The comment killed me ... giving him Pizza MRE is friendly fire ... 🤣🤣🤣

An Italian breakfast is a coffee and a cigarette, thats why the breakfast is light

Asking an Italian if he ever had Minestrone, is like asking an American if they ever had ketchup! 🤯😂✌🏼

She didn't lie mate. Italian MRE are really good. And i say that as a french used to eat our MRE. Italian and french MRE are REALLY good. In fact i would trade one french MRE for one italian. French MRE for american MRE ? Never....

The most european rations are made for a whole day in one package.

Not everyone likes peanut butter, I personally hate peanut butter

As a former Swiss Army Chef I would say that food is one of the most important things to keep the troops happy, that's why rations are used in very rare occasions. Our field kitchens are able to prepare and distribute good meals most of the time.

"Oh, it's like a toast!" 🤣🤣🤣 ... not sure I'll recover from that for the rest of the day

Dude, if you have never visited Italy and tried their food in some families homecooked meals or in some restaurants the locals love to go, you haven't lived! The Italian soldier is so sceptic all the time and polite for the circumstances I might add. If you get what he gets at home, this "food" doesn't appear like edible sustenance. He is spoiled with the best food on the planet. You can't be angry at him. It's not his fault.

I think the most offensive thing might be that the subtitles added the "bolognese" stuff when he very deliberately did not call it bolognese :D

You simply cannot give an Italian an American pizza

Thanks Ryan finally we see Italian footage ...keep Italy 🇮🇹 coming❤

Ryan’s face when the Italian soldier was going to eat the pizza 😂

"he seems very sceptical" well they OPEND with giving him a bit of bread with a chese like substance and called it pizza , his trust is shattered at that point :P i think this would have gone alot better if they kept the "pizza" to the end :P

She asked if he had ever had Minestrone soup...!! That was my _first_ Italian meal when I went to stay in Rome for eight days (with my secondary school) when I was 13 years old...in 1966...🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂🇬🇧❤️🖖

To be fair, combat rations aren't really meant to be fabulous. They're supposed to be high calorie, quick prep, easy to carry things. I served in the British Army from '84 to '94. In the 80's at 24 hour rat pack (ration pack) was a box approximately 8" Square. Which contained 3 meals, a brew kit and a hexy cooker, which could be packed into your webbing easily. With the introduction of Bint Bags (Boil in the bag) You could (in theory) get a 'better' meal. Heating on was easy if you were on the move a lot because you could just drop one down the front of your Combat jacket. Your body would then heat it so that it was at least warm...ish. The most important item in there was the brew kit. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, sugar, powdered milk and boiled sweets (usually Spangles) and toilet paper oh, and a Yorkie. I think the combined calorific value was in the region of 5000-6000. Nobody from other nations liked our rats. We just ate it and moved on lol. I once met an Italian Alpine soldier on an exercise. His rations included some Grappa!!! Only in Italy, lol

I don't know why but that's not the US 24h K-ration (the food is more, there are other videos online), the Italian instead, is a normal 24h K-ration.

I love how she´s explaining that to the italian dude, when ALL of Europe's military MREs work the exact same way lol. ( oh and the American pacage is 1 meal, the Italian box are 3 meals )

When I spoke with Aussie military at a base, they said that to be deployed you need to be fit medically, mentally & dentally. So having a tooth ache when placed in a zone without a dentist is troublesome. So brushing teeth etc helps that happen!!

Glad you say it as American...' Americans are notorious NOT HONEST.'

The little cooker we had back in the day. That blok fuel Esbit is very toxic and sometimes influenced the taste of your food😅 the Dutch army switched to little propane burners. When I was in the Dutch army I was deployed for KFOR on a base with the 82nd. Talking about well funded. They had complete fast food restaurants like a KFC and they're kitchen had 24 hour food with steaks, burgers, all types of meat, fries, a cake bar, all types of soda like a food heaven. Soldiers also were walking around with plates of meat and.... miracle whip😂

Awesome video once again thank you ❤

As a kid in germany the americans do a lot of military manouvre. And we Kids get alot of mre in change for beer 😀. But there was chocolate and Coffee and stuff in it.

There’s an American trying Aussie ration packs too, I saw recently. He must be a military chef. Some items were out of date but the Aussies said they still eat them.

That accessories (i hope i spelled it right) are rather common for european rations and its common to to get food for the whole day

The advantage with the American MRE is that you don't need to light a fire and that is quicker. But yeah, I wouldn't call it a pizza either. And yes, that seems a one meal only. But I did see other American MREs as well with accessories like water tablet and drinks and so on. I had canned ravioli before, and if it is anything like the one I had, it is actually quite good. And yeah, I wouldn't like chicken in jelly either. That is an aquired taste or something like that.

I have once seen and tasted a Hungarian ration kit, and it was also mainly Hungarian meals in cans. But... not very good. There were some water sanitizing tablets: if the soldier's only access to water is mud water, they can make it drinkable. Nothing gourmet or fresh or yum-yum, it has to last a long time and it has to fill you up.

