@@xXxZAPSTERxXx honestly, since I know golubtsy (cabbage rolls, meat wrapped in cabbage leafs) and dolma (meat wrapped in grape leafs) I would naturally assume that those leafs are an edible part of the thing.
No soy de Honduras pero también tenemos tamales acá en Guatemala, cuando lo vi comerse la hoja del tamal me tiré una carcajada. Se lo mostré a mi madre y solo vi su rostro de pena antes de tirarse otra carcajada. Saludos desde Guatemala 🇬🇹, fiel subscriptor de Steve el Jesus de las MRE.
I was once in the children’s hospital in Dallas, Texas. There was also a little boy there with his mom. They were from Honduras. Was fortunate to be there for his 6th birthday. My parents got him an Oklahoma University football jersey.
This has to be the most down to earth mre ever. Honduran Military basically through in everything a soldier wants, from grandmas tamales, childhood candy's, and hangover gas station food.
I think it's more that they either don't have the infrastructure for dedicated MRE production so they went for the short-term solution and bought mostly consumer products with minimal if no specialized food, and then just gave it a short shelf life for an MRE. It's more expensive in the short term, but if they have a smaller military that is often not deployed outside the country, it can make sense.
Banana leaves are used in some countries as opposed to corn husks for tamales. They both provide a way to maintain moisture while the filling steams. Also, the lack of mustache caught me off guard!
the fact that (he never askes you to like his videos) gives me the sensation of watching TV back in the days,, i guess that's why many of us love about steve
So I just bought my first house recently. Few months in, and I'm rearranging the garage and realize there are cabinets behind a stack of building materials left there by the prior owners. I open the cabinets and find 50x 24hr MREs, and 6 cases of emergency water packets. I literally dropped what I was holding, and said outloud "NICE!" and then my gf laughed and said "Let's get this out on to a tray" - Total score.
@@dankmemer3289 I assume that's because in an effort to make it shelf stable the milk fat has been removed This pretty much just turns it into lactose water
As a hispanic that LOVES zuko, seeing Steve pour the whole bag into that TINY glass broke my heart, that bag is enough for a 2.5 litter jug (and it is still quite strong) I can just imagine how concentrated that was. Gotta love steve!
It's strange because he even mentioned Tang, which is a version of the same thing in the US that uses similar proportions haha. He must have just assumed it was single serve (which, granted in an MRE they probably should find a way to give single serve packets, idk who's going to be making 3 liters of orange drink in the middle of a battlefield haha).
Fun Fact: Back in the 90s, we used to have Zuko drink powder packs in Lithuania, looked almost exactly like the one in the MRE. They were strong enough that you could dye shirts with them.
The Tamales in this particular ration are actually wrapped in banana leaves. Most of Mexico uses corn husks to wrap their tamales, but cuisines near the Yucatan as well as Central and South America mostly use banana leaves - I think because they are so abundant in the less-dry areas, and they are perfectly porous enough to allow just the right amount of steam to pass through them. When I lived in Hollywood I had a huge yard with around a dozen banana trees growing in it. During my first Christmas there many of the old El Salvadorian Abuelas (grandmothers) stopped by and asked in Spanish if they could take some of the leaves. Of course I said yes, and to my surprise, a few days later each of the Abuelas brought my family a basket of Christmas Tamales steamed in my banana leaves. After I knew the secret I began ordering Oaxacan/Mayan and Central American Tamales wherever I could find them - and sure enough, they were all wrapped in the same leaves. --- My Realization: only a small portion of tamales made just south of the US border use corn husks as wrappings, and the rest use either banana or plantain leaves (which actually seem a bit better because they hold more moisture. Try the Banana leaf wrapped Oaxacan tamales if you get a chance - the chicken ones are steamed slathered in black chocolate mole sauce. It's amazing.
My ex-partner is from Honduras, and her family makes those tamales, which are really different than the Mexican or Cuban ones. They add olives to theirs, which I think brings them over the top from really good to addicting! (I love olives though, so...)
@@ACRus19 No need to be embarrassed, the meal is edible. Go watch his reviews of the Chinese PLAs, and you'll go, yeah ok. My countries rations are fine.
I am a Honduran and I honestly did not know we had MREs here. Thought all we had was American donations. This was very cool. Catracho is a word to refer to Hondurans by the way. Love from Honduras! 🇭🇳♥️
The UN encouraged Honduras to do this because of what happened in the liberated concentration camps in WWII. The death rates actually went up for the first six months. This happened in the camps for three reasons. 1 too many calories after months to years of way too few can kill your liver. 2 The food they gave to the camp was frankly just nasty. 3 People survive better on foods that they were brought up with. This third is thought to be psychological but definitely exists.
