NYC stable, LMAO

For some reason, I can envision stormtroopers eating only hot dogs...

Alan if you had a crystal ball you would never said New York City is stable it's more like a judge dredd maga city in chaos full of illegal immigrants

I imagine it has ridiculous amount of weapons emplacements on it to protect it from ice cream thieves

@@GenerationTech sadly, no, it was just a ship made of concrete that delivered delicious frozen treats. But the Marines on board, those, are the real weapons that you shouldn't f with.

If memory serves me correctly there was a Japanese commander who despaired when he learned of the existence of American ice cream ships, since your average Japanese serviceman would get little more than a couple handfuls of rice and dried fish for their daily rations. They had no hope of competing with an enemy supply supply chain so extensive that it could regularly feed its soldiers luxury food like ice cream.

@@sentrysapper45 I think so??? Not exactly sure, but wouldn't surprise me lmfao Like what the hell would you do after seeing the insane supply chain an enemy faction has? I'd sure as hell would try to think of a way to just find a means of keeping my guys alive and if it means surrendering to live another day (if it isn't the Russians) I'd go for it if it was like the USA that offered it. There is no shame or dishonor in surrendering to survive.

Only for a few naval ships Not for marines

That would be me as I'm not much good at anything else

Always take spices and Tobasco with you when you deploy.

Pain is MRE's leaving the body...

@@fyreantz2555 Meals Refuse to Exit.

If you can spice or salt up your MREs, you're set.

I will not be surprised if that was true consider how bad food can affect someone who react to it in negative ways.

Hard to use that fancy blaster if you feel like Ewoks are chewing on your insides.

@@twistedyogert using that saying is how karma sends you to Space Vietnam™

​​@@genericuser984In that case their insides really were being chewed on by Ewoks. If Order 66 was enough to nearly give Yoda a heart attack, what would someone being butchered do? Does Yoda even have a heart?

So they're all hypoglycemic?

Market economy is what humanity does best ;)

Oh yes been there done that

Thats some shit we do at the cafeteria lunch table when a nigga brings a lunch box😊

In Burma during WW2 the British troops would trade their dried fish to the Gurkhas (who regarded it as a delicacy) in return for their chapatis. It was a win-win!

A whole box of Omlet with Ham MREs. It looked like the seat foam of my Humvee. I think the seat would have tasted betterm

This is why the Mandalorians had to be wiped out. -Imperial media.

😂 It’s kind of true.

Grogu's species literally eats whatever it can get its' hands on. Yoda does this as well. These aliens can gobble up anything, and enjoy it. Yoda lived, for decades, alone on Dagobah. What exactly do you think was in those soups and broths that he fed to Luke, when Luke was training with Yoda? Hint: It sure as hell was NOT prime rib...

​@@jacob4920 I thought Luke had his own rations in the X-wing.

@@twistedyogert which Yoda promptly stole and ate

Ever eat hot As Mres were better

Did you ever try the vegetable omelette, I heard that was not a well received ration.

​@@therookie7060- truly awful.

@@grayflaneur4854 I'm guessing you've had it?

@@therookie7060- Oh yes.. I suppose it is why they include a small bottle of Tobasco sauce in the condiment pack so you could choke it down.

Yeah, the defac messed up my stomach so much I couldn't eat there anymore. I straight up got sep rats because I was medically incapable of consuming the defac's rations. I wasn't even deployed at the time.

@@Zachomara I'd rather eat the food I had when deployed as at least that never made me nauseous

I had only made military service in France Navy in Fusiliers marins but ... the NATO approved RCIR (ration de combat individuelle réchauffable) - Combat Ration Individual Reheatable - is pretty good it's 1500g (3.3 lbs), 294L x 149W x 63H (11.6″ x 5.9″ x 2.5″) cardboard box in plastic wrap for 24 hours... It has a good quality control: The choice of products depends 70% on quality, and 30% on price. The quality is judged by a jury of 8 to 15 soldiers who test the menus blind.

