Another Boot Camp story as I unbox and eat this 2019 Polish MRE. I use the heater and eat everything. It was really good! I hope you enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed making this. Bon Appetit!
As someone who has tried over 25 different countries military MREs....Polish ones are in the top 3 of best ones...and they still make their own homemade main meals, unlike many of the other countries who now use commercialized companies to supply the main meals (3 different companies provide the meals for over 15 different countries now)... you definitely started off trying the international ones the right way...
@@MeAncient Not sure if you are aware, but trying all the different kinds of MREs and Rations from all over the world became a popular hobby a few years ago.. There are a few youtubers who were the first ones (and most popular) reviewing them and it grew to having 1 million+ fans of it and got lots of people interested in trying them all. The main person who started it is Steve1989 (He. Reviews all kinds of rations (edible and non food) old and new. He really has a passion and wanted to make sure there was some kind of historical documentation of these items and lots of them would be lost in time without someone doing it. Def worth checking out. Do you have an email or address to send you something ?
@@gballs007 Drew, the way I found out about the popularity of MREs is that one day when Ace and I were boat fishing we decided to do a catch and cook. The catch part did not go so well. After we ate the meager catch, I remembered that I had stowed a few old MREs that I had been dragging around from way back in my active duty days. Well, Ace recorded me opening the MRE and trying some (It was a little too old for me to eat all of it, but, as I recall, I did sample everything.) His comment section lit up with people excited about MRE tasting. I never would have thought that MREs would be such a big thing. But that's when I decided that if I ever did start my own channel, I'd try opening up the MREs I had left over from USMC days. Since then, Micah and Ace have both bought me more and I've found a few myself. I've also seen Steve's channel but haven't every watched one of his videos all the way through. I don't want to be influenced by other channels. I like the idea of doing my own thing with my own unique perspective. My mailing address would be Ace Video's address : PO Box 16893 in Bristol, VA. 24209 Put Ace Video with Attn: MeAncient on any correspondence. Thank you for watching and the input, Drew.
@@MainahTony yes..thats him...haha... He has definitely gotten sick a bunch of times from eating the old stuff (I am friends with him ). But he really has an appreciation for this hobby so he sacrifices his stomach..lol..as well as take a lot of precautions (testing small amounts and smell test and so on)..
Panzerwaffle yea you can start a fire with them, just find a rock and hit it with it, they can block grenade schrapnel, and they can fill you up while they break your teeth
"Suchary", pronounced as [soo'Harry] means literally "dry biscuits". It comes from the word "suchy" [soo'hee] which basically means "dry". Very traditional biscuits here in Poland. "Specjalne" [speh'cee'alneh] means "spacial". They are hard. They've always been that way as far as I can imagine and remember. They tend to be more salty (a bit) , sometimes with addition of some spices, but definitely not sweet. "Makaron" [ma'carron] means pasta indeed. "Makaron po bolońsku" [ma'carron poh ball'onscoo] literally means "pasta a'la Bolognese". "Malinowy" [malee'novee] is an adjective and comes from a noun "malina" (raspberry). Hey, no offense taken for mistakenly taking Polish for Czech 😉 The pronunciation I gave here is obviously as close as I can provide. In Polish the letter "w" is never pronounced as in the word "wood", but as in the word "very" 🙂 The letter "e" is never like in the word "Lee" but rather in the word "letter" (the first "e"). I hope it all tasted good, for an MRE of course 😉 The easiest way to tell the Polish language from the Czech language (by what's written) is that in Polish there's no diacritic signs such as "š" and "č" (those V-shaped additions on top). Instead, in Polish, we'd use two letters "sz" and "cz". Both in Czech and Polish they are pronounced as "sh" / "tch" almost as in the words "shoot" or "perch" (or Czech! 😁). I loved your boot camp stories 👍 Damn, I'm hungry now 😁 The spam is called "mielonka" [myeh'lonkah] in Polish I guess from looking at it, and if it is what I think it is it is best to take it out of the can and use a knife to slice it and put it on those crackers. Then, they would go very well with sweet coffee ☕👍
Greetings from Poland! Really liked your video. The small meat package is something like a chopped pork / luncheon meat, you can heat it but it's usually eaten cold as a spread on bread / crackers. You can buy the fruit drink "pellets" in a bigger package (at least in Poland), children often eat it as candy instead of making the drink, at least that's what we did :) And not sure how it's usually in US, but when you check calorie content, it's often listed per 100g and not per package.
