British Guys Taste Test Canadian MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) ft
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- I've got hold of a Canadian MRE (meal ready to eat) package. Unfortunately there was no maple syrup or poutine in sight, however, there may have been some delicious alternatives!
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Th rapport between you and Ashens is always fun. You two play off each other brilliantly. Thank you for sharing this today.
In America we consider jelly as made with just the juice of the fruit and jam made with the entire fruit and juice. We sell both here. Jelly is usually cheaper than jam.
To explain the jelly/jam/preserves thing in the U.S.
Jelly is made with strained fruit juices.
Jam contains the seeds and skins
Preserves are the whole or large chunks of fruit in a thick sugar syrup.
Marmalade is marmalade.
@@matthewwilson9749 Cheers
@@mrbarrylewischeers! Love your collabs❤❤❤
Wasn't expecting a Barshens reunion in 2024, a surprise to be sure but a welcome one!
There are going to be new Barshens episodes, due to Stuart passing his kickstart goal on his latest film. Not sure when they'll be filmed / aired, but he said all the gang will be back.
There was a Barshens reunion episode on the Cheapshow UA-cam channel a couple of months ago.
There's no Barshens until the King of Plasticene makes his presence known with his hatred of raisins.
@@antster1983 Where modular Ramen?
@@samholdsworth420Nor Paul fo him to argue against or Cousin Dan.
This is my favorite collab.. I love it when the two of you get together for stuff
No need for that sort of behaviour, pornhub exists for a reason buddy.
Should've called this RASHENS
In the US jelly is made from fruit juice, jam contains actual fruit - sometimes including seeds - and preserves are preserved fruits. These are actually legal definitions as well as consumer descriptions.
I know, I love how everyone just thinks they are the same 😅
Thank you. This drives me nuts every time I hear Brits get this confused.
Came here to say this.
@@vijnananath because they are the same. it's only the us that has that differentiation. everywhere else just calls it jam
@@lylukk Canada differentiates. I've always known jam and jelly to be different.
Cheap vs. Steep: Camping Edition Barry gets quality gear and Ashens gets some Poundland gear.
... that is so aggressively chaotic and I love it!
I would suggest throwing a coin who gets quality who gets poundland one.
@@dexteritymaster Ashens is the King of Tat so it's only fitting that he get's Poundland's finest.
MREs like this are based on a daily intake of 3-5,000 calories, which is why everything tastes so sweet. This is also why it tastes much better with the tabasco sauce, and why the tiny bottles of tabasco sauce are often used as currency downrange.
Trading also a time honored tradition.
Those m&ms are high quality currency in the field as well.
The tabasco is in case you come across a glass with Vodka, Clamato juice, a stick of celery, and ice, rimmed with salt and pepper and lemon juice.
I've heard from many people that the tablet-napkin is especially useful for when the MRE is leaving the body.
Most MREs rarely have an exit strategy.
@@MoultrieGeek Meals Refusing to Exit
as a US military vet,
"Military Rations, Eugh..." sums up certain menu items really well.
if ever you are offered a chance to try the "cheese and veggie omelette"... don't.
Ah yes, the vomlette.
Or the spinach Alfredo
The pizza MRE is actually pretty good
The cheese tortalinni one is pretty good. Except for the omlette, all of the vego ones are good.
@@yeismeloadtried it once and it did live up to its name. It was the consistency.
Upon seeing the thumbnail, I gasped really aggressively and yelled "ASHENS!!!!" out of excitement. This brings joy.
I yelled BARSHENNSSS
you are not the only one. dont get me wrong both of their own chanels are good but these two together is the . just like old times when they use to do more videos together. makes me happy seeing these two guys in videos together and the laughs are doubled
In Canada, it is called IMP, not MRE. Stands for individual meal pack.
Nice
Replaced the old RP4s (Ration Pack 4) Those contained a lot of single servings of tinned things of brands you would never see on a store shelf. I suspect the RP4s weighed a lot more because of the tins, each one contained a little folding can opener. As I recall there were six menus. I always liked the one with Jambalaya.
Glad to see Stuart isn't surviving on microwave burgers and bits of vintage Spider-Man cake, but couldn't you just cook him a regular meal Barry? Good to see you guys having a laugh together.
Barry making Stuart a meal that is created entirely by using kitchen gadgets...
alright, let’s get this out onto a tray
Nice
Nice!
