where he is from they are not lol
@Anonymous Commenter I know. I am from the country that poutine was invented. Where the other Commenter is from, they are called chips... not sure what the issue is. In other places they are called French Fries, in other places called chippers. Not sure what the issue is. Just pointed out to you the obvious, what they are called depends on where you are from. Still the same thing,
We eat UK chocolate bars in Canada, Cadbury products, Coffee Crisps, Smarties which are like your m&m only they taste better. We have some US chocolates as well.
Coffee crisp is 100% a Canadian bar.
@@davidedwards3838 Also Eat-More and Big Turk and many others. Cadbury is an American owned brand now.
Owning a candy store, the Canadian Mars more matches the milky way in color and ingredients than it does the UK version. A lot of the Canadian candy is not sold in the US but its made there and imported to Canada. The Canadian Oh Henry is differs from the American version. Something a lot people don't know, is our Rockets are made at the Smarties Company in Union, NJ and imported by Regal Canada. Why UK, US and Canada can have the same candies, the recipes are not always the same. Kit Kats are Hershey in the US but Nestle in Canada and most other parts of the world. The Canadian version also has 3 grams more of chocolate than the US. Things I have to know cause when I ship orders to the USA, if it was made in the US. No custom charges but it if was manufactured in Canada my US customers have to pay duty on it.
Mars Bar advertising had a strap line - " A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play" back in the day
i remember them ads,
Cant forget the, an apple aday keeps the dentist away
a apple a day keeps the doctor away lol x
I would put peanut butter and jam on those tortillas. Also someone mentioned the hardest beef jerky in the world, would still try to trade anything for it, love that jerky life in the field
Peanut Butter was invented in Canada.
Shit jerky is best jerky
Someone would get 3 of these a day, different meals for different times in the day
If you're lucky to get three different 😅
@@williamlatreille8107 when you've eaten 12 baked beans rations in a row. RIP tent buddies.
MARS BARS, are made in Slough, Berkshire, UK We love our Mars Bars over here in England.
Love em so much the Scots decided to fry em! lmao
In Canada we also have numerous MARS factories
SOY BOY!
MARS was started in Minnesota.
Franklin Clarence Mars, whose mother taught him to hand dip candy, sold candy by age 19. He started the Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with Ethel V. Mars, his second wife, in Tacoma, Washington. This factory produced and sold fresh candy wholesale, but ultimately the venture failed because there was a better established business, Brown & Haley, also operating in Tacoma. By 1920, Mars had returned to his home state, Minnesota, where the earliest incarnation of the present day Mars company was founded that year as Mar-O-Bar Co., in Minneapolis and later incorporated there as Mars, Incorporated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%2C_Incorporated?wprov=sfla1
@@mattwillerton6775 deep fried !!
that was pretty funny about canadian jaws, that made me laugh...those little napkin tablets fit perfectly in a water bottle cap (instructions on my pkg told me that lol), i use them on trail rides...crunchy only and forever and now im craving beef-a-roni... thx
That's the only MRE that'll say sorry for tasting bad lol
To your credit, you didn't spit anything out. Your reactions made me laugh out loud. I like you. You are smart, articulate and curious. All good traits. I watched a few of your other videos. I'm glad you acknowledged Canadians in your other videos. Thanks so much. I have subscribed and looking forward to watching your videos.
As a Canadian our food contains Chilly, beef stew, and generally just a lot of different chillies and stews which are heavily spiced.
TH-cam recommend me your JTF2 video yesterday and the channel seems pretty cool.
Yeah he has some interesting stuff on here!
Growing up in Canada (I'm 55 now), I used to see the Sunny D commercials and always wanted to try it because we only got frozen concentrate. I totally agree with your definition of Sunny D!!
Welcome aboard brother. The Mars bar has been a British staple in the outdoors for decades. One soccer team went on strike because their new nutritionist said they couldn't have Mars bars because they are too unhealthy!!
That's so cool and funny at the same time! U don't mess with the Mars bar!
About Canadian MRE, I have many memories of ratatouille when i was in the Canadian Army Cadet (2972 Mercier) because I was the only one to eat it and I understand a little why. The smell is terrible when you fart but it's really funny to see the reaction of others when you open your sleeping bag in the morning after a hot summer night in a small room without air conditioning.
There's also a legend talking about Poutine in the Canadian MRE.
