As someone who served, watching Charlie and Matt not heat up those meals is both painful and accurate. Sometimes we had the time other times we didnt. Side note the Chili Mac MRE is the best one hands down.
I could see that. I got ruined on them when I ate 20 year expiration date ones, expired only by a couple years, like 6 months ago. They all tasted like metal or something sour, they never made me sick, though.
@@Astroqualiahow can something be 20yr expired but also only expired by a couple years? This makes no sense lol are you trying to say you bought 20yr old ones that were expired by a couple years? Cause fresh ones taste well, I can't say all good but like food 😂 you not getting sick adds up though, cause I've seen dudes online eating parts of MREs from decades upon decades ago
Jalapeno cheese could be traded for anything! And the breakfast omelette was not only inedible, it came with no tradeables. I would've rather have gotten the four fingers of death.
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I like to imagine there are two people actually in the military that are reacting exactly like Matt and Charlie when they sit down to eat their MRE’s every night
@@alexandergarcia3620 You must be a boot cause in field and on actual deployments chow is continuous. Meaning you have all the time in the world to be eating if you aren't being shot at or training currently.
I still love how each time they open a pack they expect a fresh meal from Chipotle, end up getting not that and refuse to heat any of it up. Never change, guys
@@bluelax99ableWhen you’re Oscar Mike, you don’t get time to set up a heater packet on a “rock or something”. You just eat the damn thing when you get a chance. Also, the heater is the first thing to go when you field strip one.
@@warweasel2832There's plenty of instances where we'd have time to years me up. Like doing an admin range for machine guns, M240B, .50, and Mk19 refreshing the whole battalion as CAAT PLT 1 and 2 Wpns Co. Melt the Cheese, I always told the boots, MELT THE DAMN CHEESE
Matt being super frustrated about getting the sweet potato smoothie over and over is probably my favourite part of this video. I can just imagine him on the battlefield, having a quick food break, tearing the package open and just "GOD FUCKING DAMN IT--- SEND ME HOME, I CAN'T TAKE THIS"
@@DeniedFella oh absolutely, I'm not in yet, but I'm enlisting in either the Marines or Navy (I've been in contact with a recruiter from each, just gotta get to MEPS, hopefully I can soon, haha), and I can absolutely understand the frustration. if I end up going Marines, I'm probably gonna be the same way, ngl.
@@Scat_man72 ah, that's good. I know I plan to trade sides a lot if others would be willing to give me their peanut/almond butters or nuts for whatever I've got, haha. I'm sure he'd still be frustrated with not getting the banana strawberry one, and since it's not a main dish, you'd have to trade for it, so it depends on if anyone wants to give theirs up currently vegan, I know it's not realistic to be vegan when at bootcamp or when deployed, so I know I'm at *least* gonna have to settle for vegetarian during those times. more feasible in the Navy than it is in the Marines. I've had the vegetarian taco pasta MRE and it's genuinely pretty good, good sides too! :)
I love how they were so focused on dates. It's an MRE. They are literally made to last. As long as you don't see any perforations on the packages, those things will last you a very long time.
yep had MREs that were 6 to 9 years old bec fun fact they do end up throwing a LOT of them away after that period of time. Exhusband would bring them home for dinner.
They are made to last up to 5 years under normal conditions, which is defined as a certain temperature range. They can go up to 10 years if kept consistently in cool temperatures
Having eaten many of these during my time with the big green weenie, that cheese sauce is literally crack. Guys would trade entire logs of dip for a couple of those things, and if you got one in your MRE it was amazing. Also, I'm only 2 minutes into this and I will already predict either Chili Mac or the Fajita Chicken will be the best. Those were the ones you had to keep on you or they would be tactically acquired. EDIT: I hope y'all are ready to have brick solid poops for the next week or so after eating all of that Uncle Sam goodness.
@@Doc0281 yeah exhus and I absolutely hated those. He amazed me that he could eat it but ig that's just what happens on base. I def do not miss army wife life
@@Officer_Logan_Floor why is the word "unfunny" so common? Are people that narrow minded? Can't think of another way to word something they think is "Unfunny"
@@ringadingding32I don’t do it either. It’s a waste of time and water, and it doesn’t really make the food taste any better. Better I just gulp it down to give me some fuel
I was in cadets, and when ever we went on field exercises we had to eat these mre's. Fun fact about the cheese spread, it can be used as a building material or a glue. Ive held shelters together with it, because you spread it on and within like 2-3 hours it hardens like cement lmao
Honestly, I have also been in the cadets and have eaten MRE’s myself. And I always joked that you could build a house with enough MRE’s (mainly the chocolate "bar" which was more like a fucking brick and the crackers that felt like eating drywall). But I honestly had zero clue you could quite literally build an actual goddamn house with MRE’s
@@deeznuts-kw6yv yessir 💀 and i assume your talking about the soldier fuel? Bassically a cliff bar that sat on a shelf for a decade before getting wrapped up in your astronaut lunch
I will say, I've never had an MRE I thought tasted bad enough I couldn't eat; especially considering you either trade with someone or you're screwed. But I also would like to note that every MRE I've had is completely random. In one you might get a coffee powder, in another you might get orange juice powder, for example. Usually you get a drink powder, cracker/bread/snack, and the entree. Sometimes an additional snack or candy. Edit: they are safe to eat cold, but they are much better hot. Less viscous and more of a sauce.
can’t believe they didn’t heat them up. did MREs a major disservice right there. best one hands down is the beef strips and tomato sauce, but the magic of MREs is when you combine ingredients from different packs to create gourmet dishes that are unironically good
They are definitely better heated. But if you ask any service member that had to eat these on a regular basis, they’ll tell you they were eaten cold about as often due to lack of time.
My kids and I were in Louisiana during Katrina. Very grateful for the MRE's. The very second you guys opted not to heat anything up it went from taste test to dare....dear God you guys lmao....watching Charlie choke down cold rations was hilarious! 😅
Yeah, they of course can be, when necessary, but they also do not include the heating equipment inside every single pack specifically for people to never use and then throw away.
