American tries a Swedish Combat Ration 

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And I am in Denmark, watching an american in Korea, trying swedish rations, containing stuff from Denmark 😂😂

@@briankristiansen821 it all comes full circle lmao

Samwe here that give me memories back to the military.

@@CombatArmsChannel so long as you start to pronounce it as mysle and not muisli i think we will all be happy, btw swedish, hence my being a bit of a word nazi :)

might also include peach, passion fruit or mango

So tropical fruits or flavors? Make sense.

Oh okay so flavor in general is exotic there. Got it.

Dont forget mango & banana. hihi

Exotic can also include cocos or starfruit, kiwi. Usually the term exotic means fruit that are not the most common tropical fruits. This has thou been mixed up when businesses started importing more direct from countries of origin since exotic (rare/unusual) fruits paid better than fruit labeled as tropical.

it was originally made for topping cakes and stuff but as a child, we would simply eat it straight out of the package just like you did.

Chunky nutella

Don't kid yourself. It's nut cream!

Glad they can now be had in bigger plastic box, which is super to eat, so darn good. Nutella might be ok but taste so darn artificial compared to Nöt Cremé

Being abroad not eaten that cream since i was a kid basicly really makes me want some right now, i could eat a jar of IT 😀

lmao username checks out

@@CombatArmsChannel me watching this at 11pm lmao

Haha this is so damn true. Love watching these at night.

Im such a loser im actually sitting here 23 PM a friday watching. I was supposed to just check youtube fast before going out, but this was too interesting. And that is despite i live in Stockholm Sweden.

It generally does yeah

yes xD

Yeah pretty much

It usually refers to fruits such as pineapples and others from that general area.

Exotic fruits in Sweden is things like pineaple, mango, papaya, banana and kiwi, in other words mostly fruits that isn't native to Sweden or Europe. So yes i would guess that it'd be what english speakers would call tropical fruits

Yes... kids all over sweden😬

And grownups...😉😊👍

And we born in the early 60s! We are very ripe now, beyond grown ups, and overgrown!

@@dmg4415 And still won't share a Nötcreme with our grand children ;)

@@BosisofSweden 👍🤣🤣

Ffs hahaha then you’re best friends when you’re drunk 🤣

@@melyssa8585 Yes definitely, I love norwegians. But I hate losing against them.

@@erik.... it’s like Canada vs USA haha neighbours and friends but always gonna compete haha

As a Northern Swede* No one cares about competing with Norway down south, Denmark is where it's at!

​@@Brakvash Well everything above Skåne is not the north you know.

😅😅😅

Oh goodness! I knew I should have "mönstrat", I've clearly been missing out!

@@lottaleissner497 Jag tycker att du missade mer än bara rationer! Det är aldrig försent ;)

@@lottaleissner497 mönstrade i Augusti! Rycker in i sommar!

I've got a friend who also was on that mission, guessing it got old pretty quick ^^

They still try though

@@angrydragonslayer Yup. I never pay any heed to that. 300g bag of chips, serving size 35g...

@@d1ckyj0nes i still remember when those 200 gram chocolate bars had a serving size that was 1/8 of a square

I dunno. 70 grams per 100 grams is insane. When it has such a big text on the front saying 70 grams of protein it should be correct for the bag. It's probably more than a 100 grams of powder.

@@fredosinsemilla3896 my friend uses pureswe whey, it says 76% protein on the box And it tastes like it Note: milk has an absurd amount of protein in its natural form and this is a distillied product, whey isolate, mixed with stuff to make the taste and consistency endurable (normal whey isolate has 90% protein but it tastes and feels so bad that it's unsellable)

Yes they make quality food👍🏻

McDonald's has it as a dipping sauce in Sweden. That really says it all

Well mayonaisse is also French. I'm just flabbergasted this guy had never tried either of them. About the mayo I think he's lying, but I will give him the benefit of a doubt.

I wonder how the first english speakers who read the name of that sauce reacted; "Dear lord, are the french so tough that they make sauce out of bears?!"

Bernaise is just thicker hollandaise with terragon.

@@ceselb and wine, shallots, peppercorns and chervil. And more commonly served with meat where hollandaise is mostly served for fish. Except in Bearn apparently where it's traditionally a fish sauce. I think of Hollandaise as Bearnaise without these things :)

We have a saying in Sweden "An army walks on it stomach", if you eat good, you preform good...

