Lithuanian Army MRE food pack test.
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2017
- Having stumbled across these things on the Internet from time to time I decided to buy one and see what it was like. A bit of research shows that these things have quite a following. Time for a taste test!
Here's Crazy Russian Hackers enthusiastic review of the same pack:-
• Tasting Lithuanian Mil...
A really OLD ration pack being opened and the edible looking bits tested by Steve1989MREInfo :-
• 1957 5 Man MRE 24 Hour...
I may actually try some other packs in the future. That one was quite fun to explore and eat.
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"Puffing up like a lithium battery" close, it's a Lithuanian battery
Matthew Trzcinski you see, if battery is into be puffing, it is meaning its working.
Nice hiss...
Lithuanian people battery.
Matthew Trzcinski will you stop mocking Lithuania's greatest invention!
@Paul Vasso 'always being invaded' tho 😂😂😂😂😂
Hey Clive, this was a really entertaining review of a Lithuanian Dry Food Ration. They are affordable, relatively easy to get, and quite delicious! My favorite menu is #4 - Pork with groats. The chocolate is amazing, good coffee, and the biscuits are hardy with a nice caraway seed flavor. For a single meal, they contain approx 1,400-1,500 calories.. quite filling! 10 different menus.
You mention the Flameless Ration Heater looking like it was going to blow up. I had this happen one time with a Lithuanian Ration.. didn't leave a small opening on a corner of the FRH. So it blew up.. and of all places at a gun show. That was exciting.
Thanks for the shoutout! And I'd love to see you explore some more military rations! This was awesome.
Hi Steve, I've ended up watching so many of your videos since discovering MREs. They're strangely fascinating and to my blue-collar taste buds quite enjoyable to eat.
Steve I read you're post thinking with your voice. And Steve have a good day or night.
im stocking these up just incase if the pandemic got really bad and i cant even go out to buy food
"1year ago" "in case the pandemic gets real bad" .. dude.. my man.. jesus fucking christ, I mean the technical term for this is "retarded" as in "delayed". But holy fuckballs the pandemic peaked like 2 years ago already and quite frankly, it's still fucking going on, just people lost interest amongst other new shiny things.
Let's get this out on a tray.
Nice!
Alright, ok, NICE!!
Oh wow, that's one of the best, oh no, wait, oh no, that's disgusting...... Gotta love steve
And "I really don't know why I ate that" ....... then takes another bite.
NICE!
CatSay gotta get some steve1989mreinfo
Crazy Russian Hacker earned my disfavour when he DMCA'ed people for pointing out that suffocating yourself with dry ice is a sub-optimal way to cool your bedroom. Safety, and where you can stick it, is number one priority indeed.
He earned my disfavour when he started looking on UA-cam for popular videos and blatantly just copying them a week later. The dry ice cooler was just the cherry on the top.
Yeah, he's a total ass.
Another DMCA abuser? Well I'm not watching then. Since when is disagreeing with someone a copyright issue?
Since it takes the video down , and since youtube is fucking stupid and does NOT give you strikes for abusing it .
The same strikes system should work for the DMCA claim as well as the hit. But then pretty much any major publisher would get there account banned every 3 hours or so :P.
Andrew, there's a huge error in your suggestion.
When you're filed against, it's your channel that gets a strike. However when you file against someone... you don't have to use the same account as the one you post content from - you don't even have to be a UA-camr, you could be someone who publishes his videos elsewhere. Also since protecting your copyright, such as by filing a DMCA is your legal right, they can't restrict it by disabling your account or preventing you from sending further DMCA requests.
Having established that you can't revoke DMCA rights, say you revoke video hosting privilege for someone who has been seen DMCA abusing... but then you have a near impossibility of reliably establishing which accounts actually belong to the same person or organisation or entity, with all the ambiguity that it entails.
Greetings from Lithuania. I love your videos. I was surprised to see our country's MRE test on this channel. Keep up the good work.
This is how I image a date with Big Clive would be.
So the date would be perfect?
Oooooh so romantic!
This, accompanied by homebrewed booze, and followed by four-minute microwave chocolate cake.
that girl would need to be perfectly acceptable...
hes gay, seven
There's a reason the biscuits are hard - when you run out of ammunition you can stab the enemy with them.
Reminds me of the time I misplaced my hammer while hanging a painting, thankfully I had just been handed a chunk of Dundee cake and that did the job nicely.
