1969 Vietnam Meal Combat Individual C Ration Spaghetti Vintage MRE Review Oldest Food 

Everybody gangsta until the cheese spread hisses

His stomach is having another vietnam war

Steve is actually ninety-four. It's the irradiated food that gives him a youthful appearance.

I sent my gramp this video, as he served in Vietnam, and I thought he’d like the content. Not only did he enjoy it, but he actually said that this ration was one of his favorites. Love this side of military history, thank you for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

You know it's bad when the healthiest thing in the ration is the cigarettes

“I can smell that through the mask.” Bro I can smell that through the video

I ate C rations for 45 days. Only had a bowel movement 5 times and that was 5 to many. It was like passing a brick. Korea cold weather training January-February 1974.

My old roommate was a vet from Vietnam. He passed of a pancreatic tumor a couple of years ago. He was on hospice at home when he left us (in the room that I’m in now lol). Just thinking that he probably ate some of these meals, and enjoyed some of theciggies. Rest in power Dee!

"I don't smoke cigarettes, but when I do, they're at least 45 years old" haha

“Ima have to smoke a cigarette to get the cheese smell out my room” legend

I love watching how much you appreciate a good historical cigarette. You're a national treasure, Steve.

As an avid Steve watcher, I still find myself from time to time watching his old content. I have noticed the difference in his voice as he has grown, noticed the difference in scenery, but have never noticed a difference in quality of content or entertainment. Big W’s for Steve all around. Glad to see him back to uploading regularly and I always save his uploads for a late night watch in bed before falling asleep.

"I met this guy, he was buff, but when we got back to his room, it reeked of cigarettes and rotten cheese. He did offer me some 50 year old spaghetti, though."

Vietnam Vet: "I've seen some things" Steve: "I've smelled some things"

You really, really don’t need to apologize for not eating this

I admire and respect your commitment to check everything out! You open rotten rancid food and probe it for your viewers amusement when all you wanted was a cup of coffee and a smoke. Love the videos and love learning about how troops were fed and are still being fed today in active service. Keep up the good work!

If this guy doesn't post for a month I'll assume he died from an old ration.

The funny thing is, the pack of smokes are less likely to kill him than anything else in the box.

Hey dude totally random question but the music at the start of your videos is extremely relaxing, it has a nostalgic sound to it that makes me a feel a certain way I can't quite pinpoint. Would you ever think of doing like a compilation of tall the songs together? In like a three hour video? That would be really awesome, and very appreciated.

Steve, you rock! Dialed this up on a whim and it's exactly what I needed to see and hear tonight. Thank you!

there's vomit on his sweater already, nam spaghetti

You know its bad when he says, "I gotta smoke a cigarette to get this bad smell out,"

Your descriptions had me busting a gut! And what makes it REALLY funny, is that you didn't use any profanity or vulgarity at all! Keep up the good work!

Had such a good time and lots of laughs watching this! Thanks Steve1989!

"i don't smoke cigarettes, but when i do, they're atleast 45 years old" brilliant

that cheese could be classified as a chemical weapon.

His knees weak, Arms are heavy, There's vomit in this ration already, 'Nam Spaghetti

As someone who has a very sensitive sense of smell, I have so much respect for your dedication!! 👏

imagine this ration was supposed to be opened by a hungry exhausted poor soldier 47 years ago and then a random guy opens it in 2016 :D kinda crazy

"I don't smoke cigarettes... but when I do, they're at least 45 years old" - Steve1989MREInfo 4/11/16

I love watching your videos Steve. Thank you God bless you ❤️

Steve, I appreciate your videos immensely. Thank you for sharing your vintage MREs with us. By far, your information and commentary are the best out there. ✌

"i don't smoke cigarettes. but when i do they're at least 45 years old" ROFL

Never have I been so entertained by a man opening tin cans.

Such neat videos. I always enjoy watching things like this. Great video.

I just want to say I really like your intro and outtro music idk why but it just hits right. Reminds me a bit of some retro videogame music

I wonder how I ended up in here.. But this is actually kinda interesting to see

Hello, I'm from 2018. You've likely heard Steve say that this will be his last time ever opening processed cheese. I can tell you that he will keep opening processed cheese anyways.

If I were to make a war movie, I'd cast Steve as the quartermaster in a heartbeat. The most chill dude on youtube Oh, and he'd do the soundtrack as well

“I don’t smoke cigarettes, but when I do they are at least 45 years old.” That’s the best line

I have no idea how I ended up here.