Also things not made by the lowest bidder

@@murphy7801 Couldn't agree more

@@murphy7801 well we have that to unfortunatley

Its kinda smart. If Sweden is invaded and bombed. Food can still be served. They will have to bomb Denmark to have that supply stopped.

it was probably still to weak, what you consider strong coffee we consider water... from the looks of that video and the size of his cup most swedes would have used 4 or 5 of thoose tubes to get drinkable coffee

mostly i like my coffee strong as fuck. good pointers of great coffee is if the spoon can stand in the coffe or if it curls when touching the coffee. 2 cups at 0700 2 cups at 1100 1cup at 13 and 2 cups at 1500 Thats like a regular workday for me :P

@@mortil If you don't instantly shit your pants after the first sip, it's not strong enough.

Haha sweet

Lite nyfiken, hur får man ett sånt jobb? Låter riktigt intressant

@@T0x1s1 Ett treårigt fysikerprogram (högskolenivå) som du måste komplettera med en tvåårig masterutbildning med inriktning mot meteorologi. Jag gjorde det mesta inom min tid i försvarsmakten under helger och ledigt, men civilt är det samma väg. Går nog snabbare då. Är inte så svårt som det låter. Nu jobbar jag bara under vinterhalvåret med det, mekar med bilar och annat under sommaren men det är en bra jobbmarknad faktiskt. Har en känsla av att vädret kommer locka ännu mer människor i framtiden så som det går utför nu.

@@gundalfthelost1624 Häftig! Tack för infon! Du kan inte säga vart exakt du är baserad eller är det känslig info? Hela känslan att vara borta längre tid i norra Lappland låter bara häftigt :)

@@T0x1s1 Oj shit missade din fråga. Är för det mesta placerad några km norr om Abisko nära gränsen till Norge. Finns inga vägar dit ens, får flyga helikopter så det är roligt.

Gandalf the lost. Älskar namnet! Särskilt med tanke på att du jobbar mitt i ingenstans.

Nowadays they're a bit of a rarity with most the meals being made by Leader, which are much worse.

@@VarvasNukka they are absolutely worthless. If i remember correctly we had like 70packs leftover when we got out😂

Blå band is pretty rare, one of the few good things inside the ration, other stuff is just soy garbage.

The couple of times I had to resort (well, we, as the whole company) to the MREs they were horrible :D But I did my time with the FDF in 2002, so likely things have improved from there. :P At least one can only hope :D

@@tapioperala3010 today they are just pure soy and rice, only real meat is the 1-2 small packs of tuna you may find in some rations. Once conscripts get their hands on the MREs they fly straight in the garbage

The orange cake is the best one by far imo. Never seem to get it though.

No you collect a bunch of sani wipes and then sniff them all before battle in the back of the troop transport that's what me and my group used to do :)

I also like it funny or maybe crazy that these food rations are very complex you need ages to prepare them and then you have huge pile of trash. Lots of those trail walkers on pacific etc. Long trails cold soak their food. This is arctic pack so it isn't good idea to have those foods which aren't dried and which you just heat also cold soaking is a bad idea, because food freezes. There are titanium cups with screw lid so this kind mess kit would be ideal, but made of steel of course. Heat water when you make breakfast throw food in it for sokaking and put cozy on it. Drink mixes in pouches, why not those hydration tablets in tube. (Steel) tube with 5 to 10 tablets and refills when needed. Some times you need 0 other days 5. Those bars etc are most of the times 2 to 3$ a piece, buy private label mars, snickers etc. candybars 30c a piece and they are tastier. Of course those have less protein, but they could add it in those foods. Usually most of those foods have textured soy protein and some flavouring, lots of salt and msg. and they taste quite same. Sometimes they have good ideas in army but sometimes bad. When I was in army (Finland 8 months) they used to bring food in insulated tanks on those days in forest. But logistically it was easier to bring them once a day and sometimes with next day breakfast. 6 am they bring food and you can believe that 6pm dinner isn't warm anymore when it was colder days it might be frozen. And that breakfast next morning with -30C orange/apple, fruit juice, hard rye bread and frozen butter wasn't very filling and energy rich. Those days they had same energy calculations for lecture days and field days. "You don't starve in a week or two" "in war they had much less" etc. Nowadays they have adopted same system like others, those 24h mre packages.

Finland’s sak är vår 😀

I loved the pansar kex. Theese crackers and what ever coffe was avaiable.

