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Its his fault for not trying any german EPAs. They are easy to get, and very tasty. Hmm maybe thats it. He is saving his for later, about 30 years or so.
Hi Nathan, "Toppits" is a German brand producing "food" foils. Relatively big name here in Europe. "Schupfnudeln" are a dish from the south-western part of Germany. Originally they are some type of noodles made from potatoes. BTW, I´m pretty sure both mains are from the "Buss" brand and are pretty easy to purchase in grocery stores. Not the worst stuff. "Geflügeljagdwurst" - hey, where´s the problem??? *duckandcover* .-) Pretty standard type of German sausage. However normally not made from poultry but beef and/or pork. I would like to know which brand is the juice. Somebody here who knows which company makes them? The sesame bar seems to be the new (oldstyle) Hartkeks. I wonder if anyone in the army ever tried to make smoke bombs out of them (we did it from the old Hartkekse back then *lol*) Nice vid, as always!
Die Hauptgerichte sind von Buss Freizeitmacher. Die Hamburger werden nicht mehr produziert von der Firma Buss, ähnliches Produkt ist jetzt aktuell das Mexico Hacksteak. Grüsse aus Baden-Württemberg
@@RavenHeart6667 Das Beste von Buss waren eh die Asia-Nudeln. Das ärgert mich wirklich das die nicht mehr produziert werden. Meine Frage bezog sich aber auf speziell den Instant-Saft. Grüße von der Hessisch-BaWü-Grenze
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank Die Instantpulver von Orifo? Manchmal in Army shops erhältlich, allerdings als Grosspackung für 20 Mann inclusive Tee, Kaffee,Zucker usw(AdventureWorld Onlineshop hat sowas manchmal). Einzeln hab ich sie noch nie gesehen.
Looks great! Seems like Germany feeds their soldiers well. Some of the best friends I’ve made online are from Germany. Sending love to Deutschland from USA!
yeah... well if i remember correctly from my days a type 4 is meant to get you through 2 days. it was kinda fun to watch the vid as a german and yes, that yellow/orange bar went straight into the trash bin. Those could indeed pull your fillings of your tooth out so they were commonly named as "Blombenzieher" and LTs hat to order and remind their boys not to toss them into the bushes. i remember one particular field training. we temporary camped at a lake with ducks to eat our MREs. for the life of me i cant remember who started it, but we tried to feed the ducks with the "Blombenzieher". It was all fun and giggles until one of them blocked its airways with a too big and too gluey piece. When we realized that it was about to die the fun was over and the medic and two others jumped into the lake for the rescue. The medic succeded to get it out with the help of some tools of his kit just barely in time. He was not pleased. the LT and the Sarge too. Lets just say the penalty workout and the penalty march back to the barracks we got for it burned into my memory just like the initial fun feeding the ducks.
@@ricwalker6600 No, also a 24h ration. The huge size is due to the packaging. Even in the cold war EPA was using commercial production for the hot meals and jams etc. More bulky then purpose build stuff like MRE
That is a huge ration! Lots of great components and the bread looked amazing but i love rye bread. White cheese and sausage looked killer. Great review Nathan!
It's specifically what's known as Pumpernickel. It's grist (and sometimes whole grain) rye bread. One of the nice things baout it is that it's very shelf-stable for soft bread. IIRC it holds like 2+ years minimum when tinned.
They had those "Hamburgers" even back then when I served, 30 years ago. They were very popular. I preferred green beans with potatoes and pork. Btw: Those "Hartkeks" cookies, we called them "Panzerplatten" (armor plates), were great to start a fire under wet and windy conditions. A little bit of the old shoe polish paste onto the cookie and it would burn like a grill lighter for several minutes.
@@keoken9078No, the war crime was feeding "Rice with Fruit" to a PoW. We once tried to feed the stuff to a Bentheimer Landschwein (that beast would even try to eat Animl Rights activists) and it refused
The card at 2:01 asks to rate the meal. Down below it says: "In order not to jeopardise military safety, do not carry out the survey until you have completed the exercise / mission."
With my half forgotten High school German I can squint and figure out what 3/4 of these are for brotaufstrich, brot= bread auf = on strich didn’t know .... google.... spread! Spread for bread! Yay! Thumfisch in Salatcreme ... you know Heinz British salad creme, it’s basically Mayo, Fisch is fish... turns out thumfisch is just tuna fish... well that’s hardly exotic I really want to get my hands on a packet of that crazy concentrated coffee powder.
Nathen is not Steve that's for sure. I watched that guy eat stuff that would make a Billy goat puke and yet don't think I ever herd him say "that don't sound to appetizing". Now I have herd him say after trying something, " that's an explosion of flavor with rancid undertones" ....takes another bite....... "yes, past it's prime but still good...."