Not like I'm medically eligible to serve, but it makes me wonder. I have fodmap issues and a food allergy- I would get sick from some rations and straight up not be safe to eat others. How would they handle that?

@amberkat8147 honestly it be something to bring up from the beginning and even then if you get a bad one out of the bunch it can be pretty bad

I spent enough time in the military where I grew to enjoy those MREs good times.

The US military endeavors to have the best food it can provide. I wouldn't say that US base and field kitchen food is the best out there, but a lot goes into the budget compared to other militaries to ensure that the food is at least OK to good.

@@brothersbornmediabeef strips be BUSSIN

We dont have to behave a certain way. We have integrity and honor that was instilled in us since boot camp or our parents. Thats why us service members active or retired are polite(for the most part).

Im pretty sure anyone who gets a hot meal that was not made in a processing plant would make most happy or polite.

Except there are still people who complain about the taste of the rations sometimes saying they're barely even edible

They have improved quite a bit but some of those meals really are inedible. If you're lucky you can trade with a buddy who freakishly likes it but we used to just dump in Tabasco to hide the flavor. Unfortunately the new MRE's no longer have that life line 😢

Food is fuel for the body. If you are fighting non-stop for a day or 7, you are going to need to eat and eat well. Having the rations even taste even somewhat good can be a real boost to morale. I know that the US Army does a huge focus on their field kitchens being able to put out food that is simple and tasty that will feed a person that has just fought through hell. The cooks at a field kitchen should get a smile from the soldier when they get their tray, even if everything else has has gone wrong that day.

@@KnightsWithoutATableLMAOOO cooks have a horrible reputation. the bottom of the barrel ends up as cooks. i’ve met one that was actually a cool guy. most are the shittiest of shitbags.

Which is exactly why blockades, and siege tactics, are so vital to wearing your enemies down.

The rest looked like Tokyo Mix.

Don't MREs also give you diarrhea?

@@twistedyogert It's been along time since I ate one, but more likely the opposite. Best to drink a bunch of water with it, but your mileage may vary.

@@twistedyogert what you really mean probably constipation.. MREs anywhere almost always emphasized on proteins, vitamins, nutrients less fiber and less carbo which in turn lead to constipation but YMMV...

​@@dureteheiral1793 A guess it's useful not needing to stop and poop every few hours.

Thanks for the warning. As someone with a temperamental stomach I'll know to keep clear unless I have to.

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Yeah, like how war happen in history. The one who can maintain their logistic supply properly is the one who will won the war. Yeah, good tactic can make you a win a couple of battle, but with working logistic its mean you can give your army more chance to stay fighting even after lose some battle.

Which is why it makes me facepalm every time some idiots call ex-Stormtrooper Finn (from the SW sequels) a "janitor", when Finn was a trained ground trooper who worked in Logistics. An army without food, equipment, medicines, and yes, latrines and toilet paper, can't function.

None which made it to front line troops

They didn't even have the luxury of "standard rations". They got a few handfuls of dried rice and maybe some dried fish.

@@tomhenry897it made it to combat pilots at least.

United States had ice cream to raise morale. The Japanese used "comfort women", which is a lot less wholesome.

​@@userequaltoNullSometimes they ate their prisoners.

considering the kaminoan style, i guess the food was white, too

​@@Spooglecraftyeah it was tofu so I would blend in with the plate I guess

Corned beef hash was a favorite of mine as well

A lot of times i preferred my MRE's to field chow especially the breakfasts. Eggs came in two forms, chalk or slightly thick soup. That said, there definitely are a few stinkers in those MRE boxes. My least favorite of all time was Tuna noodle casserole. For those thinking about trying an MRE, avoid the breakfast MRE's, avoid trendy items like hamburgers or burritos, and remember that the veggie meals almost always have the best snacks. Anything and rice is almost always good, if it is usually a batch made item like chili Mac it'll probably be good. Above all else, don't eat the crackers dry, it's a safety hazard.

