*Can hisses* *Time stops for Steve as his eyes roll back and his nostrils flare, his pupils dilating as the scent of century old air, paint, and tin metal rush into his lungs, the ancient molecules dispersing into his bloodstream and carried straight into his brain.* _Nice hiss._
Steve, I'd like to share a memory with you. I go home from college every so often to see my parents. Well, one particular Saturday when I came home I wasn't able to sleep very well so I watched tv from about 4 am to 6 am. I heard my dad come out and make coffee, and we talk for a bit. "Hey dad, wanna see something cool? There's this guy on youtube that opens old MRE's and reviews them in a very neat way" We sat through the whole morning watching your videos while the sun rose. My dad was a CW4 in the Night Stalkers back in 2010, and he thought your videos were very entertaining. After he watched a few, he was saying "Nice" after every "Let's get this out onto a tray." He especially liked your US Army spaghetti review, and he said it brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks again, Steve.
Remember food back then wasn't full of additives and flavourings like it is now. That's probably what it tasted like pretty much, a bit bland compared to our modern day palette.
I get it, I get it, it's amazing! but please don't say, it's like a porridge grain soup again! Ever!!! No really, Never!!! I feel like we have a non event when it comes to describing it. I mean its water, and hard, tooth chipping grain...it's a porridge! AAAHHHH!!!!Stop!!! actually, I bailed out at, "It's sorta like a sewage Smelling" Good-bye!!!!!
"In 2020, an over 100 year old sample in a ration was successfully preserved and eaten by UA-camr Steven Thomas." Steve made it into the pemmican wikipedia article. Nice
@@samuelrs5138 Someone removed the mention. Perhaps revise the entry to read "In 2020 an over 100 year old sample successfully persevered in a ration was eaten by UA-camr Steven Thomas." [citation] ?
I think the $2000 was worth it. If this guy hadn't bought it, it probably would have sat on a shelf somewhere in someone's collection. Even if it was in a museum, it would have been a minor item in a display that people would have glanced over and forgotten in a minute. But thanks to this video, five million people have been able to have the vicarious experience of eating it.
Is Steve actually Captain America?? His name is Steve like Steve Rogers, he has biceps the size of mountains, he’s patriotic and seems like he’s a man not of this era. I feel like he must’ve been defrosted and now he’s trying to relive the past by opening old Military Rations and the reason his stomach can take eating all this old stuff is because he’s actually a Super-Soldier!!! You cant fool me Captain America!!!!!!
Incredible Steve. My great grandmother was born in 1906. She passed in 2007 about a month shy of her 101st birthday. It baffles me this ration out lived her, and you ate it 😂 Keep up the great work 👍
My grandmother was born in 1898, died in 2001, 10 days after her 103rd birthday. This stuff was made in her lifetime and outlived her, too! Your grandmother was born in the transition from horses to motor vehicles and died the year smartphones came out. Mine was born into a world that still traveled by horses and died a month after 9-11. She was mentally sharp until a day before she died, so she knew about 9-11, watched it on live TV from her assisted living. She told me on the phone that it was the beginning of WWIII and advised me to move back to Maine if I wanted to survive.
@@mariekatherine5238 I'm not sure that Maine is far enough since the globalists are focusing on the United States. Personally, I'd head south to Mexico and or Central America.
My grandma was born in 1909. She passed in 1996 - very young, at the age of only 86 (there are suspicions that her death was not natural). She was also mentally sharp and knew exactly what's going on and how things would progress in the world. Now, 26 years after her passing, I find that she was absolutely right! Grandma also still remembered horse drawn carts and the early cars, and gas lights. She passed before 9/11 of course but she was always aware that war could break out at any moment the way things are. Just think, this ration was produced three years before my grandma was born, and got eaten 24 years after my grandma's passing... wow! (and I'm just watching this video again after a few years, lol)
The grits he's noticing in the chocolate might be due to inferior grinding methods they had back then. Chocolate is sort of like peanut butter where it starts out hard and then gets ground into a paste, but it's much, much harder to get completely smooth. Chocolate used to just be like that.
This channel is so fucking cool and wholesome, just a community of people into history. No shock factor, ads, BS. Just a dude sharing his hobby with us. You keep being you, Steve
I wish I had seen this earlier. My grandpa served in WW2, but his grandfather had served in WW1 near the end, and they described something like this. They called it the "Chemical Porridge" because they said none of them would survive being carried around in their packs next to their metal ammo boxes, metal canteens and other hard objects that would dent, poke or jostle the air tight canister. They claimed that half the time when you opened it, it would be bad, and probably lased with whatever chemical agent was used that day. A lot of these were left in an area that was exposed to gas attacks, and the ones that had holes in them would be compromised, but the quartermasters rarely did a quality check on them before handing them out, their rationale being they were only supposed to be used in a life or death situation anyway so it didn't improve your chances of survival by that much. His grandpa would say than when you did find one of these, you would often buy a sausage or fatty meat from one of the locals and cook that first then add the porridge in the leftover fatty oil and serve it as a sausage porridge. Even with the added meat and fat, nobody liked the stuff, but it made an intolerable meal that might just as easily kill you as keep you fed a little more tolerable. There would also be a few soldiers who were entrepreneurs who would carry sausages around inside their clothing to hide from the officers and trade them to the soldiers for a few cigarettes or some extra pay.
“This ancient spirit of Rah has an earthy balance, it’s decadent. Really a step above the rest considering the soul of Baal was canned around the same time” “let’s get this out onto an alter, nice”
"Just standing in the corner like a really weird dude eating old food" $700 old food. That meal cost more than any I have ever eaten in my life! Great content!
I hate when other ration reviewers open 90's rations and dont eat anything, wasting it saying it's not safe to eat!! 90's rations are still "fresh" by Steve's standards.
When I was in the Boy Scouts in the 50's, we'd have pemmican when we had to carry our food on our winter hikes and overnights. It really needs to boiled for about a half hour, until it gets down to a thick soup, kind of like clam chowder. We always carried dehydrated onion, salt, pepper, and those little bottles of hot sauce for the pemmican, since it had almost no taste on its own. We'd throw the onion in with the pemmican soup about ten minutes before it was ready, and that really helped the flavor. Each scout added salt, pepper, and hot sauce to taste. When you're sitting in your tent with a temperature of 15 degrees and snowing so hard you couldn't see the tents across from us, pemmican was actually pretty good. I can see how it was a sustainable cold weather food.