No lie, we lost a guy on exercise to that trail mix. He was just chilling in the shade having a snack and *pop* his back molar explodes. Had to be pulled out and given serious dental
Dental pain sucks, and having a tooth break is pretty traumatic to the system, I always get a bit spacey when I loose a chunk off of a tooth. Having the dentin exposed never feels right and it tastes bad too. I have really bad teeth though, so most of the time I’m just loosing old fillings that are attached to a bit of broken tooth wall, I love my dentist and thankfully emergency dental procedures including fillings are covered by ODSP.
I served in 1990s our MREs came in like a big envelope my favorite was the Salisbury steak they also had ribs, beef stew, beef chili and egg omelette, Canadian Army is one of the best fed armies in the world I miss the food and that's saying a lot. :-) :-)
The beef stew was actually pretty good.
@@MotorcycleImaging and yellow tubes of peanut butter and margarine. the omelet had to be labelled egg omelet to distinguish it from sawdust omelet
Cabbage rolls were not that great though
I hated the cherry cake desert lol
Lasagna was the best meal.
@@NovaScotiaNewfie it was like eating a dried-out sponge but honestly the sponge would probably taste better. :-) :-)
Great review and love the fact that you do your best to be neutral and very self-aware. Love your videos!
The IMPs used to include bread, which was replaced by a hamburger bun, which was replaced by the tortillas. The peanut butter and jam are a holdover from back when bread used to be standard, so I think it's meant to go with the tortillas now?
The heaters are issued separately, though I think that's changing with the new IMPs and they'll come included.
As for the milk chocolate here (and most of the rest of the world), yeah, it's different. US chocolate tends to be waxier and have more temperature stabilizers in it (the consequences of having to worry about warmer temperatures down south). European (and Canadian) chocolate tends to be more 'pure' (but it has a lower melting point).
Yes! It was yellowish corn bread, right? I used to get MREs to go camping years ago.
I loved the bread even that taste (I assume a preservative). Had one after I was out and man it brought back memories.
Lasagna was my fave. Had Chocolate creme Dare Cookies and a Mirage bar.
Hated that baked cherry cake desert.
Damn the famous MRE bread
Its always funny seeing someone who hasn't slept in a few days accidentally trying to eat the compressed napkins
I try to convince people they're candy
always had to find ways to chill the fruit. in the winter it was easy, leave the pouch outside for an hour. in the summer, not so easy, you usually got to "enjoy" them warm. my favourite dessert was the Cherry Cake, it was in the same pouch as the fruit, but was more like a thick cherry-flavoured tortilla, with bits of (presumably) cherry all through it.
the MRE's now are a bit different than what we had 30 years ago, but we had the beef-mac then too, we called "Combat Boyardee". some MRE's were better than others, with specific menus for all 3 meals per day. the turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy and stuffing was AWESOME, despite the powdered potatoes. you just took the gravy from the turkey pouch and make the potatoes with that.
Back then, we had a propane-stove for a section when in the tent, plus a small, folding steel stove that you'd put a little fuel puck into. it was smokeless, and most often, several of us would just use one to save the fuel, though the stoves could burn wood as well. they probably have something similar today.
Hi
I’m retired Canadian army, I love and can live on the mre
I love sunny d. What year was that meal cause some of them do come with heater bags. Plus we cut or take that cardboard boxes in half and place the hot meal pouch in the bottom half so u do not burn ur hands up with the hot pouch.
The Canadian army uses Coleman naphtha stoves for cooking. FREs are issued separately from the rations. And they are bigger than the US ones.
We don't use a tool once and throw it away
@@hs-learn2581 ?
In US MRE has a food heater is meant as one time use and comes with packaging
@@hs-learn2581 let's be real here, we just eat our food as cold as the weather lol
@@johnribey1861 don't know about you John but having been on exercise in all weather conditions, a hot meal at Sun down was better than a warm bed, ahhh.
As a kid, my dad (Canadian Air Force) would bring these home for us when we went camping, and it seemed really cool to have mac&cheese boiled in the aluminum packaging and just ate it from the pouch. we used the tortilla bread to make peanut butter and jam sandwiches. I also never liked the pears, they always tasted off, but the peaches were good.
