Daun kost moi a brot in amerika do speibst di au so fü zucker is do drin. De hom do drüm zwoa olle woffn wos da vuastön kaunnst owa an gschmockn hod kana fa de wiaschtln Gruaß aus österreich
@@woidmensch666 bist kronk des denkt si eh a jeda schiassn kennas aba moanst ana schoffts a brot zum mocha? Da ko i ja glei a sacher fressn na aiso wahnsinn echt da wahnsinn heast
"Is german chocolate even good" Literally one of the best chocolate producing countries in the world... Here's some examples, because the comments seem to be confused about this: Germany exports 17% of the world's chocolate, making it by far the highest before Belgium at 11% and Italy at 7.3% Milka has been produced in germany for the past 121 years even though it is originally Swiss Ritter Sport Merci Moser Roth Kinder (Owned by Ferrero now, but still very much german) Hachez Hachez especially is much better than Lindt in my opinion, and the best german chocolate you can normally buy.
@@murphy7801 Of course, Germany has some of the best chocolate in the world. And even though there are other European countries with excellent chocolate, it doesn't make much sense to differentiate between them, because most of that chocolate is still made in Germany, which is why Germany is by far the largest chocolate producing country in the world.
@@Junakase Given Europeans do distinguish between them and german chocolate pretty low tier here in Europe. Only reason people think germans do good chocolate is that German speaking countries do like the swiss austrians etc. Also it isn't made in Germany what are you talking about? It's the largest exporter of chocolate but thats because makes general cheap stuff that goes everywhere. Iv been to places where make in France Belgium Swissland. They literally have glass windows showing you people making it.
by the way, the reason why german ration packs don't contain cutlery is because each soldier's standard gear contains cutlery and a canteen to cook food in (or at least it did when i did my time)
@@matti_ngb hatten, ja, aber als zeltheizung war eine leere bier- oder coladose mit panzerplatten und schuhkrem effektiver... allgemeine und spezielle grundi von oktober bis märz halt - nur die harten komm in' garten.
@@elrix9725 Bit late to the party, but yeah, it's usually sunflower or dark rye bread^^ If you can ever manage, try finding "Pumpernickel" ^^ It's even darker, also just seeds, but baked for a veery long time so it caramellises a little bit as well. It will usually be packed in foil and holds up for ages too, it's imho the best of the black breads we have :>
Fun fact: Those bread is good for roundabout ten years. 2002 a man found a full box of 50 year old bread and it was still good. It is now in a bread museum.
Schwarze Johannisbeere or Blackcurrant, is not really a flavour that you would get in the USA (because of a historic ban on the plant), but it is loved by most European countries (See British Ribena).
Welche Deutsche Schokolade ausser Ritter Sport und Hachez ist gut? Schogetten und Milka leben von ihrem Ruf von früher. Lindt, Toblerone, Nestle, Möwenpick, alles von der Qualität um Welten besser. Da haben sogar die Italiener bessere Schokoladen.
I ate my last EPA some 40 years ago when I was an Air Force Officer. Was really curious what is in it 40 years later. It's in fact partly the same, partly quite different. German soldiers btw do have a set of metal (it used to aluminum) flatware as a part of their personal equipment, so no need for adding this to the packages. And: An American eats some kind of real bread the first time in his life and has no idea what that might be.
What I remember from a similar time ago (also german airforce) was, that the main meals were packaged in square tin foil packs, and without exception they looked like "Sheba" cat food, same package and a gelatine blob. They needed heating to be somewhat fluid and be palatable. And the bread cracked me up :-) But then, I don't know how I would react to some other countries ready meals...
The bread was funny wasnt it? Thought it was a burger patty xD And yeah, since we always had Feldbesteck with us we didnt need to have anything in the EPA
19:25 as a german it is pretty interesting, watching you eat wholeweat bread with a fork. :D The jam and the meat spread out of the little cans is supposed to be put on this, then this wholeweat bread is actually good in taste. ;)
The bread-in-a-can has most RU-vidrs stumped. I've seen an Australian who, once he got the idea, found it to be pretty good. I've been running on EPA for a while in my time (back when each pack still contained Hartkekse), and would have zero problems falling back on those again for quite some time. As military rations go, EPA isn't half bad.
@@blablubb8615 ugh "panzerplatten" - we usually used them as firestarter, crumble them up with some shoe polish into an empty soup can or something like that, burns lonmg and hot (and sooty and stinky).
In regard to the sesame, they are energy dense, compared to other things pound for pound they are the best and metabolise quickly. If I had to choose between an energy bar and sesame bar, I would take the sesame.
