1957 5 Man MRE 24 Hour Ration 20,000 Calorie Meal Ready to Eat Testing Oldest Food Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.พ. 2017
- This MRE is a 5 in 1 Small Detachment Ration. First used in World War 2 and contains 20,000 calories - or food for 5 men for one day.
Check out this incredibly rare & unusual discovery - and the treasures inside - along with some gnarly finds as well.
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LET'S GET THIS OUT ONTO A TRAY, NICE™
NICE HISS™
I'LL BE COMING BACK AT YOU WITH SOMETHING NEW OR OLD, ALRIGHT COOL SEE YA™ - บันเทิง
This guy is a doctor's worst nightmare. "Have you eaten anything out of the ordinary lately?" - "do you want it alphabetically or by age?"
You have me dying
"Its okay, I put it on a tray." Doctor: "Nice."
Drs worst night mare? Healthy people w/ brains.
lmao!!
😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
"It's like eating industrial rubber, y'know?"
No Steve, I don't know.
lmfao
"Man, this tastes like shit!"
"Well, I wouldn't know."
Only he knows what industrial rubber would taste like
pfp fits your comment lol
implies he knows taste of usual rubber too
There's more history in this mans digestive tract then there is in some museums
haha
Except the british museum
@@djgaben6187 UH 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this, Steve. You are a brave man. That MRE is only one year younger than me. I bear an uncanny resemblance to the bacon.
An honest man. Have an upvote.
@@bobguy6542 In TH-cam, it's called a like
@@iSyriux nobody cares
@@iSyriux and you're an incel. What's your point?
“UNcanny” 🤣🤣🤣
Can I bum a smoke?
Steve: Sure
What are these?
Steve: 1960 Ration Camels
lmfao!!!
Lol
'57 ;)
Now thats a pack of cigarettes worth mugging over
Old school!!🤘🏻🤘🏻
It's 5am and here I am watching a man eat literal museum pieces.
Khorne Zerker yo same tho
Same
LMFAO SAME
BRO SAME 😂
Pretty gourmet
Watching this man become totally enthralled in eating over 60 year old food is the only thing that cure my depressions even for just a little while. Like how do you get this enthusiastic every time you open something that most people who dread ever having to use in the first place?
Praying for you
You ok my dude?
I'm assuming he was being funny when talking about 'depression'.... hopefully 🙏 if not we all here for you brother
Gosh i love the way Steve talks especially when he is excited. He has that surfer hippie accent and it’s awesome.
*can explodes loudly under extreme pressure, sending its contents everywhere*
"nice hiss"
ChexGuy331 that's what I said.. .
omfg xD
Good thing steve learned his lesson after that time he got cheese juice in his eye.
Aim away from face.
AgentTasmania Do you happen to remember in which video that was?
Yes ,
thats why Swedish "Surströmming" is forbidden on planes
If Steve1989 MREinfo wants a stink- food challenge, I recommend "Surströmming"
The soap smells really weird I’ll eat that later.
Desert Wolf let’s get that on a tray
@@Deadmau5ismyhero nice
Hahahahaha Dead Hahaha
Holy shit I laughed so hard jus now
LOL!
As someone who quit smoking almost 20 years ago this made me want a smoke like it was day one all over Lmao. I could smell it. Great video
I love how each item is a catalog of historic American companies... Oscar Meyer, Kroger, etc. The chocolate discs are made by a chocolate company that still exists (it says Lititz, PA, which is in Lancaster County near where I grew up) - Wilbur Chocolates.
Schreiber made the can of cheese, and they are now a multinational dairy processor; they make the cheese for many burger chains today.
@@31V49 fascinating! Didn’t know that .
@@AndrewPonti Everything comes from somewhere, everywhere.
Can you imagine any soldier's reaction back in 1957 if you told him some guy in 2020 would be eating their rations? They would have thought the planet ran out of food or something
"Who the fuck would want to eat this shit?" I can just imagine it 🤣
Can you say food poisoning! I can just picture him on the toilet with vomit bucket in one hand and the other hand holding on to that little bit of life left in his body
@@robertthegrowguy7115 yeah who gets food pousoning? If you are tough you just fight through it and clean you colon out.