@@bigmekboy175 forgot about tuna casserole 🤮

@@bigmekboy175 Ukrainian army MRE is kinda good, a lot of meat there

Attention citizen we have been informed by multiple third party individuals that you have complained about your corpse starch this is a breach of several passages of the book of judgment

You are what you eat. And there's nothing better than being human.

No it's not

Anything is better than corpse starch

Where do you think the troublesome batches of clones went 🤔

Remember that scene in the star wars carton, where Anakin eats bugs? that would be perferable.

Say that again, after 5-10 days without ANY food. I guarantee you will eat the rations and be thankful for them.

​@@bigwhitehoundI can just steal food from Civilians

​@@mikkelnpetersenIndeed

@@thorpeaaron1110 Depending on your Imperial CO you might get away with that or you might get shot.

Taco tuesdays!

You eat civilians?

@@vladimirmihnev9702 No, the reference was to the MRE's tasting good if you were hungry enough.

Hospital rations were better only ifthe hospitals were far behind the front lines. Mobile frontline MASH units didnt have that luxury. But you want to get injured or sick soldiers to get better, thus the better rations. While armies in the field historically often plundered the countryside for additional fresh food, stealing animals or extorting supplies from the population. But soldiers who injure themselves voluntarily to be relieved of duty will be either court-martialed or (in brutal regimes) executed without bothering with a court first.

@@TF2CrunchyFrog I mean they voluntarily put themselves in the lines of enemy's fires so that they can get hospitalized and better foods, of course.

All you need is a little time, some water, and a rock or something. I still hate that they took away the Tabasco.

@@eldorados_lost_searcher eh, I always brought ghost pepper or some of my own other hot sauce even when that was a thing.

​@@eldorados_lost_searcher The tabasco is still in rotation! Though it was so rare I question mentioning it. I bought 2 dozen MREs and 2 had it in place of instant coffee or drink mix

Yeah one of the benefits of not having new shows out is we have a chance to cover more nuanced topics.

@@GenerationTech I love it when shows about sci-fi/fantasy/military cover topics beyond "The Top Ten Big Machines That Shoot Big Boom"

There definitely are a lot of similarities between a well run kitchen and a well run military unit

No they didn’t The ALOC Nevered moved Trucked the food out to you

@tomhenry897 yes it did. How are you going to question my own military service. Look up MKT.

In Patriot missile batteries we had actual MKT because we didn't go back to the rear. Our tact sites worked as mini FOBs

That’s so cool you served on an carrier, very few people can say they did those things are engineering marvels

My daughter is on the Abraham Lincoln. She says the food 'isn't that great'. My dad was a POW Guard in Korea. He said the food was nearly inedible, and the C rations were worse. He said the POW's ate better than he did.

@@PhantomQueenOne I remember watching the keel being laid out for the Abraham Lincoln in Newport News. My memories of chow are 35 years out of date. Maybe it was better back then. I don't know.

Pilfered mil-rations sold on the black market is a long & honorable tradition.

Imperial or new republic could’ve either. Janky was basically one large graveyard for military ships loaded with rations

@@GenerationTech You don't want to eat MRE's that have been left out in the sun, trust me. I shudder at the fact that you CAN do that with Imp rations.

Or "Mess Rejected Ewok"

Im pretty sure the chunks of grisle and inedible crap i found in an mre were in fact dog or ewok meat lol😂😂😂

The Navy has better meals than the army. The only MREs the Navy eats are in boot camp.

Food is ammo for the body.

We need British Ben

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@@GenerationTech are you going to endorse rfk Jr this election cycle?

Absolutely. If memory serves, Napoleon was one of the first adopters of canning, so his armies wouldn't have to rely as heavily on foraging. Not only did that mean his armies could move faster (because they didn't have to zigzag their routes to ensure they had raidable cities within reach as much), but they could be much larger, because they could support more troops with only a modest increase in the number of supply wagons they'd need to bring. I haven't heard about heat-resistant chocolate _bars_ specifically, but I have heard that having chocolate that wouldn't just melt into a puddle during the heat of a Pacific Theater day is where M&M's came from.