US MRE has a 5 year shelf life requirement. Other countries is usually 3 years. The food has to be different (typically in ways that make it less good) to last 5 years.
Different logistic chains. The classic EPA like this where designed when the german army was training where it would die in case of WW3. So they could go with heavy/bulky food. And most troops (except paratroops) would operate with/close to their vehicles. Throwing a fee EPA on the 2to Unimog never was a problem.
do not forget: this is a full day ration (3-4 meals) and not one meal like most of the MRE. During my army time we shared it with the US soldiers 2:1 one EPA worth 2 MRE. And if you weight this and compare, than you understand efficiency. The tuna was always great...
Good video. But I would have rather seen it divided into more of daily meals. You could have covered more of the items. And sometimes the more you eat of a item the more the unpleasant flavors surface.
Since germany has now a professional army, 20 years ago i was a drafti, they changed a lot. Especially the food. I am active reserve now and the food in my last training was amazing( for military standards 😂).
Did a few years in the German Air Force from 1989 until 2001, that exactly same type hamburger in tomato sauce we also had in our EPA, no big change there...
German military structure hasn't changed. They just suspended compulsory service and rely on volunteers only. The compulsory service could be reinstated with no further notice (and, looking at recent developments, might be). The army is no more or less professional than before. And the EPA hasn't changed much, if at all.
Hmm, ja! Als mein Freund vereidigt wurde, lang, lang ist's her, war gerade Freitag. Es gab zum Mittagessen zwei Gerichte zur Auswahl: Spaghetti mit Tomatensauce und panierten Fisch. Dessen Beilage: Spaghetti mit Tomatensauce. Ein wahres Festmahl, kann ich nur sagen!! 🤣🤣🤣
Another good review, Nathan. Those mains look great. If there actually is rice in those burger patties, this would be intentional. Raw rice gets mixed in with the meat. The rice will absorb the water and juices the meat gives off as it cooks. This has the effect of keeping the flavour of the meat in the patty and the expansion of the rice makes the patty less dense. This gets used in making what is generally called "cabbage rolls", which are very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Harking back to the Croatian ration you reviewed recently. There were the little pots of Podravka brand pastyet. They also do something similar to the geflügeljagdwurst in this ration.
Hey what no way...I just got my boots off and your already done....new sub...eat slower and longer....oh god that sounds wrong....I mean enjoy the meal lol
The german EPA is designed as a 24 hour ration, but it will last for 2 days without any problems. 2 warm meals for lunch, 6 slices of bread (2 slices for breakfast or dinner) with enough meet spread and jam, lots of snacks and beverage powders. Always have a couple of these EPAs in my basement for emergencies. :D The only disadvantage is that the EPAs have no esbit or flameless ration heaters inlcuded, because in the german army the esbit cooker is part of the soldiers personal equipment.
Blimey, our EPAs in the early 90s were a helluva lot less generous. The bicuits went by the informal name of "Panzerkekse" (tank cookies), because it took a Leopard-II tank ro crush them. I never went anywhere near them as I preferred to keep my teeth. The bread went by the name of Atombrot (nuclear bread). You took one tiny bite, it removed all signs of moisture from your body and grew bigger and bigger in your mouth until it threatened to explode your head. One slice filled your stomach for a day. Main course was usually a tub of chemicals with bits of soil in it, euphemistically called "Roast Beef". Considering the stuff was usually already 6 years old and made for a shelf-life of another 6 years, the taste was usually debatable. Good old days of sitting in a Biwak on a damp forest floor for the tenth day flat in late October, cooking up a coffee at 6am on your folding Esbit-cooker...
I love MRE videos and I have to say this puts US rations to shame 😂 they even made the peanut butter packet in the us rations smaller. Nothing says thank you for your service more than reducing the size of the peanut butter pack!
That is not necessarily stinginess, but it could be that they had good reasons for putting less peanut butter in. I'm no nutritionist, but as far as I know that is how it works: Eating carbs makes you thirsty, eating protein makes you tired. Carbs give you short term energy boosts, proteins give you long term energy. Peanut butter has a lot of salt in it and people usually eat it on bread, which means you get 2 things that are thirst provoking in one. The body transforms carbohydrates into glucose to store them and that requires adding water to the molecule, as far as I know. Don't ask me how exactly that works, since the name "carbo-HYDRATE" suggests that there already is water in the molecule, but apparently that is why people feel bloated and get spongy when eating a lot of bread or noodles. Your body stores a lot of water in your cells. I think it is the same with salt, which makes salty carbs, like peanut butter on bread, especially thirst provoking. Long story short, when they design a military ration, they have to put a lot of thought into how many carbs and how many proteins they put into it, to not have negative effects on the soldiers. It isn't all just about calories and morale boosting, it is about providing the soldier's body with the right kind of fuel for the environment and for the task envelope.