The Scheer fact that you referred to it as a chocolate bar numerous times, as opposed to a candy bar. You good Sir judt got a new Subscriber. Best wishes from Yellowknife 🇨🇦
It’s actually US MRE’s are similar to Canadian IMP’s. (Individual Meal Package). I was on an exercise in the early 1980s where the visiting American troops were trialling our AVGP’s and IMP’s iand we got to walk and eat C rations. We definitely got the worst of that exchange. Sometime later your American MRE’s came out and then you started re-equipping with LAV 25 and then Strykers which were based on the AVGP which was in turn based on the Swiss Piraña.
Was a member Canadian Rangers (part time reserves, recruiting Captain described it as Boy Scouts for adults LOL) for 14 years, so ate a lot of these. :-) Canadian MRE drink crystals tasted more like Gatorade than a fruit drink, kind of salty. Nescafé instant coffee is huge improvement over what the MREs I had back then.
I love these MRE videos! Keep them coming! We have Mars bars here in Finland too and they are one of my favorites. I've been to the US and have tasted Hershey's bars and I see with you mean. They taste absolutely horrible.
Thanks for sharing. When I was young I used to want to join the Canadian Army (couldn't due to medical issues), it's interesting to see what rations are like. Actually the rations seem pretty good, with all the snacks and stuff could easily keep you going for half a day.
For our IMPs, we either have a coleman stove or we get issued chemical heating bags. The reason is to not waste all the bags when we do training cus we would use the stove most of the time.
"Lets get that out onto a tray! Nice. Okay."
you keep your compressed napkins in your pocket for a deep bush dump.
For the main meal you just throw the bag in boiling water while you eat the other stuff, keep the small stuff for field snacks.
the tortilla you throw on top of the boiling cup, the steam makes them soft and you can make tacos or wraps
We used to get a breakfast pouch that was Eggs and Ham, you just threw the pouch in boiling water or heated it on the manifold of your vehicle etc. It was nicknamed "Lung" because it came out of the pouch a sickly grey colour and was kind of slimy. It tasted okay mind you but it looked *terrible*. I am pretty sure I recall getting Coffee Crisp chocolate bars in the rats as well, and those are probably the best chocolate bars in Canada.
Toss up between coffee crisp and Skor
I was a gunner in a Canadian artillery unit back in the late 80's...... we always ate our IMP's...... Individual Meal Pack, which is what Canadian MRE's are called..... we ate them cold. Downtime from moving or tossing rounds downrange was best used getting some rest. Heating them up didn't seem to make them any better. They were pretty decent to be honest..... when I can find them for sale now I will pick one up once in a while. They're great for camping... lol.
To be fair, it is hard to make the MRE's into gourmet food, given the storage and nutritional requirements - plus they have to be squaddie / grunt proof!
I served in the mid 80's when IMP's first came out. There weren't to many menu's but they were good. I would trade mine for Corned Beef Hash. The only problem was in that we had to heat water up to cook them. If you could not heat up water they were eaten cold. The freeze dried fruit I would eat dry. If memory serves there was a Rolo with it also. The Peanut Butter and Honey came in tubes which we were told not to eat. You also got a bun which was really good, coffee, hot chocolate, fruit drinks, and gum.
Good times.
I use to hate the baked cherry desert we got in the 90's.
Lasagna was the best one. A few times Sgts or MCpls pulled rank for them.
Chocolate dare cookies and Mirage bars with them.
Loved the bread we use to get in it.
Use the tortilla, add the trail mix and put in peanut butter. That would make it all better. Boom trail mix peanut butter sandwich. Or take tortilla add peanut butter. Add fruit. Sandwich again.
A lot of chocolate in the States is made using butyric acid in it's manufacturing, giving it a slightly sour flavour and smell (it's what's in vomit and parmasean cheese that gives it that same charateristic) . Hershey's started using it as a cost effective and time efficient way to break down the milk solids during the manufacturing process for mass production, and it just caught on. People got use to the taste in the US and now it's just the standard chocolate flavour profile there.
Canadian chocolate is similar to chocolate from the UK. Here chocolate isn't allowed to be sweetened with any artificial sweeteners. So you usually will never find candy bars unless they are imported from the states. The government also has loads of regulations on the making of chocolate. The coffee is a 3 in 1. They are very common in Canada
Love the Content Bro always cool to see these MRE videos!
Your room is much better now nice👍💯
the new imp bag is plastic and resealable. i think it was the year after the one you have is when it changed. theres no boxes anymore either iirc. also that trial mix is probably the best. also we get ration heaters or use a pressure cooker, or a boiling vessel in a vehicle
In the field we do have chemical heater packs to heat them up, though I hardly ever bother.
