British Guys Taste Test French MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) ft @ashens

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We've gotten hold of another MRE kit - this time it's the turn of France! Will this French ration kit contain food of Michelin star quality or shart? Let's find out!
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@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

Stuart's Channel ru-vid.com/show-UCxt9Pvye-9x_AIcb1UtmF1Q Taste Test Playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLfItiEY3o1ms_LsGHRM2shtBdgffPTx0R Canadian MRE with Ashens ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-43_PwMhziGo.html Spanish MRE with Ashens ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i_hJxi-3LLw.html

@matthewwilson9749 28 дней назад

Ashens. You and Barry have such a great chemistry together on the camera. The friendship you two have is hilarious

@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

He's one of my best mates in real life, pretty cool that we met at a RU-vid thing in London by sitting next to eachother randomly

@kelvinc 28 дней назад

They should do a joint channel. Then they can try more foods, like blending a Big Mac into a milkshake. 😀

@margiblackwell6811 28 дней назад

@@kelvinc They had a channel called Barshens and I MISS IT!!!

@Szriko 27 дней назад

@@margiblackwell6811 I assume that was the joke. Eli was the best part, anyway.

@Josh12323 27 дней назад

We must all offer our bones for the resurrection of slepp

@alexdavis5766 28 дней назад

A 3rd Ashen’s collab, wow, we are lucky! This needs to be a series for all the MRE’s you can get

@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

hey yeah they were all filmed on same day, we will prob do more

@antster1983 28 дней назад

@@mrbarrylewis You could've had Eli on to pass judgment on the amplitude or modularity of the items within.

@prizegotti 28 дней назад

I'm assuming you mean 3rd MRE collab?

@adrianmaxwell5857 28 дней назад

@@mrbarrylewisI would say it’d be fair to allow an indoor safe heating element for future ones, rather than having to eat stuff cold

@theblode1337 27 дней назад

@@prizegotti goodness me i sure hope so else mr alex davis has a LOT of catching up to do

@theMrromeijn 27 дней назад

Ashens can never say "Bloody hell" without me thinking "Are we still doing this?"

@mathboy1066 28 дней назад

Would never say no to more Ashens on the channel. Nice one mate. ❤

@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

Cheers

@Jackalblade9 27 дней назад

I'd love to see you two do more MRE kits, but I'd also watch you and Ashens reading the instructions for a dishwasher.

@Superpom40 27 дней назад

Should do more of these. The playlist could be called "Rations With Ashens."

@eloquentlyemma 25 дней назад

That is genius👍🏻👍🏻😀😀

@Tactical_Hotdog 28 дней назад

I love how Barry is always thinking of enjoying these in a nice scenic location, rather than on active duty somewhere not quite as swish as the centre of Paris.

@Timmycoo 27 дней назад

"let's go on a picnic to those beautiful scenic hills down at the spot! And we'll bring our multi-country MREs as our meals!" To be fair, not comparing to being in the service or anything... BUT when I go backpacking, things taste a LOT better for some reason lol.

@brianm6337 27 дней назад

@@Timmycoo It's the fresh air. I can prove it. Make 2 identical meals. have one at home, and take one out with you on a hike.

@Timmycoo 27 дней назад

@@brianm6337 I dunno about that. Might be something behind it? But I still feel it's psychological lol. I can drive to a lake 20 miles away and bbq up some food that tastes way better. But hey, what am I to say. Just anecdotes lol.

@OptimusSledge День назад

You might enjoy a German one in the middle of Paris.

@rodentoftheastrowaste1414 28 дней назад

14:42 Frenchman here. You know, yes, talking about our love for food and wine is a bit stereotypical but it's the sort of cliché we're mostly okay about. And, if we're honest, since we genuinely talk all the time about eating, it doesn't really feel like a caricature. We tend to be this obsessed with the subject indeed.

@Timmycoo 27 дней назад

I do love talking about food and eating all the time though. One of my fav things that my wife started me doing is talking about "what are we gonna eat next?" RIGHT after we just had a meal lol.

@rodentoftheastrowaste1414 26 дней назад

@@Timmycoo Oh, yes. Basically, you can cut the journey between the times we're considering what we're gonna eat, the times we're commenting on what we're eating and the times we reminisce about the previous meal. Not much time outside of that.

@JohnGotts 26 дней назад

Food in France is amazing, because people care. Nothing to be ashamed about. Even the lowest end options like McDonald's have extra touches to improve the taste experience.

@blackmore56 19 дней назад

UHHHH!

