I remember the Bean burrito meal and omg that thing tasted like wet rolled up newspaper. Tasteless as tofu. I think salt and pepper were my favorite companion. If I didn’t like anything in the meal I always had peanut butter and crackers with water. I’m glad I was stationed at Fort Carson Colorado at least they had great food on base and outside in the Springs.
I am a Canadian Field Artillery Gunner. We don't get issued heaters for our IMPs because part of our section level kit is a Coleman stove and a pressure cooker. We have a designated member of our section that is responsible for boiling water and heating our rations.
got to give love to arty. As an infantry dude I am both scared to death of arty and love my own gunners. in the infantry we do get issued the heaters( 1 per imp ) because most of the time (outside of WInter warfare ) we don't have the time to set up Coleman that is if we even have time to use the heaters. I've eaten more cold IMPs than warm ones. pizza pasta is not one of my fav for two reasons 1) it gives me a bit of heartburn not a big deal in garrison pain in the ass in the field. 2) it has olives, not an olive guy. my go to are spaghetti and meatballs, beef macaroni ( both taste like chief B) and the smoked meat in mustard sauce .
The thing to remember about Canadian rations is that our food has a much shorter shelf life than the US MRE, but in exchange we have better quality food. A trade off that most people I think would argue is a better morale booster for the troops in the field.
The other aspect is that these IMPs are probably more temp sensitive, meaning they'd degrade very fast if exposed to ambient heat (even faster than an MRE's 1 mo rating at 120F). Most militaries that do not intend on expeditionary combat (i.e configured around only national defense) don't need the compromises that the US MREs do, they can just essentially issue normal shelf stable food in more durable/FRH compatible packaging. However, while these are commonly issued to troops in peacetime (as they are in the US), I think the tradeoff that the MRE makes, would yield a more viable ration in a full tilt deployment. A longer lived stockpile would be able to last through supply chain shortages, and the better temp stability means that if they're kicked 90 ft off a helicopter, if they have to sit out in the sun before you can unload them, they won't go bad in just that period of hours being blasted by the sun. It just goes to show that different doctrines change so much, even the little things like what snacks to put in field rations or whether the FRH is included.
As a french Canadian.. your attempt to speak French was amazing and i particularly liked how you pronounced framboises which is why i will forever pronounce it the same way you did
@@Butterworthdasyrup As an European I will step in here: No, it isn't "good", BUT at least you try, which many Americans don't. So that's commendable! And the "pain Burger" joke is an all-time-classic in Europe, usually enjoyed with "pain au chocolat": "Pain of the chocolate". A running gag that elevates you. Very good.
I genuinely think Tyler should have been present at the Oscars yesterday night. The intro deserves international recognition. Not even Nolan could have done better.
We linked up with the Canadian’s at FOB Masum Ghar in 2010 and traded some MRE’s. Boy was I surprised and delighted to try theirs. They even had salmon ones that were so dang good. We couldn’t talk them into trading beer though 😂.
I am a Canadian cadet and we had a trick for the fruit cobbler In the freezing winters of -45•c We would heat up the cobbler and pour it onto snow and wait for it to become a putty like substance and then we would get a popsicle stick and wrap the tar like substance around it and it was so good you should try it.
@@cheryljohnson6448 Well you Sir evidentially haven't heard of pouring freshly made maple syrup onto fresh snow, and then using a popsicle stick as well to roll it up and then chow down.
The frozen boiled tree sap on a stick thing is like a right of passage for any canadian child expesially in winnipeg where thry have that winter festival.
MRE heaters usually work by making magnesium rust, and use sodium and iron particles to speed up the reaction. At the lowest level it is a combination of exothermic rusting sped up by what is essentially a short circuited battery cell (iron, sodium water as electrolyte, magnesium). In a way it is an electrical heater. :). A similar process is employed with those little one-time heating pads for socks: finely powdered Iron particles are exposed to air and start to rust, producing heat.
