Ben : I’m more excited than usual for this one, you can see it on my face 😐
@visiblereflection604910 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@FunkSwaggMusiK10 ай бұрын
Thats his ecstatic face 🫥🫥🫥
@carlakinstley925510 ай бұрын
😂
@xynged10 ай бұрын
Ben's got the emotional range of Captain Holt
@SandmanFightingSys10 ай бұрын
Stop making fun of Ben 😡
@dragonan315910 ай бұрын
I love how when he tries to coffee, he smiles and says that it was the worst coffee he'd ever tasted, but when he drank the chocolate shake, he damn near spewed it back out and proceeded to say it was actually pretty good.
@Mashamazzi10 ай бұрын
I think it was just too thick
@wombat52529 ай бұрын
Haave you ever tried a protein shake where it didn't mix well and was thick? Yeah....lol I've done the same.
@natoskull29 ай бұрын
He lowkey a comedian, we all know now.
@VanGothASMR9 ай бұрын
He truly kept me on my toes for this one
@Vexas3454 ай бұрын
@wombat5252 Nothing worse than getting an unexpected texture when you drink something.
@eli4life99710 ай бұрын
I like how he always tries to eat as much as he can even if it’s nasty
@gokhanceken10 ай бұрын
he's just like me. he just likes eating
@adeusjefe10 ай бұрын
unlike 90% of usa people xD
@eli4life99710 ай бұрын
@@adeusjefe not jyet usa but yea
@donashia609110 ай бұрын
He’s such a good sport
@akiroai657710 ай бұрын
food is food, everyone does that, unless its literally dookie
@Annoxium10 ай бұрын
No worries, SteveMRE tried countless MREs, dating all the way back to 1800s and he's as healthy as ever. lol
@FunkSwaggMusiK10 ай бұрын
You saw the Cracker he ate from the Civil War? 😂
@Forkemdvls10 ай бұрын
Love his channel.
@Jin-133710 ай бұрын
*Steve eats a cracker from ww2* nice hiss Also Steve when he ate a Chinese mre 2 years old: *gets botulism*
@coldaz10 ай бұрын
Need a collab of them eating some ww2 chocolate or something
@M1tsuM1ya10 ай бұрын
Definitely not as healthy as ever 😂
@nicknakgd688910 ай бұрын
Bro ate war food and thought it was gonna be mighty fine 😂
@wildseraphim2110 ай бұрын
Imagine an apocalypse. You’re starving. Those MREs will taste like candy when everything else is gone.
@OldManMoe9 ай бұрын
And I like that he kept that point of view
@Austyn_Young74 ай бұрын
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@BiancaFL9 ай бұрын
I feel like this is the most accurate taste test of an MRI out there. Very genuine and simple. I would take Ben's food recommendations any day
@vetoedimpersonator44789 ай бұрын
bro said mri lowe it
@StephenJ1179 ай бұрын
Here I’ll give you my recommendation since I’m currently serving in the Marines. This was not an accurate taste test lol. He didn’t heat up anything properly. The key here is heating up the pizza and cheese spread and laying down on the pizza. Warm up the cobbler as it’s actually one of the better tasting deserts. Trust me, when you’re in the field, this tastes like a 5 star meal. Civilians need to try these when you haven’t eaten for hours and have been humping 5-10 miles. It’ll change your mind for sure how these taste then lol.
