"That is completely acceptable" defines living as a single bloke in one phrase

Let's get this out onto a Scottish workbench Nice!

As a former Norwegian air force medic, not gonna lie. Some of the best meals I've ever had were MRE's sitting inside the tent with my squad in -30 degree winter weather, drying clothes and reheating from the snowstorm blowing outside.

So I'm sitting in California, watching a Scottish man eat a Norwegian MRE. Oh, Internet! You never stop giving, do you?

I was stationed at Thule, Greenland, sporadically for damn near 12 years. Twice each month, we were ordered to draw rations, and report to a remote area of the base, for a "survival and endurance exercise". We knew we had lucked out, when we pulled MRE's supplied by Norway, Denmark, or Canada. Their rations staved-off hunger for longer periods of time, than rations issued by other NATO/OTAN members; they also had stews which "warmed you down to your toes", after returning from outdoor adventures. Norwegian MRE's sometimes had a lingonberry cake-like desert, which was better than "mom's homemade pies". Hopefully, you'll get to try that desert sometime.

'fucking hell' best reaction to a spicy sauce.😆

I love how you analyze the MRE and go into detail: breaking down how much each component adds to the total calories and how you sometimes inspect the ingredients of some components. I also like how you immediately tried to identify the sweetening agent in the energy drink. Please do more of these as a side thing or as a separate channel.

Clive: "arctic" in MRE title usually means that all food is freeze dried so it doesn't freeze to inedible piece of ice when left outside.

Way back when Christ was a Corporal, I was in the US Army, over in Vietnam. We lived on the old Army C-Rations, and in order to add a bit of ZZZZINg to them, most of us carried a bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce in our packs. A few drops of that could make the worst spiced beef in sauce taste like a grill steak, well if you closed your eyes and used your imagination. Still though, we all seemed to find a favorite, but the meals were distributed by the NCO in charge of your squad, so after the boxes were opened to reveal their contents, trading went on back and forth until everyone had what they liked the best. For me it was scrambled eggs with ham, they looked like shit, and the consistency was a sort of blend between jello and a hot dog, but they had a taste that I simply loved! A bit of tabasco and I could live on that wonderful meal, and the best thing about it was that NOBODY else liked it, so I could always trade anything for the ham and eggs, hell even ham and mother-fuckers (Lima Beans with ham) would get me a can of green eggs and ham (ya they did look a bit green in that olive drab can! You could eat them hot or cold depending on the nature of the break and if you could burn a heat tab without getting your balls shot off by the little yellow mother fuckers who lived in the jungle. I thought perhaps that was what that spicy sauce was in your MRE. I gotta tell you though, those MRE's that they serve now days sure look a hell of a lot better then C-Rations, and from what the lifers who were in the Army back when the K-Rations were served told us that the C-Rations were much better then the K's so I guess we were lucky to get what we did. Oh each and every C-ration came with a tiny pack of cigarettes, usually so old that they were extremely dry, since I smoked Kools, I could easialy trade mine for Salem's, which were in about half of the C-rats, seems I usually got Lucky Strikes in mine.

Clive, for what this is worth, I reallllllly enjoy your MRE videos. It's your personality and voice so you don't have to ever worry about not being as good as Steve or any thing like that. I could watch you do random mres forever. I like your commentary about ingredients and calories too. So if you enjoy doing them, I hope you keep going with them. I bet a lot of people would echo my thought. So

It's entertaining to see a man with such broad standards of acceptable food review food.

"like steve"? Nice!

I kept reading "Soylent Green" in the package name.

I recently started to love mre packages, just to see what they can put in such small package. it's hard to get some of them from different countries but with some searching and time its nice hobby. Not to mention that I like idea of having small pack of food hidden somewhere in kitchen that can be eaten without too much work when you have one of this lazy day where you dont even have energy to order pizza...

I was given some of that coffee recently by a Dutch lorry driver. It's best drunk without milk. I added sugar to mine, and enjoyed it, even though I don't normally drink coffee.

