A few notes on this video: 1) This video has chapters if you want to skip around. 2) At 6:00 I know that I mixed up the salt and pepper packets. 3) There's a blooper at the very end of the video
@cpmow831 My personal favorites are the French 24 Hour ration, the British 24 Hour ration and the Slovenian 24 Hour Ration. The Denmark/Norway/Swedish ones are fantastic too. Spanish rations and Israeli rations are my least favorite. Lots of fish and squid type dishes.
Opposed to some other UA-camrs, you did the right thing - musli is indeed prepared with cold milk. In your case with cold water since it contains milk powder. If it was prepared with hot water, it wouldn’t be musli anymore but porridge… nice review, keep it up!
The Mont Blanc rice and milk is a very common dessert here in France, high on sugar, but a childhood memory and a great moral boost. Looking at the chocolate color and the crack sound when you eat it, i’m sure it suffers from heat. A good chocolate bar has a uniform, dark brown color, and is not as hard as a biscuit.
Another great video to leisurely watch on a Sunday morning while pottering around in the kitchen sipping coffee. Thanks for making this and the rest of your content. Big loves from the UK
That's the Italian ration. They are the last to still give alcohol as standard in the food ration. The Russians provide vodka on the side buts only distributed with commander's approval or if you have someone in the logistics devision.
The amazing part is not the ration itself - it's the cans. Those are commercial cans you can buy in French supermarkets. What is truly amazing is that they managed to put real good food in a can ,not some cheap processed unable trash that even dogs and cats won't eat.
Hello, I am French and I did my army in 94/95 (AMX30B2 shooter in Verdun and a lot of terrain). You should know that a French combat ration is around 3600 kg/cal for 24 hours. Whether on the basic stove (use 2 tablets instead) or the gas stove which will inevitably be faster, you must open the entire lid (do not get it dirty) pierce with a knife or fork in the box add a very small d water so that it goes to the bottom and doesn't stick, add salt/pepper, put the lid on top and heat and you will have the best result. And then you eat directly from the box, for the video it's nicer to see I understand. Glad to have seen you happy to taste this ration because without being chauvinistic we cannot say that they are not in a top 5 or even 3. Friendship from here! PS: I also have an Italian father so try the coffee with half minus two, it will be short but good ;)
The French know how to feed its troops. US MREs by comparison are sad. Most meals look like they are created for a 1st grader's lunch. This is a ration for 24hrs that has a lot of variety for a soldier to look forward to meal time wise and savor rather than wolf down a crappy pizza or spaghetti and meatballs that looks like it was cooked in the same place that Chef Boyardee is created.
Riz au lait or the tapioca as you say is rice pudding, a British and French classic, usually have a few sultanas or cinnamon in there and usually eaten hot, I like to heat it up add the chocolate bar to it 😉 Oh and the chocolate is always bloomed wether it's an old ration or brand new, it's ALWAYS bloomed a little but is fine.
Great review. I really look forward, with anticipation to your new video. It’s like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get 😊. Thanks
My bud's pregnant wife lived several month only from french rations biscuits... that was the only food she could keep without throwing out... The Army really improved their rations, the old biscuit batches were so hard that they were nij IIIa ballistic rated if unopened.... and if you kept them more than a week in a water bucket you could seal windows or fill some gaps in a wall with these...
I’m surprised they didn’t find a way to add some wine to the kit. Do they even make dehydrated wine? Lol. It’s a joke, for those that think I’m being serious, of course they don’t make dehydrated wine. But with the French you never know. PS. Good lord, I thought I better check to see if dehydrated wine exists and it does. It even has an alcohol percentage of 8%. If possible, could you do a review on dehydrated wine?
Those baby forks actually come in Walmart tuna meals that are ready to eat. I have a bunch that I have saved. I would love to know where this MRE came from. The food looks like commercial packaging. I find canned foods from Europe to be much higher quality than what we get in US.
I like that you keep the stove and water purification tabs instead of using them for the sake of it, which isn't a good idea indoors anywhere if it's anything like the old British Army hexi blocks. They stink and are toxic.
Could you please tell where you get the French rations from .. what website… average cost 💲?… My 8 yr old loves MREs but I really don’t know where to get other then Amazon and don’t know who the good sources are. TY … Great Videos!
So you have perfectly demonstrated my one pet peeve... Now I am not telling you to do it my way, you do you, But I have a mini rant in my head each time I see someone boil water in a electric kettle and not fill it up to the max line... Good Job ;)
Hi Friend, I wanted to ask a serious question. Do the French really load out their military staff / Soldiers with those ration boxes? They seem so good, and agreed with your girlfriend. They look like they came out of a restaurant. I’m just curious about it. Great video as always!!