Too cute - I need to see this spork collection!
I like the mre videos could you please try the Republic of Croatia ration I’ve seen other TH-camrs do it and they said it’s good
Also the baby yoda with the marines hat looks really funny
That MRE looks a feast compared to the old IMP's that I had in the 90's. I still can't look (or smell) a "green lung" without getting nauseous. Green lung = ham omelet for those of you wondering ... and yes it was literally green and when you took it out of the pouch, it resembled a lung.
The spoon is used as a weapon when done eating. You never know when you gotta use your tac spoon to scoop enemy eyes/brains lol.
Here in Scotland you can go into a chip shop (where you can get potato chips & deep fried fich or sausage etc with a batter over it ) & ask for a deep fried MARS BAR ! I KID YOU NOT ! But as a Scotsman i have never tried one & never will lol
Tortillas with peanut butter and jam and the pears wrap put the trail mix in and the coconut will soften
The Orange drink is probably TANG a powdered mix with water. The Coffee is mixed we send them to the food banks all the time. You can't beat the mars bar for shure. Made by Forrest Mars.Sr 1932 in Slough England.
Your first mistake was at 1:50 - you shouldn't expect a lot. 🤣🤣
I remember expecting a lot from the poutine IMP... I was shattered! I expect my PTSD stemmed from that awful memory 😢😔.
Oh, yes, the Tabasco is essential kit! I never went anywhere without a jar of Tabasco in my ruck... just tape it up with duct tape to make it more secure from breakage.
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Traditional Canadian cooking (outside of Quebec of course) is a mixture of Scottish/English cooking. Plain, overcooked, spices are salt and pepper. Basic meat and potatoes, none of that foreign muck. I still remember my grandmother's comments about garlic and the ethnic groups who use it. Thankfully Canada has received a large influx of immigrants from all over the world since WW2, so any type of cooking you prefer is readily available
10:20 we do not. if possibe tge cooking method is boiling water either by the chemical reaction bags or just a pot of boiling water. but a lot of times we eat cold :/ at least thats been my experience.
These are great, once in a while they show up near their expiry date in various stores, I pick them up to go camping. They're made by a company called Freddy Chef, who used to sell the foil pouches as regular food. Oh, and you also don't have Coffee Crisp down there either!
i'll be damned if i don't get my double double in the feild
The father of the guy who created the Mars bar was an American and his creation was the Milky Way bar. His son went to England and tinkered with the Milky Way formula to make it more appealing to Europeans and called the result the Mars Bar. The family name was Mars.
In Canada (and the UK) chocolate has to have a certain percentage of cocoa in it. Whereas US "chocolate" bars do not and may have little if any, as this is cheaper to manufacture. Because of this US chocolate bars are called "candy bars".
Never had tortillas in the older IMPs I'm familiar with, but I'd take the thin tortilla and spread PB and jam on it. Thinking I'd use the napkin as asswipe.
Its been 40 years since I was in the Canadian military. I still shudder at the thought of Boil-in-the-bag Omelets. Rubbery and tasteless.
The “lung”!
The Mars Bar is a British thing we copy here in Canada. In England the Deep Fried Mars Bar is the Boss of Desert, I had one here in Canada at a British Fish and Chips joint in Mission BC that my wife and I were sharing and let me tell you that was a fork fight just to get a taste out of her she loved the deep fried version so much.
5:26 that's a mint. You're totally supposed to put it in your mouth...🤣
Same company marketed Mars bar first then a year or two later came out with Snickers bar.
Canadian coffee with the Double-Double pre mix? Classic... 🤣
When I was in the Reserves and in tbe field with no field kitchen we had 3 per day.
Never heard of a 24 hour ration pack for us at least.
Lunch IMP's come with chocolates, dinners soup, older rations the peanut butter used to come in tubes there was also honey.
Sweet! I was waiting for that one. We do have Sunny D in Canada, its ooookay, not crazy. Now I want to go buy a mars bar...
Also the ration heaters are usually given to us seperately lol "usually"
Mara bars are sold in U.S. not widespread, in the 80's they were common but over the years just not as popular.
Not only do I like the bits in the butter I also love bits in my OJ 🤣
Love this fella!! Dope channel!!! Spot on with hersey bars compared to dairy milk or Toblerone!! And I bet you wouldn't be leaving me on my own in a bar fight!!!! Love from London and Dublin!