I was 6 when Katrina happened and I remember CHOWING DOWN on MRE's. I'm 23 now lol. I bet it'd be a nostalgic experience if I could get my hands on some of these things again. Katrina really did seem like the end of the world for us in Louisiana though.
The meat patty is pretty down there. But the thing with MREs is that the “bad”ones usually have pretty good snacks, so it’s a balance act. Like the marble pound cake is chefs kiss
fun fact: there is also cold weather MREs that do have freeze dried ice cream aslo: the flameless ration heater is meant to be used outdoors because it creates noxious fumes
MRE story: I was hard addicted to the cheese spread from the MRE packs, that during a survival training event, I traded everything in my pack for cheese spread, getting a total of 26 cheese packets. I was 13 at the time with cadets... that cheese didn't last long before reemerging again hours later
If only Steve got together with Charlie, however in all honesty I'm not sure Steve's channel could support the kind of attention that Charlie could bring him. Steve doesn't post very often
The funniest memory I have of basic training is when the guy everyone hated asked if anyone had cheese spread that they didn't want and at least 20 cheese spread packets came flying out of nowhere right into his head.
Only time I've ever really eaten an MRE was at basic training. But honestly, most of them were fire. Maybe it's because they were heated up, and it was an exciting moment to sit down and eat a meal for a few minutes. But also, just grabbing something random from a stack, trading the contents, and opening them up like a goodie bag mystery box was one of my favorite memories. Even today, I wouldn't mind having those as a standard meal every now and then.
Now you guys just need to make a Tier List Tier List, where you rank how much you guys like the food from each tier list overall compared to each other.
The MREs they gave us in boot camp had candy in them but they didn’t want us to have candy, we would always volunteer to gather and take the candy to the dumpster and pocket as much candy as we could and then sell it all later.
I too was also disappointed! I use to throw it on a tortilla and eat the shit out of it! But my hands down favorite was the chili and beans mixed with the cheese and corn bread or surprisingly the vegetarian one they made because it had the best snacks 😂
Back when my dad was deployed in Iraq, he use to send us boxes full of MRE’s (Soldier Lunchables) straight out of Baghdad. We had the real battle hardened MRE’s that came in brown thick plastic packaging. Idk if you’re eating them cold but they are supposed to come with heating bags you pour water into and it heats up the food via a chemical reaction. A lot of the stuff you tried would probably taste a lot better if it was warm. I never had an MRE I didn’t like and I’ve eaten just about all of them if not all of them multiple times.
The Beef is perfectly good Charlie, the only way those can go bad even after the long shelf life expiration date is if they're stored in atrocious conditions like excessive heat for a long period of time. If you freeze MRE's sealed up, they will last practically forever. We ate our MRE's cold 90% of the time, just didn't generally have the luxury of heating them up under the conditions lol. Pretty sure y'all got the abridged Civilian-consumer or Humanitarian versions, because they're not in the typical Military packaging and are missing several components, to include the Accessories Packs with the iconic MRE brown Spoon and other items. If you want new production high-quality MRE's for a revisit, check out XMRE brand.
thinking 'oh this guy wasn't immediately an entertaining clown on camera it must just be nerves' is such a internet content glutton comment (shut up i'm one myself), as if it's natural and easy for anyone to be entertaining on camera for you and millions as long as they just relax. getting on stage as a guy like matt (who was for sure working in/seeking jobs in accounting or some shit before this) in front of a gargantuan, loyal, borderline parasocial internet audience is an extremely rare amount of easy goingness to see in a person by itself. i think we all often forget that for most people it's hard work to be good on camera, and that a lot of the reason charlie's good is because he's being doing this for 10+ years
Just so y'all know, some of the MRE's come with Skittles, and those are used as currency pretty much in training. You can buy ANYTHING if you're lucky enough to get the bag with skittles. Girls would do some crazy shit for them behind the lockers past curfew for it even lol
My dad would have us try MREs when we were younger and the one thing I always enjoyed was the lemon poppy seed cake. It was super crushed in one of those rectangle packages and broke apart like corn bread but man it was the most edible thing you could get from one of those.
Funny story: while in BCT over 20 years ago, I had a mre with M&Ms. The pack advertised some contest going for money, $20k specifically. My heart dropped when I opened the pack to find out it was a winner, buuut, the pack was almost 2 years past expiration 😂 Some battle buddies started calling me 20k after that for the rest of basic to rub it in lol
MRE’s are interesting… certain parts of meals can be used for currency. Like candy, jalapeño cheese spread, coffee packets, juice packets, possibly fruit cobbler, and or caffeine gum. Any of those sides and desserts listed can be used to trade for a bunch of stuff.
For those who were never in the military or have had an MRE: Basically they are not supposed to be that tasty. Some of them are, but they still are no 5 star cuisine. They are just supposed to last a while and in a specific climate, while providing a ton of calories for a small volume of food. They actually have cold weather MREs which are much better than the regular ones. Most of them have a specific ingredient that constipates you (like in the cheese spread), so you don’t have to take a dump in a fire fight or on a training exercise and those have a little piece of laxative in them in the form of gum or something else, nothing crazy, you won’t be crapping for hours. Because when you are eating MREs you are usually also expected to need to do a lot of physically demanding things like digging a fox hole, walking a few miles with a heavy ruck sack, moving ammunition, filling sandbags, etc the MREs need to provide a balance of carbs, protein, fats, and micronutrients and that’s all, taste is secondary if considered at all. Edit: the gum is actually a substitute for brushing your teeth, but there’s absolutely no reason to not brush your teeth unless you are just gross.
The constipation is not an added ingredient nor is the laxative in the gum.. any side effects are not intended and purely the result of over manufacturing/placebo effects
literally the funniest comment. Standard Norwegian MRE's are made and sold as camping rations and army rations, taste like normal food and have the exact same amount as your average portion while giving you 1.3k Calories. MRE's can be rather great if the country that uses and produces them actually care for the people who are gonna eat them lol.
Laxative in the gum is an old fable Drills would tell boots so they didn’t have to see them fucking walking around with chewing gum. Hope your first contract is going good, buddy. Lmfao.