My dad loved to go to the swapmeet every weekend and once brought back a couple mre's from (not kidding) the Korean war I think. Idk how safe they were to eat at that point, but we did and didn't die.(This was about 50 years ago.)It was really fun ro try ....weird brownie. Dad was Army.😆
As someone with almost 20 years in I can assure you, our food has come a very very long way in 25-30 years, some of the stuff in late 90 and early 2000s was....bad. Things got nicknames like lung in a bag, mystery meatlog(not a typo) The stuff we get now is top tier. The packaging has gotten way better as well, as it use to come in a foil lined paper bag and all the meals pouches came in cardboard box, when we got issued them and we going to be dismounted there would be a little gathering where we would field strip the packaging down to meal pouches and what we actually wanted to eat, this is where the trading would happen and usually there was a box of "extra" stuff that we tossed all the stuff we didn't want into and you could go through to see if there was anything you wanted in it, then everything would get loading into our packs usually into a ziplock bag if you were prepared, the foil lined bag rolled up if you weren't or loose in the ruck pockets if you wanted to live dangerously. A few tricks that we do, the new ziplock bag we still open up and pull out all the stuff we don't want but throw in a heaterbag, roll them up tight and reseal them. IF you get time for cooking, the bags make for a great little oven, you put the meal in the heater bag, fold in half, place inside the main bag with everything removed, place the bread(still inside the package) inside the main bag seal it up most of the way so the "steam" can escape, heats up the bread too once your done all the garbage can go back into the bag and you can seal it up to hump it out. A game changer is you opened the meal bag up wrong, should have rotated it 90 degrees and opened it up with a long side up, it can be done with you teeth but obviously a knife works best. Pears is the best dessert, I will die on that hill.
I gotta be honest with you man. You don't even speak french, and I can still understand your french better than anyone from Quebec. Way to go! I also struggle to open the beef jerky sometimes, and I normally use my knife instead. lol
normally we would bring a stove and the whole section would cook their food at the same time, we would be issued the heater bags for more tactical exercises
your telling me that bread lasts for 3 years? is it even really bread at that point what the actual **** it reminds me of the person who stashed a big mac for years and it didnt mold or anything atleast the bun didnt...as always great content looking forward to the next one...also i love the ending telling people to call there family think people dont do that enough when they dont live togeather they end up not talking often gotta do it while you still can as much as you can how many more phone calls might you have before they pass away may be alot less than you think and it dosent even need to take alot of time either
Very interesting. Good infomation and entertainment value. If you go looking for foreign MREs, then one that I quite enjoyed myself, was the Danish 24 hour combat ration No: 05. Chicken in Curry, with Rice. Do keep in mind though, since almost everything in the pack is made by a Danish company, thus it is made for the Danish tastes. Which usually is very much different than the American one.
Great review. This makes me crave pasta now lol. Btw, the word "dad" shows only a "d" when you say "call your dad". Not sure if that was intentional or if my video glitched at that moment or what.
CANFOR here. Here's why the IMPs are as good as they are. The food that's in them is not specifically from one manufactuery or provider. Hence the name brand stuff. A lot of the condiments and edibles are from President's Choice brand, just in bags and not cans.
I've always loved the salmon cold. The guys in mu section used to look at me with disgust and they didn't hide it either. They'd trade their salmon to me if I had anything but and if I was willing which was most of the time.
we use to get the us mre but back in the 80s the military did a study. found the Canadian armforces didn't like them so we made are own by have the cook trade and nutritious made the menu then had the troop tryed them. they put them thoough the ringer. it was the troops the one that had the fill say.
I remember the Bean burrito meal and omg that thing tasted like wet rolled up newspaper. Tasteless as tofu. I think salt and pepper were my favorite companion. If I didn’t like anything in the meal I always had peanut butter and crackers with water. I’m glad I was stationed at Fort Carson Colorado at least they had great food on base and outside in the Springs.
During basic I would always take the coffee packet and pour it in my mouth, then pour water in my mouth, slosh it all around and there you have a nice mouthful of coffee😂 made it so I could save the second drink bag for keeping items dry and I could have the coffee on the go for when we were pressed for time.
I used to just eat the 3 in 1 coffees dry in the field and chase it with a swig of water. Theyre so sweet it ends up being like a snack, bit we used to get spray dry espresso powder and that was the bee's knee's in the field
So the regular Canadian fruit cocktail as served in cans has a high sugar content juice that dulls the fruits tastes. I think it's mostly pear juice. So probably normal for Canadian palettes. Also Kit Kat Chunky bars have more chocolate on the ends, and the layers are different thickness. But normal for Canadians.
You definitely missed out on the co-cooooofeee comment on the beginning. 😉😂 Also that grape sportsbeverage in the sealed bag looks like a blood transfusion bag due to the color. 😂
In Canada you actually eat that napkin like you are taking a pill. It expands as it moves though your system and when you pass it you become self wiping. They think of everything!
I can’t eat skittles anymore. Not after five months of eating MREs leading up to and into the second Desert Storm. I helped establish Ali/Talill AB. Can’t stand bottled water anymore, either.