Actually M&M’s we’re developed because the soldiers chocolate bars were melting on them in the field. The hard candy shell prevented the chocolate from melting. The shell came only in brown and they were sold in a tin tube similar to the ones that M&M Minis came in. They never came up with a chocolate bar that couldn’t melt but I think this is what you’re referring to.

Never served have you To keep the troops from eating it to fast was made un eatable

Yes they were called Hershey's Tropical bars

Hello proto (:

Yeah if you’re interested in the lore there’s no reason why you can’t be interested in real life lore ;)

@@GenerationTech Utilizing a connection between the real and the fictional has been part of Star Wars since it was being storyboarded. Indeed it is part of the foundation of the franchise as a whole (or at least, it used to be) There is no reason that needs to stop when the film ends. I would also argue that any informed discussion (or even something like a diatribe), regardless if it is about the real world, the lore of some fictional one or some combo thereof, is good mental exercise. Sure a conversation on how a hyperdrive works in a setting might not have much to do with the real world, but the critical thinking skills required to actually have such a conversation very much do apply. And besides, you never know what will inspire what. Just look at what franchises like Star Wars or Star Trek have done over the decades in terms of inspiration. How many people became scientists or engineers because they thought lightsabers were awesome or became astronauts because they wanted to be Kirk?

My grandfather was in the Korean war. He told me that the American soldiers regularly traded with the Canadian soldiers because the Canadian rations were a LOT better tasting.

9 years in the army, I loved mre. I even get a box of them every now and then. When i was in we ate them cold, now they have chemical heaters in them and they are even better. Not being sarcastic, I really do like them

thats actually far from true they always try to make a varied amount of foods taste as good as possible while providing the necessary nutrition and calories needed. It's why MREs have so many varied dishes and treats along with drinks and so on. There's been many developments in making these rations better and adding a variety of them for the soldiers.

@@yulfine1688 👍💯

It depends on the military in question. For the US, they more-or-less figured out the required nutritional and caloric intake a soldier should have years - no, _decades_ ago. From there, they worked out ways to get all of those required nutrients and calories into an entire ration, and this was done _long_ before the MRE was ever developed. The problem is that until the MRE (and even for a while into the MRE's existence), the only way a soldier could get that full intake was to eat the entire ration without excluding any of the food items included, and taste, both from the food and of the individual soldier, rendered that pretty much impossible. Since the first field ration ever in history, soldiers regularly traded one kind of ration for another. Because hardly any specific food item contained all of the required nutrients (how much of said nutrient(s) is in there does not matter as much as it just being in there), this trading ensured that malnutrition would exist, persist, and even spread amongst soldiers. This still happens to this day, which falls in line with your comment... but this is where your comment stops very far from the present. As for solving this problem, there are only two possible solutions: 1) do anything and everything to prevent soldiers from trading their rations, or 2) give them more and especially tastier options. Militaries by and large figured out that 1) is always going to be impossible to accomplish (just ask Russia how they stopped their soldiers from trading their _all_ of supplies away and not just their rations /s) so they go with 2) instead - or at least they try to go with 2). For the US, they figured this out even before the K ration and the other rations developed along with it, and this is why the US now dominates when it comes to the taste and variety of field rations through the MRE. Yes, the MRE got off to a rocky start - as all newly developed rations do (the K ration was no exception) - but they have since improved their quality, improved their nutrition, improved their taste, and improved their variety. Since the MRE's launch, they have developed vegetarian options, vegan options, halal (approved for Muslim diets) options, and more. In short, the US figured out that it is easier to _entice_ soldiers to eat a ration through taste than it is to _force_ them to eat through a likely threat of violence. Today, one of the most popular MRE options in the US military - so popular that it is considered to be the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket of MREs - is the pepperoni pizza, which was NOT one of the original MREs and was actually developed and approved in the 2010s. Are there militaries that do take the approach you say? Sure - again, ask Russia how well that's been working out. Will field rations ever be at least as good as garrison rations? Maybe, maybe not, but some militaries will certainly try, and the US has been leading the way for decades in this regard.