Yup, our soldiers take them to the field, and I can tell you that they really taste good. However they can be pretty heavy (1.5kg vs 500-730g for US MREs) and many soldiers complains after a few days on the field that there isn't enough to eat to not feel hungry. Fun fact, in Afghanistan, 1 French RCIR could be traded for 4 to 8 Americans MREs depending on the time and location (and up to 10 of some British MREs)
Hey kitbashed, you really don't need to read the outside of the box, or show the back of the packages to us. But otherwise, a great review. Don't pay attention to the guy who wrote the"diatribe", he sounds a bit like a "disgruntled employee". lol The thing about US MRE's, is they're looaded with preservatives. Which makes a lot of them like eating Chef Boy-ardee( Chili-Mac MRE especially).
Yeah like I said isn’t he video, the US MRE’s just have a different mindset and purpose than a lot of other countries’ rations. I love US MRE’s, just for different reasons than others.
The biscuits taste really good when new ... tend to go rancid fairly soon...pity . The isotonic drinks are definitely not pleasant...just a weird taste..i suppose its the taste the French like...but in general the RCIR are probably my favourite rations
Sir, I’m sorry to have to tell you that your girlfriend is two timing you with another youtuber. I’ve seen her on videos with a model train guy. I’m sorry mate.
There is 4 types of french rations, from the exercice one (RIE), RICR, RIL (dry freeze), Emergency. All the rations can be air dropped (there is special container for this purpose)
Flooring it. Grunt grunt sounds of manliness. Yeeah! I gotta car that's faster than yours. But, I'm a little more subtle cos I don't have pipes and stuff. Dude, settle down.
This following diatribe is not meant as criticism of this video or this channel. It is a good video. But... To be honest, I never got all the love those French rations got from reviewers. May be that the food is of good quality and all, but so what? That is not what the "MRA afficionado" hobby and scene is about. Like with most European military rations, it is all stuff you basically can buy at any super market. There isn't really anything special in there you could only get from a military ration. What makes US and Canadian MRAs interesting and what is the foundation of this whole hobby and fascination with military rations, is the space age food aspect. With the exception of some brand candy, pretty much everything in an US MRA is weird stuff out of a laboratory that you can not buy at your local grocery store. Eating an wax covered first strike bar is like eating a soft candle filled with date mush. Is that a good dining experience? No, but it is something special, something you can't buy at any store and something the armchair wannabe soldiers making up this community can eat and imagine being a soldier in a strange place and eating plastic food out of plastic bags. You know what I mean?
To you. To me its about what countries feed their troops. Thats the beauty of America. We can share a hobby but come at it from two very different angles.
@@KitbashedSurvival Did I say that? All I am talking about is that this whole "MRA review" thing is a sub culture and a scene and what made it that way and what motivates the people in that scene and that those boring European rations don't really fit into that. And I'm not hating on Europeans. I'm one myself. I'm not attacking you, but I just don't see the point of buying and reviewing those rations when literally everything in it is stuff you could just have grabbed off a shelve at Wholefoods or Trader Joes or wherever. US MRAs are clearly something very different and that is why making reviewing them its own thing, its own little subculture, makes sense. Imagine you would review a survival kit set and all that was in it were stuff from the Home Depot checkout counter bargain bin. What would you say to that? But because French rations have this mystique and this reputation for being gourmet food in a cardboard box, everybody ignores that they are basically the ration equivalent of that fictional survival set I used as a example. That has nothing to do with "having fun wrong".
A few notes on this video:
1) This video has chapters if you want to skip around.
2) At 6:00 I know that I mixed up the salt and pepper packets.
3) There's a blooper at the very end of the video
The bloopers make it even more humanistic. Now we know your not a bot.😉
Aw. I wanted to be among dozens to tell you you mixed up the salt and pepper.
Innocent pleasures...
😘
Ok, so the Individual Combat Ration is a 24-hour meal kit, right? If so, that's a fair amount of items!
yes, 24 hours
Only a French combat ration could equate to fine dining. As Napoleon said, 'An army marches on its stomach'.
As someone might have asked, " What
does an army surrender on?"
