This had me chuckling for ages 🤣

Either before or after.

That's why there's 20g of sugar

I don't think Clive is speaking from experience here... but then again, I'm most certainly not willing to attempt proving him wrong either...

I totally lost it at that exact point.

Well, I visited this channel because of ElectroBOOM, stayed for this soothing voice in the first place.

I was dealing with a horrific recovery with multiple surgeries, falling asleep to Clive's videos was really the only way. I feel as though I've learned electronics osmotically throughout the years.

I’d say I’d happily listen to Clive reading me the instruction manual to a washing machine, however I’m sure somewhere in his archives I may just find that

I can't listen to Clive late at night his voice just makes me head for my bed, it's so soporific..

Look up “so much KZfaq “

Ah, so the plastic thing was for cutting the foil.

@@bigclivedotcom That's what I was thinking. When you took the knife to it I was thinking "USE THE STABBY TOOL THEY GAVE YOU!"

Google Lens translation? It's such a cool feature.

@@bigclivedotcom the Russian military needs a million Big Clive-approved "spudgers"! Preferably well-used ones....

@Stevey Canuck Just think about what the soldiers on the other side are eating. MRE Meals Rejected by the Enemy

Nice!

Too fresh for steve.. 😄

@@someone2506 He does do more recent stuff too. Out of the last 10, most were after 2016. Last was a 2020 Honduran.

Nice hiss!

@@someone2506 yeah probably true 😂

lad i can totally relate to you, since im doing the exact same

Aw man, physics is great! I dunno how you could be a Clive fan with all the electronic stuff he does and taking stuff apart, and not appreciate physics. Physics is a teardown of the Universe! I used to sit in class and read ahead in the textbook, cos admittedly the lessons were completely boring, but the subject wasn't, it was the school's, possibly all school's, fault. Actually I never did a jot of homework either, still got my science GCSE. But that depends, some subjects you're awarded based on coursework, others based on exam results, at least over here. And they used to keep changing between the two. Any subject that's exam-based I could piss away but don't ask me to blether on about it, especially in my house. Actually if they threw you out of science class, they'd shut you (me) in a store room. Full of hundreds of back-issues of New Scientist! So I learned a shitload more from getting kicked out than I would have if I'd stayed in. Damn, what's WRONG with schools?

Have you got any idea how wrong that statement sounds if you just quickly read the comment.

The Russians aren't as hard as the Scots. So no trident ration heater.

@@bigclivedotcom but they are tryhards... as in they're tryin real hard to start WW3 right now lol...here's hoping we all don't get drafted to fight some poor siberian conscripted peasants eating these 🤞🤞

I was expecting a potato and fold out still for the vodka. The lack of radioactive waste was also a disappointment but maybe it is a special issue MRE for combat in the vicinity of Chernobyl? Chestnuts roasting on a glowing elephant's foot and all that stuff that gives Putin the warm fuzzies.

@@karlharvymarx2650 Special rations for the Chernobyl area are probably in short supply outside the army, as they have deployed quite a lot of troops to that vicinity. Supposedly for training exercises.

@@bigclivedotcom omg I forgot about the trident ration heater lol!! This is my absolute favorite channel.

Scorched buckwheat can be unpleasant so roasting it requires a bit of care. One of those foods that often prompt extreme love or hatred…

Ah we make buckwheat pancakes with bacon and syrup. Delicious. Normally they are eaten on "all souls' day" but the tradition is fading somewhat.

Mix with blood, fill sausage cases and roast for gorgeous kaszanki

@@mmmhorsesteaks What I remember about buckwheat pancakes is they stuck with you all day, no need for lunch, also they're pretty tasty.

@@markiangooley I wonder if they expect the soldier to use all three tablets to heat it up really well with some water.

You're right. I distinctly remember Clive saying that only the Scottish and Russian meal packs had the nuclear heater.

You generally only find those nuclear heaters in the Scottish Army MREs.

@@Scodiddly Yep, but expectations and stereotypes, you know ...

Yeah, they must be a under a lot of budget constraints if they don't have chemical heaters. If there is a lot of wind, you can just eat it cold.

@@Scodiddly But according to the Scottish MRE review, nuclear heaters were issued only to Scottish and Russian army units.

you are supposed to imagine one using that picture

A samovar is somewhat overkill for a single serving of tea... but then again, per Russian tradition overkill is always the correct answer, so you may actually have a valid point :P

If it were American, there might be a tea kettle on it, which doesn't mean a tea kettle is furnished

Recycling USSR also...

