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Aunt Carol said:
He'd give some insightful criticism about the Hello Fresh meal, how obviously you need a heat source and an intact supply line, then say "the one thing missing to make it a truly great ration... "


I would still also like to watch Steve investigate a Lunchable. He could do some fun April Fool's mini-episodes.
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That would 100% poison him
 
Aunt Carol said:
I would still also like to watch Steve investigate a Lunchable.
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"Ya see, most folks will take the packet and squeeze it on the bread. That's fine, but then they pick the cheese up with their fingers." *Takes a sip of cold weak coffee.* "Ah, that's fine. That's good. Do what you wanna do, but what I do is turn it upside down and then press it into the cheese. That way you get nice, full coverage."
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
"Ya see, most folks will take the packet and squeeze it on the bread. That's fine, but then they pick the cheese up with their fingers." *Takes a sip of cold weak coffee.* "Ah, that's fine. That's good. Do what you wanna do, but what I do is turn it upside down and then press it into the cheese. That way you get nice, full coverage."
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He'd survive a Lunchable easily, as would most of us. Maybe not that Mr. Beast pure pre-wrapped food poisoning shit.
 
AnOminous said:
He'd survive a Lunchable easily, as would most of us.
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Oh, definitely. The fun of watching Steve eat a Lunchable wouldn't be the fun of watching him pick his way around the decay to eat from a 70-year-old ration.

It'd be hearing a critique from a guy who understands industrial food, and who can look at a Lunchable and immediately see it as a ration, just for a different kind of troops. You have your freeze-dried cold weather rations, your easy-eating pilot rations, and then over here you have your small child rations.

Maybe the deluxe Lunchable with the mini Capri Sun pouch in it is more thirst-provoking than the standard Lunchables. Steve would be able to tell instantly.
 
Ooh, back on the vintage rations! Admittedly it took me a moment to remember 1998 was "vintage," at least as far as preserved food--OK, fine, it's "vintage."

"There's just ever-so-slight beef scent."

Freeze-dried stuff does seem to age better than wet.

"Chocolate cookie--look how shiny it is!"

Steve has fond memories of eating 1990s Skittles at summer camp. Never have I heard 27-year-old Skittles described so passionately.


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The French ration looks so appealingly retro. I'm slightly more ready to accept 1984 as being a long time ago.

Poor Steve; when he says, "I really want to try some," you can feel the longing, the longing for ancient fish or powdered milk. "That's so close to being OK."
 
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The anise capsule and instant black/mint tea in the French ration sounded fantastic. I'm gonna have to look for commercial equivalents to put in my camping MREs.
 
Didn't realize there was a Steve thread, Nice! Steve's the best, don't watch him as much as I used to but from everything I've seen he hasn't changed at all. He's still eating 50 year old MRE's and talking about how smooth and effervescent the drink is.

He always manages to make me hungry too, I always think about buying an MRE just to try it because he sells it so hard.
 
Steve could make anything sound delicious, I wish he would try Aunt Myrna's warcrime in a pan but it's not an MRE, I doubt you could even make an MRE with that thing in it even if it was an actually delicious dessert.
 
PetiteFeet said:
Steve could make anything sound delicious, I wish he would try Aunt Myrna's warcrime in a pan but it's not an MRE, I doubt you could even make an MRE with that thing in it even if it was an actually delicious dessert.
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Jack made that freeze dried Thanksgiving abomination for a soldier once... he could make an MRE for Steve. That might be more dangerous than a Chinese MRE though...
 
I had the occasion to enjoy a british Menu 9 24h Halal ration with a friend today. I've paid 13 bucks for it, which is around half the usual price for where I live.

The mains we're a mixed bag - the Mac & Cheese tasted bad for both of us, but the curry chicken and rice was quite decent when mixed with the hot sauce. We didn't have the time to do the vegetarian breakfast.

The sides we're mostly nice. Vanilla cake was the usual supermarket foil-packed cake, oatmeal cookie was plain alone but great when paired with the apricot confiture and the apple flapjack was a bit mid for me. The rest of the sides was a very weird selection: a bag of peanuts, a bag of dried fruits, and a bag of both of them mixed. The bag of salted peanuts was barely salted, and I wasn't a fan of the dried fruits in general, although my friend enjoyed them a lot. The peanut-fruit mix was worse than the other two combined - the peanuts had absolutely no salt on them and the papaya inside had a really off taste to it.

I was pleasantly surprised by the amount and type of drinks, definitely the first time I saw something like this in an MRE - 2 teas, 2 coffees, 2 fruit beverages, 2 energy drinks and a hot chocolate. The taste was really good for all of them, even if dilluted in a bit more water than reccomended, and the flavoured energy drink didn't taste like one at all (which is a plus). It's enough for 3 to 4 liters of water.

The accessory pack was lacking some basics - there was no salt or pepper and only one set of cutlery for the whole day (a single spork). Aside from this it had a whole pack of tissues, storm matches, massive moisturized wipes and water purifying tablets. The included chewing gum (6 pieces) was refreshing and had a really strong taste of toothpaste.

The biggest flaw in the whole thing however was the lack of any heating method - no stoves or FRHs. Instead the mains are supposed to boil in water - and due to us not having any proper cooking equipment at that moment, we resorted to stuffing them into an electric kettle.

Either way it's a big step up from what the local 24h, the S-RG, offers, especially in the beverage department, although massively drawn back by the chosen heating method.

Fun experience, but won't buy again. 5/10
 
Given embedding is borked globally, here are links to the two new videos:

2023 Chinese Type B Self Heating Food Chicken Wings Fried Rice

The freeze-dried soup rectangle was interesting. I'm glad Steve gave in to the temptation to just bite it. This looked well-made for a Chinese ration; no mystery slime or weird odors.

2024 MRE White Chicken Chunks US Military Meal Ready to Eat

Steve must have been in the mood for in-date chicken. "Nice gas station snacks in this one" is right on the nose.

I liked his exploration of the physical properties of the fruit bar. "Look how bendy and malleable!"
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
A Chinese MRE id the scariest Halloween YouTube video I've seen this year. You know the thing was awful when the video ends with half the food still on the tray.
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I still can't believe the chinks put in the MRE two, actual, chicken wings, bones and all.

I mean, it's kind of nice because you can tell you're actually eating chicken and not some ultra processed "meat" but it was very bizarre.
 
Hillary Clinton's Ass said:
I still can't believe the chinks put in the MRE two, actual, chicken wings, bones and all.

I mean, it's kind of nice because you can tell you're actually eating chicken and not some ultra processed "meat" but it was very bizarre.
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It's a waste of food, weight, and time. I wouldn't be surprised if they expected people to gnaw on the bone because it is hilariously tiny. Like 1/4 of a starter.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
It's a waste of food, weight, and time. I wouldn't be surprised if they expected people to gnaw on the bone because it is hilariously tiny. Like 1/4 of a starter.
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You forget that the chinese are infamous for eating all kinds of weird things, like the swallow saliva-nest soup or chicken feet. The latter which contains bones even after declawing them.
 
PetiteFeet said:
You forget that the chinese are infamous for eating all kinds of weird things, like the swallow saliva-nest soup or chicken feet. The latter which contains bones even after declawing them.
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It would be kind of ingenious putting this kind of food in an MRE since it will make the enemy far less likely to eat from it. Issue is that those dishes are a literal biohazard.
 
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