@@daveweed2765 oh I'm sure the homeless deal with it regularly unfortunately
Fallout 2021
*Steve gets married*
"Is this the happiest day of your life?"
*Steve thinks*
"Well there was that incredible 1957 5 Man MRE"
"And now you may kiss the bride"
"Nice"
What's the cake made of??
"Peach cobbler"
@@cockatoo010 And after the reception and before they get intimate.
“Let’s get this onto a tray.”
@@scottishboy112 LMAO
@Kullervo 💀💀💀
The coffee instant and cigarette combo scene had me howling 😂 I love this channel!
What do you mean howling?
@@lollipop84858 laughing hard
@@lollipop84858 he came, I know I did
I had a WW2 pack of Camels back in 2017 and finally opened and smoked them. Surprisingly, they were still smokable. And like you to this day they were the best cigarettes I ever smoked. There definitely is a big difference on how cigarettes were made back in those days. Great video!
The cigs were swapped
I would say most of the stuff he eats is better only because it was better when it was put there including the tobacco
And I'm not talking about what he says or Deams bad.
[takes bread off camera]
"Yeah, there's no way this is good anymore..."
[*suddenly chewing*, mouth full of bread]
"yuah, yauh no, that's no goud."
MetalSlimeHunt LMAO
MetalSlimeHunt lol
MetalSlimeHunt 17:05 hahahhahahahhahaha
This is why this channel is one of the funniest channels on TH-cam.
This channel probably involves a few trips to the ER for food poisoning...
His immune system is fighting harder than those soldiers in the war.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
:D damn man :D u made my day :D
Made my day
😆😆😆😆
HAHAHAHAHH!!!
Your content is therapeutic man. Never stop making these history lessons with a silent library vibe.
I had to check his channels latest videos to see if this man is still alive.. so brave lol.
LOL me too
Me three
You should sell T-Shirts that say, "Nice Hiss," with an old can on it.
The Night Watcher this I would buy xD
The Night Watcher same
I would buy the fuck out of that
The back should read, "That's a nice juicy one."
and another with " I cant. Ok i gotta try this "
30 minutes later: **Shits his guts out**
Steve: Classic.
Nice hiss
Alright cool
Nice! Okay.
"So smooth"
😂
Never been in the military- Never eaten MRE and yet I love the videos that you make. Many thanks my man.
I've had MREs before, Tikka. You should try them. They're good !
@@a2pha how do you get mres? What kinds do you recommend? I’ve never tried them but would like to try mres that are not expired.
@@michaeldigiulio5602 ebay, for start look for newer and for which you can find reviews so you don't get something you don't like and dislike MREs because of that. There are plenty reviews/unboxing on TH-cam so you will know what to expect. And if you're starting buy some from your country first before going abroad with it 1) It's cheaper 2) different cultures/cuisines. If I'm not mistaken there are 24 menu varieties in us military atm so you have a lot to go through before picking older ones or from a different country.
@@michaeldigiulio5602 You won't get expired if you aren't looking for them also price of older ones would blow you away at start so if you really want to try it take an advice from my comment above.
@a2pha thank you
The cigs from back then are very different than modern ones. To start, in the 50’s, both the tar and nicotine levels were much higher.
1950
Tar: average 38mg
Nicotine: ave. 2.7mg
Modern
Tar: ave. 8-11mg
Nicotine: ave. 0.9mg
So massive difference there alone. That’s why those older ones taste “stronger” and “purer”.
Then you have the addition of filters, different filter tips (with and without perforation), different cigarette papers (some more porous than others), and many different combinations of tobacco blends (which make a huge difference in taste). Some blends were cheap and used reconstituted tobacco, some blends used a larger concentration of burley tobacco (air cured), etc.
And the biggest difference is the CHEMICALS. Both the types and amounts. Before the 1970’s, few chemicals were used. Once the chemical/plastic/preservative explosion of the 1970’s happened, more and more chemicals were added until modern cigarettes actually have a WHOPPING 10% of their weight in chemicals.
Yes. 10% of the total weight of your cigarette right now is CHEMICALS. That is why they are so dangerous. And yes, in the 50’s they already knew of the link between lung cancer and cigarettes but it wasn’t even CLOSE to what it is now. Modern cigarettes are the Death Sticks…not the old ones. Modern ones are monstrous Frankensteins of cancer causing chemicals. SO PLS QUIT IF YOU CAN!