What a neat perspective, I'll have to look into pemmican more, something that transcends generations; which is one aspect I enjoy about Steve's videos.
@@formalbusinessonion7265 It's easy. You can buy pemmican from just about any outdoor foods dealer. Dump it into a pan with the amount of water called for on the package and then boil the crap out of it for at least a half hour. Even an hour won't hurt. It's the kind of food you want when you need something to be cooking while you're setting up camp. Make sure you have the spices I talked about or whatever your favorites might be. Pemmican tastes just like dirt without things to spice it up, but it's pretty tolerable when you do. It's survived all this time because you just can't get much else with its combination of durability, calorie denseness, and weight.
@@CREEPINGIRON Yeah, I really like all the old rations. I haven't thought about pemmican in a long time. It's not freeze dried steak, but it was okay stuff in the days before freeze dried food and you were carrying everything yourself. I'm amazed Steve would spend a couple grand to just entertain us, but I suspect he enjoyed it more than any of us did. :-)
Eating these is so much better than letting them rot on a shelf. Like you say, sooner or later they are just going to go bad. Cleaning out the tins so they won't be eaten by rust and documenting the eating of the content is the best way to preserve the history
Pretty much! Until the point where we can make forever rations (perfectly preserved forever by breaking the laws of thermodynamics) they will go bad one day. May as well document taste, smell, texture, and prep before then.
Exactly. Steve is the king of mre preservation and documentation. As an history enthusiast I'm deeply gratefull for the experience of watching him unveil and describe them for us.
I think this is far more important than letting them be. He's showing what they looked like on the inside and preserving everything in a good amount of detail.
What I want to know is, how does HE know? But then again, NO I DON'T!! Makes me think of the urban legend of the wannabe fuel thief, who tried to suck Syphon the wrong tank on a RV.
I always love seeing the care and reverence Steve takes in these historical rations. I've seen other UA-camrs spend the money and they just tear them to pieces complaining about the smell and appearance. They end up with the destroyed pile of crumbled food and shredded packaging on the table in front of them.
Steve is a culinary astronaut. He marches fearlessly into the void and narrates his experiences and describes in elaborate detail exactly what he sees and hears (and tastes) as if describing it to a team of awestruck scientists on the other side of a black hole, listening to this brave astronaut having traveled past the event horizon for the first time.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - Not really... He was hospitalized a few years ago, after eating some "eastern block" MRE from about 1970. He is part human, part billy-goat.
I watch these and I'm like "I'm amazed he's not run off and vomited right after eating some of this stuff." But it goes to show how long stuff can stay preserved if kept under the right conditions.
Isn’t it crazy. That lil cow has a great great great great grandcow out there somewhere, just oblivious knowing that his ancestors have just been eat. Life is fine
Crazy Russian Hacker: "This is wery old. I'm not going to eat this or touch it, it might kill me." Steve1989MREInfo: "Lets put this out on a tray. Nice!"
Love the ‘Hacker, primarily for his kitchen gadget videos. But my God, his ration videos drive me crazy. He may as well be putting whole rations in the trash, he doesn’t seem to know anything about them except the novelty of an old ration. Dude is wasting history for some views and ad revenue to buy another pet.
It's so cool that so many different people have kept these rations pristine all this time, until now, which is the absolutely perfect time for Steve to come in and finally open these for all 4 million of us on youtube. It is like all moments were leading to Steve. Thanks Steve.
Imagine the life of the farmer who grew and harvested that wheat in the pemmican. It is amazing to think about. Lives long gone but here you are eating the fruits of their labor and here we are, looking at it.
To put this into perspective, when we were storming the beaches of Normandy in WW2, this ration was in its same can and had been like that for 38 years already! Insane.
Hahaha and your average Joe then would be like “no way in hell am I eating 38 year old rations” 😂 Now it’s 114 years old and Steve is just like *omnomnom
Hardtack from 1863: Tastes like mothballs and old books, cool. Fried beef from 1899-1901: Tastes foul, lets make it into a porridge, it still tastes awful, awesome. Pemmican from 1906: Smells like fish food. Makes it into a soup, doesn’t smell too bad, the broth tastes like sewage and grain tea and the grain is flavorless, great.
@@megannason3649it’s his hobby and he’ll make that back on the video. He also won’t open a vintage one unless he’s obtained a second one to preserve in a private collection. Look at the bigger picture bud.
Agreed. Not many people would be willing to spend money on seriously opening and analyzing preserved historical items. Most folks buy stuff like this to resell, (Not to say anything bad about that, somethings should be preserved and they do have value) but Steve is really willing to put in extra effort to understand this specific time and item. That being said he did just eat a century and a half year old food. I don't understand it but I still do have to respect it.
Perspective: this ration was 6 years old when SS Titanic sunk, 21 years old when when the Hindenburg crashed, 35 years old when WW2 started, 57 years old when JFK was assassinated and I was born. I’m 57 now......
SS titanic also if someone is going to say RMS titanic you’re wrong because a ship has to finish its maiden voyage to be given the designation by the Royal Mail service
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 SS stands for Steam Ship and is the standard designation. HMS stands for his/her majesty’s ship used on Royal Navy vessels
I started watching Steve just out of fascination, marveling at how somebody could eat rations that outdated most of us watching his channel. Then I came to appreciate the historical significance of it. Steve really gives insight to what we're watching and for the times and location and history behind the purpose of that that particular ration. I have learned a great deal from him and I think he should be somehow officially recognized by some sort of historical society. For I know though he may have, I haven't seen all the videos. Just my insight, sure I'm not the only person to come to that conclusion.
The level of enthusiasm for MREs is in another level😂. I’ve eaten so many MREs in the marine corps and we primarily threw away everything but the cheese packet lol. I don’t understand how one can get so excited about dried foods in any context, but here I am watching. I just like it when he says “nice!” 😂
Yep. I think he should consider writing in his will that he agrees his body to be donated for science. If we can replicate his stomach - it will solve some of the nastiest diseases caused by impure watter and food.
I've heard you say that you give some components to museums sometimes. That's great, but I also realize. Your channel IS a museum. And people from all over can see vs just a few that have a museum near them. Very interesting to see all your treasures and experiences. Thank you for sharing.
In the past he said he has gotten botulism from MREs but just imagine him going to the hospital for this. telling a doctor you ate a 112 year old canned meat.
