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I can't imagine they'd actually harm you. I also can't imagine actually eating the feet, although they make a fantastic stock.
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Isn't the story that the Chinese Army has mobile kitchens, so using MREs is going to be a rare occasion?
I don't think anyone would die from chicken feet, but there's something to be said for making rations easy to eat, especially if they're only going to be broken out in dire circumstances, when even heating them up might not happen.
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That's true and allegedly they spit out the bones from the feet as they eat. Lots of healthy collagen in them, though. I imagine it's kind of like pork crackling.
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I heard it repeated but that's a massive cope since it's true for virtually every army. You don't want to bust out MREs unless logistics make it so you don't have any source of cooked food nearby. And mobile kitchens aren't some RTS unit, it still need sanitation and supplies, otherwise you are going to get a massive amount of food poisoning or run out of food immediately.
Unless China got its logistics in order (which is almost a certain "no"), then when it finally enters a conflict it will make the Russians in Ukraine look competent by comparison.
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Once you get to a certain age, you don't bounce back from massive food poisoning as quickly and easily as you used to. Steve has paid the price plenty of times for daring sketchy 40 year old rations enough over the years that this was bound to happen.
That or he ends up in the hospital hooked up to fluid bags while he spews non-stop from both ends. Again.
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He could probably have been a king's poison taster back in the day. At this point, he'd know which shit to reject without even trying it.
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Steve grabs the goblet, takes a swig, swishes it in his mouth and promptly spits it out.
"Cyanide, my lord."
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If I looked at my food package and saw “White Chicken Chunks” I’d defect immediately. What the hell kind of morale booster is “Chunks” supposed to be?
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Got some of those in my freeze-dried protein rations. I ate the pork sausage crumbles almost immediately, but this, and the awful beef cubes will probably be kept until they're nearly expendable. God, they're abysmal.
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Am I the only one that feels like he's just going thru the motions at this point? I've been watching his videos on and off for years now and these recent ones have just been so formulaic. "Let's get this out on a tray. Nice!" He has a few catchphrases that commenters constantly post and then he parrots them back in response. It just feels so inauthentic now. He used to do so much research about historical rations and now he's reviewing rations from the past few years. It's just not the same vibe.
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I must have gotten a older Chicken Chunks MRE compared to one Steve got because I thought it was pretty good actually. Especially because they gave you a pack of BBQ sauce. Sure the plain chicken sucks ass, but if you load up the tortillas with a bunch of corn nuts its good. Also I wish so bad the cran raspberry First Strike bar was sold in stores, best component by far
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From what I recall there's way too much meat for the amount of tortillas and BBQ sauce you get.
Even when packing them to the brim there was still enough left for another one.
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It's difficult to invent on the MRE review style he has, especially when he's running out of older rations to sample due to time passing and historical rations becoming inedible. Modern MREs are less fun because they're nowhere near as novel as, say, 200+ year old hardtack.
I welcome foreign MREs from countries like China because of the cultural shock but he has become somewhat formulaic, sadly.
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Every modern military has a mobile kitchens. Anyone saying this needs narcan for their copium overdose.
USMC expeditionary field kitchen.
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Even my granddad had a couple recipes he picked up in the Army during World War II. I still use a couple, like shit on a shingle and Swiss steak (this is actually an awesome use for low quality beef and can even rescue round although I prefer to use chuck).
Shit on a shingle dates back to World War I.
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World War II US Army field kitchens are fascinating and TM10-412 (I typically use the 1944 edition) has some excellent recipes; my personal favorite being the biscuit recipe. I love that there was a concerted effort to get hot chow to the boys on the line and the solutions they came up with to do so.
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I wasn't seeing a difference with the history; he does discuss menu substitutions and replacements with the newer rations, but there's less ~cultural context~ for a 2023 ration than something from WWII.
However, I agree that Steve seems newly skittish about trying questionably-aged food. I wonder what spooked him recently--personal experience, or someone in the forum/Facebook MREsphere getting really sick.
I think he should compromise, if he's opened an item already, and do what Post 10 does: leave it out back with a wildlife camera and let the raccoons taste-test it.
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That would be cool but I'd be afraid of the mutant Florida wildlife that would start popping up after Steve starts feeding them.