I was looking for this comment ! thx
So old cigarettes created less chemicals than modern cigs? And chemicals are actually what causes lung cancer in cig users?
Quitting smoking was one of the greatest things I've ever done for my health! I wouldn't be alive today if I did not quit smoking that's a FACT!!!
So if quit ill never develop cancer and live forever...sweet.
Oh wait you mean if I live long enough I'll probably get cancer anyway and I'm most certainly dying anyway. Hmm
Don't forget the asbestos filters...
I want to find a woman who loves me like Steve loves 60 year-old cigarettes.
Robby White
I love when he finds the darts are still all there.. then when he smokes omw haha love it man
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He could have a separate channel just on cigarettes alone.
his voices reminds me of someone on a t.v show or something
Does this guy know how hilarious this is?
“I mean it SMELLS rancid but..” takes a bite of ancient bread.
Your official Fanta dealer 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Daniel M. Whomstv awakened the almighty one... wait where is my damn arm
Nice
lul
Daniel M. Hahahaha I though that to 😂
The "YES!" after the cigarette discovery. Priceless.
Those cigs looked brand new. Unlike the ones below it
Steve working in a morgue.
"Alright let's get this body out onto a tray"
*Nice*
slowly makes his first cut "nice hiss"
Nice
@@stefanboltzmann6807 bwaghaahaaa.....kinda rancid
mkay
Lol
Just imagine being in the middle of a war, hungry as you haven’t eaten in hours or even days, and eating a meal like this, and then a cigarette to top it all off. Must’ve felt like heaven for a small moment.
Must be awful to eat this expired junk
@@frosty1865 He meant if it were still in date
@@bonktonk74 oh
While I can't speak from experience, Chris Cocks talks about this in his book 'Fireforce'. During his training with the Rhodesian RLI, he was told to survive for 3 days in the bush with nothing more than standard issue kit. While he wasn't able to sneak food, his stick-mate and him snuck cigarettes. Apparently smoking on an empty stomach is extremely difficult, and they almost had to abort the exercise.
Yes. Any small normal break is a morale boost. Nothing better than a cup of tea and some scran to stop you screaming.
When steve puts on a hazmat suit, you know it's about to get "REAL," lol
I really like how you give some history alongside the review. It makes for a real nice educational experience.
The Bob Ross of MRE's.
Facts 😂
So True XD
@@waterwhispers if ya go back several years hes been called that many times.
Silversound you ain’t lyin lol ahhh what a nice premium strong cup of joe with just a slight earthy tone to the smell woooow
"Nice hiss" is his version of "Beat the devil out of it"
No hiss: 12:34
Nice hiss: 15:00
Not sure if hiss: 17:48
No hiss: 18:44
Nice hiss: 27:14
Nice hiss: 28:27
Nice little hiss: 29:38
Nice hiss: 31:11
No hiss: 32:03
my butt makes a hiss get close and listen.
28:30 a real juicer!
Marlon Wörsching Dont forget 28:27 was also a nice juicer
Amen to that, brother.
Marlon Wörsching - Nice!
This is the best, I love it! You're the best Steve!! Thanks for sharing ☺️☺️☺️
I absolutely remember these specific kinds of rations. I loved the main meal parts of the rations. Everyone thought I was nuts to like them so much. This particular package is not one of my favorites. I remember the Bacon and the Bread. Didn't really like those because the bread was sort of hard to deal with -- just a lump of bread. It tasted kinda dry. And the Bacon was just a can of Bacon-- kinda not so great. The Bread was not orange like this one The ice cream bars did NOT taste like Icecream bars. The Corn was good. He says "nice pressure" but I don't think spurting liquid is good -- that's Bot pressure. The fruitcake was always very hard to get out of the can. The Chocolate Disks tasted good but NOT like Chocolate. They had a strange flavor -- but I liked it.
"Alright, let's do breakfast first!"
[ lays out 5 packs of cigarettes]
Just a typical well balanced1957 breakfast.
