What you can do with the werthers originals is get 2-3 of them and dissolve them in a cup of hot water. From there, add the coffee and a quarter of the condensed milk. Then, have the jam sandwiches with the coffee. Best 5-star coffee you'll get in the field. Now, with the hearty beef stew. First, you want to make the mashed potato and mix the cheese into it with salt and pepper and Tabasco sauce. Layer the potato on the bottom of your cups canteen and lay the heated hearty beef stew over top. If you get crackers in your rat pack, break them over top. You just made a field Shepard's pie. Also, 5 star.
Did you serve in the ADF around 2000? Because we started that in Iraq. The tv show beyond 2000 never mentioned anything about war and were supposed to have flying cars by then. Sorry I'm Gen X and if you aren't then you probably have no idea what I'm talking about with the tv show.
@@terencemcgeown2358 No I joined straight out of school to the newly created ADFA in 86. Never served in Combat I loved that show and the Curiosity Show when I was younger. I'm 56 now. How old are you?
As a Canadian, it fills me with pride to see that we are still in the lead with a score of 90! I think, however, that the Aussie Rat Pack deserves a second attempt with a fresh pack as opposed to one that's five years old. Looking forward to more of these reviews. Cheers from Ottawa.
I remember being introduced to the Australian Rat Pack when I joined the Australian Air Force 30 years ago. The instructor proudly said that the cheese in a can is called "bunghole" ......it will clog you up. And the cure for the cheese is the chocolate
The adf joke is chocolate is a laxative. If its not its just shit. The muesli is awsome. Add water. Stir. Eat but never heat water or its fucking horrid. Then ask who doesnt want theirs.
Loved this video! I'm also from Australia and my dad was in the army when I was growing up and he would alwa always save the the dusty white chocolate for me and my sister from his rat packs. Good to see nothing has changed 😂
In the Aussie Army Cadet Corps we had rat packs on some of the camps. At annual camp we lived off the 10 man ration packs and some fresh fruit for 9 days while we camped on an army base. We were told (warned) the cheese stops you up and the chocy helps you go so be wise and use them as needed... When we got home and went back to school a teenager got dared to eat 5 packs of the chocy at school. An hour later he raced from one end of the playground to the loo and was there until his parents had to transport him home after school ended. The next day he had to help the school cleaners sweep and mop the toilets, as a reminder to think thru consequences before taking a dare.
Aussie here, when I stayed in Hawaii I noticed your bread was a lot sweeter and often has at least 2 different sweeteners added which was wild to me. In Australia our bread has no added sugar so the bread you had may be true in flavour to Aussie bread but not texture :p
Watching Americans try Vegemite is one of life's little pleasures... It's nice to know that the rat packs haven't changed in the past ten years! Also, the trick is to eat the cheese during morning routine so you're gummed up on patrol, and then have the chocolate at night to get everything moving again...
When I was in, it was always the saying that you ate the cheese at the start of being out field (on crackers, with vegemite), and then you had the chocolate as you came home. Cheese = stop. Chocolate = go.
The hiss from the can of peaches is there so you know they're super fresh (just kidding, you just got free botox). You're killing it, can't wait for more videos!!
"You call that a knife? THIS is a knife!" He proceeded to take out a spoon. When Bart pointed out he was holding a spoon and not a knife, he responded, "I see you've played knifey-spoony before
Like most things with Rat packs, if you have the time to prepare it all, you really can make wonderful meals... or if tactically you can eat it all cold, sadly. Ration packs have a shelf live of 7 years. The trick with the large chocolate bar if its 'white' is to turn it into a hot chocolate drink, in your cup canteen is to bring water to the boil and place the chocolate bar into the water until it melts. Yes the peach in syrup usually goes off, the acid in the syrup dissolves the lining of the tin. Lastly remember the difference between the 'old' Vietnam ration packs and the new ration packs - is that the new packs are actually eatable. We would eat the main meal at night for two reasons. 1. if its dark you cant see what your eating and 2. you usually had a blocked nose... so you couldn't smell it either.
Had the old style ration packs in the Aussie army cadets. We were just glad to have food to eat at the end of the day. Also had them when we did search and rescue. You used to be able to buy them at the army disposal and surplus stores. At annual camp we had the 10 man 24hr ration packs and one year the "cook" loved pepper. We had extra rations of water supplied after we got one of the chain of command to eat a plate without a drink. He bet he could eat the plate and go back for seconds in 5 minutes. If he won we would have an extra night march. If he lost the command would do all of that nights washing up. He lost and never lived it down.