Could do a collab with Ashens... C: "Well, that's actually very acceptable" A: "...THIS IS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER TASTED!"

I’m glad you liked it. I’ve eaten plenty of these during my time in the Norwegian Army. They also sell civilian versions of it under the name “real turmat”, and they are actually quite common for hikers. Thanks for the video

Pro trick for the breakfast. Mix in the dark chocolate with cereal. Makes the dish come to life after eating it for a week :D

If you need a tray to lay it out on, your explosion-containment-pie-dish should do nicely.

You didn't measure it's resistance, nor even check if it's isolated. Completely dissapointed.

Thought I had a Steve1989MREInfo video to watch for a second, but Clive is just as good

I feel like a video series featuring you and your brother eating these things and drinking awful alcoholic concoctions would be pure gold.

I've had several of the Canadian MRE's and I'll admit... They are very delicious. Simple psychology says a huge component of good morale is good food.

Considering that most military-only MREs are in camouflage color and has no link to Instagram page, yes, this is aimed at both military and civilian use.

SOLGRYN is people!

Excellent review! These Norwegian rations are some of my favorites.. high quality and top notch 👍👍

Did I miss the Glaswegian MRE? Deep fried Creme Egg and a rusty nail in citric acid labelled " Irn-Bru"?

this looks better then the dinner i just had XD

"Let's get this out on to a tray.... Nice!"

Oh man, jack links, that stuff is awesome. It's a standard retail brand here in NZ, available in supermarkets, gas stations and bottle stores. Great power snack with the weekend beers.

I could watch ya taste test these for hours. You implement the perfect amount of (for the lack of a better word lip smacking) as any of us do during tasting something for the first time. I swear I can almost taste the meals. Great job.

As much as I like watching Steve, I could happily watch a series of clive doing MRE's. Steve eats massively out of date stuff, clive drinks mentholated spirits :D

4:24 Whoops, I misread that as: ENERGY DRINK WITH A TASTE OF BLEACH

Big Clive is Delightful!

I love your humor. Great videos. I quite enjoy them here in the States!

If you're stranded in the Arctic, a little bit of chili sauce around the nadgers would certainly keep the cold away.

You saying "Fuuuckinng hell!" like that made me laugh so loud!

16:20 When Clive tastes the spicy sauce! I spat my beer out! LOL

Really enjoying the MRE opening videos. Quite informative and creates a good number of chuckle moments. Keep on eating Clive.

After watching a nail biting episode of Master chef semifinals tonight, it's nice to watch a laid back "non cooking" cooking show. Non nom nom.

Package of the “drops” is translated like a factory making drops in the town of metier. Not from Norwegian but dutch is quite similar.

Absolutely acceptable.

Another classic MRE with Big Clive. Adding the spicy sauce was the highlight along with Clive's reactions 🤣

Your voice is so calm and soothing, very British. It's prefect to go to sleep by

Sweepstake on when the black spot on Clive's left thumbnail finally grows out. I'm going for January 2nd!

Please tell me that "Solgryn" isn't norwegian for "Soylent Green"?!

Wow, best looking MREs I've seen.

I really do enjoy your MRE themed vids

The coffee is weak because it's designed for a coffee cup, not the mug that you were using. I'm not judging, I'm a mug user too.

None of the Scandination rations come with any creamer or sweetener, because the Scandinavians take their coffee black-and-none as a rule. The reviewers all note that Poldermill Columbian is the smoothest instant coffee they've ever had as a consequence. Also goes in a smaller cup.

I just found your channel last night. I have been a watcher of Steve1989 for quite awhile. I am so excited to find you. I think you are brilliantly funny. You made me laugh out loud several times. I live in the United States but I am of Scottish descent so I find your accent so soothing.

Glad to see you doing more ration videos. 👍

I'd buy E from Big Clive

Good one Clive! ... look out Steve, there may be a New Kid On The Block who's Hanging Tough. You just need a Nice! tray & you're good to go.