@mmmyeah78 ай бұрын
Guess you've never seen the master of mre then who has a channel dedicated to them youtube.com/@Steve1989MRE?si=-Gq7GSK4UJLfg400
@thatonecomment68937 ай бұрын
i think its fine tbh. a lot of times my uncle who served told me that sometimes in camp he had a certain amount of time to eat so eating them cold was the fastest way. had a few of them cold myself and i say *a few* taste good cold. like the spegetii pack@@StephenJ117
@sircartier44227 ай бұрын
@@vetoedimpersonator4478Lowe it? I’m Home Depoting rn 😂
@BenDeenCalorieCounter10 ай бұрын
Calories consumed in todays video: Menu 23 MRE: 1250 Calories (apprx) Total Calories Consumed: 1250 give or take
@oatmeal881510 ай бұрын
you again
@MinorityHunterZoro10 ай бұрын
Goat 💯
@bjewel37514 ай бұрын
I was wondering how many calories and wow that's a lot to eat in one sitting, even though it doesn't look like much 😮
@reshsgurl10 ай бұрын
“Should I test the salt?” … “Salt.” 😂
@wildseraphim2110 ай бұрын
Been homeless a few times in my life. I’ll tell you what, food pantry’s that hand out MREs are awesome. It’s a lot better then nothing,
@kyle52999 ай бұрын
Glad to see you tried an actual MRE we'd be given out in the field. I see a lot of people trying third party MRE's off camping/prepper sites and stuff that are much better / fancier lol. Pizza is a bit newer than my time, but you got the general gist of how our meals were with this. I always felt like it was too much sweet stuff too but at the end of the day we're burning a ton of calories and sorta just demolish these things for fuel anyway. I don't know about other people, but in my case most of us just kind of ate them cold straight out the bag to save time and get on to whatever tf we had to do for the day lol. There were only a few jackpot MREs like chili mac where I'd take the time to make an elaborate heated meal if I could
@blakepattonusmc78699 ай бұрын
Yeah, same here. The pizza one is overrated and tbh the beef stew one or the shredded beef with bbq sauce is the best ones but I still never took the time to heat them lol.
@andycalhoun64717 ай бұрын
I don’t think this one is an actual mre like the field, all the stuff didn’t come vacuum sealed in one big pouch
@kyle52997 ай бұрын
@@andycalhoun6471 Not sure when you served, but this is well-representative of what I had hundreds of times 2011-2015. Packaging is exactly the same. LRP's were the only other iteration of MRE I saw that would be significantly different and they were giving those out for some special forces guys during a training exercise.
@RobertJ772 ай бұрын
Is it true that they came out in 1981 as he said, i for some reason thought they originated as early as WW2 even earlier, or did i miss something here? Ive seen so many MRE vids, some are lame as, and being as i havent served, reading your comment was refreshing such as i was in a way that watching something Authentic for the story and knowledge now.
@kyle52992 ай бұрын
@@RobertJ77 Hi Robert! I personally don't know specifics about the release years for some of these. What I can say is that they go through iterations and design changes, so as an example if you look up "C-Rations" you'll see what we used around WW2 and the Wikipedia would include years and stuff like that. They had tins and I'm assuming way less variety than we do today. The "MRE" we have today is its own iteration of ration, and usually is characterized by these big brown bags and lots of plastic packaging. We also update this one more frequently, as you can see there's pizzas and stuff now whereas even just ~12-13 years ago I wasn't having that.
@indyman_1239 ай бұрын
No joke, this is probably the only BenDeen video that I've seen from the very first second to the very last... no pauses, no cuts 😂 it really was fascinating to see what MREs look like. Of course, a pretty cool video as usual. "Nice salt." Classic! Love you man. Keep doing your thing.
@VanGothASMR9 ай бұрын
He cuts the video a number of times, I’m confused 😂
@504nars10 ай бұрын
I’m DEFINITELY down to see him do a kind of, mini series of mre’s from around the world. The Korean one would be a good start lol. Seeing these every once in a while would be dope
@cohegaming80699 ай бұрын
As an army soldier who has eaten probably over a thousand of these, you’re supposed to keep the cardboard on the outside so it retains the heat when heating your food. Kind of like an insulator
@tw1tw2897 ай бұрын
He acknowledged that he made it wrong anyways.
@AleMusa9 ай бұрын
Ben: I would trade this off if i could, taste is kinda bogus Also Ben: *Cleans the entire platter*
@mr.t-rex311310 ай бұрын
So many things had to go wrong but Ben still pushed through it all #respect ✊🏼
@Nako310 ай бұрын
I would never eat this unless I had to, but I guess thats the point xD
@dperry20310 ай бұрын
I imagine Ben in the army trading everything for cheese and crackers and loving on only that for 6 months. 😂
@ashertsukuyomi842710 ай бұрын
Try a Korean MRE !!! would love to see your impression :D and compare it to its civilian counterpart ! maybe have both the "MRE version" and "version you can order" and compare the two meals and see how close they are in terms of looks/flavour/smell/texture!
@blinkin54 ай бұрын
DW he's gonna try the Korean MREs when he has to go in to do his military service
@Baby.Ruth78210 ай бұрын
When you haven’t ate in two days in the field, this is probably really decent.