@@secularnevrosis don't forget about the liver paste, at least the "guld burk" version was good with pansar kex,

@@secularnevrosis pansar kex sounds like the german Panzer Keks, and it prolly is pretty much the same, loved them 2

Yea Pansar kex and dödsman fingrar awesome stuff =)

Do not forget “Kronans Guldburkar”, classic ration food from the Cold War 👍🏻

Kinda a slavic thing aswell. Apple soup is pretty common in some parts of russia and latvia

My mom always bringed those fruitsoaps on ski tours!

I grew up eating it cold for breakfast, together with cheese and ham toast.

:) I am an American living in Sweden. My first time seeing fruit soup was here in Stockholm. After 12 years, I have not been brave enough to try it.

@@magsbayou You 100% should. It is very sweet, but with alot of taste. If you are freezing it is perfect to take some soup instead of for example tea.

And i guess the pronunciation of blå band would be something like: bloo baand. And müsli is pronunced like finland spell the same word: Mysli

To bad he didn't get a ration with outmeals wet food in it. Those meals are amazing when your hiking or anything like that.

@@Nubbe999 å is pronounced allot like "ou" in the English word about, or "au" the German word blau.

@Käpyeläin lol that one always come to mind when an american tries to interpret written swedish

He nailed it for being American.

Archer

Lmao 😂😂

and dead mans fingers was jackpot of the gold cans, compared to some of the other stuff ;)

haha, when I saw this video, I was thinking that was what he would get. I was relieved/disappointed ;)

Guldburken! We got one each on a field exercise but no one had a can opener so we just carried around this mythological beast that we had heard so much about. 🤣

You open it with the Mora knife. Who ever used the army can opener hahaha

Possibly down to the U.S. typically showing nutritional numbers per a "serving size" instead of a uniform per 100g like we do.

It’s a staple in office lunch cup-of-soup type meals too.

Very common in Finland too. Our finnish MRE:s also have those blå band food bags

It depends which country you are, but you're quite right. Muesli/mysli etc. are "raw" like you say. Mostly wheat, oat, rye rolled, same as used in porridges they might be lightly roasted. Then they have rasins, walnuts and some other fruits in smaller quantities. Those used to basics of musli in 2000 and before. Nowadays they "cheat" and use rice crispies and cornflakes in cheaper muslies. Then expensive ones have much more nuts and fruits like banana, pineapple and other exotic fruits up to 50% of weight. Granola has been introduced us from US and quite often those rolled oats etc are roasted with honey or another sweetener and are more crunchier than in musli. If you give those "classic" old middle european style muslies to kids today they probably wont like them because those muslies arent very sweet and taste like rolled oats etc with few raisins. I think granola or musli with lots of nuts and fruits are really good food in packs like these. High in energy because nuts and sugars and oats with fibers. Easy to eat dry like trailmix, but fibers keep you filled longer and most important it is less likely you to get diaŕrhea with too much fast sugars or high fat content in nuts.

Nothing wrong with guldburk, prairiestue and deadmansfingers 😂

It is french. The name was made to honor the Bearn province

i think swedes might eat more sauce than the french even. definitely more bearnaise at least.

@@noiserrr probably true 🤣

Since ww2 actually

@@SonsOfLorgar Doesn't surprise me :D

Its the non freeze dried version btw.

That's more than a basic translation.

Also, the å is pronounced "oh" (kind of) except without the bend you americans make

@@z3roo0 you Americans? Don’t expect everyone on the internet to be American just cause they’re one of the largest populations on earth.

@Atelier God Let's face it, american english is THE most used language in the world and a large poriton of them are americans as well. The chance that americans are watching this is probably high as well

I would more translate it as blue band than blue ribbon

And if you look good its divided in two inside so you can keep the trash from the food you havnt eaten yet. ;-)

not many swedes eat it with milk. Usually with yoghurt or "fil"

As a swede I will say Finland isnt known for its food in any good way😂 Norway has shit food as well, like sometimes shockingly horrid

Vi får dessa hela tiden nu

I think he knows that already lol but he put it on a plate to see the portion and to show us what it looks like

It used to say on the package "God sak för småkaksbak" (Tasty thing for small cookie baking) but they removed that some years ago.

We mostly got those and ravioli in the erly 2000s, but hell, those where good to when u worked hard.

Hahaha thanks dude

Han relaterar inte till amerikanska standardportioner

Hahaha, so true! Nothing wors then being cold hungry and depleated of sleep. Still remember hallucinating skulls laugthing at me when i did my paddel haha.