With all of the dark evil awful stuff on the internet this man is a living comfort zone I’ve actually started saying shit like “let’s put that on a tray, nice!” In my life
Imagine being the person who manufactured this in 1906, some factory worker wondering if this food would still be good by the time it got to the troops.. not ever thinking that in 112yrs some guy would be eating one for the internet.. lol
"Twenty-something-year-old Florida man presents at emergency room, with symptoms consistent with food poisoning from eating ration from Roman times." :)
Steve’s immune system becomes Chaz Palminteri in Bronx Tale, “Now you’se can’t leave.” C-The Coronavirus had a reputation for breaking up immune systems, but in that moment it realized it had made a fatal mistake.
I'm legitimately stunned. Those Boer War rations we saw a while back were amazing, but in understandable condition. I legitimately cannot imagine how this ration was kept in as good shape as it is. Like, did they straight up bury it in the Arctic or something?
Well it is Pemmican and high sugar cacao chocalate with no milk vacuum sealed in a can. Pemmican Is already known for a long shelf life when made by hand, and Chocolate when not made with milk essentially never goes bad (the bloom is it's own phenomenon, but doesn not really cause anything to go bad) and then there's the fact that it's almost perfectly dry and vacuum sealed. All of this results in an extraordinarily long shelf life, and I can imagine that the food wasn't too much different (aside from the chocolate) back when it was first made.
@Anantha J he mean the food is most likely bad but steve still like it same thing in a relationship find someone that likes you the way you are -Socrates
William Austin My wife watch these videos with me :) she’s just as interested in this as I am. She doesn’t understand my “nice hiss” references though.
Hey Steve, I was close to having a panic attack today and this was exactly what I needed to get my head straight. Great content, and such a calming voice. Thanks again
You took the right action, then! Score!! The Mamlambo Fossils channel has some really chill videos where the host excavates fossil crabs from rocks. The crabs are really cool.
Steve responded to one of my comments on New Year's Eve 2018 when I thanked him for a year of great content and he said stay tuned I've got a ration from 1906 in Immaculate condition coming soon...haha wow it's finally here. Thanks Steve 👍👍👍
Steve, the history lessons are invaluable in your videos. You have a lot of respect for the past, and it shows in your videos. You try to imagine what it could be like living in the time of these rations-a weary, tired soldier that just has a precious amount of time to find some way to relax, if possible in their situation, to eat. The momentary break of eating a meal is very important for morale. Soldiers are tired, weary, stressed out due to the war or conflict they’re putting their efforts into, supporting their side. Thank you again for showing this important history in every video you make. And thank you Steve for the hard work you put into each video!
*Can hisses*
*Time stops for Steve as his eyes roll back and his nostrils flare, his pupils dilating as the scent of century old air, paint, and tin metal rush into his lungs, the ancient molecules dispersing into his bloodstream and carried straight into his brain.*
_Nice hiss._
Such an under rated comment.
Ik you've written a my hero fanfic at some point lmao
@@anonymouscommenter801 Facts 100%
cursed comment
Well written 👏🏼
It's actually a 48hour ration, the first 24hrs is spent trying to open it .
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Steve, I'd like to share a memory with you.
I go home from college every so often to see my parents. Well, one particular Saturday when I came home I wasn't able to sleep very well so I watched tv from about 4 am to 6 am. I heard my dad come out and make coffee, and we talk for a bit.
"Hey dad, wanna see something cool? There's this guy on youtube that opens old MRE's and reviews them in a very neat way"
We sat through the whole morning watching your videos while the sun rose. My dad was a CW4 in the Night Stalkers back in 2010, and he thought your videos were very entertaining. After he watched a few, he was saying "Nice" after every "Let's get this out onto a tray." He especially liked your US Army spaghetti review, and he said it brought back a lot of good memories.
Thanks again, Steve.
Beautiful
Beautiful
AmaZing
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"Sorry for the wimpy bites" he says as he's eating a 112 year old ration.
Any sized bite is heroic!!
Steve has ate food from the Civil War..
@@kenrickeason but still lol, that was just hardtack wasn't it
Remember food back then wasn't full of additives and flavourings like it is now. That's probably what it tasted like pretty much, a bit bland compared to our modern day palette.
I get it, I get it, it's amazing!
but please don't say, it's like a porridge grain soup
again! Ever!!! No really,
Never!!! I feel like we have a non event when it comes to describing it. I mean its water, and hard, tooth chipping grain...it's a porridge! AAAHHHH!!!!Stop!!! actually, I bailed out at,
"It's sorta like a sewage
Smelling" Good-bye!!!!!
@@tboda2621 i had a stroke reading this
Can we take a moment to appreciate Steve spent over $2,000 on both these rations for us to appreciate? Thank you Steve!
Juliet Marlowe what are you basing that number off of?
@@julietmarlowe5661 you're fucking stupid if you think he's earning any good amount of money.
@@julietmarlowe5661 holy shit u do realize 500k a year is fucking a lot right. I doubt thats right
@@lockedboat4782 maybe not that much,but he is making bank
A $700 hiss? Deal me in.
"In 2020, an over 100 year old sample in a ration was successfully preserved and eaten by UA-camr Steven Thomas."
Steve made it into the pemmican wikipedia article. Nice
Nice!
Well deserved. Steve really needs to write a book on the subject of U.S. military rations. His knowledge is amazing.
@@Green_Bullet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemmican
@@Green_Bullet control+F is your finder-friend
@@samuelrs5138 Someone removed the mention. Perhaps revise the entry to read "In 2020 an over 100 year old sample successfully persevered in a ration was eaten by UA-camr Steven Thomas." [citation] ?
*Steve goes to the movies with a girl*
*Steve sneaks in an MRE from the French Revolution*
😂😂😂
Hahahaha!
I can literally imagine that
no I think he would eat snacks from the big bang atleast
Nice
I think the $2000 was worth it. If this guy hadn't bought it, it probably would have sat on a shelf somewhere in someone's collection. Even if it was in a museum, it would have been a minor item in a display that people would have glanced over and forgotten in a minute. But thanks to this video, five million people have been able to have the vicarious experience of eating it.
iirc Steve only eats a ration once he has two of them
the other ration gets stored in his collection
I like that there are multi-million dollar movie productions that I've turned off half-way through...but this...this I watched from beginning to end.