@@larrystuder8543 When given French MRE ;)
@@larrystuder8543 Every country including yours surrendered to France you don't have to be so butt hurt and salty about it to this day lmao😂😂
Seems like Italy and France have the best rations
@cpmow831 My personal favorites are the French 24 Hour ration, the British 24 Hour ration and the Slovenian 24 Hour Ration. The Denmark/Norway/Swedish ones are fantastic too. Spanish rations and Israeli rations are my least favorite. Lots of fish and squid type dishes.
Opposed to some other UA-camrs, you did the right thing - musli is indeed prepared with cold milk. In your case with cold water since it contains milk powder. If it was prepared with hot water, it wouldn’t be musli anymore but porridge… nice review, keep it up!
Your girlfriend (who has a nice smile) and your cats make your video very pleasant to watch. Im not surprised the French food is better than most.
Not very nice to give his girlfriend his leftovers, what a macho LOL
The Mont Blanc rice and milk is a very common dessert here in France, high on sugar, but a childhood memory and a great moral boost.
Looking at the chocolate color and the crack sound when you eat it, i’m sure it suffers from heat. A good chocolate bar has a uniform, dark brown color, and is not as hard as a biscuit.
Thanks for the info on the rice desert!
Another great video to leisurely watch on a Sunday morning while pottering around in the kitchen sipping coffee. Thanks for making this and the rest of your content. Big loves from the UK
Thanks!
It appears the French troops eat well. Was waiting to see you pull a mini bottle of wine out of the package. 🤙
That's the Italian ration. They are the last to still give alcohol as standard in the food ration. The Russians provide vodka on the side buts only distributed with commander's approval or if you have someone in the logistics devision.
Really liked the review BTW.
The French meal looked superb !
Good morning brother and thank you for sharing your different adventures and information
The amazing part is not the ration itself - it's the cans. Those are commercial cans you can buy in French supermarkets. What is truly amazing is that they managed to put real good food in a can ,not some cheap processed unable trash that even dogs and cats won't eat.
Again: I like your style and the content. Very tasteful. Expecting the next one.
The French army were the first army to use canned food way back in the Napolionic era and the first army ration.
Fantastic review. Those French RICR never cease to amaze in how delicious they are and look! Great review! Will have to get one myself!
So good!
Hello, I am French and I did my army in 94/95 (AMX30B2 shooter in Verdun and a lot of terrain). You should know that a French combat ration is around 3600 kg/cal for 24 hours. Whether on the basic stove (use 2 tablets instead) or the gas stove which will inevitably be faster, you must open the entire lid (do not get it dirty) pierce with a knife or fork in the box add a very small d water so that it goes to the bottom and doesn't stick, add salt/pepper, put the lid on top and heat and you will have the best result. And then you eat directly from the box, for the video it's nicer to see I understand.
Glad to have seen you happy to taste this ration because without being chauvinistic we cannot say that they are not in a top 5 or even 3.
Friendship from here!
PS: I also have an Italian father so try the coffee with half minus two, it will be short but good ;)
Hey, a friend shared the link to your video. Great stuff, my man. Enjoyed the review and now I'm tempted to crack into one of my RCIRs. Thanks!
The French know how to feed its troops. US MREs by comparison are sad. Most meals look like they are created for a 1st grader's lunch. This is a ration for 24hrs that has a lot of variety for a soldier to look forward to meal time wise and savor rather than wolf down a crappy pizza or spaghetti and meatballs that looks like it was cooked in the same place that Chef Boyardee is created.
29:55 tripped me out i thought it was my cat for a second, sounded so similar.
Wow, that does look great. Thanks!
Riz au lait or the tapioca as you say is rice pudding, a British and French classic, usually have a few sultanas or cinnamon in there and usually eaten hot, I like to heat it up add the chocolate bar to it 😉
Oh and the chocolate is always bloomed wether it's an old ration or brand new, it's ALWAYS bloomed a little but is fine.
Great review. I really look forward, with anticipation to your new video. It’s like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get 😊. Thanks
Thank you so much!
Thanks a lot for this content
Thanks for another great video
Great review really makes me want to buy one of these. thanks
My bud's pregnant wife lived several month only from french rations biscuits... that was the only food she could keep without throwing out... The Army really improved their rations, the old biscuit batches were so hard that they were nij IIIa ballistic rated if unopened.... and if you kept them more than a week in a water bucket you could seal windows or fill some gaps in a wall with these...
I’m surprised they didn’t find a way to add some wine to the kit. Do they even make dehydrated wine? Lol.
It’s a joke, for those that think I’m being serious, of course they don’t make dehydrated wine. But with the French you never know.