SU -1 In jargon, soldiers jokingly "Pancerwafle". The addition of caraway has a beneficial effect on the digestive system and has vitamins: A, B6, C, E, Riboflavin, Niacin, Thiamine and Folic Acid .100g contains: 1615.9 kj / 386.2 kcal.
Hi, ex-polish military here :) So, - you got a fairly good menu (although hungarian gulash is by far the best), - you got one vit. C and one coffee candy - large zipper bag was usually used for water purification, but the tablets were in a larger 24h patrol ration, - panzerwaffles are kinda legendary around here, You can replace teeth broken by them - with them, - the raspberry instant drink is supposed to be drank with the straw while the bag is zipped, - salt works great added to the flameless heater water, - spam cans are the best ashtrays, - the shortest recorded unit of time is the duration of xylithol chewing gums taste, - the only purpose of the honey is to make everything sticky, also, for some reason it helped with the insect bites, perhaps someone knows why, I always added the honey to the heater pack, liquify it and used it to make the raspberry tea sweeter, sugar can give quite an energy punch during long marches - the green plastic bag is made from a very thick plastic, which works great as a tinder (SORRY GRETA, DEAL WITH IT), - I know it will sound a bit disgusting, but the wet wipes used as a toilet paper is the best thing that happened to the army since the beginning of time. No more japanese “itchybutty” syndrom
Czechoslovakia? Dear God guys im begging you 😅...FYI theres no country like Czechoslovakia from 1992. Great video keep going. BTW Polish MRE have 20 main dish kinds... try those which are more traditional 🙂 P.s Next time soak those crackers in coffe or tea 😄
Reminds me of my chemistry teacher. Early 2000's, Poland. Teacher was a woman, age: around 50. Once she pulled out this thick old book with yellowed pages and started reading about steel production volume in USSR and Czechoslovakia. Everyone: "But Miss, there's no USSR and Czechoslovakia anymore!". She stops for a moment, obviously digging in her memory, then replies: "I don't know anything about this" and keeps reading. She ended up in a psych ward the same year and we got really good replacement teacher
I love hearing your dad stories. It reminds me when I was a kid, my dad and his old war buddies would sit around and smoke cigars and tell stories like these all night. I loved listening to them. Thank you for sharing.
@@margplsr3120 For vegetarians we have pierogi ruskie. Sound like russian pierogis but its not, its coming from Ruski region in Poland. Its pierogi with potato, white cheeze, fried onion, salt and pepper, and its amazing! And also the most popular, sour cabbage and mushroom filling, top hit in Christmas time!
I absolutely love the stories you hand to tell.....i lost my grandfather and father when i was young so i cling to all these stories told by them and you're a beautiful reminder!! God bless you and your family sir. Thank you for your service
As a Polish guy I can tell that You choose one of my favourite ration menu, like one of top 3, try also one with "fasola po bretońsku" or more like baked beans main course. It's made of beans, sausage pieces, bacon, everything in tomato sauce, taste like granny cuisine :D Shame that we don't have any tea or coffee in our rations, but it's understandable, it should be quick and not water and time consuming.
i love my polish friends. tough as nails, salt of the earth. edit - for anyone who may not understand what salt of the earth means, it means you are hard working, good people
"Suchary" is a kind of crackers and the name comes from "suchy" that means dry. Nothing common with sugar, saccharin. They should be eaten slowly, apart from other meals, through all day by scraping little by little with teeth. It gives catching taste and fed feeling. No jam, butter or dive into tea, it`s not bread or roll
Couldn’t be a better way to spend the first few minutes of the weekend! Love all of the videos and both of your sons videos! Love from Prosperity, South Carolina! Keep it up 👍
This was a truly enjoyable video, I was happy to see you enjoy this MRE! Thank you for the entertaining video, and God bless you and your family. You’re truly awesome!