@Sightless_Seeker you have to admit, this hiss as particularly nice
@Thystaff Thywill amen
X movie was overrated
@@Ghiley That's the best film I've seen so far this year
Sightless_Seeker lets get this out onto a tray.... nice
Is Steve actually Captain America?? His name is Steve like Steve Rogers, he has biceps the size of mountains, he’s patriotic and seems like he’s a man not of this era. I feel like he must’ve been defrosted and now he’s trying to relive the past by opening old Military Rations and the reason his stomach can take eating all this old stuff is because he’s actually a Super-Soldier!!!
You cant fool me Captain America!!!!!!
TheBearo88 over reacting dagalana
Sri Lankan Gaming its a joke you degenerate.
He isn't Steve Rogers he's Wolverine. He is just reliving all the snacks he's had throughout all the wars.
@@thomasnesmith5426 yea Wolverine and Cap fought in the same Wars
No, actually my 4 year old swears he’s Captain America!!😂😂😂😂
An hour and a half of steve eating the oldest and rarest of war rations, he’s really spoiling us today.
Josh Cade I was thrilled to see this show up in my notifications. Great vid and he truly found a special piece of history
@Jordan Spencer It was hardtack from the american civil war.
Huh I only realised when I read this it was over an hour
Walter Melon He should have saved that, might need it in 6 months
The boer war beef was older
Incredible Steve. My great grandmother was born in 1906. She passed in 2007 about a month shy of her 101st birthday. It baffles me this ration out lived her, and you ate it 😂 Keep up the great work 👍
My grandmother was born in 1898, died in 2001, 10 days after her 103rd birthday. This stuff was made in her lifetime and outlived her, too!
Your grandmother was born in the transition from horses to motor vehicles and died the year smartphones came out. Mine was born into a world that still traveled by horses and died a month after 9-11. She was mentally sharp until a day before she died, so she knew about 9-11, watched it on live TV from her assisted living. She told me on the phone that it was the beginning of WWIII and advised me to move back to Maine if I wanted to survive.
@@mariekatherine5238 I'm not sure that Maine is far enough since the globalists are focusing on the United States. Personally, I'd head south to Mexico and or Central America.
My grandma was born in 1909. She passed in 1996 - very young, at the age of only 86 (there are suspicions that her death was not natural). She was also mentally sharp and knew exactly what's going on and how things would progress in the world. Now, 26 years after her passing, I find that she was absolutely right! Grandma also still remembered horse drawn carts and the early cars, and gas lights. She passed before 9/11 of course but she was always aware that war could break out at any moment the way things are. Just think, this ration was produced three years before my grandma was born, and got eaten 24 years after my grandma's passing... wow! (and I'm just watching this video again after a few years, lol)
He's like, this isn't good quality meat and it's from 1906 lol
*BETTER THAN STEVE EATING YOUR GRANDMA*
Steve’s gravestone will read “it’s edible...I think”
it's gonna say "NICE HISS" if anything
Also: “Nice hiss”.
That was his yearbook qoute
Botulism is odorless
Let's get this on to the tray! Nice !
Steve and his gf go out on a picnic.
“What did you pack honey?”
“I got a war of 1812 British ration pack here. Let’s get it on a tray.”
“Nice”
"mmkay"
"So let's start off... with *insert funny cunnilingus joke here haha comedy* "
Nice!
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"I'm just standing here in the corner like a really weird dude, eatin' old food." - March 7, 2020 - Steve becomes self aware.
Lmao!
Funny xD
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I think he nearly had a "what the fuck am i doing with my life?" moment.
The grits he's noticing in the chocolate might be due to inferior grinding methods they had back then. Chocolate is sort of like peanut butter where it starts out hard and then gets ground into a paste, but it's much, much harder to get completely smooth. Chocolate used to just be like that.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
I love that this is literally just a dude super passionate about this specific thing. No flashy-ness. Just all cool info.
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I've been watching him for years I believe now 🖤😌😂
Facts
@@GUstavo25805 qqa
Wlelcome to Boomerville.
That can has been holding in that hiss for over 100 years. Stunning effort.
The hiss heard 'round the world.
Imagine the relief that can finally felt when Steve cracked the seal!
If it had walked into a crowded elevator though...
Technically holding *OUT* that hiss. :P
Like me in a job interview
*corona virus enters steves stomach*
corona virus: "why do i hear boss music"
Iron gut he'll never get corona lol
LMAO so true.steve eat corna virus "HMMMM its a bit laking in flavour"
Underrated comment lmao
"Corona virus? Alright. Let's get this out on a tray! NICCCCEEEEE! M'kay."
I read this as the intro music was playing and made me bust out laughing even more 😂😂
This channel is so fucking cool and wholesome, just a community of people into history. No shock factor, ads, BS. Just a dude sharing his hobby with us. You keep being you, Steve
That hiss was the sound of 112 year-old cow souls escaping......
Common arigato mister roboto DOMO, DOMO! 🎶
Nice lets get this onto a tray
*Hiss contains under . 67 percent cholera and tuberculosis*
haaaaaaaaaa
I usually don't like comments but when this one said 499 I just couldn't help it.
Steve eats 114 year old chocolate.
Steve's toilet: Oh shit here we go again...
Srpska Gora hope he bought enough TP before it all sold out!
*ЦРНА ГОРА И СРБИЈА ТО ЈЕ ЈЕДНА ФАМИЛИЈА!*
Lmao
Quite literally
Aw shiet, here we go again...
Explorer: We've found a 5000 year old ration in an Egyptian tomb, but no one wants to try to taste it.
Steve: Hold my pemmican.
They've totally found Egyptian honey and sourdough starter, and found them to be edible(-ish)!
"I did older than that" ~Steve
Steve: Hold my coffee, instant, type II.
Steve looking at mummified food: Nice!
Nice
I don't think anyone in us army ever thought nearly 116 years later a guy named Steve will eat their 1906 ration ..Nice
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@@Odin197188 thank you
I wish I had seen this earlier. My grandpa served in WW2, but his grandfather had served in WW1 near the end, and they described something like this. They called it the "Chemical Porridge" because they said none of them would survive being carried around in their packs next to their metal ammo boxes, metal canteens and other hard objects that would dent, poke or jostle the air tight canister. They claimed that half the time when you opened it, it would be bad, and probably lased with whatever chemical agent was used that day. A lot of these were left in an area that was exposed to gas attacks, and the ones that had holes in them would be compromised, but the quartermasters rarely did a quality check on them before handing them out, their rationale being they were only supposed to be used in a life or death situation anyway so it didn't improve your chances of survival by that much.