HHAHHAAAAHHAAAHAHAH SO FUNNY AHHHAHHAAAH
Coffee and cigarettes is truly The Breakfast of Champions if you don't plan on living very long
@@ohmygoditisspider7953 Not true at all.
@@studinthemaking i respectfully, yet vehemently, disagree
This man is even describing the flavor of the cigarette. What a LEGEND!
the flavor of old moldy cigarette
@agpoe SURIA GUDANG GARAM - INDONESIA THE BEST CIGARETE
@agpoe Kretek
He's a professional reviewer. That's his job. Nice!
LEGENO!
As far as smokes, Camel, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall were tops! I recall getting those in Nam. Salems were wildly popular with the B girls when you were able to play with them. The girls also loved any type of soap and Prell shampoo you could bring from the PX. The worst C rats were the ham and lima beans. Everybody hated those, you couldn't even trade them with the Viets!
Welcome home, Sir!
Came back for a rewatch. That Camel & coffee bit is classic.❤😂 Definitely one of my favorite vids!
This guy...
- History channel
- Cooking show
- Unwrapping channel
- Asmr channel
All in one.
LMFAO well played
LoneBerseker plus mukbang show 🤣
ASMRE Steve
He's broken the system
Don’t forget Mukbang
Me: throws out 1 year expired sauce in my fridge
Him: eats 60 year old peanut butter
Are u a robit
Yall ain't the same lol
More like 7 I had a bottle of Jif from 2013
dude. peanut butter is a perfect survival food. it lasts over 100 years. fat from nuts is a great, slow burning energy.
Shit i throw away food once its expired. I thought everyone did, i means thats when its no longer good.
man I'd love to try an old school smoke like that I bet they taste really good
that reviewbruh really step up his game.
Bet it's dry as one under car seat in the salvage yard
Thanks Steve! The lens through which you view soldiers affords long gone men shock waves of adventure, patriotism and dignity seldom articulated by writers or artists or anyone attempting to capture a brief moment in the life. I am proud that you are an American serviceman.
Him: wears gloves and a protective suite.
Also him: *eats radiation*
I'm dead 😂😧😧😂😧😂😧👌👌👌👌
His name is Steve you headass
Probably smoked the camels 🐫 too
Lolololol
@@phatshroom6662 He did @ 23:05
The Hissing Is 1950s Air!! We Ain’t Got Air Like That No More.
What a bunch of smoke from burning building people trees 🤣👌
27:10 & 28:26
Yea well it wasn’t as polluted as now😢
Well probably because it's from 1950
I read that in a southern American drawl. Nice....
This is such an interesting video! I've always been really into life back then and the wars and just how everyone got by and lived differently than we have. Thank you so much ❤️🙏
SOOOOOOO late coming across this, but I enjoyed it very, very much. Thanks man, you're a brave and entertaining dude.
It's funny that the healthiest, most appetizing thing inside that box is cigarette...
Hard Boiled eggs
Yum
Jaz
@Matt well maybe slowest to kill
Matt i’d much rather smoke one cigarette than take my chances with half-century old food
*Wears gloves and mask to protect himself*
Proceeds to eat 60 year old canned bread with botulism infused peanut butter spread.
Michael Antonio anything that's in a damaged can is able to get botulism no matter what's inside or how old
@@brotftheyhaveusernamesnow how bout a rock
@@DeuceGenius 🤣😂
@@DeuceGenius I cried laughing...
@Michael Antonio At some point would the botulism die too?
UNBELIEVABLE!!! Incredibly interesting especially your reactions to the aged food. Thank you bunches for sharing.
Damn i cant think of anything more fun than to smoke vintage cigarettes and drink military instant coffee
27:12 Steve: "Nice hiss!"
Botulism: "Thanks. Been holding that one in for a while."
Yeah, I always wonder if the hiss is air going in or out.
@@jaehaspels9607 It's the fresh air in the room running for a place to hide!!
24:10 "twice as smooth and twice as strong" cheesy smile could be an advertisement 😂😂😂
JayzR8 i read your comment as steve dropped that line. Perfect
I don't know why I was recommended this, I don't know who you are, I don't think I've ever watched anything related to this. But by God, I am glad this happened. Your dry deliveries and dialog are top tier, subscribed.