I always thought Beef Patty Jalapeno was the best one. It may be different now but back in my day it came with THREE desserts in it - usually some skittles or reeses pieces, a mysterious looking "cherry cobbler" that actually tasted decent, and a third that would be completely random. I thought it was the best because you could trade some of your extra desserts for something better if you didn't want them. Somebody else always wants those skittles.
I wanted to say, Matt's comment around the 5:32 mark is true. I've always hated the beef patty jalapeño and you couldn't make me eat that shit if that was the last bit of food I had. And I was squeezing MRE entrees directly into my mouth during NTC just so I could eat and work at the same time.
You can sometimes guage how bad the main course is by the quality of the sides. The better the sides, the worse the main course. There are exceptions of course. (Btw my favorites are a tie between the Taco, Shredded Beef and BBQ, and the tuna)
I remember having these every lunch during army basic training. Never ate the main dishes, cuz the side dishes and the snacks would ALWAYS slap. Candy in these MREs were heaven sent for us who’d been deprived of everything
@@burningrivers0616the Skittles were always so out of date. I remember getting sour Skittles one time that were 2 years out of date and hard as rocks. I cherished and devoured every single one of those pebbles
Some of my favorites during my stint in the military were the tortellini, meatballs, literally anything with the lemon poppy seed pound cake, and beef taco filling. Lots of trading going on lol
I seem to remember one being chicken burrito bowl that was fire, I had forgotten about that lemon poppy seed pund cake, that was goated, any of the cobblers were really good, I seem to remember an Asian style beef and vegetables one that was fire and usually had some bangin' sugar cookies in it.
I think this is my favorite type of content still coming out of this channel, the constant bi-daily commentary videos on pointless internet drama just doesnt have the impact eating horrible and terrible food that passes off as human substance does
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Buddy of mine gave me a random MRE and it turned out to be absolutely insane. Few years old, Breakfast sausage meal that came with a moist Maple brown sugard muffin top thing. So good.
I have a whole bag of american MREs at home. We used to trade with the Marines when they did field exercises in my country. They were happy to try something different than the same old MREs they had. Not that Norway's Arctic field rations are better in any way...
Wow, MRE aficionados will pay a good amount for Norwegian rations, maybe just out of being exotic. The anglo countries' MREs have too many sweets in them.
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 Well then the MRE aficionados are in luck because the Norwegian Arctic field rations are really easy to aquire as Norway has active conscription. Norway's tropical field rations, however, are quite rare. I've unfortynatly eaten all of mine...
When I was in there was a green bag you put a little water in and it lets you "boil" "steam" the food warm enough to eat. Usually put both the green heating bag in another bag, with the closed food pack inside the cardboard box it comes in, wait a few minutes and warm food. A lot of them are pretty good.
I use to be a military brat. One of my dad's friends had hundreds upon hundreds of MRE's and would literally give them out for free, so I had a ton of MREs growing up. They are actually pretty fuggin good. I also remember being blow away by how you could cook the food with nothing more than a bottle of water and whatever was in the pouch.
@Susnation532definitely the coolest person I know who looks for validation in youtube comment sections, with a doge pfp, and types out creators usernames in full numbers and all just to insult them. Then again... pretty low bar
My friend brought a bunch back from his service and when I was drunk I ate 4 Chili Mac MREs and was not even close to done. Those things heated up are some serious mouth pleasure, especially when you're up shits creek without a paddle. Also, as it goes Charlie eats more and more. In service he'd end up being the MRE connoisseur hahaha.
So funny to hear them joking about trading food packets and comparing which "menu" they got, it took them 10 min to figure out exactly what happens every day with MREs.
Beef Patty with Jalapeño was my favorite. It also gave me terrible gas. I had 3 in a row one day for all 3 meals, and the next morning my battle who’s window was stuck ripped the door handle off the inside of the LMTV trying to escape the miasma.
bro you gotta heat these up!!! I was eating 2-3 of these a day in the field, and they were literally all we looked forward too!! if you can't use the heating packets, just leave them in the windshield or on top of the truck. ive tried every single one.
I’m not sure if this idea has been said before but once Charlie and Matt inevitably try all MRE from every Military branch of each country they should do an ultimate tier list where they rank every S-Class MRE and be really picky on what is the best of the best
As someone who served, watching Charlie and Matt not heat up those meals is both painful and accurate. Sometimes we had the time other times we didnt. Side note the Chili Mac MRE is the best one hands down.
I could see that. I got ruined on them when I ate 20 year expiration date ones, expired only by a couple years, like 6 months ago. They all tasted like metal or something sour, they never made me sick, though.
@@Astroqualiahow can something be 20yr expired but also only expired by a couple years?
This makes no sense lol are you trying to say you bought 20yr old ones that were expired by a couple years? Cause fresh ones taste well, I can't say all good but like food 😂 you not getting sick adds up though, cause I've seen dudes online eating parts of MREs from decades upon decades ago
My drills decided we would eat all our MRE’s cold. Only had two times they were served warm.
Jalapeno cheese could be traded for anything! And the breakfast omelette was not only inedible, it came with no tradeables. I would've rather have gotten the four fingers of death.
Chili mac is GOD TIER! I remember people would buy/ trade just for chili mac lol. Every time I got it I told people to fuck off it's mine 🤣
The jalapeño cheese spread was basically another form of currency. A few packets could be traded for a lot of things.
You are not wrong
Mm jalapano
Dude, that shit was Gold overseas
ME a meathead would trade for protein lmao anything for the gains
but the jalapeño cheese spread was like a gift from god
It was worth the bragging rights to slowly eat it in front of everyone!
Seeing Matt having his own tier list next to Charlie's is such a pleasure to see
Yo true! I'm glad Matt can have his own takes since he is there trying stuff too.
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I was just about to comment the same thing. He deserves one
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I like to imagine there are two people actually in the military that are reacting exactly like Matt and Charlie when they sit down to eat their MRE’s every night
tbh when you're hungry enough and that's all you have, you get used to it
they don't give you enough time to to enjoy it lmfao. they tell us to taste it after we're done eating.
@@alexandergarcia3620 You must be a boot cause in field and on actual deployments chow is continuous. Meaning you have all the time in the world to be eating if you aren't being shot at or training currently.