@@MrGchow Which is something you'd think most (food) critics would possess or strive to achieve, but it's unfortunately and often not case-though it used to be, but anyone can be one now.
@@MrGchow It's like...this food will keep you alive when shit hits the fan, but also it has notes of nutmeg with a citrus kick on the back end. I'm a big fan of Steve. Love this channel.
Hey Steve! Honduran here, with some guidance if you want: -Overall this looks like a 3 meal ration with 2-3 snacks -breakfast was good, an alternative is to eat the beans with the breakfast or as a snack with crackers later -The zuko drink is good for 1-2 liters of drink. The idea is you make yourself a water bottle of flavored drink to carry around after breakfast is over. -THe second zuko packet is to have a side drink for both lunch and dinner, again, you can be carrying the water bottle or make a large bottle of drink for in between meals -Most of the crackers can be eaten on the go, just pop the packaging and dump it into your mouth! Makes for a good snack in between meals -The beans can also be used as a spread on crackers -The tamales are made of corn dough. You can buy those exact tamales and they last a long time if you freeze them. Cheers!
I picked up a Russian Federation military and civilian meal several months ago. While my boys and I was trying it we mentioned how you did these videos. My youngest ran and found my steel mess trays and said "let's get this onto a tray". We liked those meals.
Steve, because of you, my 8 year old son requested menus 2 & 3 for Christmas since he'd already had menu 1. It's something we share together. We put it on a tray. It's pretty nice.
I'm more used to seeing tamales in the corn husk and pasteles in the banana leaf. I'd have known not to eat it in either circumstance, but I'd have gotten a little surprised by the banana leaf wrapping on a tamale. Looking it up, it appears Honduran style tamales do use the banana leaves though.
I'm from Oklahoma, and I have a Native American background I was laughing my ass off too! It was like he never even seen a tamale! They are everywhere where I'm at.
Not all cultures take milk with their coffee, learned that the hard way when I went to Lithuania back in '93! Learned to drink black coffee pretty fast. When back to normal when I returned to England.
I reckon Steve is actually a Spanish-American war vet. All the MREs and Amphetamine-laden WW2 rations have kept him well preserved. The 1989? That was the last time he took a dump without medical intervention...
As an Honduran, never in the world I would have imagined you trying a Ration MRE from my country. I will enjoy thissss so much, we do things a bit different over here lol
From the looks of things, 90% of the ration is basically just individual serving packets of common off the shelf goods from a grocery store. It IS different, and not necessarily in a bad way. Most MRE's are built to last 3-5 years in storage and at least 2 years out in the field, so you have one big bulk purchase of these things and squirrel them back. But there's something to be said from sourcing local, it's something everyone would recognize at a glance, and know and like the taste of. And these things still have reasonable shelf lives, usually a year or two, so if you're requisitioning these things annually instead of every 5 years or so, you don't have to worry about them going off and not having any stored back.
@@Picasso_Picante92 Yes sir. All of these items look supermarket bought, tbh I thought there would've been more gov't made items but I guess the money isn't going into sustainability. The tamales are probably Tamales El Carmen, these are listed on Amazon for $14. The beans looks like they're on there too, Campofresco refried beans. These are some of the things I would've bought for spring break back in the day!
@@ComotoseOnAnime As a ration this thing really sucks. It's heavy as hell (3.1 pounds versus a First Strike Ration's 2.8, which probably has more than twice the calories), it's full of very fragile, low-density stuff, and the packets of Zuko are absurd, those packets are for like filling a cooler at a football game, and they give you two! As a portable MEAL for like, camping, this looks like a lot of fun. But for a combat ration it leaves a hell of a lot to be desired. You never ever put liquids in a ration, it's just wasted weight. The cornflakes have no nutrition and are wasted volume. The crackers, chips, and cookies, again, wasted volume because they're like mostly air.
I heard some anthropologists found an urn of honey in an Egyptian tomb and ate some of it. Supposedly, it tasted about the same as fresh. 4500 year old MREs for dead pharohs...that's pretty impressive. Not as impressive as it would have been if Steve reviewed it, though.
to be fair actual genuine honey doesn't spoil AND does not leave a crust on top that hardens. If that happens, it ain't real honey despite what the tin says
Found this week old muffin still packaged and figured I could eat it considering what Steve does. Took a bite it was fantastic. Then saw mold on the otherside and threw up. Steve is a legend.
