American reacts to: Italian and American soldiers swap rations 

Give him pineapple pizza and you have a warcrime

Listen many years ago I caught ration friendly fire this isnt funny 😐 lhahaha

@@DieGurke_ snap some spaghetti in front of him and you're straight to the Hague

@@DieGurke_ you’d have a war declaration.

In Germany we call this a "Nuttenfrühstück" hooker's breakfast.

Maybe the cigarette can be replaced by a cornetto, cannolo or similar, depending on the region. :)

@@bastian6625 nah definitely cigarettes

@@sac5608 Nah, not so much. Don't know anyone who does that, or see many people doing that.

@bastian662 just ..no it cannot. you can have just a cannolo in ADDITION, the cigarete is not up for trade .P

I am Italian and I never ate Minestrone lol

@@mrHello420__ You're trying to say you never had a well-filled soup?! 😱 By the way, do you live in Italy or are you an American who pretends to be Italian?! 🤔✌🏼

@@pietergreveling Nono I am born in Italy. But in Southtyrol ;)

@@mrHello420__ Sorry, I had to ask, but you probably know how "Italian" or "Irish" Americans are! 🤪✌🏼

@@pietergreveling Yea yea sure haha ^^

In Spain the emergency ones in Spain are a bag for the whole day. But the campaign ones are three boxes (breakfast, lunch and dinner) with cans and various things like chewing gum. a toothbrush, powdered milk, powdered soup, fire starter, matches, a small single-use oven...

In .se we have 24/48h rations, I tasted one of the us ration last exercise, it was sweet as hell, got somth called "cheese spread with jalapenos" sounds very artificial. Got a second one I have not opened. Menu 18 Beef Ravioli in meat sauce.

The rations I received during my mandatory military service back in 1987-1988, when we were doing field exercises, were already for 24h.

Italian MRE combat rations are one bag as well. These are campaign rations

Somehow I expect some wine in a French mre ?

​@@Maverick21491no but in Italian mre there is a cordiale....❤❤

Rations are used when you are on mission. Would be awesome to have a field kitchen out on missions but they are in the bases obviously.

i second that. i do love whole peanuts though.

When your in a combat situation and you are hungry you don,t give a shit

@@smek22071975 Yeah, lots of energy in there.

@@smek22071975 never been but i would assume i wouldnt be all that hungry at that moment.

Peanut butter for me is one of the most tasty things ever.

First of all, why is that offensive? And second look at the video again between 7.14 and 7.17. The Italian says it is bolognese.

@@smek22071975Thats the part Im talking about. Unless you have some hearing problems (you should have that checked out), he very clearly doesn’s say bolognese unlike what the subtitles suggest.

It's not offensive in the slightest. The thing he's referring to is called ragù bolognese, or sauce bolognaise in french, aka Spaghetti Bolognese (though it's not served with spaghetti because they can't hold the heavy sauce). Now for him and most Italians the combination of "Ravioli" and "ragù" makes it obvious that he's referring to bolognese (or at least some type of hearty sauce), but for many people outside of Italy, they don't automatically associate ragù with bolognese. Most people probably think of ragout, a hearty stew. So for them Ravioli ragù/ragout would likely be ravioli with meat chunks and vegetable chunks in some sort of stew.

Go to Croatia some are even better than Italia

But you have to carry a lot water and plastic waste with you. Most european MRE can be eaten cold (ravioli are total fine at room tempreature) or even contain item that dont need to be heat up (chocolade, canned bread, cookies, ect.) and there is no need for extra water to prepare the meal.

Sound like you were in paradise. I was in the German army, deployed in a Dutch camp (1(NL) Arty Bn RA KFOR 1) in a comunication squadron in KFOR. Sleeping in Dutch tents, in wich you got baked during daytime and the canteen was only open 3 times a day (the camp didnt even had a own kitchen), but at least all you can eat

@@wolf310ii I know what you mean. Were you in Ohrahovac with the 11 AFDRA or Prizren?

@@MarcelL-DM My battalion i was deployed to was in Prizren, but my squadron (sqd because it wasnt even a full platoon) was in Orahovac. When i was there, '99 a few months after the start of KFOR, it was the 1(NL) Arty Bn RA, thats what my engraved Leatherman says that they gifted us at the end.

@@wolf310ii I was also part of KFOR 1 as part of the NSE. We did all the supplies to all Dutch camps. RE stands for Rijdende Artillerie and means or Horse Artillery. I later became a sergeant with the Gele Rijders and you probably remember the distinctive hat they wear 😂

@@MarcelL-DM I can only remember one of my tent traded a bottle of booze for one of that hats (only 2 bottles of beer per man and evening was allowed, because of the dutch rules), but cant really remember how they looked like, alsmost no one wore a hat in the camp. What i can remember is the dutch pants, were you could take of the legs and the dutch girls wore them one number to small as hot pants

maybe there was something even more ofensive than the pizza in it and she couldnt bring herself to give it to him :P ...not sure what that would be though... maybe one of those yellow square things labeld parmesan?

