I always love your reviews of these foreign MRE's. Here's what's the back of the packaging says (you either get meal 2, 3 or 4): 1 | Plain biscuits from wheat flour of the 1st grade 2 | Canned meat and vegetable "Buckwheat porridge with beef" 3 | Canned meat and vegetable "Rice porridge with beef" 4 | Canned meat and vegetable "Barley porridge with beef" 5 | Canned vegetable snacks "Vegetable caviar (zucchini)" 6 | Fruit juice (jam) 7 | Black tea 8 | Sugar 9 | Salt 10 | Pepper 11 | Portable heater (stove and 3 tablets of dry fuel) 12 | Disinfectant wipes (2 pieces) 13 | Paper napkins 14 | Plastic spoon 15 | Can opener
Man do I just love this man's voice. I understand nothing of electronics, I don't care about food... but just hearing Clive talk is always nice; soothing and friendly
I was dealing with a horrific recovery with multiple surgeries, falling asleep to Clive's videos was really the only way. I feel as though I've learned electronics osmotically throughout the years.
I’d say I’d happily listen to Clive reading me the instruction manual to a washing machine, however I’m sure somewhere in his archives I may just find that
@@bigclivedotcom but they are tryhards... as in they're tryin real hard to start WW3 right now lol...here's hoping we all don't get drafted to fight some poor siberian conscripted peasants eating these 🤞🤞
I was expecting a potato and fold out still for the vodka. The lack of radioactive waste was also a disappointment but maybe it is a special issue MRE for combat in the vicinity of Chernobyl? Chestnuts roasting on a glowing elephant's foot and all that stuff that gives Putin the warm fuzzies.
@@karlharvymarx2650 Special rations for the Chernobyl area are probably in short supply outside the army, as they have deployed quite a lot of troops to that vicinity. Supposedly for training exercises.
Aw man, physics is great! I dunno how you could be a Clive fan with all the electronic stuff he does and taking stuff apart, and not appreciate physics. Physics is a teardown of the Universe! I used to sit in class and read ahead in the textbook, cos admittedly the lessons were completely boring, but the subject wasn't, it was the school's, possibly all school's, fault. Actually I never did a jot of homework either, still got my science GCSE. But that depends, some subjects you're awarded based on coursework, others based on exam results, at least over here. And they used to keep changing between the two. Any subject that's exam-based I could piss away but don't ask me to blether on about it, especially in my house. Actually if they threw you out of science class, they'd shut you (me) in a store room. Full of hundreds of back-issues of New Scientist! So I learned a shitload more from getting kicked out than I would have if I'd stayed in. Damn, what's WRONG with schools?
Clive seems like the only guy you still talk to from that part time job you had in 2005 that taught you all you needed to know about it and you still use parts of.
1) I'm very impressed that the Russian military is concerned with recycling and have marked all the packaging accordingly. 2) They picture a samovar on the tea packet, yet fail to provide one? What are we, savages?
A samovar is somewhat overkill for a single serving of tea... but then again, per Russian tradition overkill is always the correct answer, so you may actually have a valid point :P
No, you see, each unit is assigned one samovar that someone has to carry with them (like someone else is carrying the unit's MG). And when time for dinner comes, everyone throws their teabag into it and they cook a large communal pot of tea. ;)
Kasha, or buckwheat groats is a very nutritious grain to eat. If you buy it un-roasted you must toast the grain for the best flavour. Get it at most Polish delis as dry grains or fully cooked in jars. I think it goes very well with lots of mushrooms.
As a Russian I enjoyed this video, thanks for making it! Also it is worth mentioning that this ration was manufactured by correction facility inmates, as it says on the top of the package.
LMAO Clive, at least you cut open the zip lock side. Opening a package, reaching in to the bottom to find the ziploc is always a moment you look around to be sure no one saw you do that :B
Oh Clive, you haven't lived unless you've tried BiscuitsAB (out of a Brit 24hr Ratpack) whilst sitting in a miserably wet hole in Otterburn in February...... And the smell of hex(amine) blocks as you're trying to heat up food/fingers/everything else that's frozen to the bone..... BTW the AB stands for Anal Blockage! In all seriousness, all those rat packs are designed to be calorie dense whilst avoiding the need to stop for a dump........ nothing interupts a battle like......... After a week on those things, you'll need to take on oar into the trap with you to break up the log you're about to lay down...... That's if you haven't passed out from the exertion of giving birth to it..........