I served two tours in Vietnam, 1965-66, 1970-71. My favorite C-rats were Ham and Eggs chopped and Ham and Lima's. Beef Spiced wasn't bad either. We usually had Tabasco sauce sent from home to liven them up a bit. The canteen water with halazone tabs tasted awful so we also had packs of Cool Aid mailed to us. They included heat tabs to heat the meals but I usually used C-4 explosive. You could pinch a small piece off and light it up. It was the "microwave" of field cooking, fast and hot! I didn't smoke so I would trade cigarettes to other Marines who did. We gave the Vietnamese kids the candy and cookies and hot chocolate packs that came in some rations. Marine Corps tours were 13 months long ,my unit was always in the field so we would get one hot meal a day most of the time. Rest of the time it was C-rats. for your meals and a rubber poncho for your roof. When you were killed the poncho also became your shroud. Tom Boyte, Gy.Sgt., USMC retired

This dude's the Bob Ross of MRE eating youtubers.

Hey man I love your show brother super job,been watching about two months now and you are the only RU-vid channel I have ever liked ,subscribed and share.I can't wait to see what's next.

There's something magic about seeing a perfectly preserved packet of cigarettes from 50 years ago, it's like time travel.

"I'm telling you: cheese from the 60's just doesn't hold up." I would think it'd be hard to find many people who would actually disagree with you.

Awesome review Steve! As you say... NICE!

Steve! So happy your channel is rocking man. Burner brother gettin it!!

"I don't smoke cigarrettes, but when I do, they're at least 45 years old" - legend

My favorite part about these videos is how he openly acknowledges how disgusting all of this is but he keeps doing it even though nobody is making him, lmao

I love your videos man keep up the work

Dude is so chill. His "nice" gets me every time. Semper Fi brother

“I don’t usually smoke cigarettes, but when I do, they’re usually 45 years old.” 🤣🤣🤣

"Oh man this argh its just argh yeaa"

Thanks for showing these videos of war's past especially Vietnam windows to the past.

Steve great videos. Keep up the good work. 👍

This brings back memories! We would use thermo tabs to heat up the main course. I had this spaghetti meal as my first experience with c-rats. Why I remember.....heat from the thermo tab was causing the spaghetti to rise up out of the can!. My DI yelled at me for not putting a vent hole thru the middle to let the expanding air to escape!!! USMC 1972

"I tell ya cheese from the 60's just doesn't hold up." Lmfao

I love these videos thanks for the share of history and the entertainment ❤

"Havent had a C Ration Malboro in like a year"

I served in Nam from '70 to '71 and I'm still passing gas from that cheese spread. It honestly wasn't that bad but it gave Velveeta gourmet status. After C Rats I thought MREs were terrific!

I love this one! Always come back to it

Hey honestly saw that it had been 5 months since your last video hope everything’s going well. Your videos are incredible and you can tell you actually care.

1969 : In future we are going to have flying cars 2019 : Millions watching opening of cans

Imagine if smells could be transferred across devices

I was in Boy Scouts in the 1970's and we regularly got oversized deliveries of surplus army chow from the local guard units, among them were C rations, large cans of "survival crackers" 1 gallon cans of the best peanut butter I've ever had and a bunch of other foods. I liked the C rations, though we didn't get any that had cigarettes in them. Watching you open this took me right back to my days as a Second Class Boy Scout. I was glad to eat these in my tent in the rain, and doubly glad the war ended before we had to eat them in the Nam.

My dad did two tours in Vietnam in the ‘60’s and came home about ‘72. He brought a bunch of these meals home intending to use them for camping. We kids would go into the garage and take the gum out and we would look for the cans that had a round chocolate disc in them and eat them. They were pretty good. He probably STILL has some in his garage now. Lol

"How was Vietnam?" "I've smelled some things man"

3:57 "Ewwgh..look at that...ewgh! it's so acidic and sour!...ehya uhg oh oo...yeah here we go! Hey, look at that!" "Check that out, I don't think there's any rust in that can!"

Really enjoy your videos, you do it up right ! 🙂

This channel is fascinating. I can’t stop watching. Subscribed. Bet that cig was delicious too

Hands down nicest hiss in all of hisses and we aren’t even blessed with a “nice hiss” :(

Probably so comforting to have a meal, coffee, smoke, and good shit for those guys. The little things we take for granted.

This has to be one of the most interesting rabbit holes I’ve fallen into on RU-vid. This is truly so fascinating!