Nice!
Mmkay
Nice!
I didn't realize how tanned Barry was until you compare him with 'vampire white' Stuart. And I love them both.
I’m a simple man, I see a video with Ashens and Barry in it, I click
Every time, every time...
Finally
The boys are back, and they may even be in town
.... in a basement office in Norwich lol
In Canada, at least where I live, jam is the term we use. Jelly is clear jam (no seeds, strained) and a firmer 'jello'-like texture.
Same in Australia
Does your Canadian jelly have gelatin in it like in Britain, or is it just a strained jam or a preserve made with juice like in the US?
. I've made jelly both ways:
❤ From the strained fruit's juice and granulated white sugar;
❤ From the fruit juice, little or no sugar, and liquid pectin.
It really depends on how much natural pectin is in the variety of fruit, or what the recipe recommends.
Besides fruit, I've made and canned Dandelion Jelly using dandelion blossoms. Delicious! It tastes like the honey our local beekeepers sell. 😊
As a Canadian, I've been camping many times with these MREs, it's a common sight in camping stores to see surplus stacks of them. A tip for the tortillas is if you had an actual fire, you'd roast them first to make them crispier.
Lmao at Ashens just carrying on talking about how he'd mix all the Tabasco in to the pork completely oblivious to poor Barry right next to him fighting for his life after licking the hot sauce off his thumb 😅😅
As a Canadian, one thing that surprises me are the M&M's - we have (and love) Smarties here - M&M's are American
And then you go down to the states, ask for Smarties and get given something completely different!
And M&Ms were intentionally copied from the British Smarties when Frank Mars saw soldiers eating them during the Spanish civil war!
Not sure what part of the country you're from, but where I'm at, both Smarties and M&M are widely available. It probably just depends on their provider.
@@coreymon78 I'm in Ontario and we do have both here - and I noticed they mentioned in the video the M&M's are in fact made here - it's just one of those things growing up we were all about the Smarties - except of course for the peanut M&M's - those are fabulous lol
M&m's are English, produced by the Mars candy company. These ones were likely produced at the Mars plant in either Bolton or Newmarket, Ontario
@@GrandHoff I’m English and am as patriotic as the next guy, but what are you basing your “they’re English” comment on? M&Ms were copied from the English Smarties in the 1930s but were copied BY Forrest Mars (an American) and were originally made in their factory in New Jersey, USA. Nowadays they’re made in Mars factories all over the world including two in the States. They were sold in the USA from 1941 but only came to the UK in the 1980s.
So they’re not English by virtue of being solely made in England (they’re not) or by being made by an English company (Mars is American, headquartered in Virginia, USA) or by being invented by an English person (they weren’t).
BMW produces many of its SUVs in South Carolina but no one is ever going to call BMW an American car brand.
I'd love to see Barshens test out camping gadgets! Ashens might not enjoy camping but that'll just make for a more entertaining video! 😜
Stick Eli in a bear suit..
after the American toaster incident and the recent experiment with the Chinese popcorn cannon, I fear Barry testing camping stoves could have fatal results
'date square' " you only go on dates with uncool people" ashens quick wit is always the best part of his comedy to me
I was in the Canadian Army 20+ years ago, and the rations back then were pretty good too. My favourite was always the breakfast one of Ham steak and pineapple, or they brought in in a meatball in herb sauce right before I left, it was pretty excellent too. They don't look like they have changed much since I was in, except they have gotten rid of that awful, dense hunk of chemical laden "bread" and brought in tortillas, which look infinitely better.
ham and pineapple go incredibly well together. Put it on bread and add cheese and you get a toast hawaii
Last I checked there's still the 'pain' bread, just some packs have tortillas instead. Navy, so I don't have to touch those IMPs anymore, thankfully.
Had forgotten about that bread until you mentioned it. Almost makes me glad to know I'm gluten intolerant now 😂
I actually enjoyed that 'bread' with some jam on it. Granted the last time I had it was about 20 years ago.
and the ham omelet was called "lung in a bag". The ham steak in Raisin Sauce was basically inedible.
As a Canadian I can tell you that Jam is cooked down fruit with sugar and pectin etc so it is more thick/chuncky as it has the whole fruit in it. Jelly is made from strained fruit juice, sugar and pectin so it is thinner and has no chucks etc in it....if feels like eating a thin jello spread. Jam and Jelly are just different things. Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches started as a peanut butter and grape jelly recipe...but many people will do peanut butter and jam now instead and strawberry and raspberry are both popular jams to use....peanut butter and honey is also popular.