Canadian IMP's (Individual Meal Packages) are the same. I saw several guys go six weeks without dropping a football. We used to take bets as a section as to when the birthing would commence.
My Dad tried to learn Russian in his eighties, but he didn't get very far. As a result we still have two Russian dictionaries which he refuses to get rid of.
Clive, I have to say, you're a real gem! There are few people that I've never met whom I find so pleasant. Not meaning to crawl or even come across as creepy! It's just that your content alone helped me through rough times and never failed to cheer my up again. Thanks a lot!
MRE (Meals Rejected by the Enemy), was what we used to say about them. Although truth be told that Russian one looked a lot better than the ones we got in the Canadian military when I was in.
I ate like 10 of those, when i was in army. In woods, when you have nothing to eat, it's perfect. They are the same, but have around 3-5 variation. Bread looking crackers named hardtrack(галеты), they dont really degenerate over time.
Here in Norway we had a rather infamous canned combat ration (Reservestridsproviant, shortened to RSP for obvious reasons), nicknamed "Dead Man in a Can", "Remains of Blown Up Personell" or "Recirculated Personell. When I was in the service it had just been phased out. We were still being threatened to eat that stuff if we did a poor performance, as they still had mountains of it in storage. 25 years later it's supposedly still "edible". From the horror stories I've heard, its edibility was a technicality even back when it was "fresh".
@@CheGavare When I was in the Canadian military the best thing in the ration packs for some odd reason was the crackers. I really liked them and there was a small packet of strawberry jam that made it just that little bit better.
Russian ones in particular are extra strength for cold climate, not like the wimpy tabs US tended to give, or the self heaters that require extra water. I'd seal them and keep for emergencies.
The voice, the chill. This are the only kind of "someone eating something" because you learn useful things, i hate the way this makes me hungry and i can only imagine how good these taste. Maybe i'll be buying these just for fun too.
This same meal (buckwheat with beef) is sold on US eBay by the same seller for $21 including shipping. Other single meals are available for the same price. Single entre for $4.90. 1.7kg-1.8kg full day ration $29-$33. I'm not affiliated with the seller.
It was manufactured by the Federal Penitentiary Service (top text on the outside package), so it is also made by prisoners most likely. Or for them, but I don't see why they would need MREs.
Sketchy company. Their site is down, and email is on the free service. But they also make food for service animals. It was also liquidated and transformed into a joint stock company with the same name.
The action of mixing marrow paste and apple varenye/ apple jam felt like some sort of crime yet left me so curious that tomorrow I'm gonna buy both and try the wicked combination
I lived in Russia, so several flavors of tea, buckwheat (not a big fan of) and a green thing that tastes like grass are ubiquitous there. I like the tea, tho, but Baltika beer, kvass or maybe kompot will pair better with regular food. Caviar is usually very expensive, especially the red one. Oh, there's a Soviet idiom that says "our red caviar is the best black caviar in the world" as a good depiction of how things were poorly made in the SSSR back then.
The most hilarious bit is misinterpretation of contents based on the physical properties. 11/10 content. Some people I know indeed add stupendous amount of sugar into tea and coffee. Polish shops could have buckwheat if there's ever a wish to cook a "proper" buckwheat porridge.
"Russian" sugar is often made from beets rather than cane. Maybe it's because I've used cane sugar for most of my life, but I now prefer beet sugar. Anyway, some Babaevsky chocolate would have been the perfect dessert portion. :)
can you tell the diff? We have beet sugar here (I think "silver spoon"?) and it just tastes like sugar. However, the production of it stinks for miles around!
@@LostInTech3D I had a cane sugar cocoa cola once and didn't like it ... But because cane sugar is rare here people want to believe its SUPER ULTRA HEALTH SUGAR or something.
The sugar sold in Germany is almost entirely made from beets too. Id thought pretty much all sugar in europe is made from beets because you can grow them here but canes not so much?