His grandpa would say than when you did find one of these, you would often buy a sausage or fatty meat from one of the locals and cook that first then add the porridge in the leftover fatty oil and serve it as a sausage porridge. Even with the added meat and fat, nobody liked the stuff, but it made an intolerable meal that might just as easily kill you as keep you fed a little more tolerable. There would also be a few soldiers who were entrepreneurs who would carry sausages around inside their clothing to hide from the officers and trade them to the soldiers for a few cigarettes or some extra pay.
^This comment deserves a lot more likes👍
Incredible. Deserving of so many more likes! I thank your grandfathers for their service.
Top comment mate
Thank you so much for sharing that fascinating look back into history!
@@41tl I agree. Not everyday you come across someone who has intimate knowledge of what the soldiers actually did besides fight or plan battles.
I'm scared to eat food that has sat longer than 2 days. And here's this man eating food older than my Grandma
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This stuff is younger than my grandpa, who would be 122
This is exactly as old as my Grandpa, 1906-2011
maybe great grandma would be more appropriate lol
"It tastes like sewage water"
**keeps eating**
Harold Lloyd this made me giggle
"This smells foul"
Proceeds to eat most of it while apologizing about not eating all of it
I’m assuming Steve has tasted sewage water.........😬🤢
looks like he already tried sewage water.. no wonder if he ate century old foods 😂
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"This is the best salt...I've ever tasted. Cause it's so old."
Never change brother. 😂❤
Date comes over for dinner.
Girl: "What's for dinner?"
Steve: "1906 US Army Emergency rations."
“Trust me it’s edible, it’s only 112 years old we still got a good century before it spoils.”
Lol
@@J25-p3h I think it tastes disgusting
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Probably the most expensive meal ever prepared for that person haha.
If it weren’t for this guy most people would never see this part of history.
Yeah sure is interesting!
Esoteric part but important. Armies march on their stomachs.
Steve sees it twice...
Yes I agree I love his vids there awesome
Yer for sure. I Loveit how dedicated he is with his rations
I feel like one of these days he's going to free an ancient evil.
Wouldn’t be surprised 😂
what do you think, will it come out with a hiss or no hiss?
Klaatu, Verata, Nik *cough cough cough*, there I said the words.
Opens MRE can and demons hiss
Oh that's not a nice hiss.
Steve is the real life doom slayer
“This ancient spirit of Rah has an earthy balance, it’s decadent. Really a step above the rest considering the soul of Baal was canned around the same time” “let’s get this out onto an alter, nice”
"Just standing in the corner like a really weird dude eating old food"
$700 old food. That meal cost more than any I have ever eaten in my life! Great content!
Only Steve is worthy of opening these old rations. Nobody else appreciates them the same way.
Its kinda "cute" (in lack of better term) that his hands are shaking from excitement.
Ashens is close
Nor eats them the same
I hate when other ration reviewers open 90's rations and dont eat anything, wasting it saying it's not safe to eat!! 90's rations are still "fresh" by Steve's standards.
Robert Miller I know who will get to taste test the next frozen Siberian Mammoth now.
Its 8 am I havent slept yet and I'm watching a man eat 100 year soup
Im 1 am
3am here
12:06Am here
Yea
2am in California
Just when we get the coronavirus Steve comes and opens a can of Spanish flu on to a tray. N I C E
😂😂😂😂
Lol
Finds a frozen can from 1905 while on arctic expedition,.....gets smallpox
Chinese flu
Still reeling from him describing pemmican both as "relative morale boosting" and "sewage water"
I love this so much
When I was in the Boy Scouts in the 50's, we'd have pemmican when we had to carry our food on our winter hikes and overnights. It really needs to boiled for about a half hour, until it gets down to a thick soup, kind of like clam chowder. We always carried dehydrated onion, salt, pepper, and those little bottles of hot sauce for the pemmican, since it had almost no taste on its own. We'd throw the onion in with the pemmican soup about ten minutes before it was ready, and that really helped the flavor. Each scout added salt, pepper, and hot sauce to taste. When you're sitting in your tent with a temperature of 15 degrees and snowing so hard you couldn't see the tents across from us, pemmican was actually pretty good. I can see how it was a sustainable cold weather food.
Sounds tasty old timer, wish I knew how to make it
FormalBusinessOnion watch townsends. They show you how to make it
What a neat perspective, I'll have to look into pemmican more, something that transcends generations; which is one aspect I enjoy about Steve's videos.
@@formalbusinessonion7265 It's easy. You can buy pemmican from just about any outdoor foods dealer. Dump it into a pan with the amount of water called for on the package and then boil the crap out of it for at least a half hour. Even an hour won't hurt. It's the kind of food you want when you need something to be cooking while you're setting up camp. Make sure you have the spices I talked about or whatever your favorites might be. Pemmican tastes just like dirt without things to spice it up, but it's pretty tolerable when you do. It's survived all this time because you just can't get much else with its combination of durability, calorie denseness, and weight.
@@CREEPINGIRON Yeah, I really like all the old rations. I haven't thought about pemmican in a long time. It's not freeze dried steak, but it was okay stuff in the days before freeze dried food and you were carrying everything yourself. I'm amazed Steve would spend a couple grand to just entertain us, but I suspect he enjoyed it more than any of us did. :-)
If (God forbid) Steve ever poisons himself badly, I hope the paramedics say "let's get this out onto a stretcher... nice."
Bruh hahaha
@@dischordonthebeat Careful, this man's a hero.
Nice hiss!
Save TheZombies
I cringed hard when he opened the can like that with them jagged edges 😖
He got e coli once
Eating these is so much better than letting them rot on a shelf. Like you say, sooner or later they are just going to go bad. Cleaning out the tins so they won't be eaten by rust and documenting the eating of the content is the best way to preserve the history
Pretty much! Until the point where we can make forever rations (perfectly preserved forever by breaking the laws of thermodynamics) they will go bad one day. May as well document taste, smell, texture, and prep before then.
Exactly. Steve is the king of mre preservation and documentation. As an history enthusiast I'm deeply gratefull for the experience of watching him unveil and describe them for us.
I think this is far more important than letting them be. He's showing what they looked like on the inside and preserving everything in a good amount of detail.
i think it already gone bad😅
My grandfather was born in December 1906, and died in May 1983. This ration survived him by thirty-seven years. Impressive.
"Tastes like sewage water" - Takes another big sip.