@AgentTasmania 26 дней назад

Fun fact: most of the stuff in these French RCIRs are military specific but deliberately designed to look like commercially packaged products, for that little extra bit of positive eating experience versus the typical minimalist beige.

@rcrawford42 24 дня назад

That makes sense, but the colorful packaging must make it harder to conceal/dispose of.

@lewishewitt943 28 дней назад

BARSHENS !! Seeing the two of you together always makes me SO happy

@CricketEngland 28 дней назад

It’s not Barshens their is no Paul or Eli

@CragScrambler 26 дней назад

@@CricketEngland Dude your gonna make me cry, they need an reunion lol

@Cruelboypurple 26 дней назад

Barry and Ashens are so good together, maybe they should even have a collab channel called Barshens that for sure would not end up dying years ago... 😢

@pippamercer3241 28 дней назад

Love these types of videos

@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

Cheers, hoping to film another batch soon

@forteandblues 28 дней назад

French MREs are known to be some of the best in the world.

@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

Oui Oui!

@brianartillery 28 дней назад

I've had one, and concur wholeheartedly. I saw Steve 1989 testing one, and the contents of it were so outré, (Ostrich in cranberry sauce, for god's sake, which was the crown on a load of other yummy stuff), that I bought one, immediately. Did I share any with any of the other blokes on my shift, that night? No. 😆😆😆

@TheCotzi 27 дней назад

and the worst are Spain

@FroggyNight 28 дней назад

Ok, it’s the 3rd time you’ve forgone hot entrees for lack of heater but you have hot water? Just get a larger shallow container and fill it with the boiling/ hot water. Then put the entree cans in it. Don’t forget to vent for safety. Let sit until warm, and enjoy. Keep up the great work, both of you!

@MaddieChou 27 дней назад

Sitting through 2 brits calling rillettes : "paté" 😂 Love that format of vids. Well done guys

@Ozuhananas 13 дней назад

I've heard worse, my Portuguese cousin called foie gras "pâté" the first time he saw it 🤣

@lapinmalin8626 6 часов назад

je me disais bien aussi que ça ressemblait plus à des rillettes qu'à du pâté :')

@CricketEngland 28 дней назад

4:10 well it is a 24 hour MRE including breakfast lunch dinner and snacks

@Myonexis 28 дней назад

That makes a lot more sense, i thought it was just meant to be dinner for some reason

@thumbsarehandy. 27 дней назад

That's what I was thinking, I appreciate the confirmation! Seemed like way too much breakfast foods to be for a single meal.

@fiiv3s День назад

Is that a common thing in other countries? I’m just so used to the single meal US MREs

@flemtone 28 дней назад

After the next MRE sugar filled binge I'd love to see you two go head to head on old console games.

@blankenmom 27 дней назад

Watching you two eat MRE's like watching my kids eat them when my husband (US) would bring his extra's home. 🤣

@kristenblount8422 28 дней назад

I could watch these two all day! Another great video. Thanks 😊

@chrisnorman6658 13 дней назад

Any Ashens collab is my favorite of ALL content. The way you two act is like dorm room mates but with years of experience behind them. My partner and I would love more MRE videos, Japan ones would be interesting, aussie ones, British ones, Ukraine ones, Italian ones, Egyptian ones, etc. please make more and more and more. Stuart is always a joy to watch and has humor to play off no matter the audience. Keep up the great work.

@Wemius61 28 дней назад

Always a treat to see you two working together, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the MRE videos (more please!). It was also nice to see Stuart having something nice to eat for a change!

@danaridings6387 28 дней назад

You guys need to get a coleman style camp burner. Can be used indoors!!! Can of fuel used. They are fantastic to have for power outages too!

@thesteelrodent1796 28 дней назад

other brands are available ;)

@danaridings6387 28 дней назад

@@thesteelrodent1796 there are, that’s the only one I could think of.

@igormalusevic 27 дней назад

One tip for eating high quality dark chocolate with high percent of cocoa is to take piece of chocolate and stick on the roof of the mouth and wait to start to melt then sip litle rum (some good quality too). Also crispy bacon dip in melted dark chocolate and wait to harden... It is mental how good it is.

@lschmitt 21 день назад

14:20 The idea remembers me that scene in the movie "European Vacation", that they're at a restaurant in Paris, and they serve canned food. 😂😂

@anumeon 28 дней назад

Thanks be to the god of RU-vid. I was literally wondering about when the next one of these was to show up earlier today. And here it is... :) My favorite dynamic duo. Barry and Stuart. :) So we can now conclude that the French get the Barshens seal of approval. Surely worth its weight in online gold.