Cardinal Biggles In peacetime you can use them as tiles to renovate your bathroom.
"Oh, the biscuits in the army, they say are mighty fine
One fell off the table, and killed a pal of mine..."
Pancerwafle!
Cardinal Biggles I
Watch out for Steve1989MREInfo, I find he's like the big clive of MRE tasting.. As in you look at one, then you look at the clock and find you are 8 videos and 3 hours later.. :)
You may have noticed I put a link to one of his videos in the description. And yes, they eat time.
Yeap :) Have seen that one, but the list youtube generated had one I hadn't. The cycle starts again!
Steve1989MRRInfo is is really
Nice!
Let's get that on a tray. (hah, serving tray with "lets get that on a tray" or "nice!" would be a neat tie in item)
lets get steve to take apart something with an LED in retaliation!
I'd like to make a note for the reason the drink mix tastes "watered down," when being drunk during hiking or other long periods of exercise the high quantities of sodium and electrolytes, in particular in those drink mixes (gatorade, Powerade, and other instant "energy" powder mixes) can lead to vomiting, if mixed at "full strength" in the case of that packet 300 ml of water. Which when in the field or on a trail is never a good thing cause that leads to dehydration and other nasty things.
Lets Get This LED Out On To A Tray. NICE!
mm'kay
I would definetly love to see more big clive MRE reviews. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was a new video from Steve1989 and then realized it was Big Clive. I love trying out MREs from various countries, it's kinda like an international food festival in your own home. Everyone should keep a few MRE's on hand for emergency use.
You can actually date Clive's vids by the black thumb nail working it's way out. This one is 50% out. 👍
A US Army Infantry Colonel told me MRE = Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.... a direct reference to the Ethiopian famine and the lack of palatability.
Clive, you have the *best* meal ration reviews of all those I've encountered.
This is one of the things that I love so much about Clive's channel - not only is he great with the electronics but he sometimes diversifies into something totally different.
At least in the U.S. Military; MRE does mean, Meal Ready to Eat. Have eaten many, and the cases say "Meals Ready to Eat".
The Flame-less Ration Heater, contains: powdered magnesium metal, alloyed with a small amount of iron, and table salt.
Clive it also releases large amounts of Hydrogen! I was scared when you were lighting the match!
U.S. Patent 5,611,329 uses a powdered magnesium-iron alloy, consisting of 95 % magnesium and 5 % iron by weight, and discloses a heater consisting of 7.5 grams of this alloy, and 0.5 grams of salt. Upon adding 30 milliliters of water, this mixture can heat a 230 gram meal packet by 100 °F in about 10 minutes, releasing approximately 50 kilojoules of heat energy at about 80 watts.
Also makes for great bottle explosions...... ahem!
♪ Whoo Fuckin' cares ? ♪
Spikey DaPikey Really? A GI would never do such a thing!😉🤣
Makes sense given the redox reaction between magnesium and water is firmly exothermic.
Timothy Sherratt Yeah, apparently the small amount of iron, and the salt (water), accelerate the oxidation. It was described, in the patent, as creating a micro-battery.
Hey clive, really enjoyed this video. Please make more of these MRE videos. Enjoyable as hell.
i enjoy clive food videos the most
The "Cooking with Big Clive" ones are the best! For example - ua-cam.com/video/hbD-65UfnrQ/v-deo.html - Instant blue-collar trash chocolate cake. (In four minutes.)
You know what I like the most?
big clive juice?
Lithuanian here. Kiaulienos troškinys su daržovėmis is "Pork stew with vegetables". About the heating pack - we dont fold and close it, so steam can escape without any problems, then there is no "explosion risk" :)
This is so good, I came to your channel from watching MRE reviewers as you were unboxing electronics rather than MREs but now you're doing both and I love it. Keep it up Clive!
You're getting into ration packs? Nice... :P
Was going to do some of my own videos on ration packs last year, but, being the fussy eater that I am, I couldn't, but I did find that I liked the Beef Bolognese meal in the british ration pack... :)
Mr. Big seems to have made a strategic decision to dominate all the video markets. Food tasting, survivalism (except when he goes into BigBoom territory), React videos (Trademarked the brothers), electronics (old school), gaming videos (PUBG), make up how to videos, make up removal how to videos, shaving videos and news.
