Americans try an expired Ukrainian Meal Ready to Eat 

сніданок (snidanok) - breakfast; обід (obid) - lunch; вечеря (vecherya) - dinner/supper. don't know what the prefix of "sn-" means in breakfast, but "-idanok" seems to be a dimunitive form related to їда (yida), which means "food" or "feast", but is rather archaic. the modern word for food is їжа (yizha), obviously related but a bit different. the prefix of "ob-" in lunch means "about", so lunch literally means "about eating"/"about feasting"/"about food". вечеря (vecherya) for dinner/supper translates to something like "eveninger" and is related to вечір (vechir), which just means evening. first package (сніданок - breakfast) contained: сіль (sil) - salt; галети/ґалети (halety/galety) - some type of biscuit, the word is from french "galette"; цукор (tsukor) - sugar; кава (kava) - coffee; волога серветка (voloha servetka) - wet wipe; the meal was: preserved product with meat and vegetables. beans and meat. beans with vegetables and beef meat. sterilized (yes, it's weird bureaucratic speech for meat and beans, don't know why it is that way, but that's why the google translate said meat so often) it is supposed to be something like a morning beef stew with beans, carotts and onions. (yes, ukrainians tend to eat warm and hearty breakfasts. not everyone, not always, but this is for soldiers who do hard work. obviously you can get your croissants with butter or scrambled eggs in ukraine too...) second package (вечеря - dinner/supper) contained: salt; sugar; biscuits; wet wipes; мед (med) - honey; чай (chay) - tea; сухарі (sukhari) - crackers (the literally are called "army wheat crackers", but in ukrainian you can switch the words around so it says "crackers army wheat" but it still makes the same sense as if it would say army wheat crackers); the meal was: preserved product with meat and vegetables. porridges and meat. rice porridge with pork meat. sterilized third package (обід - lunch) contained: salt, sugar, darker crackers, tea and so on. the meal was: preserved product with meat and vegetables. porridges and meat. pearled barley with chicken. sterilized; first lunch dishes. soup with porridges based on meat broth with pork meat. sterilized; some sort of jam, couldn't read the name. as the war is going on in the soldier's own country, they get fresh products and preserved products from home (partners, parents other relatives) and cook much of the food fresh. can't speak for every unit of course and not for the immediate front line, but they get fed quite good there. germany is sending a shit load of canned food. saw several pictures and videos with canned soups and meals from german supermarket chains, saw many videos of soldiers cooking fresh stuff or being fed by the local population too. and obviously the rations the ukrainian soldiers get are not 3 years expired. that's a thing for the russians, who had rations from 2015 with them when they attacked in 2022. p.s. read a few months back that they have all vegan meals now and even kosher and halal ones.

Hi from Ukraine. It's a pity you didn't get to try them (health first), they say they are quite tasty, if you have the opportunity to buy the current Ukrainian ration I would look at it. Glory to Ukraine

Your rooster was highly offended by all that meat 😂

The second bag you’ve opened was Dinner (Вечеря) And “Обiд” was the last, which was the Lunch😉

It says med.... Because that's the word for honey in most Slavic languages 😂

"Meat with meat" is Google being confused by very dense overthinking language required by our counterpart to FDA. Manufacturer need to explicitly describe everything in a predetermined set of terms: 1. Its a "Preserved meat with vegetables" (as opposed to meat flavoured mystery goop). 2. It is called "Buckwheat soup with chicken broth and chicken meat" 3. Less regulation more culture thing -- we say "meat of pork/chicken/beef" when we talk explicitly about muscle tissue.

I think it's not "fair" to review it while its expireed. I also think using one right now which is not expired is not a good idear, becuase they need them atm somewhere else for a better use.

Its a shame you couldn't try it but of course understandable. It looked like a very good sized ration. With good thoughts in it like.. healthy combinations. Well.. in general 😅

Bit weird it didn't translate the honey but just the letters. UA is probably the largest producer of honey in Europe. I hope you guys find a non expired UA MRE one day, but then again I can only assume these are currently in high demand due to being needed in an actual war.

Heating instructions on bags say: "dunk it in boiling water for X minutes, do not microwave in bags"

8:23 you just want me to comment, don’t you! 😂😂

We somehow ended up with a box full of that hardtack, even mice weren't big fans. But when not expired they are about as edible as MRE can be. Love to see they switched atrocious tea to different atrocious tea and atrocious instant coffee now.

First????? 9:45 hey, a hard tack moment...clack clack...for those that know. Personally, I thought the meals looked ok, plenty of them anyway ... probably glad I couldn't smell them though.

In some places, like where I live, dinner means lunch, and the evening meal is supper. So maybe google translate was confused by that?

Look like one-pot-meals, that usually taste better than they look. Not expired and warm probably OK/good. Most bags have plastics-> no fire.