@@alexandergarcia3620fucking boooooot
We literally do lol, I ate them all last week and we would sit down and compare and rank. Give each other advice on the best way to eat them.
I still love how each time they open a pack they expect a fresh meal from Chipotle, end up getting not that and refuse to heat any of it up. Never change, guys
Don’t heat it up in the military 98% of the time either. You know, the thing they’re made for
@@GiveMeTheRiceall MRE's come with a heater
@@bluelax99ableWhen you’re Oscar Mike, you don’t get time to set up a heater packet on a “rock or something”. You just eat the damn thing when you get a chance. Also, the heater is the first thing to go when you field strip one.
@@warweasel2832There's plenty of instances where we'd have time to years me up. Like doing an admin range for machine guns, M240B, .50, and Mk19 refreshing the whole battalion as CAAT PLT 1 and 2 Wpns Co. Melt the Cheese, I always told the boots, MELT THE DAMN CHEESE
@@warweasel2832the heater is definitely not the first to go, u keep all of them they’re life savers when it’s cold as fuck
Matt being super frustrated about getting the sweet potato smoothie over and over is probably my favourite part of this video. I can just imagine him on the battlefield, having a quick food break, tearing the package open and just "GOD FUCKING DAMN IT--- SEND ME HOME, I CAN'T TAKE THIS"
That is what makes his reaction so genuine, cuz that exact scenario happens A LOT to soldiers on the front line.
@@DeniedFella oh absolutely, I'm not in yet, but I'm enlisting in either the Marines or Navy (I've been in contact with a recruiter from each, just gotta get to MEPS, hopefully I can soon, haha), and I can absolutely understand the frustration. if I end up going Marines, I'm probably gonna be the same way, ngl.
@@corvidaedalus I could never be anywhere that brave, i wish you luck, hero!
The thing with MREs is that they are tradeable and usually in abundance so you don't get stuck with the bad ones. Most of the time
@@Scat_man72 ah, that's good. I know I plan to trade sides a lot if others would be willing to give me their peanut/almond butters or nuts for whatever I've got, haha.
I'm sure he'd still be frustrated with not getting the banana strawberry one, and since it's not a main dish, you'd have to trade for it, so it depends on if anyone wants to give theirs up
currently vegan, I know it's not realistic to be vegan when at bootcamp or when deployed, so I know I'm at *least* gonna have to settle for vegetarian during those times. more feasible in the Navy than it is in the Marines.
I've had the vegetarian taco pasta MRE and it's genuinely pretty good, good sides too! :)
I love how they were so focused on dates.
It's an MRE. They are literally made to last. As long as you don't see any perforations on the packages, those things will last you a very long time.
Charlie has said he bugs out about anything that can make him sick
That is absurdly inaccurate, definitely been on the receiving end of losing half my meal to it being moldy before.
yep had MREs that were 6 to 9 years old bec fun fact they do end up throwing a LOT of them away after that period of time. Exhusband would bring them home for dinner.
They are made to last up to 5 years under normal conditions, which is defined as a certain temperature range. They can go up to 10 years if kept consistently in cool temperatures
@@jamesmackinnon3741 They can last indefinitely if kept in proper controlled environments.
Having eaten many of these during my time with the big green weenie, that cheese sauce is literally crack. Guys would trade entire logs of dip for a couple of those things, and if you got one in your MRE it was amazing. Also, I'm only 2 minutes into this and I will already predict either Chili Mac or the Fajita Chicken will be the best. Those were the ones you had to keep on you or they would be tactically acquired.
EDIT: I hope y'all are ready to have brick solid poops for the next week or so after eating all of that Uncle Sam goodness.
I would golden if I ever served. I hate cheese and especially those fake cheese products, I would trade all of mine away for whatever I please hehe.
As a vet which MREs were the worst
@@edwardandrews3179 The beef patty one and the steak one hands down. Even heated up in the little packet that shit was almost inedible.
@@Doc0281 yeah exhus and I absolutely hated those. He amazed me that he could eat it but ig that's just what happens on base. I def do not miss army wife life
Me being bitch made and lactose intolerant trading all my cheese spread for the meatballs main meal to pair with spaghetti
Matt’s contributions to these tier lists are a national treasure
Not reading your comment but I posted a Hilarious video of a woman crying about her dog being put down because I make better content 😂 😅
The bots are crazy
@@nihilisticoreo5106ngl I barely see bots on other people channels but Charlie's, Holy shit there's so many on this channel
such a low effort hasty comment, PATHETIC!
@@Officer_Logan_Floor why is the word "unfunny" so common? Are people that narrow minded? Can't think of another way to word something they think is "Unfunny"
Do a second MRE Tier List but bring SteveMRE along for the taste test, and let him pick out some special MREs to try.
I hadn't heard of him and just checked him out and fuck yea! We need this one 😂
Let's get this out onto a tray. Nice!
@@DeniedFella Nice hiss
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Didn’t that dude disappear for a couple years after eating some dog ass Chinese MRE? I thought he might’ve died.
As an Army vet it never fails to make me laugh watching youtubers eat MREs. Also, the cheese spread is goated.
they dont believe in the art of warming the food up (ive never been in the military i just see how people do it on other youtube videos)
@@ringadingding32I don’t do it either. It’s a waste of time and water, and it doesn’t really make the food taste any better. Better I just gulp it down to give me some fuel
hell yeah your body wont know the difference once its in your stomach@@kevinc.cucumber3697
I tryed mres forever ago and I really liked them they were good and simple meals that I had fun with! I spent 50$ on getting more they are great
i was always too scared to eat that cheese spread. gave me the heebie jeebies.