We put the trail mix and peanut butter in the tortilla and make a breakfast wrap type thing
Our mars bars are your Milky way. Our milky way is your 3 musketeers bar...
I can hear Steve yelling "gusset!" In the distance
Not surprised about the coffee. We Canadians love our coffee! It’s like a Double-Double!
4:24 Mars bars are big in candy you get bars in Canadian MREs often
In Canada, we call these IMP's, for Individual Meal Pack. They are meant for one meal only. In my day, we also had RP4's, which were a 24 hour ration. The tablets that came with the stoves made gas that was poisonous, so they got rid of them (early 80's I think). We got issued a camp stove, and pot for cooking the boil in a foil pouches, although 1 section I knew built something on their truck engine so they would have a hot meal waiting after a move. We got MRE's from the US a few times, but they were too sweet, and too salty for us.
Thank-you for starting that cooking tradition in Canada, Whole meals being made travelling from one relative's house to another's.
I think the just add water cloth is for cleaning your hands balls and pits
'Sunny D is kinda like orange juice, but awful..'
I was starting to think I was the only one lol
Terrible stuff is sunny D
@@DavePT157 But, but, but the commercials say it's great!
you can buy those pre mixed coffee in single serve 8 to a box
Me at the beginning: "Just dump it all out of the bag!"
Me at the end: "I'm glad you went through the items one by one, that was cool!"
Canadians and Americans have always had food trades for the longest time and Canada had sent a huge portion of food supply to China because China had all there crops ruined so we usually have a lot of our natural foods from America which makes sense for the Peanut butter
What?!?! Nobody sent you our infamous "Lung in a Bag" IMP?
We have SunnyD here in Canada. Have you ever done a video on Audie Murphy? The most decorated American soldier ever? He went on to a movie career after his service(WW11). His cemetery site is the 2nd most visited in Arlington Cemetary after JFK. Even though he was a medal of honour winner. He did not want the gold plating on his headstone that all the others have.
We have Sunny D in Canada, pretty much a kids drink. The Tabasco was supposed to go in the mac n' beef.
The tortilla is to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich. My Dad was CF, and when we were little he’d bring home ironrats. I remember the chilli being really good. Those Nescafe single serves are great for camping, and they’re actually pretty good. Sunny D is f’ing awful. Always has been.
FYI, the difference in the milk chocolate in Canada, the UK, and the US is due to the dominant milk chocolate manufacturer in each country. It's Cadbury in the UK and all of its previous colonies, including Canada. Mars is its own brand but originates from England. I don't think any English chocolate brands exist in the US (outside of in areas close to the Canadian border). Hershey's is the major milk chocolate producer in the US and their milk chocolate has a higher ratio of cacao beans. It why Hershey's M&Ms and Cadbury Smarties taste so different to each other. In Canada we get both. What Americans call Smarties, we call Rocket candy that are mainly only seen around Halloween. They were completely not tradeable booty among kids.
Mars bar is made in a peanut free facility in Canada.
I know I’m late to the comments, but that napkin is more to clean yourself that’s why they give you a paper towel as well. And milk chocolate in Canada is more similar to uk. We use less sugar than the USA.
The three in one Nescafe was a favorite of mine in Afghanistan. I would put it into a cold bottle of water. It was a bitch to shake and mix but the result was a sort of poor man's ice coffee. The beauty of it was that if l didn't finish it before it got warm, then it was just a hot coffee. Interesting to see your thoughts on our IMP. They've changed over the years, for sure. Some I loved, others l hated. Ham and Egg omelet, we calked it "lung in a bag". The memory still makes me gag, 30 years on.
Thank you for your service! I remember there was a long tradition of awful Ham & _______ hot meals in IMPs. Ham & Raisin sauce, Ham & Pineapple Sauce, Ham & Omelet.
there was a mars bar in the US then it was renamed Snikers// some states still have them. I seen them in vermont and I think Virginia.
I have a box of the Nescafé espresso sticks. They’re pretty awesome! For an instant package… it doesn’t get any better! I stopped eating the Mars bar… way too sweet for me. Snickers has peanuts which offsets the sweet; so I prefer Snickers.
I always found they often tasted much better than they looked or smelled. Maybe that was because after working in the field for some time you were too hungry to care.