Also, I genuinely love it when rat packs have products that have camo patterns and manly names... It's embarrassingly macho, bordering on the screamingly camp, in a jean-claude van damme sort of way 😂
This exact ration made by Federal Penitentiary Service. Often used by police detachments. Classic Russian military rations contain 3 servings per package for whole day.
The irony of dishwasher and recycling labels on a MRE was apparently lost on the manufacturer. Edit: Looks like Clive had an easier time getting one of these than the Russian Army.
Many moons ago when I was still at school my Dad was in the Royal Observer Corps, basically once every month or so they'd spend an evening down a nuclear fallout shelter practising for WW3 taking radiation measurement etc. Well when their rations went out of date we kids got to eat them, really like the packs of biscuits and honey in tubes like tooth paste! We lived in Wales at the time and most of the ROC members did it because they needed the money so often us kids would go along too, so have the honour of having reported the radiation reading over the British Telecom branded equipment. When we moved back to England the local ROC seemed to be staffed with military fanboys so no more visits for kids.
4:19 We are the only nation which eats buckwheat as one of essential grains. Buckwheat kasha is a cornerstone of our ration. My gym trainer has been eating a bowl of buckwheat every day for more than 10 years already.
Oh come on, don't be this full of yourself, it is still relatively popular in Poland in particular, and other Central to East European countries. (And not due to Russian influence either.)
Grechka a Russian staple apparently very good for diabetes and the heart that sugar is a standard size sachet in Russia I get them all the time in my lunch box at work probably why we have abundance of Grechka to stave off the diabetes 😁
You get better toys with the Russian MRE than you do with a MuckDonalds Happy Meal. The Russian toys make loud bangs like giant electrolytic capacitors.
"Being low grade trash, that is absolutely perfect for people like me." I often wonder what you would consider as inedible when you make statements like that, even though I have seen you eat things that would challenge the most needy people. I really do enjoy your channel, you will fixate on a theme, and then out of the blue there's this kind of content that (in my opinion) allows you to to just forget all of the tech stuff and get down to basics, the stuff that makes us, us. Thank you for so, so many years of truthful, informative content, and this :D
I like rewatching the Scottish MRE video with the nuclear heater and Blended Scotch Whisky which is notably absent from sale in the USA. But anyway, my favorite MREs are the German 2013-2018 series 24-hour "Einmannpackung" Typ 1 menu. Also helps that I learned to read German in my teenage years.
20g of sugar must be a bit more than 20ml, which would be around 4.5tsp. That does seem like a very sweet tea (очень сладкий чай, "ohchen sladkey chai").. Assuming my 704 days of duolingo is correct :) I will have to send this to девушка (girlfriend) and see what she thinks. Thanks Bigclive! Спасибо Большое Клаив ("spasibo Bolshoi Clive") :D
I learned russian language myself, as the russian part of internet is really big and resourceful on schematics, tutorials how to botch something to make it work again with minimal resources and of course also pretty good hacks for pretty sophisticated gadgets.
I have never honestly heard anyone say 'YUM' when eating an MRE except for the mint chocolate you used to get in the Brit ratpacks, which they stopped doing?.. Pure class Clive keep on Yumming..
If I remember correctly (from a different MRE video) the wet wipes are quite clever. The two sides of the double pack are colored differently for a reason. One side is for wiping your hands before the meal and the other one is for scrubbing your plate afterwards.
I've found this video looking for Clive's video about dimmers. All video I've seen on this channel were about electronics. Good surprise ) Hello from Russia :) Clive, I can teach you Russian if you'll improve my English :)) (And I understand you probably don't have a time for it, consider how often you make your interesting videos)
If I could learn two languages, the first would be Russian for all the great RU-vid technical content, and the second would be Chinese to assist in buying huge quantities of technical stuff.
you should try a dutch mre . they come in two separate parts for a day ration. one part is breakfast/lunch/ snack and then they have a bag with a meal for dinner.
Years ago I learned that eating like a crow leaves one more free time to goof around. Crows and ravens are not constantly searching and eating all day long like most birds, then again a road-killed skunk might be on the menu. Looked to be a real feast Clive!
That was super cool! Love these kinds of exploratory things with MREs, still remember the Polish one (some of this stuff looks really good, to be honest.)