I'm a German Soldier and serve in the German Army. Really funny how you try to figure out how our EPA works :'D The round can was dark bread and you need the 2 jellys and the two cans with the chicken and normal meat spread that's how it works :) Also the "pretty hard bars" are a kind of cookies it's also pretty nice with some of the jelly as well :) we call them "Panzerkekse" you can translate that like Tank Plates xD cause they are so hard and heavy. They would work pretty good as body Armor I think xD And you were a bit upset that there isn't any spoon or stuff like that inside of our EPA and I can tell you that every German Soldier has its own stainless stell Cutlery. So there is no use case for another bunch of Cutlery inside the EPA :) and we have our own ESPIT heat cooker so we can warm up our meal. That's all part of the personal gear of a German Soldier. Works pretty well this concept. But I like your Chanel really much and I served already with some Marines and Army Guys in Grafenwöhr in Germany. Semper Fi my Friend and best wishes from Germany
The real (or old) EPA cookies are called Panzerplatten(Armor Plates). They have the name because the cookies also look like armor plates. One cookie is supposed to replace a slice of bread - that's what they used to say back then. And with some Nutella, honey or jam they taste really good. In addition, they burn excellent if you smear them with shoe polish.
the german military has a set of utensils (cutlery) as a standard issue per soldier. Its called Essbesteck. They also have an esbit cooker issued per person.
4:17 The German and English language are actually very closely related. The thing is that English - *especially* in the context of food items - has replaced many of its original Anglo-Saxon words with alternatives derived from French.
@@brittakriep2938 oh I never thought about meat and Mett because Mett is very specific (ground pork). But Fleisch - flesh also mean roughly the same depending on context so there's that (Fleisch can be meat, but also means the flesh of the human body, e.g. a Fleischwunde is a flesh wound).
@@philipphermann9454 : Well, english and german have the same root, so sometimes also i , Brittas boyfriend, no academic or good english speaker, notice for example meat, which german word has a) similarity b) is of same context, so Mett must be related to meat. Or both a lake and a Lache are waterfilled ( but of different size) and a Höhle is a hole in a rock. Of course this method works not allways.
@@brittakriep2938 my god, this is so cool. You notice similaritys that I never thought about. Sounds a lot like my grandma, she never learned english, but still they were in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and my grandpa was surprised how she communicated. I also love to see her and my aunt from Thailand communicate in a mix of rudimentary english (from both sides), swabian and thai 😅 English truly connects people! Even the both of us as german speakers use english right now...
"sin carne" means "without meat", it's Spanish. Hühnerfrikassee is a typical German dish made with chicken, which I personally don't like too much. Greetings from Germany. Great video!
"The German and English language are so different" .... say what now? Those two a closely related. They have the same origin. Which is totally obvious in most words. The English GH is CH in German. Night = Nacht Light = Licht The English TH is the German D. The English D is the German T. Think = denken Thought = dachte (TH=D and GH=CH) Daughter = Tochter Bath = Bad Death = Tod etc. etc. etc.
There are more patterns if you consider that the north German is more related to old English. In Hamburg the old people still say Water instead of Wasser or Shipp instead of Shiff.
The first jam was blackcurrant. That fruit is uncommon in America, cultivation was banned for a long time in the US and in some states it still is banned to cultivate them. It's a good supply for vitamin C. That stuff in the can is actually a sort of bread (we actually have more than 3000 types of bread here in Germany), Pumpernickel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel That's a new EPA, the old ones had different stuff in there. For example crackers we nicknamed "Panzerplatten" (armour plates). I think the name tells you everything you need to know. And the coffee was so bad, it was nicknamed "German neutron bomb" (human dies and cup remains intact). We had no sesame bar back then, but two packages of the "armour plates" hard crackers. Scho-Ka-Kola was introduced in 1936 during the Olympic Games. During WWII it was called "aviator chocolate" because it was in the rations of German aircrews. Now there's also a milk chocolate version of that available, for that they used blue colour instead of the traditional red. Every piece of that chocolate has 12.5mg of caffeine. Energy drinks usually have 80mg per 250ml. One of these cans contains 200mg caffeine. A healthy adult 400mg of caffeine per day unproblematic, for pregnant women it's half of that. That's the reason the modern cans are labeled that pregnant women should not consume this chocolate.
sesame or these bars in general should "hold your shit together" Dietary fiber and carbohydrates so that the intestines work well. Every German soldier has his own cutlery. The first jam was "black currant" These jams are made by a large, well-known company for the Bundeswehr. The rough difference between apricot and peach is that the peach has a hairy skin and the apricot has a smooth skin. for many, the taste is almost indistinguishable. The first cane was bread... butter and then the jam on it. If there is already a description or translation, you should use it too, often things taste much better if you prepare them the way you intended them to be! Let google translate if necessary
Johannisbeeren are currant berries. It's blackcurrant jam. (Strawberry would be "Erdbeere".) Scho-Ka-Kola is caffeinated, but not with artificial caffeine. They mix in actual coffee powder and cola nut extract. It's more noticeable in the milk chocolate variant.
EPA have changed a lot over the years. The older versions had 2 precooked main dishes in mylar tins that could be heated either in hot water, close to a fire or even on a hot engine, without adding extra water. And they were relativly eadible when they were cold, right out of the tin if there was no option or time to heat them.
they still there, what he is consuming is the try food one aka EPA leicht which exists a long time (1999) to, its thought for artic climate as the wet versions would freeze at this climate.
In Fact the Scho-Ka-Kola is really old. It is also called , especially by older people, „Fliegerschokolade“ which would be translated into „pilots chocolate“, because in WW2 pilots would often get it to consume it during flights. :)
@@coolerfish5383 Actually no. So called "Fliegerschokolade" only ever contained caffeine and Kola nut. The stuff with the metamphetamine was called "Fliegermarzipan". Though the confusion is indeed very common.