@babatundeolajide22227 ай бұрын
the trick is to put the pizza slice in the heater with the cheese spread then put the melted cheese onto the heated pizza and add the crackers to the bottom of the pizza to have a crunch , sorry in osut during chow i would always end up with a pizza slice and then trade your cobbler for a beef stick so u can have a bit of a pepperoni by slicing it with your cac or peanut butter to put on the oatmeal
@flawless_Cowboy6 ай бұрын
It is not. I've eaten so many of these mfs that I'd rather just thug it out fr
@luckymustard55910 ай бұрын
“Should I test the salt?” Alright might as well” *Pours salt onto hand and licks it* “Salt.” 🤷🏻♂️ My favorite part of the video 😭
@OlJackBurton10 ай бұрын
1 minute later... "nice salt"
@KumarX259 ай бұрын
I knew I wasn’t the only one 😂
@jeremys41010 ай бұрын
I’m also a big MRE guy Ben. They’re so interesting to me for no reason at all lol
@alex9100810 ай бұрын
Yoo I love these type of videos. Hope you do more MRE vids from different countries!
@LamarS-om3rm9 ай бұрын
As someone who was in the army you damn right that jalapeno cheese spread was like the holy grail 😂 we would be trading all types of snacks just for the crackers and jalapeno cheese combo.
@NimbusLion4179 ай бұрын
"I'm not even hungry" *polishes off the rest of the mre* lol
@ec888810 ай бұрын
I'm glad you got that out on a tray
@Tytywy123410 ай бұрын
If you ever get the chance try the ones with blueberry cobbler it’s amazing and I love the chili Mac ones! I ate them in basic training I also like the meatballs and spaghetti ones
@onyx68479 ай бұрын
IN CHILI MAC WE TRUST
@AceTrigger009 ай бұрын
Something else you can do with the cheese spread: knead it first, then put it inside the cardboard box (when it’s used correctly) so the heat warms it up while your entree is cooking.
@strife_xi10 ай бұрын
Literally had this same MRE during basic a while ago💀🔥
@eli4life99710 ай бұрын
MRE meals never be high quality lol
@OlJackBurton10 ай бұрын
French MREs are close to mighty fine i hear...
@ark281910 ай бұрын
@@OlJackBurton Because they don't expect to ever fight a real war.
@SirBrinyolf9 ай бұрын
Hey Ben I'd be more than happy to send you a couple different types of USA MREs, I have a couple boxes full and think it'd be dope to see you try some more of them!
@smoshfan4398 ай бұрын
I’m gonna start hiking in the wild for combat evasion training I can’t wait to try some of these
@ExotiicPriince9 ай бұрын
“Man, that’s not good man.”😂😂
@guilepro9 ай бұрын
I looove when people try MRE's on KZfaq! Thanks Ben! I think it's the second time you do something like this if I'm not mistaken. MRE rations just seem so appealing, so yummy to me. Kind of like canned food! I know it's weird LOL but I can't help it!
@Staceylwolf10 ай бұрын
We got the cherry blueberry cobbler in our MRE too. We tried the meatball one. We also have the chili and a chicken noodle bake that we haven’t tried yet.
@Patrick_Nguyen10 ай бұрын
It’s like an adult Lunchables with the cheese and crackers as the main.
@anthonybianchi19239 ай бұрын
“Rock or something” 😂
@boog60419 ай бұрын
It really said “Rock or something” 😂
@sophiaisabelle022710 ай бұрын
Ben never disappoints. Seems like he always come up with something new.
@user-bc5it9nd9w10 ай бұрын
I agree a lot
@CatsCatsCatsCatsCats10 ай бұрын
yall r bots
@tamastarczy626210 ай бұрын
Yeah exactly my thoughts. Every Ben-video delivers something new. Very creative - but with ease.
@sneer01019 ай бұрын
Such a weird comment. This type of video has been done a million times
@Jmitch7679 ай бұрын
Definitely do these more often!
@May-fo1rs10 ай бұрын
Ben, thank you for trying the MRE. It was quite interesting.
@seanillefarfan334210 ай бұрын
I actually enjoyed this video more than I thought I would. 😅😅😅 Very educational. Really learned alot
@HFC78610 ай бұрын
Technically pizza delivered is ready to eat too!