What I want to know is, how does HE know? But then again,
NO I DON'T!! Makes me think of the urban legend of the wannabe fuel thief, who tried to suck Syphon the wrong tank on a RV.
and grain tea
He likes sewage water lol. I'm sure he's tasted worse.
Lol
"it's gross... but it's edible"
I think Steve officially has enough preservatives inside of him now to make him immortal
Matthew Lee Immune to the coronavirus
He has gotten food poisoning a few times before but the legend himself still lives.
ShockwaveEXP he’s gotten sick from the Chinese PLA Rations
A vaccine against the Coronavirus to surpass Metal Gear.
@@Lucky-bg1di *a weapon to surpass metal gear*
“Tastes like sewage water”
*TAKES ANOTHER BITE*
I wonder how he knows what it tastes!
LOL.
@@ve2mrxB smell and inhaling fumes open sewage hole.
Lmao
I always love seeing the care and reverence Steve takes in these historical rations. I've seen other UA-camrs spend the money and they just tear them to pieces complaining about the smell and appearance. They end up with the destroyed pile of crumbled food and shredded packaging on the table in front of them.
*Eats century-old chocolate*
“What a strange chocolate”. A great guy, Steve.
Steve is a culinary astronaut. He marches fearlessly into the void and narrates his experiences and describes in elaborate detail exactly what he sees and hears (and tastes) as if describing it to a team of awestruck scientists on the other side of a black hole, listening to this brave astronaut having traveled past the event horizon for the first time.
Awesome analogy! For me it's akin to culinary archaeology. How can he top this.... jarred food offerings from an ancient egyptian tomb?
great explanation lmao
I lol'd that was great 😂
Nice
great explanation lmao
Chubbyemu : This guy died because of eating 5 days old pasta
Steve : Pathetic
Wasn't it covered in mold though? Steve has more sense than to eat obviously rancid food.
CROSSOVER EPISODE
Emily Binshtok that idea brightens my day a bit.
Steve- Hold my 70+ year old C ration*eats rations from a century ago*
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - Not really... He was hospitalized a few years ago, after eating some "eastern block" MRE from about 1970. He is part human, part billy-goat.
That sound of early 20th century air escaping is AMAZING.
It's 21st century air rushing in, these things (are supposed to) have a vacuum inside.
@@robine5280 oooh very true. Great point.
That’s amazing
Florida Man eats hundred-year-old dust for an hour, survives.
Steve is a fellow Floridian? Cool!
Florida? Now it all makes sense.
His mail address is Lakeland Florida.
@@burki677 he sounds like he is from Cali
silenius19 lmfao
"Mom! This can is out of date!"
*Steve bursts through the window*
"STILL 113 MORE YEARS TO GO, KIDDO"
That be funny
I want that commercial. Lmfao
Nice hiss!
Baha'i banana a has has a was a an
🤣🤣
A slo-mo hiss. Steve has reinvented himself.
Remaking the brand!
the slow-mo to surpass bullet time
I was shocked when it hissed. Bygawd!
Wow careful with the spoilers
Wat
This dude is eating food from a time when Adolf Hitler was a teenager and the RMS Titanic hadn't even began construction yet.
It amazes me that he’s eating meat, from a cow slaughtered over 114 years ago. Just wild. I love it.
Absolute madlad
I watch these and I'm like "I'm amazed he's not run off and vomited right after eating some of this stuff." But it goes to show how long stuff can stay preserved if kept under the right conditions.
Isn’t it crazy. That lil cow has a great great great great grandcow out there somewhere, just oblivious knowing that his ancestors have just been eat. Life is fine
I was gonna say the exact same comment until I saw yours. Yes it is truly fascinating
That's called dry ageing
For his 2 million sub special, Steve will eat a ration from the Byzantine empire
Tomb rations for egyptian mummies
Steve will eat the wild animal meat found on the hand of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer
Every so often, I show one of your videos to my high school classes. They love them. History made fun
Kurt Sloop You are a cool teacher 👨🏫 Sir!
Dude that is amazing thank you for doing that Kurt. Super cool teacher indeed
This is fantastic! Kids need to know there are many levels to approach history from, including experiential
This would be a great one to show.
"Criminally underseasoned" is now my new favorite food descriptor.
I just realized that 114 year old bread isn't even the oldest thing Steve has eaten
He ate beef from 1899
Ardin Anester No its the hardtack from 1863
Literally correct... I think the 1860+ thing was the oldest
I'm still waiting for him to try bog butter or ancient Assyrian honey!
He's eaten hardtack from 1863.
Sometimes I feel like Steve is trying to convince himself that what he's eating is edible 😂😂💀
If I drop $700 on something you're damn straight I'm going to eat it!!! Lol
I mean, this dirt tastes alright as long as you don't mind the pebbles.
he has the stomach of a billy goat
@@ciuyr2510 Billy goats wish they had the stomach of Steve XD
"You know... It isn't really that bad..."
Crazy Russian Hacker: "This is wery old. I'm not going to eat this or touch it, it might kill me."
Steve1989MREInfo: "Lets put this out on a tray. Nice!"
CRH is a disgrace to opening rations.
Lol...which is why CRH should NOT be doing MRE videos. He does enough other stuff...leave the military rations to Steve.
He should send his rations to Steve, to give those rations some justice..
Love the ‘Hacker, primarily for his kitchen gadget videos. But my God, his ration videos drive me crazy. He may as well be putting whole rations in the trash, he doesn’t seem to know anything about them except the novelty of an old ration. Dude is wasting history for some views and ad revenue to buy another pet.
@Van Damage He just does things a different way, not a big deal (loss) when you think about it.
It's so cool that so many different people have kept these rations pristine all this time, until now, which is the absolutely perfect time for Steve to come in and finally open these for all 4 million of us on youtube. It is like all moments were leading to Steve. Thanks Steve.
6.2 million, now.
*chocolate looks like dirt* Steve: “Looks perfectly fine”
THE TWEAK IS HEAVY
Chocolate looks like dirt Steve?
DIRT STEVE!?
His expectations aren’t that high when it comes to mre’s
It's actually priceless and like gold.
Anyone else get scared when Steve doesn’t upload after like an month
LEGO Watto hahahahaha I never thought of that
LEGO Watto I was petrified
I think it is because he is looking for rations for vids.
Taking time to recover man
Me😂😂
Imagine the life of the farmer who grew and harvested that wheat in the pemmican. It is amazing to think about. Lives long gone but here you are eating the fruits of their labor and here we are, looking at it.