In WWII, the Americans had ice cream ships. Everybody else was eating scraps.

the Italian ration you see is the standard one, in the premium one the waiter comes out asking for the orders

All soldier's rations are pretty crappy everywhere except maybe the French rations they are very good. US MRE 's are crap . Where does all your tax dollars go in the US ? Not the soldiers it all goes to weapons ,um , da !!!

when I was young during the military rookie year in the italian mountain troops our allies during the nights of the military camp trainer came to change your coke bottles with our alcool grappa bottles😂 ......the best jobs time

Ryan, you should take a look at some of the hundreds of military ration reviews on KZfaq. They are often great.

All US people love Italian food 🙏🏻🇮🇹🇺🇸

pretty cool seeing the para troopers in the back 7:10

Lots of American erm mostly for 1 meal (easiers to carry in pockets and don't need to to stay with big package after eating 2/3 of ration). Italian one designet for day - 3 meals (less package so cheaper to produce and for logistics)

Ryan, MREs aren't meant to be fantastic food. OTOH, the food aboard US aircraft carriers, submarines, etc. is superb.

I would think military rations would be to give you enough energy to keep you going, be quick to make and and conserve space. The Italian seems to forget that.

One of the best trade items in the German rations are the the thuna with lime bags, one half of people loves them the other despises them. Chocolate is great. And I always keep the canned rye bread around.

What about reacting to Germans test MREs? If they does not like it, they will show it directly..😁 It can be a new series of videos.. Ore taste them for yourself..

By what I've seen of US MREs, they seem awesome considering they basically only need water, and they're light weight because the US has perfected freeze-drying. But if clean water is difficult to come around, the canned food wins. Lighting a fire close to the front may not be the greatest idea of all time, as the enemy will be able to smell it and see the smoke... on the other hand, a self-heating meal, and its steam, will also show up if you have thermal vision. The original idea of MRE was that it should be edible without any cooking, in than sense I think the cans win a little bit again... eating freeze-dried chili con carne out of the bag, as to not reveal your location sounds a bit dry to me. Anyway... serving pizza to an Italian... of course it won't get a great score, but he was very diplomatic saying that you can't expect "home cooked" in battle. Perhaps that's something, the little startup, NATO could do better. An international effort to improve the MREs for all members... that would get countries proud of their cuisine (Italy, France, Greece and Turkyie just to mention a few) to pay more attention... Problem would be that when the boys return home, they'd expect better food. I can't say a winner... they both have pros and cons... depends on who's the enemy and what's the weather like.

Swede here, if there is something that they have perfected in the USA it's peanut butter!

ok, you call any ragù a "bolognese sauce" that's the third best way to start a war

At least she didn't give him the chili mac MRE; everything I've heard from veterans/service members is that it tastes great, but wreaks havoc on the digestive system. 😮😮 I don't think she gave him a complete MRE. I've had them before, and remember each one coming with more than that.

Americans starving in the battlefield 😂

I'd hate to be the poor private voluntold to give up his chili mac so the PR folks can have fun at his expense ...

You made a point at 10:40 it's chow,warm&nutricious as could be

You can jst tell, that the american one is full of carbons while the italian is full of nutrition and other essentials. I mean american solgier cant live of those rations in a war continuing 10+ days. They will get tired faster etc.

Diplomacy abounds..... Wouldn't want America to go to war with Italy - or vice versa!

I remember when most foods were tinned... the jelly usually tasted better than the meat!!

Check out iss rations. Some were cooked and then developed for space by a german Star Chef.

Wait for conscription ,,,,,, you’ll love it

That Italian dude is massive and FIT, he is hungry and he gets that ? these men need feeding with decent stuff, that poor man je looks so sad

I remember my dad telling me that US army privates in a camp they had with the British, were swapping US 3 day ration packs for UK 1 day packs.

I was in the military for like...7 days?? In Norway. I do not know what I'm talking about. But I have lifted a LOT of iron and trained martial arts for tens of years. I have never eaten this much in a day ever!! And why not just protein powder, some fat, sugars and vitamins?? This looks like a logistical nigthmare if you have like 10 000 soldiers for months!! :)

I'm going to post the same comment about the US MRE that I posted in the original video: if the enemy doesn't kill you, your rations will. 😆

good thing about rations, you are usually very hungry when you eat and then everything taste better 😉

I have to say... if that canned chicken meat in jelly is similar in taste as the ones I bought a few times in our stores... I completely agree that it tastes weird... pork, beef or luncheon meat are awesome though.

The slice of pizza looked REALLY small. Just imagine walking through the woods for hours and then you get this for dinner.

MREs are single meals, the italian kit is for a day, so yeah, it's bigger 😉

`Slightly different subjet, but a few weeks ago I worked out how much the UK spends on the NHS eacy year. For the year ending 2022 - `23 it spent approximately £180 bn. That works out at about £6000 per second. We are about 1/6 the population of the USA, so it would approximate the USA spending £36,000 per second / $40,000. I wonder how much the USA does actually spend on health care, per year, per month, per week...........per second.