I am sure the Big brand can handle such a broad range of videos. A joint venture with Mr. May, the Mazon Gear nob, could go down in history.
Snap! Stay away from the corn beef hash though, tastes like vomit
+twocvbloke --> All this video was missing was, "Alright, let's get this on to a tray!" LOL
twocvbloke Civvies with ration packs. Cute :)!
I know I can't be the only Vet that finds civilians eating any form of mre highly entertaining, and having Big Clive doing it even more so!
striker8paints I remember after my dad got home from the Marine Corps he had a bunch of MREs, but I don't remember what eating any of them was like.
Glad to see you doing these Clive. Very interesting! I have been watching Steve for about a year and a half. It's amazing how much that guy knows about MRE's.
Big fan of both you and Steve1989 for a long time, would love to see more MRE testings from you in future!
Interestingly in Australia, creamer is not a thing, we just use milk and when I visited California, they only use creamer and people told me that using milk was strange.
Yet you can buy CoffeeMate powdered creamer here. The alternative is "milk in a tube" (or coffee in a tube if you are REALLY desperate!)
Opening this video, YT decided to show a Latz cat food commercial first.
To be fair, the food did have the texture of cat food.
bigclivedotcom
That must be the reason It looked so familiar
Coincidentally, I just started watching some of these videos! Amazing that you did this one Clive! I love them, you should do more for sure.
We get cases of MREs just about every year when a hurricane shuts off our electricity and water for weeks at a time. Maybe it's just because we get them so often, but I kind of like them. Simple, easy to prepare, and with a decent amount of variety. Still got a few cases from last year. Saving them for the zombie apocalypse...
And on this day, we find out that it's possible to short out and swell a bag of food.
They put the damn electronics everywhere
Aaaaah, so that's what's up with 'electrolytes' in food and drink - always wondered about that!
Put the box on a rock or something.
pcuser80 i remember that i believe from kiwi dude or somthing like that
or, y'know, it says on the US MRE in the instructions to put it on a rock or something
"Lean it against a rock or something" is literally on the directions for using a US MRE flameless ration heater.
psychorabbitt my bad i never had a american mre and i am not from the us
It says "Tray for food heating" right there as he's searching
As soon as you mentioned some of the tubers that review / try MRE's I thought of Steve. Excellent choice.
That’s one of the best videos you have ever done Clive keep it up.Thanks
you have to prop it at a 45' angle to keep water in the heater bag and direct the steam
They give you a plastic spoon and you use the same poundland spoon for everything 🤔
☝️☝️😯good point
I *LOVE* MRE's. I've had them in my backyard, on hikes, and at work. I might have one this week at work as well. I hope you do more of them!
Would quite happily watch you try some other countries MRE packs.
If they are not too expensive, it would be handy to have a few packed for camping as a backup when all else fails.
This makes me curious to open the sealed can of "Lifeboat Rations" I have from the RMS Queen Mary, which is likely 60 to 80 years old.
Since Clive's UK based, he'll be able to buy this sort of thing from most "serious" Outdoor / Camping shops (such as the Scout Shop chain). Their range of self-heating tins was pretty good (20 years ago when I lived there!)
There were lifeboat rations that contained benzedrine tablets - maybe you've got one! Apparently quite rare these days, intact at least.
They were to be distributed by the officer in charge to keep spirits up in dire times. Can't think of much worse than being amped up on benzedrine trapped on a lifeboat but I suppose it'd keep you busy.
If you do, stick it on UA-cam! That would be interesting to see.
Now I am going to have to dig through my Queen Mary stuff and find the brass(?) rectangular can and see if has any details of the contents on the outside. Someone told me years ago they had opened one and it contained bland biscuits, but not all were the same from all years.
Send it to Clive, kinda keen to see him getting the shits whilst doing vintage drugs
Big Ashens once again! :D
Was going to say pretty much the same thing lol
look who i found :)
I feel like I see you in a ton of video comment sections...
prefer Clive ...ashens has an irritating montone voice
Jon fritsch
I know right, crazy
got super into steve last week, so excited to see this!
WoW, Big Clive doing MREs it just keeps getting better all the time.
Let´s put this out onto a plate... NICE!
I don't know why I was surprised to learn that your spoon is a poundland spoon.