@@Butterworthdasyrupif you put a very small amount on toast with lots of butter , less than a teaspoon. Just a thin smear of Vegemite. Sooo good and easy on the stomach and full of vitamin b for energy. I know Aussies who used to put it on their toddlers dummies aka. pacifier. 😂 It's definitely a part of our national diet for many Aussies
Vegemite doesn't exactly taste like anything else on Earth. But what it comes closest to tasting like is if you boiled soya sauce down to a thick paste.
There's a reason why the tube of sweetened condensed milk smelled/tasted like caramel. It's literally one step from being milk caramel. You can use the stovetop, oven or even a microwave oven to cook it into a Dulce de Leche caramel.
There used to be a can or tube of "coffee & milk" in the shops here in SE Australia. It was made from sweetened condensed milk and coffee powder. We would buy it to carry when we had a search and rescue mission, light enough to carry in our pockets and we would use it to make coffee with the hot water from a Thermos. Also caramel made with sweetened condensed milk is the best. In cadets we had little hexi stoves that were to sit out kidney cup on to warm stuff up in. We would put water in the metal cup and sit the tube of condensed milk in it. Then watch carefully, checking the tube to see how hot it got. Let it heat for 15 minutes or so. Let it cool down. Sit and squeeze or suck the caramel out of the tube. It goes even darker caramel and tastes almost the same as the old "Jersey caramel" lollies.
@@Butterworthdasyrup Look up how to make "tablet" which is a Scottish dessert. It's basically Sweetened condensed milk turned to caramel and it sets hard for a nice christmas treat.
As an American when I went to Australia I was AMPED to try Vegemite, Milo, and TimTams.... I was NOT let down. If I ever get back there I'm never coming back 😂
Instant Australian Citizen here no flinch with the vegemite.. you’re hard core awesome❣️ Loving your sense of humour also..fantastic!! (From a fellow Aussie)
The 2022 and 2023 CR1M's are a step up on the version you had. I know that US compatriots will try to swap with Aussies because the variety of snacks and the quality of the revised main meals. The mashed potato is generally an compliment to the main meals, all of which should be eaten hot.
As an Aussie when i saw you were trying what our boys have i got excited and thought you ought to have some diggers there to teach you how to eat it, low and behold you managed to "obtain" some of the boys. Lol
That “sweetened condensed milk” is basically caramel. You can take the paper off a can of sweetened condensed milk that you’d get at the grocery store and boil it for 3 hours and it will turn into caramel, that’s how I make my caramel pies. It actually makes delicious caramel.
Dude, you're supposed to eat the can of cheese whole at the end. It plugs you up so that the meals that go through you like water doesn't just fall right on our of you while you're walking 🤣🤣
Or stale like the SAO water crackers (SAO was a brand you could find but became a way of referring to the type of salty biscuit, sorta like referring to a bandaid rather than "sticking plaster" or dressing with adhesive").
The condensed milk is normally a creamy colour with the consistency of honey, that one has turned to caramel from the heat. We buy the big cans and boil the sealed can to make caramel but I've heard up North cans will caramelising just sitting on a shelf.
Marmite/Vegimite is an acquired taste. Either you grow up with it or you don't. Amazing on toast with butter. We take a spoon and stir it in hot water for a warming drink in the winter.
Sometimes used to collect the plastic rubbish as you eat. Aussie army cadets used to train you to not leave any evidence that you had been there, especially anything with writing or insignia/brands. At a camp once we packed up we had to do a final rubbish patrol and if anything was found by the chain of command after we were punished by extra push ups, marches or physical fitness drills. Blessings, Dot
Those bickies are my absolute favourites, they are called Jam Fancies. Or in the UK jammy dodgers. The condensed milk looks like that because it’s old. It turns to a caramel if it’s been left for too long or heated up in a slow cooker. It is usually white
Best rat pack brekkie is the muesli with the chocolate protein powder and just enough water to make a paste. Its the only thing that gets me through stand to 😌
Nonononono... when a can is bulging like that, it's a no-go! It means it's spoiled. The chocolate turning white means it has "bloomed"... it's part of the chocolate coming to the surface surface due to heat or age.