My God thanks for showing off the MRE from Honduras 🇭🇳 i never thought they will have there own. My hone country has a lot of surprises and these one is 100% amazing.
Tamales are usually cooked in corn husks or banana leaves. You don’t eat em lol but I’m impressed and amazed they could do that in rations. Love this ration
Yeah, I've spent time in Belize, Gautemala, and Honduras. I noticed that in the interior/highlands they were usually cooked in corn husks and cooked in banana leaves around the coast.
24 hour MRE's are always my favourite to watch. I like the older and smaller ones, but when they usually just contain candy, soup and crackers, it's hard not to prefer watching a different culture's way of feeding somebody for a day.
Having eaten US MREs all my life (as a military kid in the 80s and 90s, my dad used to pick up cases of them from base and we'd take them shooting, hunting, camping, and hiking), it astonishes me what some countries put in their MREs. A lot of them are staples for the country and culture, and that's neat seeing them. But then you get countries like France or Spain or Italy that look like they really put some top-notch, gourmet-quality things in there. I still remember those tinned squid in ink and the Gallician stew Steve had in that one Spanish ration. It makes the ham slices and dehydrated peaches of the MREs of my youth pale in comparison. (Except for the fruit cake and maple nut cake. Those were awesome. It saddens me whenever I get an MRE nowadays and they don't have one.)
Same, I just got a 24 Ukraine ration so see what it’s like haha. I had lived in Honduras for a couple years, so it was cool to see this one personally.
@@Maria_Erias I remember those, they came after the original Dirty Dozen with the dehydrated pork patties and other nasty stuff and were the best MREs overall because they still had real food in them. The nut cakes and dehydrated fruit were great, but then they started adding all of the commercial junk loaded with sugar to replace them. Those 1990-91 rations were also good because they came with a lot of stuff you could get creative with; the menus weren't too good on their own but we got creative when we were in Saudi Arabia and had literally nothing else to eat for weeks on end. The entrees have gotten better, but the rest of the ration seems like it came from the shelf next to the checkout at a 7-11.
@@Raskolnikov70 Yeah. I don't remember much of the menu variety of the ones I used to eat as a kid, just the ham slices (that were tasty and reminded me of Spam), chicken a la king, BBQ meatballs or something like that... And that's all I remember. The ham slices were my favorite, the chicken a la king was a distant second. The BBQ meatballs tasted like pleh. And I honestly don't remember any others.
As a Honduran, I am profoundly glad that you did not add the ketchup to your tamale. I hollered when you said you wanted to at 17:10 . It would be kind of like adding mustard to your pizza. It just doesn’t go. A squeeze of lemon is the thing to add to those. I’m glad you liked our food. You should try it fresh sometime. Thank you for reviewing an MRE of the land of my birth.
Apparently it was not okay for me to think that putting ketchup and mustard on pizza was weird by my ex. What is up with central america and Pizza, cant you guys just eat it normally?
The Bob Ross comparison is so apt. Who needs tranquillizers when you we have MRESteve? So calm, so positive. It's fun to watch people that are so passionate about their hobbies. Keep it up Steve!
The bag even says it, Kellogg's frosted flakes, the bag is right out of one of those kids' boxes of cereal. :D VERY impressed by the actual tamales, leaves and all!
Steves definitely the kind of guy to go to a friends house. Find out their cooking is disgusting. Eat his way through it and still find a way to give a genuine compliment
I love that they just have a carton of UHT milk in there, that stuff is shelf stable for a few years and since it's basically just normal milk that's been pasteurized at an extremely high temperature it typically doesn't have any chemical preservatives added. The corn flakes also gave me a chuckle, that's clearly a bag taken out of those little boxes of cereal you used to be able to get (or maybe still can get) with hotel continental breakfasts. Overall this looks a lot like the "MREs" people (myself included) put together for themselves using store bought shelf stable foods for camping and backpacking trips.
A lot of budget militaries still have rations like that. Usually they toss in some commercial canned goods or locally available candy in a goodie bag. I'm a little worried by the milk, once you start lugging it around outside in any sort of heat.
@@Peerkons Lets be real, frosted flakes are pretty good. Why try to make your own frosted flakes when you can just buy single serving bags that everyone already likes for dirt cheap. I think the Hondurans made some solid choices when putting together this ration.
