Ben : I’m more excited than usual for this one, you can see it on my face 😐

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.

I like how he always tries to eat as much as he can even if it’s nasty

No worries, SteveMRE tried countless MREs, dating all the way back to 1800s and he's as healthy as ever. lol

Bro ate war food and thought it was gonna be mighty fine 😂

Imagine an apocalypse. You’re starving. Those MREs will taste like candy when everything else is gone.

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

Calories consumed in todays video: Menu 23 MRE: 1250 Calories (apprx) Total Calories Consumed: 1250 give or take

“Should I test the salt?” … “Salt.” 😂

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,

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

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.

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

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

Ben: I would trade this off if i could, taste is kinda bogus Also Ben: *Cleans the entire platter*

So many things had to go wrong but Ben still pushed through it all #respect ✊🏼

I would never eat this unless I had to, but I guess thats the point xD

I imagine Ben in the army trading everything for cheese and crackers and loving on only that for 6 months. 😂

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!

When you haven’t ate in two days in the field, this is probably really decent.

“Should I test the salt?” Alright might as well” *Pours salt onto hand and licks it* “Salt.” 🤷🏻‍♂️ My favorite part of the video 😭

I’m also a big MRE guy Ben. They’re so interesting to me for no reason at all lol

Yoo I love these type of videos. Hope you do more MRE vids from different countries!

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.

"I'm not even hungry" *polishes off the rest of the mre* lol

I'm glad you got that out on a tray

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

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.

Literally had this same MRE during basic a while ago💀🔥

MRE meals never be high quality lol

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!

I’m gonna start hiking in the wild for combat evasion training I can’t wait to try some of these

“Man, that’s not good man.”😂😂

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!

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.

It’s like an adult Lunchables with the cheese and crackers as the main.

“Rock or something” 😂

It really said “Rock or something” 😂

Ben never disappoints. Seems like he always come up with something new.

Definitely do these more often!

Ben, thank you for trying the MRE. It was quite interesting.

I actually enjoyed this video more than I thought I would. 😅😅😅 Very educational. Really learned alot

Technically pizza delivered is ready to eat too!

"lets get this out onto a tray... nice!"

I love MRE reviews hope it goes well and you do more in the future

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.

Probably one of the funniest food reviews bro I swear🤣

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

"you think they wouldnt make it so it ripped like that" In my expeirence with kit, Im glad it just didnt explode

love the top down camera! you should keep it

for people in the military mres like this are like a dream come true lmao

Chili Mac is where it’s at MRE wise. Would try and trade for those

Lmfaooo not him putting the cardboard in the ration heater 😭😭😭. I never get the good desserts when I get MREs.

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.

Ben: I'm excited. Also Ben: 🗿.

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

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.

my boi even got the gshultz trey lmao

Bro I just watched the steve mre guy review this exact mre earlier today

still can't get over the crispy fries incident

Giving Ben props for finishing it!

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.

Bro shoulda said nice when he pulled out the tray

I hope he knew that that chewing gum isnt your regular old plain gum 😂

I remember the chilli mac MRE being pretty good and grabbed an extra one at the time. That was twenty years ago though.

Had me rolling in the floor laughing. One of your best!

I have to leave a mandatory "Nice hiss!" to this video

MRE might've given Ben food poisoning or something lol! Hope there's another vid soon!

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.

"I don't have a rock." LOL

7:06 let's get this out on to a tray.

The testing the salt killed me LOL

4:29 the jump cut is very funny between "I would be the biggest idiot of all time" to "so that was stupid" 😂

In both Army ROTC and AFJROTC my favorite MRE was the spaghetti in meat sauce.

Alright, let's get this out onto a tray. Nice, mmkay.

You can put the cheese in the warmer too for better spread

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.

And doing it with out a table was tough in the army lol

My mans DID NOT want to waste food lol

I sure hope after this meal, you actually went out and got something decent and fulfilling...goodness...you so ROCK dude!

bro ate the cobbler with the cheese spoon 😭

let’s get this out onto a tray. Nice mkay

He put this out onto a tray. Nice! IYKYK

7:05 "Let's get this out onto a tray..., Nice."

I don't know why, but watching him eat is just so funny!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I swear Ben is like a cousin that uploads food videos for shit and giggles

You got to try the chili mac one!

Its extremely difficult to make shelf stable pizza that lasts for 10-20 years bruh. It was only recently that they made that one

😂 Ben your to funny....do a Korean MRE next. ✌️

The funny thing is that the packaging uses DS9/VOY fonts. A majority of cop cars use TNG movie fonts.

Brings me back to basic trng, tryna crack them open on the ground and finish it in under 10 minutes lol.

The comedic potential of this video is just... LIMITLESS.

The instructions are right on the bag lol

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.

my fave part was the salt taste test you really had me on edge

He smashed that cookie hard real hard 😂😂😂

Crazy Russian Hacker was my favourite MRE tester, he was hilarious

It was so cool to get a top down view from a BenDeen video, you're awesome man

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.

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