PS. Good lord, I thought I better check to see if dehydrated wine exists and it does. It even has an alcohol percentage of 8%.
If possible, could you do a review on dehydrated wine?
I've said it before you need to do an episode where you survive using kit stuff.
Working on it. Planning it is a bear. I’m really busy lol
Outstanding job brother
Love your vids honest and informative
That one, I may need to order, thanks for sharing 😊
In Afghanistan it was 4 to 5 MRE to have 1 French ration for trade this tells a lot about the taste of French ration
let's gooo another mre vid my favorite
Cool! GREETINGS FROM ALABAMA 🐘Love your videos. Always have literally watched them for years. Comments for ur Algo
Those baby forks actually come in Walmart tuna meals that are ready to eat. I have a bunch that I have saved. I would love to know where this MRE came from. The food looks like commercial packaging. I find canned foods from Europe to be much higher quality than what we get in US.
Thank you for trying the French MRE
Like how the sugar is called daddy
Is that Peter Brown? He sounds just like him. Love the content
Fun fact Éric is that the French army mess kit is based on the British SAS
You flipped the salt and the sugar. :)
I love the cats participating.
Une autre vidéo super 👍 merci
3:15 "campagne" can be translated by countryside but he can be translated by military campaign
the cat is how I know it's good, excellent review
I like that you keep the stove and water purification tabs instead of using them for the sake of it, which isn't a good idea indoors anywhere if it's anything like the old British Army hexi blocks. They stink and are toxic.
Could you please tell where you get the French rations from .. what website… average cost 💲?… My 8 yr old loves MREs but I really don’t know where to get other then Amazon and don’t know who the good sources are. TY … Great Videos!
Would be interested to find out what you think of the German combat rations. If you get the opportunity, try one.
Love the videos keep it up.
"De campagne" may means from the countryside but it also means campaign cookies... the latter is a more appropriate translation in a military context.
Thanks. Unfortunately my translation of French is limited to what Google translate tells me it says. 😀
13:12 fun fact in France some people dip camembert in the coffee
Th little fork is 4 when ur just a little hungry
Good one!
Is there nothing in the ration that doesn’t taste good? Try the water purification tabs, they probably don’t taste good straight. ;)
Would the paite be good if mixed with the main course
Awesome video
So you have perfectly demonstrated my one pet peeve...
Now I am not telling you to do it my way, you do you, But I have a mini rant in my head each time I see someone boil water in a electric kettle and not fill it up to the max line...
Good Job ;)
I try to just boil what I need.
Hey. Nothing to do with this video, but I saw a survival kit on Amazon that looks interesting. The Monterra survival kit. looks like a light car kit.
Let’s be honest , American MREs are like gas station food, only designed to be healthy. What you’re trying is Gourmet! Love why you do keep it going ❤
Sadly MREs, military and recreational, are appallingly expensive to get here in Australia.
Regards, Jas.
VK4FJGS
Rockhampton Queensland Australia
Hi Friend, I wanted to ask a serious question. Do the French really load out their military staff / Soldiers with those ration boxes? They seem so good, and agreed with your girlfriend. They look like they came out of a restaurant. I’m just curious about it. Great video as always!!
Yup, our soldiers take them to the field, and I can tell you that they really taste good. However they can be pretty heavy (1.5kg vs 500-730g for US MREs) and many soldiers complains after a few days on the field that there isn't enough to eat to not feel hungry. Fun fact, in Afghanistan, 1 French RCIR could be traded for 4 to 8 Americans MREs depending on the time and location (and up to 10 of some British MREs)
Sounds like a gourmet meal.
Felt compelled to point out that popping the kettle lid isn’t required to pour. X.
Rice pudding mate made with short grain rice
Hey kitbashed, you really don't need to read the outside of the box, or show the back of the packages to us. But otherwise, a great review.
Don't pay attention to the guy who wrote the"diatribe", he sounds a bit like a "disgruntled employee". lol
The thing about US MRE's, is they're looaded with preservatives. Which makes a lot of them like eating Chef Boy-ardee( Chili-Mac MRE especially).
Yeah like I said isn’t he video, the US MRE’s just have a different mindset and purpose than a lot of other countries’ rations. I love US MRE’s, just for different reasons than others.
Awesome!
Tapioca comes from a tropical root. What you have is rice pudding.
I said that in the video lol
The biscuits taste really good when new ... tend to go rancid fairly soon...pity . The isotonic drinks are definitely not pleasant...just a weird taste..i suppose its the taste the French like...but in general the RCIR are probably my favourite rations
Quasi the same they gave us in 1995. Miss chewing-gum... Best menu : N°9
How can one get hold of these without joining the French Foreign Legion?😀
No matter how the Amis try to pressure you never accept a swap and Accept an US MRE.