Working in public service and the forestry commission I have consumed quite a few MREs through the years. It still seems like an adventure with each one. Love to see the adventures you take us on. Truly classic.
I still want a tour of his bookshelf that’s behind him. It looks likes it’s a treasure chest of cool pop culture stuff! I think he got a nice new HD camera too!
Todas tienen la verdad, me sorprende que fuera tan buena (no lo digo en mal plan), la de Guatemala es un montón de cosas en lata y me daría pena que las comiera Steve
I want to know how long the milk can survive. It's always a bit scary when non-refrigerated milk is involved. One packet of hot sauce for two dishes is a little cheap.
As much as I love the historical ration you did last time, you can’t really beat one where all the food is edible. Bonus points for food you don’t usually see in a ration!
The milk will be bland because it’s almost certainly UHT milk. That is “Ultra High Temperature”. It’s a milk processing method that basically scalds the milk with steam to sterilise it and then it’s packed into sterile packaging, moments later. Does wonders for shelf life and it no longer needs to be refrigerated, but it blows apart the lipids (fats) that give milk it’s body or “mouth feel” and seems very thin tasting. These days the mouth feel of less processed milk is (ironically) replicated by more processing. I’ll bet the label on that carton listed something added to bulk it out a bit. The same stuff is what’s in those tiny milk cartons you get on airliners or trains. Great video by the way. And great to have you back!
Honestly I prefer it, but maybe because it is about the only milk that I can drink without having stomach problems. Have no problem with cheese or icecream and those type of milk or powder milk
I once had a Mexican tell that his dad told him the reason we make tamales on Christmas is because we are so poor we would not have anything to unwrap on Christmas day. He was joking of course but still a good one. I love tamales
Among jokes truths pop up their heads, though, here in Mexico a lot of low income families make tamales for Christmas, they are cheaper than, say a whole ass turkey and other accouterments, but tamales are god tier nonetheless
Steve oh man! Thanks for repping my people. I showed my mom and this is exactly what she would give me to eat, just missing eggs and cheese. We make do with what we have and keep a good belly laugh in our heart. Honduras my patria queried 🇭🇳
Also I wanted to say, those bean pouches are gold and I'm sure one of those is shared by 2-3 soldiers per meal so it lasts. You could eat it cold, make it sweet, or heat it. That's how us Hondurans are. Make the best of what you have and make sure that is good
@@AzuriteCoast thats the things I don't want my cereal overly crunchy. My goal is to get as much milk tasting like cinnamon toast crunch goodness so I can drink it.
Are you sure he wasn't experimenting with making the corn husk part of the MRE? And before anyone says, But why on earth would you do that, just remember. This is Steve.
That was one reason I loved South American milk. It was shelf stable, came in liters (some with a spout), and tasted just as fresh as cold milk from the USA. Surprisingly good whole milk (Leche Entera) that we were able to leave back at the apartment and come back to months later. Eggs were shelf stable as well, which was a trip.
It makes sense why Steve was never sick from the rations, it was Shaggy all along. Amazing ration, didn't knew Honduras had its own rations. You can find most of those stuff on stores but still an amazing ration. Greetings from El Salvador
Wow, that ration actually has a very homely looking breakfast that you'd see civilians eat on a normal work day. That has to be a serious morale booster under stressful conditions.
Day 57: It has been two months since MRESteve has posted. I have watched every one of his videos. I do not know how much longer I can hold on. I can only pray that help arrives soon and we are blessed with more MRESteve
Hey steve im Cody, im 33 from NC, just wanted to say i never thought i would get so much enjoyment from a story like format of contents being unpacked and described. I just came across your videos few days ago and tonight im pulling a binge watching marathon. I wont even watch other channels it has to be yours. The way you set up, present, then go through with such detail, and just the passion you have for bringing the amazing content you do is just truly awesome. Im a loner and have dealt with bad depression for some time now, and nothing really has any enjoyment for me anymore but your channel. So thank you i really appreciate it. And every time i fix food now i catch myself saying "ok so lets get this out onto a tray" lol, but awsome work buddy keep it up.
😂 right! love the way he says “ok let’s get this out onto a tray”. And goodluck with your mental health man. I can relate. It’s not easy. It’s nice to watch someone whose positive and passionate about something. And so descriptive too. Personally it just grabs my attention and I can forget all my troubles for a bit. It’s really fun to watch while eating too. It’s become this habit of mind. This shit makes me hungry.