60 years old aged Camel
Twice as smooth, twice as strong
*(confidently nods his head)*
This is the quality content I subscribed for.
I'd love to see how they smoke. Without the tobacco leaves being inflated and added chemicals
Seriously, all while downing a 60 year old cup of Joe. What a Chad.
I wanna try one so bad
All you cigarette smokers are disgusting.
@@nealedmondson3191 Go seethe somewhere else
Nothing like a can of 60 year old white bread, some cigarettes, and a dash of tetanus to bring those flavors all together.
you forgot botulism :D
Those virus and bacteria brings all those flavors together
Y:/76
YouOnlyLiveTwice 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty sure by now Steve generates his own tetanus.
Cigs back in the day didn’t have a ton of additives and artificial flavours. It was all organic back then
The excitement in Steve’s voice when finding the camels 🐪. So glad to be a part of this opening
The bread is so old, that the mold is already dead. 😁
LMFAO 😂🤣
The mold is dead and it's cytotoxins have degraded to the point of harmlessness.
You are right 😂👍🤞
the mold has mold on it.
the mold got ate by more mold ;-;
Archeologists find 5000 year old food preserved in sealed clay jars at the bottom of the ocean.= Steve [heavy hissing]
Victor Unbea nice hiss!
Let's get that out onto a tray
Nice Mkay
Check it, Honey might actually be safe that old.......
Cesare Vissani the second i read that he said it
still #1 MRE reviewer in 2022 love your work steve.
nothing better than a nice hisssssssssss!!!!
Its amazing something like this survived. After a few years things pass from original intent to obsolescence pretty quick. I can only guess this was tucked away in a closet until the 90s where it had passed being obsolete and became collectable
"Yeah, I can't settle with that, I'm gonna have to poke it with a spoon"
I'm dying, Steve
look at that...Its a saltwater crocodile ...the most dangerous in the world......IMA GO TOUCH IT
MrKneller best bit!
Marry someone who looks at you the way Steve looks at fossilized food.
Lol! 😂
“Fossilised”
I swear he be excited.
Lol @ fossilized
I love how excited you get for the smokes, it’s my favourite bit too
This is fascinating. Love your videos bro. Keep it up 👊🏾
That peanut butter actually looks damn good.
ikr
Notice how there's no health warnings on the cigarettes. Those ARE vintage camels
Well. Before 1945 cigarettes probably weren't that lethal
@@peterzingler6221 They still were, just had less additives. Nic has always been bad
Bad Drivers Of The NorCal Area “THAT lethal.”
You can also tell because they are unfiltered
Heck when I was a kid it was safe to fuel up your car while smoking . lol probably not but they did it anyways
"Sweet maple... and aged figs." The kind of phrase that resurfaces at the very end of one's life, a reminder of what a glorious blessing it has been to taste sentience, to live once in this garden called Earth.
I know. He always sounds like a bloody TV Commercial...
Ive never seen a man get so excited over some ancient tobacco sticks, sonce my dad found an old tobbacco roll in our 1992 honda glove compartment.
"Sliced bacon Type 1" Sounds like a weapon of mass destruction to me.
You bet. I bet Donald Rumsfeld would’ve enjoyed nothing more than shock n’aweing Iraq with warhead filled with the stuff
Lol
Steve your attitude is why I watch these vids. You make unpacking 50 year old can exciting and awesome. You're so damn jazzed about this stuff and I love it. Great content.
Happymrsnowman 60
It is opening history,a time capsule. You can see how different things were then.
Have always thought this. He is rad.
Thanks. I thought I was the only one. I feel stupid for watching them but I can't stop.
He's also a former cig smoker, so everytime he does one of these he gets to smoke again. You can tell by how excited he was to find those camels, like a kid opening the one present he asked for for Christmas.
This guy's "oh wow" is legendary. I appreciate the passion
I'm so glad there is still people like this around that will just eat anything. Most of these other reviewers don't want to touch anything that is past the sell by date.
14:57 The most satisfying hiss in the history of the channel and he still only says "nice hiss."
Never change, Steve.