Greetings from Poland. Besides, Czechoslovakia has not existed as a single country since January 1, 1993. Since then, we have two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Sir, Czechoslovakia no longer exists for about 30 years now. They are now two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and this MRE is from another country of Poland, but you already know that. 😅
Loved the video and as always thank you for it! It made me smile ~ I'm happy you got to eat the whole meal and that it was good definitely a big improvement over the last meal haha
Asa and Micah brought me here! I'm so glad you started using the heaters and warming the food up. I subscribed and want to thank you for your service! I hope to try some MREs myself soon and maybe record my reactions like you. So happy to see your family become so inspirational.
The way I remember boot camp was you get in bed and before you know it it’s Reveille ,PT off to chow hall for Breakfast and PT throughout the Day Shark Attacks and do your requirements for training drilled for your constant Stress requirements……… they always keep you busy and then eventually you graduate……those who couldn’t figure this process out made me more appreciative of the Drill Instructors ability to show you can dot it and Get The Job done!!!
I was so worried about the physical aspect of boot camp. I kept telling myself that hundreds of thousands of other guys had made it before me back when it was more difficult so I could do it too. Then, the easy part was the physical (I felt like we were always 'playing' on an adult jungle gym or I was doing what I did as a kid, camping, shooting, running; basically just having fun outside. The part that I had trouble with was drill. I'll tell a few stories about that in a video to come. TFW, as always, Mike.
@@robikszablinski6578 nienawidziłem ich i kochałem. Ja to na poligonie trzymałem w gębie tak długo aż były miękkie by oszukać lichy jak szef zajebał się z obiadem. Pozdro. Lato 05/06
1:30 tyrolean cann 1:40 rasberry jamm, highly sugarised 1:50 special rusks "Piastowskie" (brand) (suchar = rusk ; sugar in polish is "cukier", and sweet (taste) in polish is "słodki" , słodzone (from słodki) means sugarised), you are suppose to mix it with some water/tea/juice ('suchar' literally means 'dry bread/coockie') 2:00 bolognese pasta 8:40 I'm wondering how many people already got burn from such heaters :P 9:35 It looks like rat poison to me ; jugding by the fact that it is both red and disolves in water, it's propably oranżada (orangeade/lemonade), a sweet drink
You're funny, Ryan. Some people think I'm old as dirt. I've got a good story coming, I believe. It's about crossing the Arctic Circle........Stay tuned.
Thank you for your service! My son is a marine and I’m scared to death he may get deployed soon with everything going on in the world so please keep him and our family in your prayers!
When I was in the Army is the late 80's - early 90's I'm pretty sure we had the little fuel heaters... I just don't recall using the water based heaters till after I got out (maybe I'm wrong). I agree though, the water heaters are amazing!
what you got here is the cheapest polish MRE thats basically just a lunch, you should check out the 24hrs polish ration with 3 full meals, those are quite tasty
How do you want to test the MRE when you don't know what you are testing and how to use it? Polish MREs differ significantly from those unified in most armies in the world. It would be advisable to go to a little trouble and translate the directions for use. Properly used, Polish MREs are one of the best in the world, both in terms of taste and caloric value. I know something about it - I am Pole. In Polish Army is used to say: a good bowl (jargon: food) as important as a good weapon. Isn't it? A small can of ground pork, without heating, is added to a serving of rusks, usually eaten for breakfast. Fruit jelly, jam is usually eaten with rusks for supper. The main course, that really needs to be heated patiently, even longer than recommended in the manual - it warms up slowly - this is a comprehensive lunch. The big advantage of the polish MREs is that the soldier does not run to the latrine every five minutes. It may seems funny to someone, but in combat conditions it is really a very important property. Everyone who was in the army knows it very well. It is strange to me to watch a soldier eating in a cap, no Pole will eat like that. Soldiers always take off their cap or headgear, even helmet, at meals - this is the custom both in the army and in civilians. Eating in headgear in Poland is treated as an extreme lack of upbringing.
Polacy mają tyle wspaniałych dań, a katują się różnymi dietami. Grochówka, buraczkowa, zalewajka, biały barszcz, rosół, pomidorowa, kapuśniak, krupnik, jarzynowa, schabowy, kotlet mielony, prażoki, mizeria, kwaśne mleko, maślanka, groch z kapustą, bigos... A najlelsze te najbardziej proste : ziemniaki, sadzone jajko, kapusta ( lub inny dodatek) i kwaśne mleko. To tylko niewielka lista. Aż ślinka leci... Bardzo ładnie mówisz po polsku.