Bloody hell, I almost didn't recognize Stu on the thumbnail with this outfit :D
Good to see you two back together
Felt like we were off on holiday!
Barry!!!! Seattle!!! 😆 If I wasn't such a nice Canadian, I'd be offended by that 😂 🇨🇦
Stu and Barry camping video sounds incredible.
Canadians call it jam is if there are the fruit seeds, and jelly is there are no seeds. So raspberry is jam cause of the seeds, and grape jelly because of no seeds! 😊
Same for Americans 😊
@@UberStarFkrNo it's not. In the US it's actually whether it is made with only juice (jelly) or has some fruit in it (jam) or a decent amount of fruit (preserves).
I think this is the same in the UK, my mother makes jelly which has a different texture from jam and no seeds
@@Octobersmom7 yeah so hear me out, seeds... It's jam... No seeds.. it's jelly! I would know, I am American but sure get technical.
@@juliannetraven5168 When you make crab apple jelly you cook up the apples and strain them through a special bag, and only use the juice. So I guess maybe jelly is when there isn't any fruit pieces, skin, or seeds.
If you are looking for good to eat MRE's, I can highly recommend the French (unsurprisingly). Get one of the 24 Hour packs to get a good idea of the quality.
Might have been one of the other 2 we filmed ;) will post that one soon
Do the Italians still make packs with liqueur in them?
As an American, Jam and Jelly are two different things. Jam is closer to preserves than Jelly is. For example Strawberry Jam will have some of the seeds still in it, where as Strawberry Jelly will be completely smooth.
For an answer to the jam/jelly/preserves difference, it's mostly whatever people grew up hearing, but all of them are actually different things. Jelly is made from fruit juice, jam from pureed fruit, and preserves from the entire fruit or chunks of it (including rinds/skins, like with marmalade).
Yeah, exactly what you said. They're different things, but in ordinary conversation people are totally happy to mix them up. Sort of like how my father always calls margarine "butter".
MREs are the bomb. Good grub greatly improves morale.
Other than the vomelet
Really depends on the MRE and the country it is from. I have tried many from all over the world and honestly I favor the Russian and Japanese. They have more variety imo.
@@insertnamehere2635 Variety in the Russian rations? Kasha. Kasha. Kasha.
Jam has seeds, Jelly doesn't - or at least in my little part of Canada.
And I thought it was random when you showed up at a Whisky channel 😂
Seattle and Vancouver are pretty close by North American terms.. about 180Km.
Guys. Americans have jam AND jelly. They're two different things.
miss timing on the jump cut is just *chef's kiss
"An excellent jump cut"
@@brianm6337 indeed it is
"let's get this out onto a tray, nice"
Mmkay!
Nice to see Ashens back on the channel!
Felt like I haven't seen Ashens in ages! Glad to see he's doing well, I think - That wall of chaotically arranged media behind them is wild.
An intersection of 3 of my favorite things! Rations, Barry, and Ashens! Yes!
🎶It's raaaaations with Aaaaaashens🎶
Jam and jelly are 2 different products in the U.S. jelly usually being the thickened strained liquid alone ( no fruit pieces) and jam containing fruit pieces.
American here-We use jam and jelly. usually jam is when the bips and bobs have been left in the jam and jelly is when it is smooth without anything else. But they are just used interchangeably by a lot of people
Here jelly is what you call jello, Jam can be with or without bits.
Technically, jelly is made using syrup or juice. Jam is made with crushed or otherwise processed fruit.
THE SHOWER'S FULL OF PORK AGAIN, BARRY
7:00 I'm sure that this has been covered, but as an American, I say jelly if it's made with the juice, jam if it's made with the whole pureed fruit, and preserve if it has chunks of fruit in it.
Ashens and Barry stomachs are probably celebrating that they are actually eating/drinking proper food and drinks. Even more of a bonus nothing is expired.
Just enjoying watching now would have preferred you doing this out in the sticks! The home comforts just wouldn’t be available in reality 😂 thanks for sharing though!
As an American, we have both jelly AND jam, the difference being Jelly is made using fruit juice, and jam is made using smashed fruit.
"Let's get this onto a tray. Nice..."
Get Eli and Paul on the channel sometimes too.