A HONDURAN MRE! I have a year watching the channel and Never would've imagined seeing a Honduran MRE here. Everything in the MRE can be Store bought and You don't eat the Tamale leaf. It is just for it to be heated better and preserved. Most countries don't eat Fried beans. Foreigners always get surprised when they see red Bean puré. Watching from the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. 🇭🇳🇭🇳 ¡Gracias Steve!
Vivo en EEUU y los frijoles fritos so común aquí. La diferencia es que nadie los come de desayuno como plato típico en HN. También los frijoles fritos en HN son más condimentados y procesados que aquí, entonces tienen un poco diferente sabor. 👍
RU-vid is crazy. I used to watch this guy all the time in middle school. (Graduated and got a career now.) the jack up algorithm comes into play and I don’t see this channel until now. 7yrs later, thank you YT for putting this back in my recommendations. I completely forgot
Aw, Steve. It's a tamal. You just take it out of the husk and eat it whole, like a sandwich. Think of it like a savory Uncrustable. The history of tamales is right up your alley, they were historically used as military rations!
That’s really fascinating, and sounds a lot better than the hard tack that were typical of the time period, I know I would’ve welcomed a Tamale any day over hard tack.
@@10191927 the only thing is that they have a lot of moisture because they are wrapped in a banana leaf. So I’m not sure how well they’d hold up against mold
Amazing to see the similarity between Asian and Hispanic cuisines thanks to prevalent use of banana leaves to wrap and steam certain foodstuff. I’ve never had tamales in my life but they look extremely similar to a variety of steamed glutinous rice cakes in SE Asia.
Parts of Latin America use other ingredients to wrap tamales. I know in Mexico, they use a corn-based dough more often than Banana Leaves. Different areas have different cuisines in Latin America. Like Puerto Rico has Rellenos de Papa and Argentina has Argentine Pizza. Each area has a different food culture, though there is a lot of overlap, but that just makes Hispanic countries and territories all so much more unique.
Oh, there are lots of similarities. I live in North Texas where there’s a large Asian community and a large Hispanic community. Sometimes, people create fusion dishes. They are fire! 🤤 and, of course, everything goes good with rice. 😆 Well, most things.
@@superkamiguru6856 The dough is always made of corn. It doesn’t matter what the country. It’s the wrapping that changes. North Mexico only uses corn husks. Once you hit southern Mexico though, everybody uses banana leaves all the way south. There are a few exceptions. I am from Honduras and, one kind of tamale that we make is made just with the sweet corn and eaten with sour cream and that one is wrapped in corn husk. If it’s got meat in it at all, it’s going to have the banana leaves. Anyway, in spite of all the different cuisines of Latin America, he is still right about a lot of the overlap with Asian cooking. They have lots of different cuisines too, you know. The Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and the Thai do knowt eat the same things. Neither do the Filipinos. But, there are certain things that they have in common and, some of those they even have in common with us.
That orange pack is indeed for a whole liter of water, it is almost entirely sugarcane based and it is often seen as a cheap Tang knockoff. Nothing wrong with it though.
That brand is all over Latin America and they have tons of flavor options. They aren’t really that much cheaper. They just have different more Latin-based flavors.
Yeah, those drinks are available anywhere there are central and south American populations. I've seen them in NY, LA, and Texas. Usually folks will buy a gallon jug of the stuff. Sweet and tangy, but don't taste of juice. It's like someone whispered orange into a bag of sugar and citric acid.
@@andyoli75 yeah I had them in Honduras and then they are all over here in AZ too. I don’t really eat/drink much sugar anymore so I can’t remember the orange flavor much.
That looks like something I'd put together for a backpacking trip here in Peru, except I'd go with powdered milk. The Hondurans do tamales like the Peruvians, with banana leaves, not like corn husks like the Mexicans. Cool! Good job Honduras for not going crazy and reinventing the wheel with the MRE.
También usamos hojas de plátano, son usadas por lo general en el sur y el centro, de forma tradicional, pero como consumidor normal las puedes comprar donde sea.
“Let’s get this out onto a tray!” I seriously think I relaxed when he said that. I felt the cosmos suddenly become aligned in some peculiar unexplainable way.