I was in cadets, and when ever we went on field exercises we had to eat these mre's. Fun fact about the cheese spread, it can be used as a building material or a glue. Ive held shelters together with it, because you spread it on and within like 2-3 hours it hardens like cement lmao
why in god's name would you waste such a valuable resource
😂
@@reanimationxp I wouldn’t consider putting a shelter over my head wasted resources 😂
Honestly, I have also been in the cadets and have eaten MRE’s myself. And I always joked that you could build a house with enough MRE’s (mainly the chocolate "bar" which was more like a fucking brick and the crackers that felt like eating drywall). But I honestly had zero clue you could quite literally build an actual goddamn house with MRE’s
@@deeznuts-kw6yv yessir 💀 and i assume your talking about the soldier fuel? Bassically a cliff bar that sat on a shelf for a decade before getting wrapped up in your astronaut lunch
As a guy that's very passionate about MRE's (having tried out German, Lithuanian, Polish etc) them not heating up the meals made me cry.
they're getting the real war experience
@@i_love_games110if you got time to eat you have time to set up the heat packet
If your passionate about them then stop heating them
@@MadWatcher Bro, sometimes in war, you don't have the luxury or time to heat them.
@@MadWatcher no shit. Most people eat them cold anyways
As a veteran watching Charlie eat these is both painful and fun. Also, those MRE’s were probably made 10 years ago lmao
nah mres have serial numbers on them to see when they were made to the exact day so they cant sell ones that are old
The chili mac is my personal favorite
@@toastyskateralt4725 they can, and do sell old ones. at least at my commissary i was able to buy mres from the early 2000's lmao
@@anonymous5401 that’s what I was thinking kinda similar with the crackers and other things
im sure the first ones they hated were from the height of the afghan/iraq war, probably made somewhere from 2003-2007
I will say, I've never had an MRE I thought tasted bad enough I couldn't eat; especially considering you either trade with someone or you're screwed. But I also would like to note that every MRE I've had is completely random. In one you might get a coffee powder, in another you might get orange juice powder, for example. Usually you get a drink powder, cracker/bread/snack, and the entree. Sometimes an additional snack or candy.
Edit: they are safe to eat cold, but they are much better hot. Less viscous and more of a sauce.
Veggie omelet was the only one during my time in service that was almost universally hated.
can’t believe they didn’t heat them up. did MREs a major disservice right there. best one hands down is the beef strips and tomato sauce, but the magic of MREs is when you combine ingredients from different packs to create gourmet dishes that are unironically good
They are definitely better heated. But if you ask any service member that had to eat these on a regular basis, they’ll tell you they were eaten cold about as often due to lack of time.
@@brycealthoff8092 Being on crunch time was pretty rare for me, even while in the field. We always had some time to eat and talk about the food.
Yuppie freaks is why. They live in Clearwater
My kids and I were in Louisiana during Katrina. Very grateful for the MRE's. The very second you guys opted not to heat anything up it went from taste test to dare....dear God you guys lmao....watching Charlie choke down cold rations was hilarious! 😅
Yeah, they of course can be, when necessary, but they also do not include the heating equipment inside every single pack specifically for people to never use and then throw away.
@@MamadNobari yes and no. some MRE's around the world literally cant be eaten cold.
I was there from the PA NG handing them out. A great life experience
I was 6 when Katrina happened and I remember CHOWING DOWN on MRE's. I'm 23 now lol. I bet it'd be a nostalgic experience if I could get my hands on some of these things again. Katrina really did seem like the end of the world for us in Louisiana though.
@@MamadNobariwell, you CAN eat chef boyardee straight out of the can too, but it does improve the quality a bit when heated.
The meat patty is pretty down there. But the thing with MREs is that the “bad”ones usually have pretty good snacks, so it’s a balance act. Like the marble pound cake is chefs kiss
Idk spinach fettuccini pretty terrible and I don’t remember good snacks
@@BohnBerdanothing about spinach fettuccine or that vegan one with taco seasoning is redeemable
@@burningrivers0616how do they fuck up the two best things on this planet
the patty is decently good. the one they ate was probably stored horribly
@@BohnBerda really? I woudl sometiems tsrait up get cheezits. Or atleast the cheese filled pretzel bites. good stuff to me.
fun fact: there is also cold weather MREs that do have freeze dried ice cream
aslo: the flameless ration heater is meant to be used outdoors because it creates noxious fumes
doubt fumes are an issue, their studio is a old warehouse
MRE story: I was hard addicted to the cheese spread from the MRE packs, that during a survival training event, I traded everything in my pack for cheese spread, getting a total of 26 cheese packets. I was 13 at the time with cadets... that cheese didn't last long before reemerging again hours later
This deserves a guest appearance of MRE Steve
They aren't even that far away from each other. Would have been really cool to see.
Let's get this out on a tray!
Steve1989 is the mre champ
If only Steve got together with Charlie, however in all honesty I'm not sure Steve's channel could support the kind of attention that Charlie could bring him. Steve doesn't post very often
They didnt even mention the King.
I’ve served in the military for 6 years and I can confidently say I’ve never tried this “sweet potato grape smoothie” but dammit, now I want to.
I like all of those things individually, the combination sounds foul though lol
Yeah I've never heard any of these MREs before
Pretty sure those are just civilian mres, ive never heard of either of those, there was a strawberry smoothie but tht was discontinued
Same 😂
I mean. You still can. You can purchase those mres
The funniest memory I have of basic training is when the guy everyone hated asked if anyone had cheese spread that they didn't want and at least 20 cheese spread packets came flying out of nowhere right into his head.
Not sure if i missed any with it initially, but the dual tier list on screen is definitely the way to go! Absolutely, fantastic stuff.
This needs to have a collab with SteveMRE. Never can get enough of that "Now let's get this out on a tray" line.
I wonder if Charlie's ever heard about Steve1989MREInfo, he makes some banger videos
That dude is the best 😂
Would love to see a tier list featuring Steve
Love his videos I just want them more often I've had to go back to older ones to get my mre fix 😂
nice!
I’m glad he didn’t heat the meals, I just came out of bct and we never had enough time to heat our meals so this is very accurate
@Officer_Logan_Floorwah
Not really suppose to heat them indoors either
@Officer_Logan_Floorwho gives a shit
That was my biggest concern through the first meat. No heating at all?! Of course it tastes like dog food 🤦♂️
@@Flamingaussyeah they are meant to be heated, but people just usually eat them cold
I just got finished with basic training and opening my phone to Charlie doing a tier list on MREs makes me happy.
Love the tierlists I just binged like 10 in one day, back to back.