InuitInua thanks for that
Mind blowing
I'm really glad you said that now I'm even more intrigued.
Beautiful
Not to mention that hands that touched it during production, and I wonder if it was ever toted around before storage, and by whom?
Man, I nearly spit out my drink when he casually brought a *second* 112 year old ration into frame. Great job man.
Did the title not give it away
@@david-stewart Nope
@@david-stewarthe said second
Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States when this thing was made.
This ration is badass by association.
Hawaii was not a state when this thing was made.
@@newvocabulary Along with Alaska, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Czechia didn't have a president when this thing was made
Holy shit
To put this into perspective, when we were storming the beaches of Normandy in WW2, this ration was in its same can and had been like that for 38 years already! Insane.
My father was eating WW1 rations during his Aleutian Islands defense 1942.
Nice *hiss*
Dayum
Hahaha and your average Joe then would be like “no way in hell am I eating 38 year old rations” 😂
Now it’s 114 years old and Steve is just like *omnomnom
Guys in ww1 probably would have thought twice about eating it
Hardtack from 1863: Tastes like mothballs and old books, cool.
Fried beef from 1899-1901: Tastes foul, lets make it into a porridge, it still tastes awful, awesome.
Pemmican from 1906: Smells like fish food. Makes it into a soup, doesn’t smell too bad, the broth tastes like sewage and grain tea and the grain is flavorless, great.
And gets food poisoned by 21st century chinese mre
I just started watching you! Today. 6 hours ago. And haven’t stopped 😂 this is my new favorite channel! You’re awesome. Thanks Steve. Amazing history.
I'm really touched by the way Steve cradled this in both hands while reading the instructions. He has so much respect for these pieces of history.
It's because you feel transported to that time. It happened to me when I entered my 1962 Chevy coup Deville 🚗
And the $700 he spent on it and it won’t be worth that after he’s done with it
@@megannason3649 he made 50 grand off it
@@megannason3649it’s his hobby and he’ll make that back on the video. He also won’t open a vintage one unless he’s obtained a second one to preserve in a private collection. Look at the bigger picture bud.
@@sawingwithsammy6059 jn
Steve should really be getting recognition from the academic community for his work developing a primary history source.
Yeah, I think youre right.
100% a national treasure
Agreed. Not many people would be willing to spend money on seriously opening and analyzing preserved historical items.
Most folks buy stuff like this to resell, (Not to say anything bad about that, somethings should be preserved and they do have value) but Steve is really willing to put in extra effort to understand this specific time and item.
That being said he did just eat a century and a half year old food. I don't understand it but I still do have to respect it.
i agree. i do wish he was a little more careful opening these things though..
@@patrickbyrne5070 this one was his worst opening I’ve em seen him do. He’s usually better than this vid.
That hiss was like an angel's kiss.
I was thinking more Curse of the the Mummies.
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Hopefully not the angel of death...this guy is the best!
This ration was hissing, before hissing was cool.
Angel of death
112 years old and that hiss was amazing. crazy how well packaged things were back then!
"This is some of the best salt I've ever tasted because it's...so old"
Don't ever change, Steve :)
Perspective: this ration was 6 years old when SS Titanic sunk, 21 years old when when the Hindenburg crashed, 35 years old when WW2 started, 57 years old when JFK was assassinated and I was born. I’m 57 now......
SS titanic also if someone is going to say RMS titanic you’re wrong because a ship has to finish its maiden voyage to be given the designation by the Royal Mail service
@@TheShipMaster HMS is a Royal Navy designation?
@@mkii1964 titanic was never in the Royal navy
@@TheShipMaster as someone who likes boats can you please explain what SS and HMS means
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 SS stands for Steam Ship and is the standard designation. HMS stands for his/her majesty’s ship used on Royal Navy vessels
I started watching Steve just out of fascination, marveling at how somebody could eat rations that outdated most of us watching his channel. Then I came to appreciate the historical significance of it. Steve really gives insight to what we're watching and for the times and location and history behind the purpose of that that particular ration. I have learned a great deal from him and I think he should be somehow officially recognized by some sort of historical society. For I know though he may have, I haven't seen all the videos. Just my insight, sure I'm not the only person to come to that conclusion.
Posthumously?
I agree 1000%
Pp
He has passion for it i love it. Thats the key to life
bold of you to assume that my century old tortoise isn't watching this
The level of enthusiasm for MREs is in another level😂. I’ve eaten so many MREs in the marine corps and we primarily threw away everything but the cheese packet lol. I don’t understand how one can get so excited about dried foods in any context, but here I am watching. I just like it when he says “nice!” 😂
Hey man, looking at these marines really makes me appreciate the MREs I eat now lmfao
"I paid about $700 for this ration" "this stuff is gold. nearly priceless"
" now lets get this out onto a tray"
Andrew Maino
Wonder if rations are like wine :/
''Lets eat it''
@@leonardogomez8812 good point dude
Guess I should have watched the whole vidya before I asked how much something like that cost.🤦♂️
Steve has been going above and beyond lately to get interesting and well preserved rations
Thank you Jacob, I am always working hard at procuring the best.
@@Steve1989MRE It definitely shows!
I agree. Ive been wanting to see a compilation of his music. Very unique and pleasurable.
Steve1989MREInfo you are a legend, Steve.
Great job Steve. One of ur best!
38:49 "That broth ... tastes like ... *slurp* .. a combination of sewage water ... *slurp* ... and grain tea." Mmm!!
Really? Actually, >I< have no knowledge of the taste of sewage water. Is there another story here?
A time capsule, of history. And an iron stomach.
Yep. I think he should consider writing in his will that he agrees his body to be donated for science. If we can replicate his stomach - it will solve some of the nastiest diseases caused by impure watter and food.
"Watter"
Yorkshireman detected
I've heard you say that you give some components to museums sometimes. That's great, but I also realize. Your channel IS a museum. And people from all over can see vs just a few that have a museum near them. Very interesting to see all your treasures and experiences. Thank you for sharing.
In the past he said he has gotten botulism from MREs but just imagine him going to the hospital for this. telling a doctor you ate a 112 year old canned meat.
The chinese mre's are far more dangerous than these
talha yaprak how so?
@@t_y8274 a one century old mre is less dangerous than a brand new chinese mre? Ya sure?