You ruin the Surprise factor by reading the contents first.
no wonder. muesli is the european version of oatmeal.
An American woman that eats pork liver? She's a Keeper.
The cheese in these is not the most pleasant, other than that in my opinion they are one of the best.
I leave for 1 year and you get 50k subs
Sir, I’m sorry to have to tell you that your girlfriend is two timing you with another youtuber. I’ve seen her on videos with a model train guy. I’m sorry mate.
Oh no!
Funniest thing I've seen today!
they missed out on the water purifications tablets.
What? He literally showed them
@@hufl1885 Lol. While Troy was feeding the cat 😄
Why are the sugar packets called "Daddy"?
Russian blue. Bes cat bread ever.
Loud pipes save lives lol
How? Is that supposed to be clever?😂
Pls turkey
Russian blues?
Russian Blue cats. Google it
@@KitbashedSurvival I was asking if they are. I love those!
@@patrickcain2085 I thought you were commenting on the quality of Russian MREs 🤣
Rice pudding mate
The U.S. MREs are designed to withstand the riggers of war. You could never drop the French rations by parachute and not expect damage.
Very true
I’d take the risk. French rations are well worth it.
There is 4 types of french rations, from the exercice one (RIE), RICR, RIL (dry freeze), Emergency. All the rations can be air dropped (there is special container for this purpose)
You think they didnt think about that ? Of course, its made for being dropped.
Flooring it. Grunt grunt sounds of manliness. Yeeah! I gotta car that's faster than yours. But, I'm a little more subtle cos I don't have pipes and stuff. Dude, settle down.
Makes zero sense 😂
@tweezerjam where you in the slow learners class?
@@Brian-zl6ib it took you a month to reply. Who’s slow? 😂
@tweezerjam are you a bit desperate for some attention? A diaper change and a bottle before your nap.
This following diatribe is not meant as criticism of this video or this channel. It is a good video.
But...
To be honest, I never got all the love those French rations got from reviewers. May be that the food is of good quality and all, but so what? That is not what the "MRA afficionado" hobby and scene is about. Like with most European military rations, it is all stuff you basically can buy at any super market. There isn't really anything special in there you could only get from a military ration.
What makes US and Canadian MRAs interesting and what is the foundation of this whole hobby and fascination with military rations, is the space age food aspect.
With the exception of some brand candy, pretty much everything in an US MRA is weird stuff out of a laboratory that you can not buy at your local grocery store.
Eating an wax covered first strike bar is like eating a soft candle filled with date mush. Is that a good dining experience? No, but it is something special, something you can't buy at any store and something the armchair wannabe soldiers making up this community can eat and imagine being a soldier in a strange place and eating plastic food out of plastic bags.
You know what I mean?
To you. To me its about what countries feed their troops. Thats the beauty of America. We can share a hobby but come at it from two very different angles.
I’m having fun wrong lol
@@KitbashedSurvival Did I say that?
All I am talking about is that this whole "MRA review" thing is a sub culture and a scene and what made it that way and what motivates the people in that scene and that those boring European rations don't really fit into that.
And I'm not hating on Europeans. I'm one myself.
I'm not attacking you, but I just don't see the point of buying and reviewing those rations when literally everything in it is stuff you could just have grabbed off a shelve at Wholefoods or Trader Joes or wherever.
US MRAs are clearly something very different and that is why making reviewing them its own thing, its own little subculture, makes sense.
Imagine you would review a survival kit set and all that was in it were stuff from the Home Depot checkout counter bargain bin. What would you say to that?
But because French rations have this mystique and this reputation for being gourmet food in a cardboard box, everybody ignores that they are basically the ration equivalent of that fictional survival set I used as a example.
That has nothing to do with "having fun wrong".
Ok. I’ve got plenty of US MRE’s I’ll be doing videos on in the future as well.
Nice review, thanks 😁👍
Thanks for watching!
I swear a lot of these foreign M.R.E.s look like cat food. 🤢
Fun fact Éric is that the French army mess kit is based on the British SAS
Let’s be honest , American MREs are like gas station food, only designed to be healthy. What you’re trying is Gourmet! Love why you do keep it going ❤
Let’s be honest , American MREs are like gas station food, only designed to be healthy. What you’re trying is Gourmet! Love why you do keep it going ❤