Wow. I thought I'd never see those again. Thanks for the memory!!!!!!!!!!!

The way he speaks of everything and how his voice sounds just makes it funnier 😂

Nam 1971, Thanks, I. Just got a flashback watching. It tasted and smelled as bad as it looked when it was “fresh”. The ham & beans were even a step down from the spaghetti ration. I bought a lot of beef jerky and candy bars to survive and traded or sold the rations.

The blisters on your hands are admirable. Hitting the pull-up bar consistently.

Hey Steve, I've watched some of your videos like 7-8 years ago. Always loved them. I'm 33 now and I've been craving a Peter Gabriel SO picture for my home, in good quality. At 17:25 I spotted it. LOVE that you have that album. Take care my man. Love your stuff to this day.

I showed this to my Pop and he said "The goddamn sweet rolls always stick. Crack both sides and push it out."

The noises he makes in resistance is just so funny to me.

Wirklich cooler Kanal! Pas auf mit den alten C Rats! 🙏🏻

Really interesting piece of Vietnam food history. I liked and subscribe

My mans really unpacked a school lunch in front of us and thought we wouldnt notice

*”Uhh nnhhya hhnya nnya nnhhha”* - Steve

When you were talking about the cheese being ghastly, I said it at the same time you did. Perfect synchronization lol.

That brought back memories. My favorite was ham and eggs. We became quite the chefs when it came to C rats. Guys would invent all kinds of different concoctions. The P38 was our most prized possession, without that you didn’t eat. There were always extra p38s at the bottom of the Crats case, but most times they were gone. The rear echelon mfrs would pick through the good shit and then repack them for us in the field. When guys saw it was an unopened case, they’d scramble to get the good stuff lol. 1st Cav 68-70

"A RU-vidr eats 50 year old canned cheese. This is how his organs shut down"

this was the best unboxing I've ever watched.

Love your videos bro

Really enjoyed this.

His p38 is ready Tar’s leaked, cans are smelly There’s a spoon on his ration already 'Nam Spaghetti (Edit: 'Nam Spaghetti does sound better lol)

Steve: “Aw that’s disgusting” Takes a deep inhale “NICE” *gags*

wow the sound of that 1969 air being released

When he goes, “OH, MAN!” you know it’s gonna be a banger. 😍

For those who are interested in how the C-ration was managed and prepared and a little about the life of a line doggy in Vietnam, here's a long post. I say managed because, as a brand new 2d lt., one of the first things my platoon sergeant showed me was how to distribute our resupply drops (which he did as the platoon sergeant). There were certain ítems that were coveted -- pecan cake roll, pound cake, peaches and applesauce being at the top of the list -- and none of them came in the same ration. So, to avoid conflicts and claims of favoritism, he would open each case, turn it up side down and move the boxes around to make them random -- because everyone quickly learned to memorize the location of each ration in the case. Then, each guy in the platoon, platoon leader and sergeant included took a turn pulling out their choices. The bartering then began. You see, everyone wanted to do things like combine pound cake with peaches or pecan cake roll with applesauce. The problem being they each came in different boxes. The bartering often included one guy agreeing to trade a desireable can -- like spiced beef -- for an undesireable one -- like ham and eggs (affectionately known as ham and mfers) in order to get his prized peaches, or what ever. The Tabasco company produced a C-ration Cookbook that was sent free of charge to anyone writing from a Vietnam APO (Army Post Office). Pizza could be made by taking out the cheese and all but one cracker from the B-2 unit; mixing the cheese spread with a spiced beef unit; dumping the mix on top of the remaining cracker; placing another cracker on top; putting the can back in the box and lighting the box on fire. The pizza was ready when the box went out. Apple crunch could be made by mixing applesauce in with the pecan cake roll, puting the can in the box -- well, you get the idea. If you had access to the local economy, ramen noodles were used as the starting ingredient in many a combat stew. The ammo can for machinegun rounds was a good size for cooking stew and easily carried. Of course, everyone carried a bottle of Tabasco sauce along with a bottle of LSA (gun lubricant) and had a can opener hung from his dog tags chain. And that's the way it was.

Next Video: Sampling 20,000 year old turkey found in stomach of frozen saber toothed tiger.

I love that Steve doesn’t reach for an air freshener to get rid of bad smells, he goes for the cigarettes XD

Great man, a time capsule indeed. for me it really gives a look into life back then

Vietnam still gives PTSD, but now through a different medium.