@@TrangleC yeah they are thinking of your well-being in every choice they make. Portion sizes have been getting smaller in all products over the years as a more acceptable choice to manufactures instead of raising the price to keep profit margins.
@@TrangleC in a capitalist society we are all producers and consumers. Thought the military might have a slightly skewed system we are still talking about a manufacturer selling hopefully at a profit to a customer.
What a great and dedicated mre review!!! Really loved it and the time you took to prepare and actually eat all of the different items! Thumbs up and thanks for this nice and dedicated review!
thing with the rye bread is the more often you eat it the more you like it, it kinda grows on you. But I can understand the dislike when first trying it :D
I haven't seen anyone try to light matches that way for 40 years. (Using the cover over the match and striker...) I think I was taught early not to do it that way, 'cause the entire book could go up if there was an errant piece of flaming material that came off the match...
Great video and a great review of this 24h mre. It is hard to compare such 24h mre's with the 8h mre's of the USA. I think try out mre's is like trying out what the people likes to eat in this country. Germany has it's bread and sausages. America and England the peanut butter. I like the drinks in the European mre's more than the stuff out of the US mre' s. US stuff has more this fabric made flavor, specially for the drinks.
Sounds like the sort of MRE that might be needed to feed the average American if the shit continues hitting the fan over hear until the point the fan clogs and burns out... For 'most' American's I thank you Germany.
This MRE looks like back from the 90s when i was at the Luftwaffe. And even then there where old. I guy once said i dont eat stuff, that is older than me. We had some packs packed in 1978. "best before 2008" hahahaha. 🙂
It's kind of amusing to see a german MRE with actual ''original'' hamburgers in them, as in this is the dish the immigrants took with them from germany and is what would turn into what most people think of when hearing the word Hamburger. Quit interesting to be honest and i thought they all started to reffer to it as ''Hacksteak'' (Minced meat steak) by now.
Thanks for doing these mre videos your one of my favorite reviewers you have a a good style on how you explain the taste and quality keep up the good reviews I will definitely keep watching thanks again
I was with German AF in the late 1970‘s. Our MRE‘s were just like this / very similar. They were very good. BTW they are intended for a whole day (24 hours). All the main dishes were very good, definitely regular civilian grade (I only disliked one with fish due to personal taste - I do not like fish at all.)
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I've always like German rations. Had some back in the 90's, very similar to the one in the video. More pate back then, and it came in tubes instead of those little cups though. Only downside i see on them is no FRH, so you'd have to have a fire or a camp stove to heat up the mains.
They used to include some dry fuel tablets (called 'Esbit') with the rations and every soldier had a palm sized stove to heat up the meals. You could set it up in no time and make it disappear just as quickly. However, making all that packaging disappear was another story...
Well jokes one you, the actual way to eat any of those main dishes is slightly burned🤪 The german military issues the old trusty Esbit cooker and with its direct flame its almost impossible to not burn the shit out of your meal😅 And those drinking powders are phenomenal when heated up, too👌🏻
Aah Germans, super over engineered. Routinely losing wars, but the engineering concept was amazing- maybe just meat, whiskey, porn, and C4 for entertainment.
Well...you are right. At the end of the day and after 6 years germany lost the second world war against 32 nations/states that entered/declared war against germany! What a shame and poor performance. Just to make it clear: I am NOT a german nationalist at all! I just think that the sentence "routinely losing wars" is a very bad and poorly researched simplification of the real history. 40 years after the II WW germany was and still is today the "powerhouse" of europe, ranking number 4 of the B.P.I. worldwide, just behind the USA, China and Japan.
If younuse it as normal food it is a two day supply. Each of the hot mealsmis sold as a main for one person commercial. During military exercises in the 1980s - one EPA per day would be issued since you burn a lot more energy
Fun fact: Schupfnudeln - a dumpling made from rye or wheat flour and eggs - has been mentioned as typical trooper meal in letters and documents from the 30 years war 1618-1648. We eat it fried with Sauerkraut and sausages or onions and bacon or cooked in salted milk, spiced with nutmeg and fried onions and bacon as topping.
I live near a food bank that got a shit ton of Russian foods. The people at the food bank gave everyone bags and bags of some WEIRD and unpleasant "cookies". I don't know what the eff they were made from but almost all of it ended up in the trash. I gave the stuff the old college try but...ended up spitting them out. Sorry, Russia. No go.
you have probably eaten americanized german food. By the way, your ending picture is a sceen from the town of rothenburg o.d. Tauber. I walk down that pathway a few times a year.
i remember those... Hamburger where allways the favorite EPAs ... get yourself a German messkit the can opener with knife , fork and spoon are of stainless steel.. simply next level stuff.. i still use mine on a daily basis after over 25 years