I served in the Polish army, and I was unfamiliar with such delicacies XD I ate black bad bread and black coffee, and the dessert was the biscuits you break your teeth on
'Suchy' means 'dry', 'suchary' means dried bread pasteries. And what do you mean curly pasta, just like in lasagna? Lasagna is made out of flat sheet-like pasta o.O
The plastic bag has many uses in survival situations. You can use it to filter water, store water, keep materials dry, flotation device (In a way some are pretty large), storage, maybe a fish trap, etc they have added them to a couple MREs I've seen for their many uses
The paper on the energy bar is rice paper, can be brought in cook shops, used when baking cookies or as in this case sticky bars to make it easier to eat. We have sweets (candy) that are called Flying saucers which have sherbet inside, put in the mouth whole, the rice paper melts and your mouth fills with fizzy sherbet!
I'm not surprised you found the Kofik to be strong. The point of it isn't to be a dessert candy as such, but to be a nicely portable replacement for an actual cup of coffee, caffeine and all.
You know you are definitely right you should be doing a taste review on all MREs like an everyday thing because not only do you have the background experience with the old MREs you have the new experience of excitemen along with a good sense of taste for everybody to enjoy ,your experience to make it feel like .....we are experiencing it as well..... definitely the best MRE review and I watch a lot of them thank you and you can thank yourself for that....
Its so neat to see that you were at the same place i was. Obviously you were there way before me....but i was at that same rifle range in 2001 when i was in boot camp. I was platoon 2082
A lot of these international MREs are something special man. Anyone who ever traded anything I had probably regretted it but I don't speak French, so I never found out.
Another great video I liked how you put your Boot Camp story in there It would be nice if we could hear more of those stories or anything else that you want to talk about with your military career they are interesting stories.
In the Canadian army the only way to get a warm meal was to put our lunch in our inside Velcro pocket next to our skin. That was first thing in the morning then go for a run or section battle drills. Lol good times We also had blanket parties. Unfortunately they are sometimes needed in an infantry company especially. They are used when all else failed to help him, including most privates in the company. They just don’t get it, never will get it, you would not trust your life to him if he was next to you.
it might be interesting to put together something that would be like rations served to the troops from the Revolutionary War to Civil War. I know it's not an MRE but it might be fun. Hard Tack, Salt Pork, Coffee... I don't think they gave them gum, but if you were in the Navy I think you got Grogg. You can get some good ideas from the Townsends youtube channel for this. I think they even go into WWII stuff.
A good friend of mine from Rhode Island her and her hubby go and do civil war reenactment. She cooks for them. Probably 100% better then what they had back then tho lol But they always seem to do one or 2 100% accurate meals.
You should try the chewing tobacco polish soldiers get. I had a try from one of my mates who's still in service. Looks like shoe paste, you place it between your gum and lip. It's so strong that you can't even look at cigarettes for next 24h. It kills the nicotine crave instantly.
awsome video, i think it serves its purpose especially the coffee candy, imagine you are really tired escaping the danger and you need to stay awake, this would be very handy in that moment
I Love your spirit and videos. I too, was in the military. I enlisted into the USAF back in 1971. Seems like yesterday. I know we had it better than the tough Marines, but had some interesting moments too. When we ate MREs, they were the older type in the cans. Overall, I enjoyed them. Actually, I liked the fruitcakes too.😁 Keep up the good work. You help make my day. I also love that you pray before you eat.👍
really good clip i enjoyed your story you where talking about back in military, just little heads up for next video do some more revision on details beforehand ^^
SU1 Special Cracker "Piastowskie". Piastowskie is taken from first ruling dynasty of Poland "Piast Dynasty" from X-XV century. Crackers can be eaten with jam, honey, pate or canned meat. In Polish army we called them "PanzerWaffles" because its hard as Soviet tanks.
@@MeAncient As an aside, I'm honestly surprised that was meat and not a pate meat spread. You know how they are around there - with their delicious cheap pate. I was in that area a decade or so ago and they had some tasty cheap pate.