@OmarKhanUK 28 дней назад

French Ration Packs are BY FAR the best out there... possibly with the exception of the Italian's who inlcude a shot of liqueur!

@joejohnson8789 8 дней назад

Module B has legendary status. Did a training exercise with the Bersaglieri a few years ago, they said it's like striking gold when it's issued to them since they just sell the cognac to the non-italians

@samhenwood5746 27 дней назад

I love these combinations , you are both really funny 😄 The food looks quite yummy & thanks for sharing Barry & Stuart 🤪

@TobyBorrow 28 дней назад

Check out some of the Baltic MRE’s - dosent matter which side of the Baltic Sea. Reindeer stew and so on

@_Ekaros 28 дней назад

I can't remember any reindeer in Finnish MREs... At least not in the ones we got...

@TobyBorrow 28 дней назад

@@_Ekaros Steve1989 has a few rations from around the Baltic countries - I include Sweden and Norway in the term Baltic

@TobyBorrow 28 дней назад

@@_Ekaros I grew up having a few friends from that part of the world. They introduced me an Australian to some pretty new dishes. Wonderful as I do enjoy my food

@rcrawford42 24 дня назад

Russian MREs teach you how many variations there are of kasha.

@bluej511 28 дней назад

I was waiting for this. Oui oui oui. You can tell why US the military would trade 5 US MREs for one french one. Pretty sure it's literally just supermarket items unlike the US made ones that are used in many militaries, that are made in a lab in Massachusetts lol.

@rcrawford42 24 дня назад

I have to say not just in Mass -- there's a plant for the primary US shelf-stable food producer just a mile from where I work in Cincinnati.

@bluej511 24 дня назад

@@rcrawford42 I was referring to the facility where they're developed, not sure if it's still in Natick,MA but that's where it used to be :).

@lapinmalin8626 5 часов назад

@@bluej511 apart from the tins which are impossible to find, everything can be found in stores in France Cans from French MREs are better than cans from stores when I talk about cans I only talk about main dishes rillettes (called pâté in the video) are high-end cans And we can't find canned cheese in France

@smokeysteve8851 27 дней назад

I have missed these two doing a video there amazing they should do more

@barryhampson5147 27 дней назад

Love these series you do, always great to have a collab/special guest taking part. At the end you should put together your own MRE kit with your favourite picks from each kit you have tried.

@SamTheBattleshipp 27 дней назад

I like watching these to see what food there is

@karleedu 28 дней назад

Love watching you two do these MRE's!!!!

@TheUKMediaWatch 27 дней назад

Like the old days 💯😉👍🏼 Wholesome video , love a bit of Baz & Ash ❤️😎

@DarkInugami92 27 дней назад

Barry's hatred for cold cheese will always be bizarre to me.

@rcrawford42 24 дня назад

A co-worker claimed to be unable to eat cheese -- except on pizza.

@psychorabbitt 27 дней назад

You guys need to find one of the older Italian rations that had a little tube of brandy in it.

@kevinpatrickcarey3741 27 дней назад

Steve1988 says they are very rare

@MrBombphoon 26 дней назад

I had a lasagne in a tin from a French MRE once and it might have been because I was sat in a field in the rain but I thought it was really good.

@akantiia 28 дней назад

Barry and Sturat are such a fun combo to watch, I am really enjoying these MRE meals!

@KarlFarbman 28 дней назад

"Muesli neutral" - appropriate for a Swiss creation...

@thesteelrodent1796 28 дней назад

so you're saying a Swiss MRE is entirely void of flavour?

@Msfelixthecatz 28 дней назад

O wow that tuna salad looked amazing! Barry, would you consider recreating the recipe for us? :D :D

@danielsantiagourtado3430 28 дней назад

Love these type of videos! You're the Best! And ashens too 🎉🎉

@ThePokeproject 28 дней назад

Can never get enough of this duo!

@MrGazzw 28 дней назад

Really cool, definitely do more of them

@joeyisidor 28 дней назад

Oh wow!!! Another Barshens video! 🤩🤩🤩

@CricketEngland 28 дней назад

Hardly no Eli or Paul

@YsCelia 28 дней назад

If you're wondering what they're actually saying when they speak French (most of these are fairly easy to guess, but here you go anyway); 0:30: This is the three/third. 2:29: Spot on, spoon in french is definitely "le spon". Yep. (it's "cuillière", if you're wondering) 2:50: I'm gonna "go" the chocolate in the water. 8:45: I'm sorry. 12:16: Shall we eat? / Ashens: Why yes! 14:50: I am very impressed / Ashens: Why yes, my.. my brother. 19:23: On the plate. (yeah, this one wasn't very hard)

@KeefsCattys 28 дней назад

I seriously need more of this kind of content .