I was actually amazed when you jump cut to the cooked/reconstituted chicken meal because of how different it looked.

One of the few people I find entertaining enough to watch even though you chew with your mouth open and make me want to stab my self in the ear drums. Man I wish that noise didn't drive me insane, it would make eating with others so much more enjoyable.

"Fucking hell !" That made me laugh :)

Fuuuucking hell.... Clive responds to his tastebuds getting offended...lmao Peace

Looks pretty delicious indeed.

I have found myself really enjoying these videos, despite not really having much knowledge of electronics. I know this video isn't necessarily electryical-related, but in general I find your videos to be quite informative and enjoyable. Not to mention, they have a very accidental ASMR quality, as your voice is very pleasant to listen to.

in Scandinavia we don't put sugar in our coffe :)

I'm always tempted to buy some of these too and test them

Wonderful response to the hot sauce. Keep up the great videos!

Hi Clive , as usual informative, entertaining and amusing, your presentation style is great. Many thanks. From Nr Liverpool.

The 'spicy sauce' looks akin to sriracha, also, very surprised that the Jack Links bar is made in New Zealand

"stop eating that Clive." Yep. The dark chocolate is better than that cereal.

I can't stop replaying your reaction to the hot sauce

Love your description of the caloric breakdown. New subscriber if you keep this sort of analysis of your MRE’s

Dual MRE tasting 👍

Hey Clive, need any low sodium American rations? If so I'm glad to send a couple!

Clive,"I don't like spicy things!" Then proceeds to drink some straight from the packet, then nearly croaks! Lol, that's our Clive, does all the testing for us so we know!

Lived of those for years, they are very nice with many different types.

*Holding the most common brand of beef jerky in America* "Very much what you'd expect to find in a chinese shop"

I wonder if there's a christmas dinner MRE

Please make more videos like this it's amazing

Nice. Enjoy as always, MRE newbies review them! Great job!

9:28 thought that said uterus

Oh Blimey! Geez Clive. You wouldn't survive in my house.

These rations look better than 99% of my meals. That chicken in herbal sauce looks delicious

In 1995 the army switched to the new type of food rasjons that you have there. Ihave a old pack that you still can eat it has a 20 years shelflife and consists of a tin that we used to call dead man in a tin that consisted of beef, pork, peas and a 1/2" thick layer of porkfat on the top you could eat it cold or warm. And for breakfast you had a kind of oatmeal (tasted like sawdust) with a lot of dextrose that gave you a very instant boost. It was awefull I'm glad they now have a new kind of emergency rations.

Presumably the French one has very small, but extremely attractive looking, portions?

My buddy was up in skjold (northern Norway) during his military service and I'm gonna ask him if he had stuff similar to this :D

Keep doing these ration videos Clive, there so good!

The muesli oat meal looks really really delicious

Must be for the civilian market since it looks far too palatable for military service.

as a norwegian homeguard soldier, i can say the biggest problem with this field ration is. so much garbage.

That is funny I thought it was a Steve video when I first clicked it when it appeared on my feed :D Nice!

What a time to be alive.

could have added the chocolate to the coffee to make a mocha... yum

Russian mre = lots of cabbage, and a litre of vodka

For a minute I thought this was gonna be a SteveMRE video from the thumbnail, LOL! Love ya Clive!

wish you would do a few more of these, not that i don't like electronics but i do love to hear you talk about food for some reason

Did the first one say Soylent Green on the label ?? :-)

Nice hiss....

culinary reviews of field rations has to be utter peak bachelor

I can't stop watching your vids lol

Crazy Scottish electrician (Play on crazy Russian hacker if you haven't figured it out yet)

Wait why is the coffee yellow

HOW STRANGE, I've just rewatched your other MRE review about 5 hours ago,and you upload another the same day.

Awesome I love big clive tries mres .This just made my night.