@staatsnoobNr110 ай бұрын
"lets get this out onto a tray... nice!"
@austingriffith716810 ай бұрын
I love MRE reviews hope it goes well and you do more in the future
@Jaketheaxman9 ай бұрын
Take a look at the nutrition facts for all the items. The mains and some sides are the only things with really substantial nutrition requirements, so when i go on long hikes i always say screw the heater and empty calories, i duct tape a main and a side together and those two packets are enough for a meal. It cuts 75% of size and about 35% of the weight, meaning you can pack more. Plus duct tape is a good way to start a fire in the rain, so wrapping a tape band around the "waist" of the two packets a few times will be more than enough for if you need to stop and make a fire quick. I keep the coffee and utilities in a separate waterproof packaging (ziplock bag) for retreival if i need them.
@khavinhtran9 ай бұрын
Probably one of the funniest food reviews bro I swear🤣
@ashton96439 ай бұрын
I mean at the end of the day they are army mres so they are mainly meant to get all the protein and nutrition a soldier needs but some are pretty good
@ConnorO7788777 ай бұрын
"you think they wouldnt make it so it ripped like that" In my expeirence with kit, Im glad it just didnt explode
@armin.penzes9 ай бұрын
love the top down camera! you should keep it
@chris-gw2rt10 ай бұрын
for people in the military mres like this are like a dream come true lmao
@BlackoutWS610 ай бұрын
Chili Mac is where it’s at MRE wise. Would try and trade for those
@619hg9 ай бұрын
Lmfaooo not him putting the cardboard in the ration heater 😭😭😭. I never get the good desserts when I get MREs.
@Drownedinblood10 ай бұрын
They could've literally made a pizza hot pocket, that'd be way better imo. They do have like a pepperoi "sandwich" but it's still dry af. Be happy you never had to get the veggie omlet.
@Soldantae10 ай бұрын
Ben: I'm excited. Also Ben: 🗿.
@sailorjerry51339 ай бұрын
The one thing you have to understand with MREs is LEGIT......taste is a fucking luxury....its something to boost your morale as much as can be.......the MAIN objective of that MRE is a fuel stop....its to give you the nutrients you need to fucking keep operating. If the military could put EVERYTHING we need in a day , into a tube of toothpaste and make it taste like something we could keep down without throwing up in the field they would do it. As a combat vet, man everything is made that way. Shit i still eat canned soup cold half the time.......just remember that when youre trying this stuff.....Flavor is a luxury
@loulishadow14688 ай бұрын
bruh, it's been a looong time since i last watched any video of yours, & you just randomy popped up in my feed, I was a kid when i used to watch you, miss this.
@gr1zzy1599 ай бұрын
my boi even got the gshultz trey lmao
@40glo4610 ай бұрын
Bro I just watched the steve mre guy review this exact mre earlier today
@coolguy-li8rc6 ай бұрын
still can't get over the crispy fries incident
@cicilyly602710 ай бұрын
Giving Ben props for finishing it!
@lucasschroeder98208 ай бұрын
With the chocolate beverage powder I always added just a small amount of water to it to make more of a pudding (The best was the strawberry banana ones). Cheese spread is also better when warm-hot. Has a better consistency.
@alexchbaro961310 ай бұрын
Bro shoulda said nice when he pulled out the tray
@diyanfonseka9 ай бұрын
I hope he knew that that chewing gum isnt your regular old plain gum 😂
@JohnBillings8310 ай бұрын
I remember the chilli mac MRE being pretty good and grabbed an extra one at the time. That was twenty years ago though.
@befowler79 ай бұрын
Had me rolling in the floor laughing. One of your best!
@predio0110 ай бұрын
I have to leave a mandatory "Nice hiss!" to this video
@counterfeit44509 ай бұрын
MRE might've given Ben food poisoning or something lol! Hope there's another vid soon!
@ishyq9 ай бұрын
i got worried because he aint post in 4 days
@nicz76947 ай бұрын
Only tried a german MRE and what I liked is that there is some additional bread in there which actually tastes pretty good (literally normal dark bread) and there is some fruit jam too! I think a plus is that you have less sweets (except jam) and more food that stops hunger. But what I like about the US ones is that they come with that heater thing as far as I have seen. Thats pretty useful if you are not able light a fire and have something on the go. I can imagine that you can strap the bag onto a backpack and warm your food while moving.