@emilybartlett7524 27 дней назад

More of these please 😍

@MrAshtute 27 дней назад

As someone who has eaten these in action you need to adapt to your lack of heating options and heat them up...they do taste better

@BlokeOzzie 27 дней назад

Something was missing... no tray. This all needed to get onto a tray. Nicely.

@rcrawford42 24 дня назад

Steve's review of the emergency ration from, the Boer War made him my hero.

@hlouise91 26 дней назад

Love these videos of testing the MRE’s, but I reckon we need an ‘MRE’s of the world - championship table’. Score all of the kits based on categories out of 5 points e.g cold drink, hot drink, biscuits/snacks, main meal, desert/sweet then tally up the points and place it in the league. I do think the French one would rank quite highly

@topmandog1 28 дней назад

id love to see you buy another french one and serve it

@mrbarrylewis 28 дней назад

There's a video in that!

@danielsantiagourtado3430 28 дней назад

Ashens and Barry are the Best combo! Yay❤❤

@youtube.commentator 28 дней назад

Love seeing too two collabing again

@tristambre632 28 дней назад

a spoon is called a cuillère in French :P

@PerMortensen 28 дней назад

Nah mate, I'm pretty sure it's le spon, like they said.

@spoosh13x13x13 19 дней назад

Truly love the MRE series.. Can you to do a USA more next would love your take on both a old school and new one.. As they have changed hugely over the years and old ones were bad and these new ones are amazing.. Anyways keep up the grate content and thank you for creating and sharing this with us..

@Turnbull50 28 дней назад

With the Muesli maybe you should have not opened sachet as wide as you then the amount of water would be less. great video.

@JeanBagarre 28 дней назад

The paté looks more like rillettes to me

@lenalyles2712 28 дней назад

I have eaten lots of MREs from around the world and the French and Polish were the best ones. One thing all have in common is way too much sugar and salt in them.

@komkwam 28 дней назад

That is because sugar and salt are used as preservatives.

@rcrawford42 24 дня назад

And when troops are in the field, energy and electrolytes are important.

@JohnnyReb272 27 дней назад

Every man who ever served anywhere in the world knows that the French have the best field rations. Although I actually had a Russian ration once that was almost as good. I was surprised.

@whitneybravard5562 20 дней назад

You guys should put the tins in hot water to heat! I bet it would help so much. That's what Emmy made does too! Love the videos.

@larainewalker1795 26 дней назад

Oh please do more videos together. Your such fun.

@overheardatthepub1238 27 дней назад

I bought a container of curry from the local asian market. Got it home and noticed the best by date was in 2016. This was a few weeks ago, mind you. Opened it up and saw that the curry was sealed in a thick plastic bag and crammed inside the round container. Opened the bag and filled the container. Used it that day. It was wonderful. Had a minty aroma. Did not taste anything off when I used it in a dish. Sell by/best by dates are generally BS.

@user-zg8gn1mf6o 27 дней назад

You guys just work together ..theres a chemistry that just works ever since barshens you have always been great together

@markclayton8417 28 дней назад

More MRE's and more Barry and Ashens please

@shamsal-ani3626 27 дней назад

PLEASE BRING BACK BARSHENS!!!! You 2 are the friendship we all need but don’t deserve!!

@Oddlot0930 28 дней назад

My theory is that the hot cocoa would be best improved by adding crumbled up nougat when you add the boiling water.

@eloquentlyemma 25 дней назад

When I was scanning the comments, I misread your comment as the cocoa being improved by adding cucumber!! I think that it’s probably a sign that I should stop scrolling through comments and do something else for a while.