I'm not a big fan of dates myself. August 5th, 9th, 23rd, September 11th, 18th, 28th, November 3rd, 5th, 21st January 2nd, 6th, 30th, February 9th and 17th. They are probably my least favourites... 🗓️📆
27 year Canadian veteran here. Canadian rations are IMPs (Individual Meal Packets). Also meaning "I Might Puke", or "Indigestible Military Provisions". MRE's are American so I don't know what this abominaton is!!
In the Canadian military, these particular rations are known as "IMPs" - Individual Meal Pack. The one in the video is from 2019. From experience, the tortillas are better than the hamburger bun (aka: Pain Burger). Typically we'd load the tortillas with the peanut butter and jam. The Canadian IMPs tend to be quite good for the most part - other nations like to trade stuff for ours when deployed.
Hey! my cousin was in the CAF and he smuggled a few of these for me to try over the years. Here in Canada they are not called MREs but instead IMP's (Individual meal pack) and you would be issued your FRH to heat it up seperate. they have quite a few flavours but be thankful you DIDNT get the poutine. its a soggy mess of bland fry's and un-candian cheese curds. Wholly not representative of true poutine. if the pack is made after 2020 you one of the newer IMP packs that have the resealable tops, along with being waterproof (the old IMP was just a cardboard paper bag). Its designed to not only give you a high calorie meal, but also give you some home comfort (hence the M&Ms and nescafe). you need to heat the PB a little bit to get it proper but then you roll it and the jam up with the tortillas to make a P&B wrap! perfect for when you are on the go! Always lovely to see other people try Canadian things!
Jelly only uses the juice of the fruit.
Jam includes the seeds if it's something like a strawberry or raspberry.
Preserves also include pulp/flesh of the fruit.
Marmalade includes candied skin/rinds.
Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada, is home to the world's longest freshwater beach! It also happens to be where I live, lol. The beach and town are very popular tourist spots for many Ontarians and Qubecers. The shores with golden sand stretch on for 14km around Georgian Bay on the largest of the five Great Lakes, Huron. The warm shallow sandy bottomed shore waters are ideal for cooling off in the hot, humid summers.
To be fair, you're not really getting the full experience of military rations if you're going to use *clean* water; nothing beats a NATO standard cuppa, made of slightly muddy water, puritabs, powdered tea and milk, and some assorted foliage from Luneburg Heath.
Americans say jam and jelly. And preserves. And sometimes even fruit butter. Sometimes, though rarely, conserves. Also, depending on brand "fruit spread"
You should try the norwegian equivalent! They're also sold to the public, just with another colored packaging! They're fantastic for hiking
You two are so fun together always a pleasure.
Very very sweet does sound like Canadian food, lol. I don't think it's that we put a *lot* of sugar in things, but rather that we put *only* sugar into things, with nothing to cut through. I may have also heard something about most MREs in a number of countries having an oddly high amount of sugar, though I don't know if there's truth to that.
There was a Canadian MRE with a poutine (at least when I was serving). It was more of an homage to the poutine than a real poutine but it had the patatoes, cheese curds and gravy. When you were cold, wet and hungry it tasted like the best poutine ever.
Oh my god, Jelly, Jam and preserves are different things, Jelly is just made from fruit juice, jam is made from peeled or pureed fruits and preserves are made with whole fruits.
Barry thinking Tabasco is hot is adorable.
Hot Ones would blow his mind
tabasco is more sour than hot
I assume the sweetness of things is a combination of morale boosting, and the idea that a soldier eating an MRE is being very active, and will burn through the extra sugars?
Why is it called "ready to eat" if you need to prepare it?
Tbh, I think you can eat them straight out of the pack without heating if you fancy dying from food instead of a bomb
Huh, I didn’t know that date squares were only a Canadian thing. Out west we call it Matrimonial Cake.
They had no idea what a date square is. They should try a non-MRE one sometime. It's a very delicious dessert.
That's all good n dandy but the most important question is: can you waffle that pulled pork tortilla?
I require more crossovers like this.
9 years ago... Dr. Ashens ate an Estonian MRE. He did not finnish it. Had to chech, we finns be like thai.
In the USA, if it’s made with juice & pectin, it’s jelly. If it’s made from fruit, it’s jam or preserves.
