The only I thing I've always wanted to point out on how is Steve able to hold the whole tray with one hand without tipping the glasses. It's one of the most anxious thing I've seen
I was in the Army in 1998.. Chili and Macaroni will always be my favorite.. esp. with the tiny bottle of Tabasco sauce that came in the accessory pouch.. Nice!
I get a pang of nostalgia whenever those MRE crackers come out. My grandpa was in forestry and his sector was supplied by army surplus, he'd get to bring home the MREs that were getting old and would always give me the crackers and peanut butter or cheese
US Military logic: ‘Sir, we can either add a boat to our fleet of 60 nuclear submarines our we could give all the boys a good MRE.’ *fade out to sonar sounds*
Not only are we going to New Hampshire," .. "we’re going to South Carolina! And Oklahoma! And Arizona! And North Dakota! And New Mexico! We’re going to California! And Texas! And New York! And we’re going to South Dakota! And Oregon! And Washington and Michigan!.. And then we’re going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House. Yaaaaaaaay!!!."
Dude, I would have those Hashbrowns with Bacon almost every morning while deployed to "Undisclosed location in REDACTED". I'd mix the gross coffee into the granola cereal, hardly taste it and it was a pick me up. Really brought my mood up. If I got lucky, I had the Sausage Peppers on the road, the trail mix really helped on those long days.
@@NN-ix9wf I guess that depends on personal beliefs. I don't agree with the glowies, but that's something a glowie would say right? Since I can't prove either way, no sense in dragging it out.
The hashbrown has now become an endangered species in the middle east due to human predation. Normally, the Hashbrown in its natural habitat flees towards MRE bags when in danger, however human hunters have taken advantage of this instinct and as of 2020, they have been hunted down to extinction.
I've checked out some of the other guys that do this but Steve's reviews are by far the best. His set up, word usage, he explains every little piece and and part of the deal. Has great catch phrases and has a very inviting voice and narration. To think I stumbled across Steve's reviees about 3 years ago just surfing RU-vid and going down the rabbit hole one evening. I stayed up till morning watching his vids. Keep up the great work steve. From one Floridian to another, I salute you sir. Oh by the way, if you happen to read this. I found a kinda wacky, weird mre on Amazon prime, it's called zombie survival mre or something. Anyway they're themed lol I ordered one for 20 bucks, it's the stoners pack lol. It comes with 2 standard mre pizzas, 2 packs of skittle, 2 packs of starburst both originals. I believe it comes with other standard mre fare. Accessory pack and suck, crackers and jalapeno cheese spread. I like the jalapeno cheese but the bacon one is tremendously good as well. When you mix the two it takes it off the charts man. Soooooo good! Anyways just thought you might like to check those out, as to add some content to your page! Cheers mate.
@@Jaytwisty23 , yeah... If the only thing you got out of that paragraph was "it's the stoners pack"? I don't know if the 'stoner' is the one who deserves the facepalm.
After hurricane Katrina near the east coast in NC. We were still recovering from it and were supplied with MREs which really helped. My favorite was the cheese potato scallops one. Everything in it was fantastic.
He could provide such great insights for them. It's one thing to have focus groups and whatnot, but this man has probably tasted everything they currently produce for US MREs, his feedback would be invaluable.
Been having a rough time recently and then a Steve MRE video comes out...maybe this is the universe saying “I got you” Big love to Steve and the community!
Steve’s dinner party checklist: - Mess trays - Mess cups - Robust plastic cutlery - Esbit stoves - FRHs - Only the best retort pouches with gussets - Various beverage bases - Cheese spread fondu - Pleasant spoon music playlist
I’m Chinese and I have had the full range of Chinese milk rations. I thought they were quite good. A specific type that’s pretty similar to mres actually was my only food source for a month some time ago. Now i came to Europe and tried this menu, sausage with onions. It absolutely blew me away. Absolutely night and day compared to what I had before. First thing that I thought of after I had eaten it was “no wonder the Americans are gonna kick our ass if we ever go to war”.
Wait, you mean you didn't know he secretly was solely responsible for getting the raid area 51 fiasco going as a ruse to get in to see what futuristic mre tech they're working on? 😂😂😂
I can understand the desire to omit dessert items, but it is a bit cruel to deprive the guys who actually need field rations because the rest of the Army in the rear is getting fat. M&Ms or a pound cake are a morale booster.