To be fair he put a little extra emphasis on the "nice"
gingerkid427 a nice hiss is a vacuum hiss, a bad hiss is a pressure hiss
Cigarettes are the healthiest thing in the box.
probably lol
🤣🤣🤣
Or even the box
Lmao
That’s a worry. When smokes are safer then food hehe
Out of every other food videos I've watched, this makes me oddly very happy
"Botchilism infested canned vegetable fiasco". He's a man of words
*Someone farted quietly but Steve heard it*
Steve: Nice hiss
Sniggering quietly in bed at 2.20am trying to not wake the wife 😂
@@jamiestewart48 LMFAOOOOJKJS
Dude that’s fuckin nuts! I’m shutting while I’m watching this and as soon as I read your comment I farted no lie! Hahahaha nice
@@thatoneguyfromupstreetkind7537 nice hiss, nice piss
Thanks! It was a real juicer.
There's nothing more satisfying than smoking a cigarette older than my grandfather.
Hashtag NOFILTER , no pun intended
Lol
You have a pretty young grandfather.
Are you like 7 years old?
My dad older than your grandfather lol
I’m honestly not really sure how he has not got botulism by now. I guess he is just really lucky but idk if this can last forever. He also could get tetenus from all the damp and rusty dust he is breathing which could hold the tetenus bacteria plus all the other diseases and viruses , lead contamination,from rotten and decayed foods. Honestly I am just impressed he is still alive , hats off to Steve for taking one for the team in order to try out these old dishes and entertaining us TH-cam viewers.
I was hoping for a new video to drop on New Year’s Day. No such luck, but I’ll watch these old ones anyways.
I swear, we need to defrost a piece of a wooly mammoth for Steve to eat.
That’s actually pretty edible *nibbles on tusk*.
He has a very strong stomach and immune system to eat all that expired food.
Thats been done
This is the 20000 BC berry tribe ration
@@rashestpuppy7391 funny
Steve: oh yeah I just gotta take a bite of this
*takes bite of creamer powder*
Steve: oh yeah thats good
HA HA VERY FUNNY REPLY
Idk why but as a smoker, the fact they come with cigarettes brings joy
Really took care of our troops
I'm a smoker too , and nothing is good then a cigarette after joyful meal. Considering smoking that times was very okay i think they had to put cigs.
No wonder soldiers are sacrificial pawns
@@dukherdohonekorunrodone6346 In Russia, yes
I think it’s dumb that they got rid of them to begin with. For health reasons? Please. These men were some of the toughest in shape fighting warriors around and also opening one of these up even as someone that stopped smoking would be a real treat to have some smokes after a stressful day. The joy of knocking an edge off should always be included in these rations cigarettes/a shot or two of some spirit/a bit of morphine even should be mandatory for guys that could die any second.
Great content Steve, loved it.
60 year old cocoa powder, "that should be fine"...sounds like my mom when she's cleaning out the pantry.
+1000 points
Sarcastamus Raconteur that's so true haha
I don’t even smoke but the way this guy is enjoying those cigs make them seem delicious 💀
Ciggies from 90s or earlier were definitely flavourful and foul smelling for non smokers. One stick stinks all day. That aroma made me started smoking as a kid.
💀💀
Cigs are only bad in excess
@@bsherman8236 Yeah, it takes me over a month to finish a pack. One or two every few days. Sometimes a week or two without one.
@@zacharyrollick6169 same bro, I don't like to smoke in a hurry, I prefer to do it slowly and with pleasure.
Admit it, we were all waiting for him to try the cigarette 😂
I love your content dude, keep up the great work.
Howdy....
As a kid in 1959, this kit and identical were part of my camping experience at five years of age, and for a few years afterward. Dad was in charge of 'discarding' the older rations that were being gotten rid of....so we 'destroyed them' in accordance with his army policy.
My dad being a Master Sgt. in the reserves also got the use of an 8-man squad tent....with my mom hugging the center pole (the first time, it collapsed on her with accompanying screams), and once it went up it had large Red Crosses on a white circle on all four sides...I guess dad was embarrassment-proof amongst all the other more civilian campers!
I guess she didn't like 400 pounds of canvas and poles falling on her on a warm day....good thing we were in the shade.
All we ate was those rations for a week. Not bad!