I like how Charlie decided to eat the mre in its pure glory instead of cooking it, man really has an iron stomach after eating burger king
This comment is so underrated, also HOW Is there no bots in the replies yet?
Oddly enough that's how they make you eat it in bootcamp
Ive seen new York rats with more nutritional value then burger king
"Charlie" cringe
@@toshiro-kanothat's what fucking everyone says goober
Having eaten most of these for 10 weeks straight, Charlie’s reactions are absolutely hilarious and valid.
They’re really not that bad but that could just be they all started to just taste the same to me other then the tuna the tuna is god
Only time I've ever really eaten an MRE was at basic training. But honestly, most of them were fire. Maybe it's because they were heated up, and it was an exciting moment to sit down and eat a meal for a few minutes. But also, just grabbing something random from a stack, trading the contents, and opening them up like a goodie bag mystery box was one of my favorite memories. Even today, I wouldn't mind having those as a standard meal every now and then.
Now you guys just need to make a Tier List Tier List, where you rank how much you guys like the food from each tier list overall compared to each other.
The MREs they gave us in boot camp had candy in them but they didn’t want us to have candy, we would always volunteer to gather and take the candy to the dumpster and pocket as much candy as we could and then sell it all later.
Happy to hear this is universal lol
A little candy isn't going to do anything bad so I wonder why they did that
to make u sad@@KnightSlasher
Is there a functional reason for that? Or were they just assholes?
@eduardobone8857 you haven't earned it yet, which is the reason most of the time. For me in USMC we had the chance to eat the candy sometimes though.
As a serviceman, loved this. Never heated, just as God intended. Was devastated they hated my favorite, the jalapeno beef patty
The one was one of my personal favorites
I too was also disappointed! I use to throw it on a tortilla and eat the shit out of it! But my hands down favorite was the chili and beans mixed with the cheese and corn bread or surprisingly the vegetarian one they made because it had the best snacks 😂
Mine was cold brisket with the added butter packet, had to get past the texture and there always extra since no one wanted lmao
Yeah, youre supposed to eat it with the condiments that come with it lol
Sometimes I had fun heating MREs propped up against “ a rock or something.”
Back when my dad was deployed in Iraq, he use to send us boxes full of MRE’s (Soldier Lunchables) straight out of Baghdad. We had the real battle hardened MRE’s that came in brown thick plastic packaging. Idk if you’re eating them cold but they are supposed to come with heating bags you pour water into and it heats up the food via a chemical reaction. A lot of the stuff you tried would probably taste a lot better if it was warm. I never had an MRE I didn’t like and I’ve eaten just about all of them if not all of them multiple times.
The Beef is perfectly good Charlie, the only way those can go bad even after the long shelf life expiration date is if they're stored in atrocious conditions like excessive heat for a long period of time. If you freeze MRE's sealed up, they will last practically forever.
We ate our MRE's cold 90% of the time, just didn't generally have the luxury of heating them up under the conditions lol. Pretty sure y'all got the abridged Civilian-consumer or Humanitarian versions, because they're not in the typical Military packaging and are missing several components, to include the Accessories Packs with the iconic MRE brown Spoon and other items.
If you want new production high-quality MRE's for a revisit, check out XMRE brand.
I dont know if Matt is a lot more easy going lately but i really enjoy his personality
I agree. He seems a lot more comfortable “co-hosting” with Charlie recently and his confidence has made his personality shine. Seems like a great guy.
thinking 'oh this guy wasn't immediately an entertaining clown on camera it must just be nerves' is such a internet content glutton comment (shut up i'm one myself), as if it's natural and easy for anyone to be entertaining on camera for you and millions as long as they just relax. getting on stage as a guy like matt (who was for sure working in/seeking jobs in accounting or some shit before this) in front of a gargantuan, loyal, borderline parasocial internet audience is an extremely rare amount of easy goingness to see in a person by itself. i think we all often forget that for most people it's hard work to be good on camera, and that a lot of the reason charlie's good is because he's being doing this for 10+ years
Thank you for constructing this tier list so I can know which MREs to pack for the inevitable nuclear apocalypse! Thanks Charlie!
Not reading your comment but I posted a Hilarious video of a woman crying about her dog being put down because I make better content 😂 😅
Man you got a lot of bot replies
imagine doomposting on a charlie video, couldn't be me
@Officer_Logan_Floor 4th sighting of you saying that. You must be proud
@Officer_Logan_Floorfunnier than your existence.
Just so y'all know, some of the MRE's come with Skittles, and those are used as currency pretty much in training. You can buy ANYTHING if you're lucky enough to get the bag with skittles. Girls would do some crazy shit for them behind the lockers past curfew for it even lol
My dad would have us try MREs when we were younger and the one thing I always enjoyed was the lemon poppy seed cake. It was super crushed in one of those rectangle packages and broke apart like corn bread but man it was the most edible thing you could get from one of those.
They should really try the cold weather MREs. The one time I ate one was out in Norway and it was like experiencing a whole other universe
They taste even better in finland
So is that a good universe or a bad universe??
I always wanted to try the cold weather and first strike MREs that MARSOC was issued on field ops.
@@jocelynmanuel1524supposedly they are way better because they dont need to put all the shit to keep them edible.
Spent 3 years at JBER. Cold weathers are so much better than hot weathers. After two weeks in the field they still taste like shit though.
This video made me feel like Charlie finally understood the importance of editing
honestly i enjoy the underediting of his channel, makes it feel more casual
I'm inside your walls Shaun
@@mm-gk6xg Same here. Sometimes you don't need crazy music or deliberate visuals.
We need an updated list when they are warm. The tastes honestly changed when it's warm.
These two numpties forgot to heat up the actual meal portion. Love it. Great content.
Enlisting is realizing you're not supposed to eat everything separate, you're supposed to mix it all in the bag and eat as fast as you can
Nah dog that’s some serious cap
@@huntersaunders3997 you've never ate the entire chili Mac by mixing it all in the bag and it shows
@@0merciefulFACTS, i used to do that all the time
fr tho@@0mercieful
na fr this is 100% true my guy 😂
Funny story: while in BCT over 20 years ago, I had a mre with M&Ms. The pack advertised some contest going for money, $20k specifically. My heart dropped when I opened the pack to find out it was a winner, buuut, the pack was almost 2 years past expiration 😂 Some battle buddies started calling me 20k after that for the rest of basic to rub it in lol
Now why have I heard this story before? Very recently too?