How do they manage to gain weight? Don’t they have to do some intense exercise routines or are they just eating that many M&Ms and pound cakes? I mean Steve is in pretty good shape but I’m not sure how often he’s eating MRE’s lol
@01000110 ! Let's be real here removing m&ms is a dick move or they did it to cut costs. We can't blame their obesity on m&ms when they're eating 1'500 calories per ration at just bootcamp.
After 5 straight years of watching Steve1989 I still love his videos they never get old please don't ever stop Steve you bring so much joy to our lives
I'd rather see the sausage peppers and onions replace the spinach fettuccine of last year, while keeping the hash browns in the 2020 menu line-up. That should've been the ticket. Oh well.
Fuck the spinach one, my dorm chief got that one one lunch chow, popped it open and it smelled fuckin awful. He didnt even try to eat it and just got stuff from some other guys around us.
As an italian who's grandma made peppers and onions regularly, I am deeply offended by putting cheese spread in it. On the other hand, as a vet, I totally get it and would probably do it too after a couple weeks in the field.
I'd venture a guess that your grandmas peppers and onions were in a different universe of quality and taste though! My grandma could barely cook unfortunately.
Steve - “this coffee tastes like flat swamp water” Me - “how the hell would he know what that tastes like??” Then I remember it’s highly likely that Steve has in fact drunk flat swamp water at some point.
🙋🏼♂️ my cousin and uncle (his step dad) were giving each other a hard time about tang at a holiday dinner once... I stifled my laughter thru about 15 "tangs"...but when my uncle aggressively said "I prolly had hot tang before you were even born!" myself and my cousin's girlfriend lost it. Then everyone else, including my 80 year old grandma were belly laughing. 😂 Been a long running joke ever since.
I'm currently in the US Army and while in an FTX last week I had this MRE for the first time. However it now comes with beef jerky trail mix instead. I wasn't a fan of that but the sausage was honestly one of the best MRE I ever had.
Steve's underrated talent is his music, his shit sounds like the hot new dungeon synth release every music blog is raving about. Drop an album on bandcamp, king
He's been doing it for years too. If you are into this sort of stuff, look up the first few Mortiis albums, ie everything before The Smell of Rain. Which is a fine album itself, but Mortiis went in a more goth/industrial direction after that. Everything before that is pure ambient dungeon synth music.
I was actually thinking Steve is the only one who's doing this quite simple (sound wise) midi synth formula, but then like a year ago I discovered that Dungeon synth exists, and hundreds of people are doing a very similar thing. Still want HIS album tho, love his compositions.
I don't even remember how I found this channel so I'm now convinced it was fate. This content is everything I didn't realize I needed and I am *here* for it.
To me what's comforting is the thought of hard fighting soldiers sitting down for a dinner by a far out base, just settling down after a hard fought battle
I've always said he'd be PERFECT relabeling these as ASMR. He's got the PERFECT male voice for it. Right up there with Fredsvoice and The French Whisperer.
I’m in the Marines and my unit still has yet to see this sausage one. I still firmly believe the hash brown one is on the highest tier of MREs and going to be hard to beat. I’ll edit this post in about ten years when I finally get the chance to try it.
"Sunflower oil.... That might go rancid in three to five years, of not well stored." :Steve saves two: Five years later: "Hm... Wasn't stored the best. Lets try those craisins.... PLAH, Yeah! Ugh! They're bad." :eats the rest: Twenty years later:"Lets try these again....Last time wasn't the greatest. Aw.. Oh yeah....Not right! It's Foul!!! I am NOT eating those.... Well, okay, just one...."
The musical stirring and the fact that he doesn’t acknowledge it is one of my favorite things in all of RU-vid. It just makes me smile every single time 😁
I continue to live vicariously through you, Steve! I like how you start out by tasting the meal elements on their own and then mix them up. I have yet to disagree with your flavor combos. Thanks for all you do!
Most if not all food service is like that, we're just used to it being rebranded on the consumer side ("McRib" for example). The government is like f it, they get what they get.
I mean that is a food truck it's a truck that has food on it so a deuce and a half loaded with rations would be a food truck cause it's a truck that has food on it
@@ghostface1529 If a deuce and a half has to be airdropped from a C-130, do they say that they dropped a deuce? (I am guessing I am far from being the originator of this one. Right?)
These mres look so good I’d actually eat these for meals over TV dinners or even some regular dinners , idk why but they look really good Steve’s way of presentation
I'd like to think that some MRE companies do listen to Steve's reviews and try to improve where they can, because as someone else said in another video this is many times someone's last meal.