And noone realized the parachute invasion in the background xD

The nice thing is because of NATO doctrine all the countries MRE have the same concept with cultural differences.

The US rations seem incredibly low on energy or nutritional value x

Peanut butter and crackers is not universal at all, I've had peanut butter only once in my life, and it was a souvenier from the US. Didn't want to try it a second time 😂I think it can now be bought from more specialized stores here, but only US fanboys tend to buy it here Peanut butter is massive in Northern America, not so much in the rest of the World Canned foods can be absolutely amazing, especially if you have access to water and heating. One of my all time favourite foods Finnish hernekeitto (green pea soup) is always bought as canned version. Spam can also be amazing, and a lot of people ofc love canned tuna (I'm allergic to something used in it's making/preservation, so wouldn't know. Funnily enough, I'm not allergic to the actual tuna)

Actually, canned food *can* be amazing (yes, that's a pun, but also the truth). If you had ever tried Spanish canned food ("conservas"), you would know what I mean. (BTW, Portuguese combat rations include Spanish-made "conservas".)

The American MRE's are designed to be carried in your pack. You don't want to do that with canned food. That would weigh you down big time.

Korean englishman has one where they swap with the korean military, its hilarious

Hi Ryan.This kind of food was design for survive.Im polish.Love your chanel. Try polish war time food!!!

Nah dude MRE around the world are pretty good. For field and war food.

"NATO, 've you ever heard of them?" dude that's not a youtube channel that's an extremely famous military alliance between european countries and even the US

Man, I hate minestrone. I had to eat it every single evening when I lived with my grandma😂

I’m kinda just in chock that they really put a fucking ”pizza slice” in a mre. Like they didn’t even try💀

Try the french ones, they are amazing.

As past french military, I can say ours have better taste than americans but it's less "operational" (don't know how to say). Your's are better for battlefield, as you said. No fire is good, and just put it and wait 👌

No one commenting about the parachute drop at 7:13 in the background?

Dont look at Portugal MRE... its a full day meal !

7:10 ... It´s raining men

I hate peanut butter in any way or forme, that is anything but universal. It's a very American thing. Hazelnut cream, almond cream, really any real nut tastes better. Wait did she ask an ITALIAN whether he ever heard of Minestrone??? XD

Look up "British 24 hour Combat Operational Ration Pack".

i think the US was the first country to introduce MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) which their soliders soon re-named as 'Meals Rarely Edible' or 'Massive Rectal Explosions' lol

Asking the Italian whether yheyve tried Minestrone soup 🥲

What I like most is to see all these nations doing this fun stuff together and not being at war against each other. NATO is a good invention ❤

I wish it was pineapple pizza. I wanted to see him freak out

Where tf does that American army budget go?! Only into bullets? How can we poor European countries treat our army better? It's mind-blowing how much more Italy cares about their troops

I think US food is better. It may not taste as good, but it is intended to be a temporary solution and only be used for a few days. Afterwards they usually end up in a camp where there is better food anyway. The Italians have to carry too much with them.

Who does not like a piece of boiled pizza :p

The first time i watched the original video i cringed so bad, now? Its the same

As someone from the UK I find peanut butter disgusting 🤢

Hello, I have an interesting question. Could you in one video react to a video about Finno-ugric languages, I believe this could be very interesting to hear languages that have nothing to do with English, German, Polish or French. (English, German, Polish and French all of them belong to the Indo-European languagefamily) I can Show a very similar words in English, Polish and German. (I don’t know French) 🇺🇸🇬🇧: Water 🇩🇪: Wasser 🇵🇱: Woda/Wodę 🇺🇸🇬🇧:Bus 🇩🇪:Bus 🇵🇱:Autobus

So are the Italians getting a new toothbrush, cutlery etc everyday? That seems ridiculous.

Nothing wrong with cold canned ravioli, I've eaten the ravioli straight out of the can cold several times because I couldn't be bothered to heat it up.

yeah that the american politness thing makes things very confusing has been explained in every single german video, i think what i take away from this is, she had a second bite, he didnt, thats all i need to know :P

Here is "my" real story, on a (NATO) maneuver in Denmark, We got MRE's for the first 2 days (I'm German)... there was " EPA " number 4! Insiders know what that means!!!! ;) " Goulash with noodles ", on the first day , and on the 2nd there was... " Noodles with goulash " and what does the “kitchen bull” do on the third day? EXACTLY he made the leftovers from the 2 days before because no food had arrived yet!!! No wonder we cooked canned ravioli with vodka and red wine out of desperation (to forget about it)

Italian soldiers having a full three course meal for dinner! And pasta both at lunch and dinner? 😂😂😂

Just the smell of peanut butter or peanut m&ms makes me gag. I cant stand the idea of peanuts with sweet stuff. I like dry roasted peanuts...they're salty and savoury and should be nowhere near chocolate lol. That is a personal thing not a UK thing.

The better the army, the bader the food

video would of been shorter if she gave him a pineapple pizza

That chicken in jelly is really chicken pate ,Americans don't really like pate I think !

Have you ever seen an overweight US Soldier?

Can people with peanut allergy join the military?