Since your drink was way too sweet, it must have been a bit too concentrated. Easiest solution, next time just add more water 😀
Pretty much no one i knew liked the date square. It is much worse when cold and most of the time we eat everything cold due to time restraints
You can like the people who make the rations on Facebook and offer feedback on rations.
In Canada we use both jam is preserved fruits, jelly is strained fruit juice
We say jam in Canada, unless the jam has no seeds, then we call it jelly. You guys need to try real date squares!!!
Barry and Stewart reviewing an MRE I've had before! I completely forgot about the beverage bag, I got these in Canadian Cadets and I distinctly remember them having to take out the matches before they gave them to us and there being a underground market of sorts revolving around the candy and better tasting meals / deserts. There were also ones that came in a vacuum sealed clear plastic bag that were okay but I think the brown bags were better.
Jams and Jelly's are two different things. Jelly is a fruit spread made with just the juice of the fruit, almost like a Jello. Jam is a fruit spread made with the entire fruit, or at least the majority of it, and thus can contain seeds and pulp.
Also it was Estonian rations almost a decade ago, but it’s easy to confuse them with Finland so no worries.
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
It's Canadian so clearly MRE stands for Military Rations, Eh.
Jam uses all parts of the fruit. Jelly uses the juice (is mostly gelatin). Jelly also can be made from other things like tea, herbs, vegetables, ect. But Jam is only fruit....nothing else.
Way too many of my elder family members (who do canning) have lectured me on the topic.
Awesome video Barry! I absolutely love seeing you and Stu together! Tip for the tortillas that my husband used to use in the military was to heat them in pouch they are packed in. It makes them more pliable for opening and filling. Can’t wait to see the next vid!
They also need to not rip them apart. They should be flat circles.
I’m from Canada and I had the more pulled pork meal. Loved it. All the packages has an use. Like the long thin boxes that had the pulled pork in and the desert in cut the box in half and use the bottom of the box that as the closed end u can put the heat meal package in it and use as a meal holder after when u take it out of the hot water. The out box(bag) u can use it as a garage Ben. God bless all
In the US, jam, jelly, and preserves are three different things. Jelly is made from only juice, jam has some fruit in it, and preserves have large chunks of fruit. We can use any of them on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
And in Massachusetts, you can upgrade the fluffernutter with a layer of jelly, jam or preserves.
I believe jam is specifically made from mashed or pureed fruit, whereas preserves are whole pieces of fruit.
I'd *assume* it's the same here in Canada, though I've not had what you define as preserves before. It is the same for jam and jelly though.
As a Canadian I came here to see if anybody has brought up the Canadian military DOES NOT HAVE MREs. Theyre IMPs (individual meal pack)
Also - jelly is made from juice, jam is made from jamming as much fruit into the preserve
Such fun. I love watching MRE taste testing from different countries. Hope you guys try some more countries. You and Stewart are hilarious together
We have 2 others we already filmed yep
As an American Jelly and Jam are used as they are used as they define separate but related products. Jellys are made with fruit juice, jams are made with pureed /crush fruit. Perserves are made with whole or cut fruit. But people often confuse the 3 as one product when they are different at least on this side of the pond.
Dad caps usually refer to the curved brim.
I really wanna know what dodgy joke was cut out after the poutine hat bit 😂
haha sometimes things are best left off the Internet
Stuart has stolen one of Guru Larry's shirts. For shame
Gents, glad you are doing this but i must be the 'ackshully' guy - that's an IMP!! MRE is a yankee thing. Individual Meal Pack, in the Canadian Armed Forces. i've a brother enlisted in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. I had a ton of these, between him and my younger sister when she was in a Ranger (5th Div).
also here in Canada, Jam and Jelly are different things as one is made from fruit (jam) and one is made from fruit juice (jelly).
Brilliant had only just been watching the will it videos again for the 20th time hoping for a new episode
Love it, strangely, I am watching this while on holiday in Canada.
Since it's a Canadian ration, the MRE obviously stands for,
"Military Ration, Eh?" 😆🍁
Or Meals Reluctantly Excremented.
hi Barry I’m meggy I from Canada Alberta
So amazing to see you two once again! :) I hope that the collaborations will be more often and that you will make more "Will it..." episodes :)
Why don’t you try British Ration Packs
Let's get this out onto a tray. Nice! O.K.
does 'flapjack' mean something else in the UK? i picture a pancake or a crepe when i hear 'flapjack'
Yeah it's like a squishy syrupy oat bar