@@DarkoPetreski have you watched Steve's PRC MRE videos? Half the package is rotten already even when "in date"
@@t_y8274 Honestly i wouldn't eat either of them to be honest.
All those years of eating 100 year old MRE's is finally paying off, steve's gonna have an immune system that'll kick the coronavirus right in the ass.
Fr, get him to the hospital for a blood sample. The cure has been found!
😂
LoL
😆
Hahahah
Putting it into perspective, eating the 1906 ration in 2020 would be like somone in 1906 eating something from 1794.
What happend to this guy is he alive?
@@markyrd1507 yes he is fine
That's a good point, very true..
Or a 2135 "human" eating a meal prepared and finished in 2023...
Scary how things change so much in one century.
This hit me hard... Time flies
Steve using pliers to open the can like he couldn't just rip that thing open with them big-ass guns of his.
He wouldve destroyed that can. Im sure he wanted to keep it as intact as possible for his collection 🙂
Can we talk about how he gets beefier every video? Like he's gotta be hella ripped
He could have popped the whole thing open by placing it in the crease of his elbow and flexing.
@@mariegp5021 yeah, I attribute that to his healthy diet of ye olde foods, 100% organic and stuff
Dude eats tons of protein with every MRE and doesn't let it go to waste
Steve: Eats 112 year old fermented chocolate which has almost fossilized over the literal centuries
Steve: 𝙎 𝙋 𝙄 𝘾 𝙔
with a hint of beef and cayenne mind you
Century*
MOLDY
Lmao! I thought it was hilarious when he first said it and then he kept saying. Hahaha!
@@Southerngirl0828
No air in the can before the “Nice hiss”… the environment in that can wasn’t conducive for mold.
"A watery, raw sewage, beef cereal flavor"
"Mmmm"
With all of the dark evil awful stuff on the internet this man is a living comfort zone I’ve actually started saying shit like “let’s put that on a tray, nice!” In my life
Imagine being the person who manufactured this in 1906, some factory worker wondering if this food would still be good by the time it got to the troops.. not ever thinking that in 112yrs some guy would be eating one for the internet.. lol
Exactly my friend 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its unfathomable. They wouldnt have even had a remote clue what the internet is. Truly amazing
They didn't even know about radio.
1906 guy: Whats the Internet?
Steve must continue to eat things like he's a pet or slave for the internet's amusement.
Corona virus enters steves body, " guys it doesnt seem right in here" Steves immune system, " we've been waiting for you"
"Twenty-something-year-old Florida man presents at emergency room, with symptoms consistent with food poisoning from eating ration from Roman times." :)
Steve’s immune system becomes Chaz Palminteri in Bronx Tale, “Now you’se can’t leave.”
C-The Coronavirus had a reputation for breaking up immune systems, but in that moment it realized it had made a fatal mistake.
White Blood Cells: Let's get these Corona bits on a tray. Nice!
@@operator1997 bahahaha
I'm legitimately stunned. Those Boer War rations we saw a while back were amazing, but in understandable condition. I legitimately cannot imagine how this ration was kept in as good shape as it is. Like, did they straight up bury it in the Arctic or something?
The boer was the oldest he had done right?
Well it is Pemmican and high sugar cacao chocalate with no milk vacuum sealed in a can. Pemmican Is already known for a long shelf life when made by hand, and Chocolate when not made with milk essentially never goes bad (the bloom is it's own phenomenon, but doesn not really cause anything to go bad) and then there's the fact that it's almost perfectly dry and vacuum sealed. All of this results in an extraordinarily long shelf life, and I can imagine that the food wasn't too much different (aside from the chocolate) back when it was first made.
Do you ever have illegal thoughts?
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Be N S O N No kidding. It came out nearly pristine. Cool to think this was the type of food our doughboys were eating in the trenches in WWI.
I think this is the third time I have watched this video… “it’s like a raw sewage beef flavor…. Mmmmm” another bite
Find someone that appreciates you the way Steve appreciates eating 100+ year old food.
@Anantha J he mean the food is most likely bad but steve still like it same thing in a relationship find someone that likes you the way you are
-Socrates
Nice hiss
@Anantha J pop okk ok okokok ok koop is v ok ok ooo okokok. Fol o boo o vo o
Does love even exist at that level anymore?!
@@lisaloeffler3643 yes it does
"This ration cost me $1400....and this one cost $700."
Okay fine, fine. I'll pledge
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My wife thinks I am crazy, but when that ration “hissed”, I said “oh my God”... I stand by my exclamation. Thank you, Sir, for another fine video.
my thoughts
my wife judges the hell out of me for watching a grown ass man eat 100+ year old food in the name of history lol
William Austin My wife watch these videos with me :) she’s just as interested in this as I am. She doesn’t understand my “nice hiss” references though.
Hey Steve, I was close to having a panic attack today and this was exactly what I needed to get my head straight. Great content, and such a calming voice. Thanks again
You took the right action, then! Score!! The Mamlambo Fossils channel has some really chill videos where the host excavates fossil crabs from rocks. The crabs are really cool.
@@JCinerea that was really sweet of you to write:). Yep I think I'm hooked!
Let’s get one thing straight. That wasn’t a nice hiss. It was a LEGENDARY hiss
Jormungandr would be jealous of that hiss
Steve: *sees chcocolate that looks like its been mummified*
Also Steve: Hold on that looks really good I need to take a bite of that *RIGHT NOW*
Also steve: yup that's rancid
Also tells us how food it is for fifteen minutes and we love and listen to him hell yeah😋😋
Steve responded to one of my comments on New Year's Eve 2018 when I thanked him for a year of great content and he said stay tuned I've got a ration from 1906 in Immaculate condition coming soon...haha wow it's finally here. Thanks Steve 👍👍👍
Steve Silvas haha I never doubted him I've just been patiently waiting 😁
Lol I was gonna write up a comment about him teasing the video in a description from like a year ago too
I wondered... he kept saying it was 112 years old.
That explains why he keeps saying it's 112 years old and not 114.
Steve, the history lessons are invaluable in your videos. You have a lot of respect for the past, and it shows in your videos. You try to imagine what it could be like living in the time of these rations-a weary, tired soldier that just has a precious amount of time to find some way to relax, if possible in their situation, to eat. The momentary break of eating a meal is very important for morale. Soldiers are tired, weary, stressed out due to the war or conflict they’re putting their efforts into, supporting their side. Thank you again for showing this important history in every video you make. And thank you Steve for the hard work you put into each video!