The canned bacon was good, but was cooked just to heat it up and give a bit more flavor. We'd soak up the grease with the bread. Keep in mind bacon was a LOT more fat in proportion to meat back them.....lean bacon is a new-ish trend.
As an aside, I remember buying canned bacon for a dollar each in 1967, good but still needed a bit of heating to make it more palatable...EXCEEDINGLY salty! Was it a BEN FRANKLIN store? Can't remember...in the can it was wrapped in a heavy white paper, you cut out both ends of the can and pushed it out. Unroll and unfold, and there you were. It came with the same type of key as a C-rat, but you still needed a P-38 or P-51 to open the other end.
The canned bread was very good, if a bit yeasty tasting. As it was baked in the can, it filled it very well...hissed when opened from internal pressure. Can't remember if it used the C-rat key or not, but you had to punch an air hole in the other end to slide/shake the 'loaf' out.
I don't remember the soups.
Canned beef stew was good, although I remember some of the meat chunks being a bit tough. The gravy ( a bit gelatinous) and potatoes were good.
Canned ham with pineapple was tasty, and not really sweet. My first taste of pineapple...
The canned peanut butter (VERY good), canned crackers (meh), cheese were all OK.
The chocolate discs (I seem to remember they were pretty damned hard) were tooth-breakers...best use your bayonet to crush them up for hot chocolate etc....dad would beak them up for us...with a bayonet.
There were some sort of cereal bars I remember...slightly sweet, I liked them the BEST. Couldn't chew them, you just sucked on them to soften them up.
Being five, I didn't get to try the Camels....mom and dad were both smokers, later dad switched to a pipe.
I seem to remember some sort of canned jam or preserves with the kit....I'm wondering if it was a 10-in-one kit?
The cocoa powder was OK, tended to settle out in the bottom of the canteen cup....yes, we used full field gear, mess kits, canteens etc.
Dad even had one of those gasoline-fired heaters for washups, but we only used it once IIRC. Pain in the ass....best suited to cleanup for 100+ guys.
Army Coleman stove and lanterns for cooking and lighting.
Army cots and bedding, and chipmunks boldly dashing about under the edges of the tent, picking up scraps.
Being a medical tent, it had a metal thimble in the side of the tent for a coal/wood stove. A simple flap kept it closed if not stove was used.
Tent, foodstuffs, parents and five kids crammed into a 1951 Ford station wagon from Chicago to Muskegon State Park in Michigan.
The car was resting on it's axles the whole way there and back.
Maybe he should have borrowed a deuce-and-a-half? :) Would have been awkward filling out the 'trip ticket' for that...if you used an Army vehicle, it had to be for official use only, with accompanying written orders.
Ryan Grimm that’s a whole novel
Ryan Thanks for sharing. Sounds like some great family memories ala Army.😃
I bet they are some of your fondest memories thoufh
Your Full Autobiography done right there
I wish I had all that gear now. I would have loved using that stuff when I was a kid
“60 year old aged Camels, twice as old and twice as strong”
Haha, such a ham!
No idea how I came across this video but this is awesome and I will watch all of them
Can't get how relaxing this guy's voice is
Most people when they like food: delicious!
Steve: perfectly edible.
Lol! You don't get into the game of eating 20+ year old food and come to expect a reliably desirable experience! When I had to eat MREs, I've seen ones not even a few years old gone bad. It just happens, as the packaging process isn't 100% it is amazing seeing some of the old ones condition, and he still eats some of it! Brave man
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Lol :-)
Most people mean "Food Du jour. Steve means "Food Dis Century!"
"It's the kind of smell, I almost wanna eat it. But I know you can't do that."
When the hell did THAT ever stop you?!
When even putting a piece of food a foot from the mouth of an eating god would kill them.
Subscribed, thumbed up and shared. Your commentary is just so fecking GROVEY man.
I pity your toilet! I Hope you have an EMT standing by! Keep this up, just came across your vids , and so entertaining!
lol :)
He actually eats beef from 1902 from the Second Boer War. It's one of the first vids of his I came across. Been hooked ever since. cheers :)
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Watching Steve check out the bacon and thinking, there is a 50/50 he is going to take a bite. Lol
trying to breathe a bit shallow....
*PLACES BETS*