@mephustowest1876 26 дней назад

I would love to see you take the MRE and make a meal out of it. I think that would be so interesting

@bradasstv 28 дней назад

The guy I first watched and the other guy who introduced me to the first guys channel... I'll let you figure out which is which 😜

@brenda-b5u7o 26 дней назад

Just figured out how to watch you on my phone been watching on tv

@cw6082 27 дней назад

Top 5 favorite youtube colabs much love from canada aye

@NekoiNemo 28 дней назад

After Stuart said "it's enough in there for two mugs" i expected one of them to look at the camera and say something along the lines "and there are two mugs sitting here". Tell me i ain't the only one

@CricketEngland 28 дней назад

Sadly you are the only one

@harrygood4783 28 дней назад

The Soup reminded me of a Vesta boil in a bag meal which was a bout in the late 70s, which was designed to transport you around the world with a culinary experience ( didn't work bl££dy horrible ),

@icarusthefoolish 27 дней назад

Haven't finished watching this yet but i already know it's gonna be as good as the last two, I'd love to see you try a german MRE don't know what's in em now but it would be interesting I'd guess. Edit: German MRE's are called EPA's which means Einmanpackung (One man package)

@Dazzwidd 23 дня назад

The ad-lib duo of all time 😂

@MrGrimsmith 27 дней назад

The milk powder in the muesli has been standard for a long time now, nowt new there. Also remember that's a 24 hour ration, not a single meal. The snacks are to tide you over between meals so calorie dense but easy to eat on the move. You really should try a British and a German one too though.

@neenjakiller 28 дней назад

I wish I could have tried that jam with the salted biscuit and cheese, sounds amazing

@TheDaringSpoon 27 дней назад

maybe a bit of the dark chocolate in the hot chocolate to give it more milky flavour

@MinorLG 27 дней назад

Usually the thing to do is mix chocolate, coffee, creamer, and sugar together. I'm personally not a fan of coffee, so I'd leave that out.

@earthwormsally5211 14 дней назад

The boys are back in town 😂

@Dazzwidd 23 дня назад

Hey there Garybaldi 😂 Did the incandescent ash fall on your crown 🤣

@kingfish4575 27 дней назад

French MREs are usually ranked some of the best in the world.

@samos4924 27 дней назад

Next round it'd be interesting if you did some plant-based rations/MREs.

@ms.c.parker8137 27 дней назад

I thought you can probably do a sort of sous vide with the tins and put them in boiled water to heat them up a bit instead of having them cold since you can't use fire in the bunker. Love these ration vids. you two are hilarious together.

@aleckpons2773 27 дней назад

Can you try to recreate some of these, like the pasta, chilli con carne, coffee bar etc

@BastetFurry 26 дней назад

A wild Ashens and no brown couch? 😮😅

@Nikibella1 28 дней назад

Oh please try dutch , the Netherlands MRE , i think its really bad or maybe not? 😅

@briancoleman9330 27 дней назад

I'd love to see more!

@smeghead1 27 дней назад

I definitely like these videos but I think you should do it outside or in the kitchen and heat the food up like you are meant too

@TomKayll 28 дней назад

Let's get this out onto a tray. Nice!

@shelleystevens6675 28 дней назад

Hi guys, u need to try get hold of Korean box. Seen on Korean Englishman looks amazing and self heating!!

@jokool_aid 28 дней назад

If you do decide to try more MREs with Ashens, I'd love to see if you can find some American military rations/MREs (preferably in date).

@HA05GER 27 дней назад

If you have a kettle just put the mre paxkets in the kettle and hold the button down for a few mins.

@Kustonius 27 дней назад

I hope you guys will do try a Danish one at some point, I think we might still have Nutella in it

@emmadavis535 27 дней назад

you know i got some regular instant oatmeal and it had that fill line on the bag thing and the thing I was thinking is, that's a different amount of water depending on how you're holding the bag. I don't think you get an accurate water ratio with that method except by luck

@Dreju78 27 дней назад

You really could have put those cans in some hot water before opening / trying those.. Also; get a Polish ration; I wanna see you break your teeth on the panzer waffles 😉😁 (they're unlevened to be shelf stable but that makes them really hard - the rest of the stuff in the MRE you might like actually)

@mathewdoe1577 27 дней назад

Definitely need to do a korean one with jolly/korean Englishmen

@Tala_Masca 28 дней назад

Brilliant to see you two ! But... Not able to use the heating thing does not mean having to eat everything cold. I mean, come on, ashens has a kitchen doesn't he? 😂 Those round little things in the soup are not onions but vermicelli. I recognise those tins. I don't know I'd they still exist here but there was a brand that looked like that, and it was all 1 person meals. Very okay to eat.

@Itsgaryjerry 28 дней назад

Does this class as Barshens? Just lovely to see you two together

@MmntechCa 28 дней назад

At least it's better than what the French were feeding their Olympic athletes. Chevre is goat cheese. Only thing missing is the pack of Gauloises and a juice box of vin.