Hello! I am Andy from Germany(Bavaria) Near The Training Area Hohenfels!I was Born in 1967, in the seventies We Became the Old good C - Rations cans from the soldiers!they were will be better as the MRE‘s ! Good old memories! Greetings to you to the USA
Very cool Nathan. I still have one of the old brown bag , 4 fingers of death here, circa, 87-88? Needless to say, I am in no hurry to try, LOL. When it gets warm enough to open outside, I will do exploratory, see what is reviewable. I have had good tea, but the cider was always spoiled in my meals. Personally, I would have boiled the frankfurters for 10-15 mins. , just to be on safe side. Well, safer side, LOL. It seems some items do show their age. We all know that happens. I miss the freeze dried fruit. It was excellent !! To me, it tastes better dry, not hydrated. I have tried both ways, and been talked to about adding water as well, LOL. The main looks less than appetizing. I can only imagine, what mine looks like. If I am correct on date, it should have baked beans as well? I hope you had fun on this review, if not A good meal. I am learning what to expect here. Cool piece of history. Peace, John.
This was my favorite MRE back in the 90s. I'd love to order it by the case if they still made it. The freeze dried fruit to me is still the best side snack/item ever. Some of them even had freeze dried mixed fruit; pears were not the only option
Thanks for your review! I found the best way to get the old heaters to work is to add about a 1/2 tsp of salt and massage the salt water into the heater. Wait 10-20 minutes and they work just fine.👍
This was always my favorite mre. I grew up with the old brown mre's that my dad brought back from his national guard drills. I was in from 98-05. The two most dreaded mres, this and ham slice were my jam. They always came with pretty good accessories too, desert, etc. I'm prob the only Joe who couldn't stand chili Mac or beef tortellini! Wish i could find a serviceable case of just ham slice and beef Franks! Thanks for the memories!!!😊
Take the dehydrated pears, crush them.up, add the coffee creamer, mix with a little bit of water, let sit for a couple minutes; there you have it- field yogurt. I remember doing this many times with yhe dehydrated strawberries when we were out in the field at 29 Palms, CA.
I was in the Marines from 1996-2000. I remember the 4 fingers of death. I don’t recall them being THAT bad. The very 1st MRE I ever ate in boot camp was scrambled eggs. It was NASTY! Quite possibly the worst thing I had eaten so far in life. We had dark brown wrapped MREs. The Tabasco sauce was brown and the chocolate candy was covered with a white powder. They could’ve been cleaning out the inventory from the 80s for all we knew. The DIs made us hand in all of the candy, cheese sauce and I don’t remember what else as they said it was too old. I joined the Civil Air Patrol this past spring. They were cleaning out old supplies. I found some old MREs and took them home to eat. I tried a couple different kinds and they are VERY salty. Borderline nasty but I’m still alive to tell the story. So there you have it! Old MREs eaten with care are still edible.
I started watching MRE videos a few years ago just to see someone find a dehydrated pears. I used to eat them new when my dad would bring extra mre’s home from drill.
The best way I have found to deal with the peanut butter and cheese spread to mix it back up is to put the package between the plams of both hands and then start rolling it back and forth. It is a little hard at first but it gets easier. Go slow at first and then as it starts getting easier to roll between your hand speed up. It will remix the peanut butter and cheese spread really well and heat them up so they squirt out better.
I am from the C-rat to early MRE Army. Pre-tan bag, and pre-tabasco. This looks like it was transitioning from those to newer things with this one. We loved the dehydrated fruit (they fizzed like pop rocks in your mouth), hated the dehydrated beef and pork patties. The potato sticks are like a old friend.
The "Beef in Jamaica Sauce" was pretty disgusting. But it's hard to get worse than the "Creamy Spinach Fettucine". That stuff is foul, and I normally love spinach and fettucine, just not together! 😝
I served until 1989 and had this type of ration, this was before ration heaters, never used one but I can see how and why they started including them, freezing weather not good for rations. I have watched many of your and others videos, I have not seen any of you try the powered Ketchup packs. I wonder what ever happened to that???
I had ONE of those at a field op at Bragg, and from my experience, if anyone else wants to try one (or be stuck with it as all you have to eat) PREPARE YOUR ANUS! Good Lord that thing destroyed mine, I think those dogs are made from meat substitute made from concentrated laxatives, I lost 5 pounds in 3 days in the field.
Those freeze dried pears will mess you up on a long 30k hump. They’ll dehydrate the hell outa ya. If a squad leader or Plt Sgt saw you eating them dry they’ll rip your ass lol.
yes, "they" were correct that nobody ever rehydrated the fruit.. unless you had one that was "soft" in the pack :D Pears, Peaches, strawberries, Fruit cocktail.. Pears were always my favorite.
NNNOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't do it! I had it, the old first generation dark brown bag 'frankfurters'. Gunny showed us how to use it as a candle. Its just lard and food coloring.
Coffee cream but no coffee? That's just a big tease. Lol. Refresh my memory but wasn't it considered by alot of the troops bad luck to eat the charms candy??
Yup. They would throw them out immediately. A good example of this is in the HBO mini series Generation Kill. It's about the Invasion of Iraq by Marine Recon. Worth watching if you get a chance.
I have yet to see a reviewer try the jalapeño cheese spread we got in 2005 after Katrina. That was good stuff, I’m sure, since it was 17 years ago. Yeah I sure wouldn’t try it today.
Nice to see the infamous meal in "life" Nothing there ithe dried fruit cocktail (had it, very tasty) looked appetizing in the least and its not the age of the ration.