Here in Costa Rica we make similar "tamales" as tradition in december, they are packed with pork meat or chicken, rice, petit pois, a slice of carrot, with a similar corn base, with condiments, all wrapped up in that same leaves (banana tree's leaves) and it's delicious We don't have army so no Costa Rican rations for you :(
@@Flackon no you don't eat that, the leaves are there because the tamales are cooked in boiling water, so the leaves protect the tamal while it cooks, then you store them with the leaves and all in the freezer, when you want to eat them you put it in hot water for 20 mins
@@robertobrenes5283 Agreed, in Trinidad we are very nearby Venezuela and they are very different. Venezuela makes them giant (family sized), with pork, beef, whole boiled eggs and dates. Trinidad 'pastelles' are small and quite flat, typically beef, with spices, olives, raisins. the leaf and corn/masa are the only similar parts, really.
“This is like the perfect breakfast to my morning; a bunch sugar, carbs and caffeine” this is my new favorite quote from Steve, right next to, “Alright, let’s get this out onto the tray. Nice!”
While the store-bought nature might seem a bit low-tech compared to the US and other militaries, I think the folks eating this would appreciate something that tastes normal and might remind them of home
Honduras has never deployed their national guard anywhere else -- they are already home! there literally is a bodega or a tamale cart everywhere you go inside Honduras.
@@RangerCaptain11A They deployed to Iraq. One Company in the Central American battalion, in the Spanish Brigade, in the Polish Division. I am not sure if they did only 2 or 3 rotations. Honduras was also part of the deployment to the Dominican Republic in 1965. I’m pretty sure they have done some UN deployments as well.
@@samobispo1527 honduras sent a few hundred to iraq to clear landmines, but the deployment to haiti was only american units based in honduras. i cand speak about the 1965 stuff, i was in elementary school back then.
@@RangerCaptain11A I would have to check, but think they sent some troops after the Haitian earthquake. I may be confusing their air self deployment with El Salvador’s, via Israeli made Arava aircraft
There's nothing wrong with store-bought. The Aussie CR1Ms are full of store-bought stuff, repackaged or not. They just have more of it, not necessarily better of it. Steve didn't know how to make mi-goreng noodles or how to mix-match food on one of his Aussie meal reviews. How would he know how to make 1L of orange beverage drink, or how to eat tamales and beans in this one from Honduras?
Yo, Steve! Thanks for the upload. I was surprised by the breakfast component, cereal like this is actually a super rare, expensive and un-traditional item for Latin American countries. A corn drink, Maizena, would be not only more available, cheaper and better suited for a ration, but also popular in my opinion. The boxed milk, however, is the most common way to buy milk in Latin American super markets, and is usually fortified with vitamins and added oils and butter fat.
UHT milk is all over the place in the middle east as well. They don't have the infrastructure outside the cities to store and distribute tons of fresh milk in refrigeration, so boxed is the only stuff you'll find in smaller towns.
In Honduras cereal is pretty common, in particular corn flakes. There’s several Miami-based companies that sell cereal for a really cheap price in Latin America. Usually milk comes in powder form, and this milk box likely has a higher water to powder ratio so that’s probably why Steve thought it tasted bland.
Nature Valley is owned by General Mills who also owns Kellogg's. It may be as simple as the salesperson saying "hey, if you take the granola bars and the cereal I can get you a great price"
The Zuko is for a liter of water. I've made and drunk more of that stuff than I care to admit to. All kinds of flavors are available, not just the orange. Milk that doesn't need refrigeration is huge in Central America and last a LONG time. As others said, the leaves are banana.
Watching Steve try out an MRE is like watching my kids opening their presents at Christmas, brings a smile to my face and fills my heart with joy! Keep it up Steve!!
Watching you eat the banana leaf I was like 'oh please don't do that" adding sugar to beans might sound strange to a Latin American but I Asians eat sweet beans so it might be good. Great Video Steve, glad to see you back. I wish Mexico made MREs.
It's also common in parts of Africa. My wife is from central Africa and she always puts sugar on her beans, with palm oil as well usually. It's not so bad!
I don't know about a whole pack, but you add a teaspoon thereabouts for each can of beans the way my family makes them... but they're pretty spiced with sofrito, lard, and cumin, so.
Steve you did well tackling the tamale! Also you’re right, beans are definitely for the morning and I’m amazed at your assessment to suggest that, so very spot on. Would be epic to see you do more central/South American MREs!
As a former soldier, everytime I've seen your reviews of US military MRE's I'm like "Interesting, don't missem don't ever want to eat them again." But when I see these foreign ones I'm like "Damn, that looks taste-eeeeeee!!!!"