I've seen it, was wondering what it was at first😅 Then it hit me😂

Just look at all the military bases all around the world the US has, for their gunboat politics, then you know were the taxes are going.

I've heard "Meals Rejected by the Enemy"

Yeah here in Germany peanut butter isn't really big. You probably can get it in most supermarkets tho. Some german produced american style peanut butter. It's not good and pretty useless for cooking. Personally as I love using peanut butter/peanut paste for cooking, I buy the dutch ones in a asian supermarket.

Not US fan boys but people that go to the gym love peanut butter. Cheap high protein low carb snack. Black people often buy it too.

MRE arent for feeding 10000 soldiers for months (do that and you have a mutiny after a month) and that would be logistical way easier than having a kichten and canteen with a huge staff, cooking all day. With MRE you only need to airdrop a few palettes with MRE once a week

name me anyone on this planet who dislikes Italian food.

@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor Some people who only tried the fake "italian" food outside Italy.

@@TheGabbia 1000 points to Griffindor!

True

Of course pasta at both! It's carb heavy which is ideal for a soldier on deployment

All the K rations - of every country - have the same calories (4000).

Each dealy pack has 3 toohbrushes 1 for each meal.

The Italian is not a MRE but a K-Ration (an old K-Ration, the Italian ratio has no longer the stove for several years) that is used in mission and contain the food for an entire day.

I don't want to be mean but the Spanish "bricks" are much better than that Yankee thing. I have eaten some and they have very good preserves. The only problem is that you have to heat them with a kind of oven and I suppose that in the rain and in the countryside you need to be covered and dry.

Italian? Are you sure it’s not German food? Because Americans love hamburgers There’s not a single Italian food being shown on Statistia wich is a very reputable website

Then comes back two hours later with something you didn't order, mutters "Vaffanculo" and expects a tip.

does not expect a tip but everything else is on point 😂

your country does what????😂

@@wisteria3032 What I wrote, good tasty food instead of snobbery. We prefer that over boring food put on piedestal. (Italians are fine though, no hard feelings.)

@@herrbonk3635 🤣🤣🤣 I know, there are a lot of "pizza snobs" in Italy but I think it's a bit different. Let me use just pizzas as an example because otherwise it will take forever So, if you take the basic pizza - marinara and margherita - they are not boring at all. they are simple, which is very different. But there is a big difference between being pizza snob as in "knowing how a pizza should taste and if the pizza base or sauce is wrong you point out that that pizza or that pizza place is not up to standard" and being a pizza snob as in "oh my gosh what did you put on this pizza, this ingredient is totally wrong, there are only twelve kinds of pizzas and everything else is wrong!" I have been once to a pizza place that was snob in the second way. And their quality was definitely not up to the standard they themselves decided 😅 I did not get back. If you think about it the problem is non-existent because the pizza was born as a hard bread dish with something on it that was saucy enough for the bread underneath to get flavoured. which meant you were supposed to eat what was inside the dish and the dish itself. that's it. nothing more complicated than this. And for example the "marinara" is just sauce because it was aimed to sailors (hence the name) because it was just the base and the sailors would put the fishes on it themselves. So all the pizza purists as basically wrong. I myself when I was young and reckless did try pizza with ananas - and I hated. I simply think the flavour was all wrong. Someone on the internet told me I have to try it where it was invented and not in Italy where they hate it and I agree. I would like to point out that in Italy we have figs pizza in a lot of places and that's really good but you will never find it sold because "you put what on the pizza???" So, I was really curious with the banana and curry thing. I hope you are at least referring to two different pizzas 😅 but if it's good then it's good. What is important is that the dough is well prepared and well cooked, that the sauce is not too oily and that it doesn't feel like you ate a brick. If you cook it well we can discuss the flavour and preferences. Most of the pizzas we have today have resisted centuries and the recipes have been perfected overtime. If I invent a new pizza it will probably have problems in how the flavours are balanced and how they change when it's cooked and how much liquid the dough absorbs and so on So often enough strange pizzas are bad not because they are a bad idea but because they haven't had enough time to get balanced. sorry for the pizza essay 😅

@@wisteria3032 Ananas is good with pork, but I don't care much for it on pizza, especially no as a ring. Because it's too wet and also too dominant in that context. A sliced banana (not raw!) works much better with the ham and curry over the nice thin bread with cheese and tomato sauce that is a pizza.

@@herrbonk3635 so it wasn't a banana pizza and a curry pizza but a "curry and banana" pizza 🤯 where are you from? As an Italian I feel it in my blood that I have to diss it but I really want to try it first 🤣🤣🤣

MRE arent for getting stuffed to the brim, there are just for not giving away your position to the enemy by a growling stomach