@@NONAME-hz1se🤔
Prove it
@@NONAME-hz1se🤨🧐🤔
Yeah man.. Same exact thing happened to me! 😬
MRE’s are interesting… certain parts of meals can be used for currency. Like candy, jalapeño cheese spread, coffee packets, juice packets, possibly fruit cobbler, and or caffeine gum. Any of those sides and desserts listed can be used to trade for a bunch of stuff.
This was fun to watch. This needs to be a multi-part series because there's still so much they haven't tried 😂
For those who were never in the military or have had an MRE: Basically they are not supposed to be that tasty. Some of them are, but they still are no 5 star cuisine. They are just supposed to last a while and in a specific climate, while providing a ton of calories for a small volume of food. They actually have cold weather MREs which are much better than the regular ones. Most of them have a specific ingredient that constipates you (like in the cheese spread), so you don’t have to take a dump in a fire fight or on a training exercise and those have a little piece of laxative in them in the form of gum or something else, nothing crazy, you won’t be crapping for hours. Because when you are eating MREs you are usually also expected to need to do a lot of physically demanding things like digging a fox hole, walking a few miles with a heavy ruck sack, moving ammunition, filling sandbags, etc the MREs need to provide a balance of carbs, protein, fats, and micronutrients and that’s all, taste is secondary if considered at all.
Edit: the gum is actually a substitute for brushing your teeth, but there’s absolutely no reason to not brush your teeth unless you are just gross.
Translation: In the military food is fuel
The gum being a laxative is a myth.
The constipation is not an added ingredient nor is the laxative in the gum.. any side effects are not intended and purely the result of over manufacturing/placebo effects
literally the funniest comment. Standard Norwegian MRE's are made and sold as camping rations and army rations, taste like normal food and have the exact same amount as your average portion while giving you 1.3k Calories. MRE's can be rather great if the country that uses and produces them actually care for the people who are gonna eat them lol.
Laxative in the gum is an old fable Drills would tell boots so they didn’t have to see them fucking walking around with chewing gum.
Hope your first contract is going good, buddy. Lmfao.
I always thought Beef Patty Jalapeno was the best one. It may be different now but back in my day it came with THREE desserts in it - usually some skittles or reeses pieces, a mysterious looking "cherry cobbler" that actually tasted decent, and a third that would be completely random. I thought it was the best because you could trade some of your extra desserts for something better if you didn't want them. Somebody else always wants those skittles.
I wanted to say, Matt's comment around the 5:32 mark is true. I've always hated the beef patty jalapeño and you couldn't make me eat that shit if that was the last bit of food I had. And I was squeezing MRE entrees directly into my mouth during NTC just so I could eat and work at the same time.
It was my favorite, but they revamped a lot of the menus recently so it no longer has 3 deserts.
@@HeeknotThey got nerfed.
Beef patty anything especially the maple beef patty were all horrible imo. Hit me with that chili mac, or the new tuna fish
You can sometimes guage how bad the main course is by the quality of the sides. The better the sides, the worse the main course. There are exceptions of course.
(Btw my favorites are a tie between the Taco, Shredded Beef and BBQ, and the tuna)
It is physically painful to watch them refuse to heat them up.
Finally matt has his own tier list been waiting for that 😂
Charlie could literally do a “different types of mud” tier lists and it would bang
I don’t know how hard it would be to get them, but it would be fun to see them try MREs from different countries
Markiplier did that. He got a hold of a Korean mre
@@Mr-pn2ehloved that vid
Steve1989MRE has a few videos on MRE's from other countries.
Yeah it's fun until they try a Chinese MRE.
@@d0mram-02I heard the russian mre is basically dog food
The spaghetti from my old school lunch looks like the spaghetti from the first MRE. I wasn’t expecting the flash of nostalgia but I appreciated it
Had a good laugh at Danny's "Im done questioning this"
I remember having these every lunch during army basic training. Never ate the main dishes, cuz the side dishes and the snacks would ALWAYS slap. Candy in these MREs were heaven sent for us who’d been deprived of everything
We’d play a game where the whole objective was seeing who had the most outdated candy. It was always the skittles lmao
Deprived of everything? Did you serve for North Korea?
@@BushidoNinjaDeprived of everything, yes.
@@burningrivers0616the Skittles were always so out of date. I remember getting sour Skittles one time that were 2 years out of date and hard as rocks. I cherished and devoured every single one of those pebbles
@@burningrivers0616 Skittles and the Tootsie-Rolls were always tied for being the most stale and outdated candies in existence.
Some of my favorites during my stint in the military were the tortellini, meatballs, literally anything with the lemon poppy seed pound cake, and beef taco filling. Lots of trading going on lol
Cherry blueberry cobbler is the best side
that lemon poppy seed cake was built different i stg
I seem to remember one being chicken burrito bowl that was fire, I had forgotten about that lemon poppy seed pund cake, that was goated, any of the cobblers were really good, I seem to remember an Asian style beef and vegetables one that was fire and usually had some bangin' sugar cookies in it.
Southwest style beef with black beans was goated
the stretch res thumbnails never dissapoint
Great job on the editing
I think this is my favorite type of content still coming out of this channel, the constant bi-daily commentary videos on pointless internet drama just doesnt have the impact eating horrible and terrible food that passes off as human substance does
To make Key Lime Pie
Ingredients:
X1 Crackers (plain not vegetable)
X1 Lemon Lime Drink Powder
X3 Coffee Creamer Packets
1/2 Cup ICE COLD Water
Smash up the crackers best you can until texture resembles bread crumbs. The smaller the better
Add all dry ingredients and mix.
Make sure to add small amounts ice cold water (it tastes best) at the end as you don’t want it watery and throughly mix at least 3 minutes or until it resembles the consistency of pumpkin pie if you mix it up. Add water if needed. If too much was added enjoy your soup.