the canned fruit is the first thing to go in every rat pack I have tried. Also good use for the bloomed chocolate it melt it hot water and condensed milk (and sugar if you got a sweet tooth) as a drink
ive been waiting for someone to give you our Aussie rat packs to rate. the bread tastes better when you toast it, some of the packs have cakes in them they taste pretty good,the short head matchs are normal and the long pink head is water proof,my son absolutely loves the chocolate bar
Me sitting here saying don't eat that, don't eat that. That can screams of botulism. Please be okay! But seriously... it sounded like a kambucha opening, so maybe it's a probiotic now.
Sweetened condensed milk is caramelized. The chocolate has excessive fat content by design and goes white on the way out of the factory. The canned peaches are always suspect, two fruits is always better.
@@alpinealpine2793 yes, but the condensed milk is not usually that brown, and has become more caramalized. I have had new chocolate ration that is not white, heat helps the cacao fat to bloom out of the chocolate
My dad used to save the cheese and condensed milk for my sister and the chocolate for me and bring them home. We were always so excited to get them even though it all tastes loke garbage hahahaha
So many of these in my house and all best before 2019... my husband still eats them when out camping lol They've actually started selling these in camping shops (Anaconda for the aussies) for $15 just for the main meal 😂
When fresh, the Huntley and Palmer crackers are ace with cheddar cheese(the British Cheddar, unlike the American equivalent). However, anything produced and placed into a ration pack usually loses the civilian equivalent taste! Could it be the added preservatives or the fact it has been in some food warehouse for a long time? When cold, wet and hungry we will eat anything and everything; right? Remember, eat what you can and as fast as you can! You never know when what is going to happen!!
I'm Aussie and my aunt made the best Xmas lunch dinner with a Vegemite and peanut butter roast chicken back in the early 90's. I've made it ever since 😅
Its amazing how some things haven't changed since the Rat packs we had back in the 80s such as the sweetened condensed milk, mash potatoes and block butt biscuits and clean out chocolate.
Like how there is a prison cookbook, what about an MRE video series. Am sure soldiers around the world have their own ways to modify the set meals to make them taste better.
Almost. Its part of the ingredients. Homebrewers recognise tge smell but its white. Add salt and vegetable scraps and peels and boil till its blackened. Under pressure. Then boil it more until it looks like axle grease.
My dad used to let us have his ration packs when he got home from exercises. We loved them, the cheese in a tin lol. Loved that stuff. When we moved from holsworthy we had heaps of the can openers.
A mate of mine, his dad was ex SAS (australian special forces). they never had a regular can opener in their kitchen, always their fold out spoon style things. took me about 5 minutes to open a can of tomatos with. Then John showed me how it was done, went at it like a buzzsaw, and had the next can open in about 10s. there is a knack to it, but hugely effective, even tho he had been out of the service for 10 years, it is a superior can opener if your good at it. I have to wonder if the peaches are deliberately allowed to ferment to get around the rum ration... a form of pruno.
G’day from Aus., Entertaining content, Vegemite is something either you like it or you hate it, even as an Aussie, there are other milder versions, Marmite & Promite but Vegemite is king, mind you back in the ‘85’ some of us received ratpacks older than the intended consumer, 25 yrs, stored correctly the contents were consumed & were typical of a rat pack & I’m still here to tell the tale, that condensed milk might of got some sun on it, it looks caramelised, should be much lighter & creamier, good for energy in a brew before a route march, 20 to 30 km in full battle order, pack, section radio, m60 + ammo, Oh! the memories of my bulletproof days 🍻😂 Ret Vet LEST WE FORGET 🌺
I used to cut my beef jerky up and let it reconstitute before adding it to the beef stew. The other thing was a cheese cake using the chocolate, cheese, condensed milk and crackers (crushed up to make a base) and if you made a big enough cake you could share with your cobbers (especially if they chipped in for ingredients)
An Aussie rat pack can be re-loved by the quartermaster with the appropriate qualification a number of times. You definitely had an old one, that had most likely spent some time in the sun under a tarp on exercise, the peaches are a good giveaway. Fun fact, you can make alcohol out of the peaches and sugar depending on how long your on ex for and have the right kinda vehicle to transport your containers..