Used to share a house with a bunch of my bachelor mates some 23 years ago. We would make trips to our local surplus supplier and get random MREs to try out. It is interesting to see that there isn't much difference in the ones from different geographic locations as well as how little they have changed over these last twenty years.
Clive, I must say I quite enjoy your videos. Always good for some light humour. Cheers Mate....
In the german MRE (there called EPA, Einmannpackung literally single-man package) you've got two hot meals, instant coffee, tea, cold drinks, dark chocolate, chewing gum, some paper towel, hard biscuits, bread, jam, cheese, sausage, sugar, salt, pepper, water treatment tablets, matches and a snack like semolina pudding or a fruit salad.
We've called the hard biscuits "Panzerplatten" (armor plates). The instant coffee was so bad it was called the "german neutronbomb": Human dies, the cup remains intact.
First World Problems - when you realise even the "best" Instant coffee is no substitute for freshly-ground! :-)
It's not best it's actually the worst instant coffee. And the german neutron bomb thing is common speech here. The Bundeswehr was a conscription army so a lot of people tried this. Nescafe is much better than this dishwater. I've never tried the tea, but the cold drinks weren't that bad.
What about the mre wurst of doom?
Big Clive is that bowl from Blue Dragon instant noodles?
Yes it is.
Clive I can tell you enjoyed making this video! Like you doing MRE reviews, very good
Awesome review - make sure to try more from around the world
Chances that the heater is a dodgy Chinese lithium cell?
A bachelor bowl. Nice :)
I would love you to try more of these, it suits your style so well. Maybe try to find an MRE made in the year you were born!
I hope you continue with this series. It would be interesting to see you compare MREs from around the world.
I thought I was on Steve's channel when I clicked on this, then I heard your voice. :P
I hope you didn't ingest too much lead off your soldering work surface, Clive...
Leaded solder isn't bad for y---
Only be micrograms of lead on that work surface, and that's iff clive doesn't clean it, whcih i imagine he does wipe over it sometimes.
RoHS has been in effect for some time. The lead is probably minimal in comparison to American tinkering benches.
Bruce Goatly He does always use good old lead solder and I do to. Had to ban myself from soldering on the same table I eat off.
its a vitamin
My grandfather emigrated to New Zealand after WW2, from Lithuania. From what little he told us of the war, I'll bet that MRE would have been one hell of a treat.
steve1989mreinfo here in youtube is one of the best mre reviewers, past and present rations and their contents! also in the military we call them Mr.E's ( or mysterys )
Shout out to Steve.
Get it out on a tray......
Nice
I heard that as lithium army MRE
Fits well with what happens to the main course
Wow, must be such a bipolar army... then again, it's Lithuanian, right? I wouldn't be surprised, depression runs in their blood.
That must be why the magnesium heater thing swelled up like a battery
When you follow the instructions, you are actually shorting out a lithium battery pack to heat your meal
Wow man, I never comment on UA-cam, but thanks for doing this! Big Clive + MRE review = excellence.
You're such a trooper Clive, you'd make a great prepper.
Check out emmymadeinjapan instead of that "crazy so called hacker"
She does MRE sometimes and she are very good at describe the food.
Lets get it on a tray, nice 😊
Good job Sir. Nice to see someone with new interest in rations.
i've been watching this channel for over a year now and i'm lithuanian, i did not expect this video.
I LOVE that mug! 😂
now the my youtube subscription inbox has come full circle
Oh big clive is doing one of these. I got confused about what channel I was watching for a minute.
Nice!
When I was a lorry driver, I used to collect / deliver these types of ration packs. for UK and other nations Army's from a packing factory in Kent :) and one place i used to deliver to
they had a mini museum of ration packs from different era's. it was quite interesting.
Wait a minute, you're not steve :p
Same here :D
Noticed on my phone that BC had a new video out, but went to the computer for a bigger screen and speakers. Sees Lithuanian NRE ... and immediately files a Steve video away to look at after BC. Can't find BC's new video, curses YT for not getting into Subscriptions, and goes to BC's channel page and finds "Steve's" video. Hopelessly confused... :-/
Let's put this out onto a....work-bench. Nice.
MREs usually have dark chocolate in them. This is because dark chocolate is very nutritious and has several health benefits. So, yeah, if you want to keep your soldiers going as good as possible, you better put in dark chocolate rather then milk chocolate, which is mostly just sugar.
Also, yeah, you should do more of these.
Also, dark chocolate holds up better in a MRE.
