Yeah it's livable for a modern person, or it'd be good in WW2 lol but really not ideal and you'd get sick of it

So what 😳

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Lets put it on a tray ,nnice. Paul shut up u muppit ,obviously missed the joke .

@@pauljohansson4934 it's part of the joke

As in Steve 1989

Agree

Yes, like grappa.

You can bet. He can get more food/better tasting and a whole bottle of booze for far less than $150 dollars. Hell he probably could get the same thing from a specialty market and still pay less.

I think he did for Thanksgiving unless it was Steve mre

I doubt he can handle that without adult supervision

thats weird because they eat alot of beans instead of pasta like we do in NA

@@TheitaniofRome Depends were you are from in Italia...being Roman, we eat more meat than pretty much anywhere else in Italy, more pastas etc.

Bc this is more like our everyday healthy homecooking. Minestrone, Ravioli Soup, Tuna or Beef will usually go with a salad, tomatoes and beans. Light on the stomach but still very energetic and fulfilling.

Bourbon? Or...Whiskey?

It was apple juice

I was in Baghdad when you were in your dad's bags

why

waste of money

Low IQ play is still a low IQ play.🤡

​@@uuuultrabetter than usa mre

I thought is sounded like clothes in a drier spinning?

Washing machine ffs

Brilliant

Sadly yes

That's because US rations are still being hit with the "fat free" craze. They'd rather fill it full of sugary syrup than any fat or oil. Fat is ENERGY food. When you're a soldier, you need fuel. Sugar spikes your blood glucose and burns FAST, leaving you feeling starving. The fat in that tuna salad would be a long-burning fuel when you're expending a lot of energy. But the food scientists would rather "save" you from a potential 1 in 10,000 increased chance of getting a clogged artery in 30 years, and use heroic processing to get rid of the fat. I blame the "food pyramid" that the government is still stuck with until they can change the USDA guidelines. We've known that they're wrong for a decade, maybe longer, but they still push that crap, and that's why there's an obesity epidemic.

@@JennyEverywhere I learnt from 1st hand experience that mountaineering a long time ago leading a team up Mount Rainier, that you never take advice from a White Lab Coat Eugenics like Dr F or {Dr larping} Bill G. Two of my team mates my future wife, and a buddy heard from 2 Guided noobs that Twinkies at the were the super food for their extreme lightness and high energy density. Now I thought my future wife had more sense than to trade her high fat, dense protein, high fibre, home made bars, we made just for this trip. My Buddy also traded his dense Cliff Bars for a box of Twinkies. i had of course out passed them and I hit the Snowfield 1st as only a guide/s should do. You can't make it to the snow field alone then I ain't talking you any further in the Hills, was and is my rule. Anyhoo, we all made to the 1st camp, set up our tents and cooked and slept. The next day/night we went for camp 2, same thing happened, I was clueless at this point that they had traded noobs their high fat food for Twinkies. That night while at almost asleep finally I heard both my future wife and buddy rustling through their packs for food, I had a very high fat home made dinner, as they did, however before I went to go into my bag I ate 4.5lbs of fat heavy home made energy bars, they were dense and tasty, bacon/chocolate Sea salt meat bars. Kinda like a fresh Pemican. As we were to go for our summit attempt that night. So I went sleep, about 12 am I was awoken once again by both my buddy and future wife, we had our alarms set for 3am, yet it was only 12:39 am, they woke up /when they had burnt off their calories from dinner. That morning I decided to wait for another night and allow them to eat more and relax more, and acclimated to the thin air, they were quite thankful and I watched two humans like the inside of their Twinky wrappers while I sat back and ate my Home Made Power Bars to this day they still owe me for sharing with them those Home Bar's. I have never seen two humans so disappointed in their trade, as the Twinky wrappers expanded within the box, two bad both of them threw out the box they come in. So the individual Twinkies could find a special place to explode within and cover item's with a creamy goodness. It was 1st time I ever saw a human lick the side of the tent for the creamy goodness, etc, and off a dirty ass tent bag/ sleeping pads etc . When I witnessed that my laughter was so bad and it was so funny, I pissed myself a little, about a cup of pee came out. You'd have thought they had never eaten before. I'd love to see these Lab Coat Eugenics go and fight when 5,000 -7,000 calories are needed , yet they only give 2,000. Fuck these Evil NAZI Scientists. Trump 2020 God Bless America

An old Army buddy that got deployed said the Italians always had the better grub! Plus they get booze!

@@thecman26 The British to this day get two beers/grog per day as part of their ration. God Bless America Trump MMXX

@@antonwearsakilt5209 that's pretty sweet!

Cordiale is used in Italian MRE since WW 1. War mainly fought in the mountain of Italy.

​@edgardo bassi yes, and the main reason for that is geographical: the Italian peninsula is naturally protected by the Mediterranean Sea, so the only part in which troops can engage is the North where the Alps are

You have that backwards

true, but he has a channel, instant success LOL

yup, you can put the can on the little overengineered stove.

You can also boil them unopened in water They won't explode as the water never gets above 100⁰ Unlike if you put unopened cans into a fire where they just keep getting hotter until they explode. Boiling them means no stinky fumes from the fuel tabs, and they don't burn at the bottom of the can. Its how I heat them up at home.

Specialmente il cordiale, reminiscenze della prima guerra mondiale!

And he didn't even use it!

I probably wouldn't either to be honest.

If I remember well the new "Italian Ration Pack Project" was presented about 2012 with no cans, less liquid in food, and self heating envelopes. If I remember well, tested in Afghanistan, but soldiers didn't liked it so much. I don't see a real problem having food with good quantity of liquids (excluding very low temperature territories). A person needs water, so have to bring water with themselves. Finding water locally is not always the best option since possible contamination and realted health problems that can occur.

Cheese ravioli are combined with spinach not beef. We like to separate the two.

No he didn't drink the cordiale because she's a fraud

I suppose you feel the same lol

@@aaronmcghee7902 everyone does

Where at? Cheapest I have found were $60 shipped for one!

@@thecman26 Ah..the joys of good British suppliers with low postage. I currently pay £14 per ration here.

@@hislatestflame7861 There's a ration on Ebay that has a $212 price just for shipping!

@@thecman26 This is where i get them. They do ship worldwide so give them a try. www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/survival-accessories/survival-accessories/french-rcir-ration-pack-nato-474552.html

@@hislatestflame7861 Yeah, but for *you,* they just have to load it on a lorry and drive it through the chunnel and it'll be in Dover in a few hours. For *us,* we have to consider the cost of international shipping. Even from the UK, that's approximately $45 (35 pounds sterling) for a single ration, and it'll take at least a week.

If you're sleeping in a hole in the ground. This is gourmet! Gotta remember these are military rations.

The true price is 14€, i don’t know why he paid that

A lot of the foreign rations are really expensive! Heck, some of the American 24hr rations are about this expensive! They have to be shipped over here. Shipping international is really expensive!

I agree. Minestrone should be retired as a soup worldwide. :-) It's on the very bottom tier of the soup tree. The red headed step child of soups.. Ok that's enough. :-)