You may also use Orange Powder as a substitute and make Orange Sherbert.
Sher “bet” not “bert” lol
Lol its bart
Did that in the field once, was a good day.
I just finished basic so this is a surprising video to come back to
Matt is the definition of an outstanding citizen
As someone that served in the USMC for 4 years, this is my most exciting tier list viewing yet
You guys need a veteran to give you a hand with these. Someone that is an MRE expert that can combine the meals in just the right way to step them up.
Like Steve1989MREinfo
MREs are literally designed to back you up so that you don't shit yourself during combat
This needs a part 2 where they boil the MRE packages for 5-10 minutes
Wendy's Tier List next!??
Nah, he’s already tried Burger King, i don’t think he can handle anything worse.
@@mcordonhoustonburger king is way worse than wendys fym
@@mcordonhouston Pretty much nobody goes to burger King anymore nowadays, Wendy's is the new burger King imo
These are honestly my favourite Charlie vids
Buddy of mine gave me a random MRE and it turned out to be absolutely insane. Few years old, Breakfast sausage meal that came with a moist Maple brown sugard muffin top thing. So good.
The fact that they haven’t even scraped the top of the options with mres is wild. The peach cobbler is the best mre treat hands down.
Peach cobbler?! hell nah
You are wrong.
@@PaxtonTrushL
I have a whole bag of american MREs at home. We used to trade with the Marines when they did field exercises in my country. They were happy to try something different than the same old MREs they had. Not that Norway's Arctic field rations are better in any way...
Wow, MRE aficionados will pay a good amount for Norwegian rations, maybe just out of being exotic. The anglo countries' MREs have too many sweets in them.
@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 Well then the MRE aficionados are in luck because the Norwegian Arctic field rations are really easy to aquire as Norway has active conscription. Norway's tropical field rations, however, are quite rare. I've unfortynatly eaten all of mine...
When I was in there was a green bag you put a little water in and it lets you "boil" "steam" the food warm enough to eat. Usually put both the green heating bag in another bag, with the closed food pack inside the cardboard box it comes in, wait a few minutes and warm food. A lot of them are pretty good.
The second they said they were gonna just eat it straight without any preparation or anything, I knew this was gonna be a good video
I use to be a military brat. One of my dad's friends had hundreds upon hundreds of MRE's and would literally give them out for free, so I had a ton of MREs growing up. They are actually pretty fuggin good.
I also remember being blow away by how you could cook the food with nothing more than a bottle of water and whatever was in the pouch.
Depends on which meal menu you got and how old the MREs are. I ate some technically outdated ones recently and they were disgusting.
I'm very disappointed they didnt use the heat packs, at least to experience it, i was very impressed the first time i saw it
I got an ad to join the army while watching this. Top teir as always
Matt quoting the same scene from Ratatouille needs to be a thing every tier list! 😂😂😂
charlie never fails to bring us high quality mukbangs
Not reading your comment but I posted a Hilarious video of a woman crying about her dog being put down because I make better content 😂 😅
Cornball
How are the bots already here?? Its been five minutes
@Susnation532definitely the coolest person I know who looks for validation in youtube comment sections, with a doge pfp, and types out creators usernames in full numbers and all just to insult them. Then again... pretty low bar
@@jasonpreston2703it's a bot, it literally can't reply or see that message
As a service member this is most amusing. Good work Charles and the team!
thank u for ur service
Not reading your comment but I posted a Hilarious video of a woman crying about her dog being put down because I make better content 😂 😅
the video just came out & is 30 minutes long
@@Officer_Logan_Floor 6th sighting
Same here man, I’m only a few minutes in but I hope that they get spinach fettuccine alfredo
You should do the mres that come in the brown plastic bags. They come in boxes of 12 and have 24 menus total!
Enlisting for the second time for army infantry leaving in a couple months. Love seeing other people eat mres ngl i love them
I am a very big fan of having the tier list represented for each person
My friend brought a bunch back from his service and when I was drunk I ate 4 Chili Mac MREs and was not even close to done. Those things heated up are some serious mouth pleasure, especially when you're up shits creek without a paddle.
Also, as it goes Charlie eats more and more. In service he'd end up being the MRE connoisseur hahaha.
Confirm chili mac is the best one. It even comes with sour skittles.
Cold is the correct way to judge these in my opinion. I think these are older MRE's, too; I've not seen the smoothie thing
Watching you guys eat the beef patty gave me enjoyment you need to try the chicken chunks and the pizza
The tier list we never knew we wanted but truly needed
@@Susnation532you can never beat jesus
@@Susnation532no
@@Susnation532who tf even are you lmao
Truth be told today
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So funny to hear them joking about trading food packets and comparing which "menu" they got, it took them 10 min to figure out exactly what happens every day with MREs.
honestly during any ftx those mre entrees were a life saver for bang bangs.
I was just out in the field for a few weeks I like forward to watching y'all rate the food I'll hardly eat
Beef Patty with Jalapeño was my favorite. It also gave me terrible gas. I had 3 in a row one day for all 3 meals, and the next morning my battle who’s window was stuck ripped the door handle off the inside of the LMTV trying to escape the miasma.
Charlie being surprised when ever there was meat in it was the funniest thing ever.
Never served but was in JROTC and went to a base, ate MREs. The packaging brings memories.
They had every chance to heat up the MREs and chose not to lol.
As a service member this brought me joy that is not described by words but by human gestures.
Indeed, dancing whenever Charlie does stuff is relatable.
Charlie and Matt have withstood some really nasty food, but when something is described as "shockingly bad" you know it's truly awful.
It's the U.S Government it don't have to taste good so long as it does what it needs to do.
As someone who is still in, heating up half of that stuff would have definitely swayed opinions, but I get it and I relate
bro you gotta heat these up!!! I was eating 2-3 of these a day in the field, and they were literally all we looked forward too!! if you can't use the heating packets, just leave them in the windshield or on top of the truck. ive tried every single one.
I’m not sure if this idea has been said before but once Charlie and Matt inevitably try all MRE from every Military branch of each country they should do an ultimate tier list where they rank every S-Class MRE and be really picky on what is the best of the best