Melts less easily, less fat, so they don't go bad as quickly.
M. K. True, forgot to add that xP
Excellent review big Clive.. I would like to see more videos like this :)
I appreciate the explanation of what happened to your thumb, Clive. Every time I saw it in previous videos, it always had me curious.
Us military mre brown spoons are best mre spoons
Proper MRE spoons are brown.
Only the older ones were white(and a bit short)..
They switched over to the brown ones, which were also longer, which made it easier to get to the bottom of the packets.
And they are indeed very strong.
They are heavy duty.
The pie dish would have been perfect
Seeing how hot that package was getting, "explosion containment" might have been a wise choice!
At 15:10, Big Clive declares "a hint of sausageness", I then promptly spit out my beer laughing at his superb dry sense of humour! Keep them coming Clive, you brighten up my day!
There's some clever stuff in these things. Glad it tasted better than it looked.
One disciple snorting cocaine off the table makes the Concept of the WHOLE BOOK a bit more *plausible*
Nooo...Even less plausible! Cocaine is from the Americas :p
Kew Akl
I need to find that mug
"what's the worst that could happen?" Pork casserole EVERYWHERE...🔥
pretty much impossible...the actual food packet is still sealed, and it would take quite a big "bang" to open it.
M. K. But let's be honest, a powerful explosion/bang is not out of his grasp.
True...but he did not "gimmick" this.
loopshackr accurate.
The plastic bag you used to heat the meal is called a FRH, or Flame-less Ration Heater.
As for the long handled spoons from £land, I use them as teaspoons, because I have a tall mug.
bigclive mre info is my favorite channel
But where are the LEDs??
Dom I'll bet he could figure out a way to light up a bunch with that thermal pack.
I would use the energy escaping from the heating pack. Set it up in such a way that the LED turns off when the meal gets down to a temperature allowing safe ingestion.
the almondy smell is cyanide lol
This was very insightful and entertaining!
Ashens tested one which had some astonishingly good quality food in it. Possibly the first video of his I've seen where he was not revolted by the food he was testing. Your pack looked excellent. Nice one.
Nom Nom Nom!
Whats next. Bigclive playing Overwatch.
No hiss btw
Ventus ... This needs to happen now. I wonder what his Reinhardt impression would sound like
That mug is brilliant. Those specific biscuits you have there, are commonly referred to by members of the community as: "tank treads".
Excellent review Clive. Of course, now I am hungry.
Labas
Sveiki
Labas vakaras. Matau, kad nemiegat.
sul sul er Sveiki! 😊
Sveiki.
Labą, vakarą ;)
MRE: Meal Rejected by the Enemy.
Thank you for answering my unasked question about the hole in your thumbnail. I'm now imagining a downlighter retaining spring plus plus
with a spike
Great Christmas gift idea.
Clive you need to use the following phrases..
Nice hiss
let's get this out on a tray... NICE!
Oh that's definitely the way to go
Oh that's gourmet
This is the perfect combination
Oh WOW, that's...
Who does that.
in the really old packets you get cigarettes and amphetamine 😌
Actually, you would not find Amphetamines in a MRE, at least in most countries-more likely in a survival ration...
M. K. yes, i think it’s the vietnam airforce packs, not certain.
Wow, mharris1270, tell us how you really feel.
72 pitchforks up a small hole, how big are these pitchforks? They would have to be very small.
Very interesting video. I would have liked to see you use the refreshing lemon towel lol
Famous last works from clive - ***What could go wrong?*** as it starts to smoke
MRE - three lies in one.
stilldking ""meal ready to eat.""
Is it meal? Yes.
Is it ready to eat? Yes.
Can you eat it? Yes.
Where do you see lie?
Akinaro You see that? Thats the joke going right over your head
stildking: Here's the other one that was around while I was serving -- MRE - Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.
Silver Turtle don't be mad, you behave like random comment on UA-cam just destroyed your world...
Chaos Games101 actually no, that joke was just so crappy that I was actually annoyed by it.
Not sure if buying MREs out Ebay is a good idea, but then again steve eats stuff 50-70 years old and he is still fine.
It is always fun to watch a newbie sample MRE'S.
Little stirring tip, when you're stirring, stirring side to side while moving your hand in a perpendicular direction back and forth is more effective generally than the swirling motion, because it doesn't product a vortex.