Never ignore your Mom Joshua. Also be careful @Steve1989MRE apparently got Ecoli from a Ukrainian MRE.

I was waiting for him to say "go home, your moms waiting." 😂

I guess the meals, even though expired, are srill better/healthier than any fast food dishes in the US.

Thee initial rating was incredible.🤣🤣

As a proud Ukrainian who has lived in the USA for 20+ years I loved this video so much! I went to Ukraine last year to visit my family and saw so many soldiers … our soldier are fighting a good fight. Thanks for this 🩵💛

I spent 34 years in the Army and really hated when the MREs came out. You can’t beat canned pears and the John Wayne bars in the old C-Rations. I would trade everything for canned pears and would have 5 to 6 canes of pears in my ruck every day.

Thank goodness you have a video today I already watched Garand thumb and the fat electric man twice 😂

I knew I was in for a treat when you made eating kind of optional during the introduction. To be honest, I have a hard time with microwave meals from the regular grocery store. So MREs are something I leave to others to suffer through. And currants are a berry native to Europe, tiny little berries used often in jam. I do see them occasionally in US stores, but not often.

Awww, come on at least try it. Steve 1989 would have given it a shot.

Very nice Tyler and Joshua

If y'all decided to eat the rooster be sure to use a pressure cooker

Hi from Germany! So glad that there is no smell on RU-vid 🤢 as I'm enjoying my dinner right now. 😋

Most of those barley dishes used to come in a tin, like somebody literally bought it off a supermarket shelf and put it in an MRE. Always stodgy and so thick you need a knife to slice off a piece but they are apparently edible if you haven't eaten all day. never reheated in a fire but yes reheated in boiling water.

I was actually secretly hoping for a Ukrainian one since I recently discovered your channel and was delighted to see this, just a bummer it was expired. As a secret MRE aficionado I remember seeing another video about an Ukrainian MRE (not sure what version) and they did stand out given the extras the had - esp. the hygiene pads they had. Hope you can find one of those. It did stand out to me because it had those things (and some kinda buckwheat main course) that other MREs didn't have. They literally had "shower towels" or something, probably handy if you're in trenches all day.

I suggest next time you use Deepl instead of google translate. It’s more accurate

Supper is "meat/vegetable preserve: "Rice with pork""

In Britain we call school lunches "school dinners" for some reason.

Well, at least you can whittle that hardtack down to a lovely point if ammo starts running low. Lack of morale boosting items and general appearance aside, I appreciate how much food is in this because I am similar to Sergeant Sous Chef in that I'd prefer more main meals to snacks and breakfast items so this is right up my alley. Or it would have been three years ago.

Sure would be cool to see a Charlie Ration MRE cookbook on your shelf, brother. Just sayin'..

So they say 'pork meat' instead of 'pork', 'chicken meat' instead of 'chicken', not that hard to figure out and ignore when reading.

This is like a train wreck…you can’t look away. 😂

Oh, and they do throw in some candy/snacks now. No drink mixes for some reason (even soviet ones had drink mixes).

Those looked like that when they were fresh. Ask Steve, content is great stomach is weak. Man up.

Check all the MRE you have and start doing the ones about to expire or already expire first

The обід/вечеря = dinner ting is weird. But google does seem to think it. Send letters of complaint.

Steve would have eaten everything 🤷

Old soviet block armies always seem to be fed tinned meat, like pate, or barley and soup or stew like dishes, even for breakfast a lot. It's probably filling but most ones I've seen being eaten are bland and tasteless. currents are made from drying current berries guys, red or black currants normally. It's not surprising they don't know seeing as america banned the growing and importation of the currant berries back like 1930s 40s I believe.

So, I checked on Google.... it seems "Dinner" is "Lunch" and then they have "Supper" which I could see translator confusing it as "Dinner" So... Breakfast, Dinner, Supper

I don't know what all this is. But the minimum expiry date has expired since September 2019 🤢😅

Is there a possibility of getting an MRE from the Philippines? New Zealand or Iraq and Afghanistan would also be interesting, if they have something like that.

You guys should try polish mre

Sad its expired package. I think its not fair rewiew becase you cannot even try it, and first package was rotten

Steve would’ve eaten it 👀👀

6:01 canned pork meat with vegetables and groats.

This is an interesting episode

обiд means lunch

What TF is with the roster crowing? It is loud AF.

This time I saw you a little worried 😅

Only try the unexpired rations!!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Ugh, guys. That might not be a good a good idea. WHO ARE YOUR COMMANDERS?

Салонийе огурцы?

incredible I thought they only gave them cookies 🤣😂😅❤️❤️❤️

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You guys need to do a collab with @meancient

Great video❤ Please try the Russian 24hr combat or FSB rations if you can.