No, you see, each unit is assigned one samovar that someone has to carry with them (like someone else is carrying the unit's MG). And when time for dinner comes, everyone throws their teabag into it and they cook a large communal pot of tea. ;)

ФГУП ЧЕРНОЗЕМЬЕ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЙ СЛУЖБЫ ИСПОЛНЕНИЯ НАКАЗАНИЙ, jailed guys made this mre from 2001 to 2021.

All of Russian is a correctional facility😂😂😂

Russian ones in particular are extra strength for cold climate, not like the wimpy tabs US tended to give, or the self heaters that require extra water. I'd seal them and keep for emergencies.

Petrified Weasel? sounds like a Myers Superfood. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ead2gM6hxp66Zp8.html

So he can read as well as an average Russian

Never entirely give up. My dad was the same way. Thanks for sharing that; it made me smile and brought back some warm memories.

In Russia, dictionaries read you.

@@shaunmorrissey7313 to be fair, probably even better than they do.

@@shaunmorrissey7313 Russia has 99.7% literacy rate, USA is 88% UK is 99%

Sketchy company. Their site is down, and email is on the free service. But they also make food for service animals. It was also liquidated and transformed into a joint stock company with the same name.

@@AlexTaradov they only packaging all stuff in box, which delivering from factories

I ate like 10 of those, when i was in army. In woods, when you have nothing to eat, it's perfect. They are the same, but have around 3-5 variation. Bread looking crackers named hardtrack(галеты), they dont really degenerate over time.

Here in Norway we had a rather infamous canned combat ration (Reservestridsproviant, shortened to RSP for obvious reasons), nicknamed "Dead Man in a Can", "Remains of Blown Up Personell" or "Recirculated Personell. When I was in the service it had just been phased out. We were still being threatened to eat that stuff if we did a poor performance, as they still had mountains of it in storage. 25 years later it's supposedly still "edible". From the horror stories I've heard, its edibility was a technicality even back when it was "fresh".

@@CheGavare When I was in the Canadian military the best thing in the ration packs for some odd reason was the crackers. I really liked them and there was a small packet of strawberry jam that made it just that little bit better.

@@eivind-falk LOL I love the name

I wish that I had thought of it. It is one of those things that just spontaneously happen and everyone uses the same words/phrases.

Birthing Bono?

That was funny and a little scary.

This is the best comment I've read in a long time 😂

Oh so true....

Canadian IMP's (Individual Meal Packages) are the same. I saw several guys go six weeks without dropping a football. We used to take bets as a section as to when the birthing would commence.

In Russia if you would mix the apple povidlo with vegetable caviar you would be disowned by Babushka.

Most just put a slice of lemon

@@goodvibesglobal8453 My friends must be atypical Russians then.

Buckwheat is great. I used buckwheat flour for pancakes.

The name “buckwheat” originates comes from the Dutch immigrants, we call it “boekweit”. And in The Netherlands it is eaten but not by all.

@@ernstoud that's very nice to know, thank you! nj

@@ernstoud Ah, so that is where buckwheat comes from. At least in Ny, buckwheat cereal was very common when I grew up. Ny was settled by the Dutch.

Oh come on, don't be this full of yourself, it is still relatively popular in Poland in particular, and other Central to East European countries. (And not due to Russian influence either.)

Don't forget the butter. Very tasty! 😊😋

It's gonna be tough.

Russian can do chocolate.

It's funny, cane sugar around here is considered rare and magical and better.

can you tell the diff? We have beet sugar here (I think "silver spoon"?) and it just tastes like sugar. However, the production of it stinks for miles around!

@@LostInTech3D I had a cane sugar cocoa cola once and didn't like it ... But because cane sugar is rare here people want to believe its SUPER ULTRA HEALTH SUGAR or something.

The sugar sold in Germany is almost entirely made from beets too. Id thought pretty much all sugar in europe is made from beets because you can grow them here but canes not so much?

Makes me wonder if the Japanese ones have any Hello Kitty or Doraemon themes. Little capsule toy inside maybe?

@@idjtoal I'd like to think the Danish ones have little lego sets inside to keep the troops amused 🤣

Shmoke and a pancake for dessert?

Bong and a crepe

...on the heater.