Sesame seeds are just extremely dense energy and lots of micro nutrients like iron and calcium plus its protein combines very well with protein of the other foods found in the ration I think.
That Scho-ka-kola is a caffeine pumped chocolate. Googled it and it is indeed German but i've seen and tasted those in Helsinki, Finland. Funny you said it sounds like Finnish and me as a Finn wondering why :) Enjoy your videos, keep up the good work👍. Maybe one day we will see a Finnish Ration up for try ;) Oooh yea and I have a video suggestion for you -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-itkEV-eOVG4.html
It is also quite a lot of coffeein in there, I use it on important events or if I am sleepy, it kicks in like a coffeein tablet but is healthier. It is also known as Panzerschokolade (the chocolate without meth in it, the Fliegermarzipan was the meth indused one)
Schokakola is a pretty popular pick-me-up caffeinated chocolate, it is sold at most gas stations because truck drivers like it when they have to drive long distances.
Hmm, I think german and english are actually very similar. The big differences are that english borrowed a lot of words and especially the writing (all the "ou", "gh", "ue" stuff, also the not-melting-words-together) from french, and had some different vowel and consonant shifts. The rest (rest - Rest) is germanic like german, so there are a lot of words (word - Wort) that sound or look similar, even moreso if you take german dialects into account (e.g. look - luug (allemanic)). Some things also come from latin and a lot of those words are also leanwords in German. Some more examples? Here they come: come! - komm! meat - Mett (Mett is ground pork) flesh - Fleisch (Fleisch is also meat, we don't differenciate between animal and human) bread - Brot tea - Tee oven - Ofen open - offen mix-(ing) - misch-(en) bull - Bulle so - so grass - Gras fat - Fett And many more...
@@Juhani96 Ah no you misunderstood, we don't get a spork, but a fork, bottle and can-opener spoon and knife that can be attached to eachother for storage and carrying. But they're used seperately from eachother. www.asmc.de/media/image/90/14/f3/35202-0.jpg
Btw, Schwarze Johannisbeere is black currant. It was meant to be spread on bread. We like this for breakfast, especially on Sunday. You are so much fun to watch. :-)
During my time at the Bundeswehr (1995/96) we had the old EPA - the one with the "Panzerkekse" (-> literally armored cookies) instead of bread. You could easily feed on those for two days AND still give something away. In addition, the armored cookies (smeared with a little shoe polish) could also be used well as tinder to start a campfire.
I am a civilian from Canada. However I have spent some 2 months in the wilderness. I drank iodine water and I drank bleach water. So my theory is. The juice may taste gross but it tastes better than the straight purifier tablet water . Helps you get the water down when you rather not. With iodine tablets it also discises the colour as well.
rye-bread keeps you stuffed surprisingly long. Way better than any wheat-breads and a few slices can be a filling meal. Not to mention that it is somewhat healthier. It can also be a side-dish for hearty foods like soups.
You would've found some matches(Streichhölzer) in the package with the napkin. And thank You for trying to pronounce german words You didn't know - it made me smile bright on a rainy das👍🏻😎
You tasting the bread might be the funniest thing I have seen in like a year xD ... its whole grain bread with "Schrot" (not fully ground grains, only somewhat crushed), water and salt. Great stuff if made properly, the ration type is propably not the best example.
Try a new german one... and if you need some help with translation.... enlisted guy is here for you! Greetings from a german-american cooperation. Keep your stuff up! Love it!
If you ever get the chance, I would for sure recommend Korean Army rations/ meals. If you havent already tried some already having served in Korea. Like any rations they can vary from awful to delicious though 😅
i know i might b a little late, but i used to dissolve the chocolate bar in hot water and drink it as a hot chocolate, went well with the crackers that came in my EPA's ;) And the whole Sesame thing is just to support you digestive system they contain a lot of fiber and oils.
Einmannpackung literally means "one man pack". Trust me, the shine was knocked off these things in a darn hurry if you had to live off those for an entire week in Biwak. And they weren't quite that generous in the early nineties as they were made for a 20 year shelf-life back then. I ate an EPA in 1993 that had been packaged in 1982.
schwarze Johannisbeere = black currant. your vegie burger is rye full grain bread.. it is kind of popular in Germany. But there are also many people who do not like it... the best way to eat it is with cream cheese and a ham made from chicken breast. chilli sin carne = without meat (sin =spanish without) chilli con carne = with meat (con= spanish with) Hühnerfrikassee is kind of a chicken ragout it is usually eaten with rice.. i used to hate it as a child...
The stuff in the can is full grain rye bread. Delicious with any kind of spread pate, cheese or even the sweet spreads. If you have some, first spread some butter on it, then the spread which can be marmelade or sausage or cheese. And a lot healthier than white bread, because it contains the nutritients of the whole grain shell ...also no chemicals added.
Things that you may not considere typical german but wich are very very good in (or from) germany: chockolate, coffee, tea, white wine, fast food, water, sweeties, cheese.