@mikeaaronc7710 ай бұрын
"I don't have a rock." LOL
@Musefan89110 ай бұрын
7:06 let's get this out on to a tray.
@mojomomo14759 ай бұрын
The testing the salt killed me LOL
@yoss34759 ай бұрын
4:29 the jump cut is very funny between "I would be the biggest idiot of all time" to "so that was stupid" 😂
@therealrobertmcdonald7 ай бұрын
In both Army ROTC and AFJROTC my favorite MRE was the spaghetti in meat sauce.
@RikoSan01219 ай бұрын
Alright, let's get this out onto a tray. Nice, mmkay.
@deman72767 ай бұрын
You can put the cheese in the warmer too for better spread
@fleagaunag10 ай бұрын
The dry elements of an mre are always the best tasting. A lot of sacrifices to taste and texture have to be made in order to make the wet elements shelf-stable. Overall a satisfying meal when hungry, which is when this would be naturally eaten. I very much prefer the MREs of other countries, in which they include commercial canned foods.
@Tytywy123410 ай бұрын
And doing it with out a table was tough in the army lol
@NaturesChosen2 ай бұрын
My mans DID NOT want to waste food lol
@gypsytaechatelaine514510 ай бұрын
I sure hope after this meal, you actually went out and got something decent and fulfilling...goodness...you so ROCK dude!
@Manu-jz7kf10 ай бұрын
bro ate the cobbler with the cheese spoon 😭
@clanka55094 ай бұрын
let’s get this out onto a tray. Nice mkay
@AlextheApachee9 ай бұрын
He put this out onto a tray. Nice! IYKYK
@UnholyToastxd10 ай бұрын
7:05 "Let's get this out onto a tray..., Nice."
@ColdFuse9610 ай бұрын
I don't know why, but watching him eat is just so funny!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@nurnashaedrinanieza81029 ай бұрын
Nurmisya😊😇🥰😘
@nurnashaedrinanieza81029 ай бұрын
😊😇🥰😘
@nurnashaedrinanieza81029 ай бұрын
😊😇🥰😘🤣
@siroshcelot9 ай бұрын
I swear Ben is like a cousin that uploads food videos for shit and giggles
@MeydayDesigns10 ай бұрын
You got to try the chili mac one!
@murphplaya9 ай бұрын
Its extremely difficult to make shelf stable pizza that lasts for 10-20 years bruh. It was only recently that they made that one
@whitneybraddy209910 ай бұрын
😂 Ben your to funny....do a Korean MRE next. ✌️
@sanyahikari70728 ай бұрын
The funny thing is that the packaging uses DS9/VOY fonts. A majority of cop cars use TNG movie fonts.
@zack494 ай бұрын
Brings me back to basic trng, tryna crack them open on the ground and finish it in under 10 minutes lol.
@natoskull29 ай бұрын
The comedic potential of this video is just... LIMITLESS.
@matthewhelm76909 ай бұрын
The instructions are right on the bag lol
@Jaketheaxman9 ай бұрын
Try the chili mac. Thats the best one by far. I like to put the cheese spread and hot sauce in it, both of which i believe are packed with that menu. I always had MREs on big group hikes so we'd trade different items in and out. Group hikes, much like military field training, are really good ways to figure out which items will stack with other items to make it better.
@britishfireworks9 ай бұрын
my fave part was the salt taste test you really had me on edge
@user-pp1zk7ze4s9 ай бұрын
He smashed that cookie hard real hard 😂😂😂
@MadailinBurnhope10 ай бұрын
Crazy Russian Hacker was my favourite MRE tester, he was hilarious
@ChiefBret10 ай бұрын
It was so cool to get a top down view from a BenDeen video, you're awesome man
@Jaketheaxman9 ай бұрын
At least its not the veggie omelet or asian beef strips. Theres a reason why they call it the "Vomelete" and its not just a way to make the name shorter.
@AGMJSProduction7 ай бұрын
I haven’t had the clobber heated but it has been pretty fire without heating it. A little spread of the jalapeño cheese on pizza could’ve help the pizza haha