1965 Vietnam C Ration Meal Combat Individual Chicken & Noodles MRE Military Oldest Food Review
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- See a 50 year old C-Ration get opened, parts get eaten, cigarettes get smoked. It's all here - and that Chicken & Noodles was a real blast!!
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LET'S GET THIS OUT ONTO A TRAY, NICE™
NICE HISS™
I'LL BE COMING BACK AT YOU WITH SOMETHING NEW OR OLD, ALRIGHT COOL SEE YA™
You know what blows my mind that someone who made this 50 years ago had no idea that some UA-camr is going to unbox this and upload this on a thing called the Internet.
They couldn't predict the future 50 years ago? MIND BLOWN
Or someone in Vietnam, smoking and drinking coffee, and Steve there, long time after doing the same. Strange mental connection.
@@SixDovahkiin Steve even looks like an American soldier who served in Vietnam.
🤯
I wonder if the person who made it is still alive
Every time you say "lets get this out on a tray..." I immediately have a big smile on my face, cause I know you're gonna say "NICE" :D
Funniest part tbh
I don't know what it is but I find it most entertaining too.
I say it along with him. Nice.
Ouroboros Nice.
Always brings a "nice" smile out.
Am I only that loves the noise when the time is sped up when opening the can
I do
Me too
I just love my peaches, charcoal black!!!🤣🤣
I like to imagine that the steve actually can open a can that fast and it isnt sped up
Unintentional ASMR
“You can’t turn back the clock, but you can smoke a 50 year old cigarette”
Dude Steve you’re the coolest dude on UA-cam by far😂
This takes me back to 1975 when my wife and I bought 10 cases of C-rations. At $1 a case we couldn't go wrong. My wife was pregnant so she got all the canned fruit. I got all the unfiltered and menthol cigarettes. The Turkey and noodles, Chicken with noodles, and tuna with noodles all tasted and looked the same. The beef and gravy had a layer of fat on top about 1/4-inch thick. There was a beef with noodles that we would mix with the beef and noodles for dinner. I got the beans and weiners, beans with meatballs, and spaghetti with meatballs for lunch. There were some chocolate covered cookies that tasted pretty good. There were some that tasted like soap. There was also pound cake, fruitcake, and orange cake. Whenever we were playing wargames we were issued C-rations. I'd collect the fruitcake from the guys that didn't like them. I'd take them home and go to work. A piece of cheesecloth soaked with about an ounce of liquor, put it in a tin, then in the fridge for 6 weeks. That made them highly edible. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
Damn u old 😊
@@samholdsworth420 So old I fart dust 🤣
@@madmikie8564 😂 me too
Every time I see old peaches, the first thing I think about is Zero from Holes under that old boat.
Joshua Pleasant sploosh
That was the first thing that came to my mind as well. Haha jeez, the nostalgia.
Joshua Pleasant I love you
Me too.
Soulja Boy SPLOOSH!
well I think the last time I was eating one was in 1972. till this day I still believe the best cup of coffee I ever had was in the army.you see it was the first piece of food in four days. hot black coffee no sugar no cream and in that tin cup. once in awhile I still do have my coffee that way, memories,you don't know what food is until you go hungry for a few days. thks for the trip back. JRC
TY for your service
TY for what you and your buddies went through man. It didn’t mean shit to me I’m a 38 year old English man but you boys didn’t need to go through that and you did and I have nothing but compassion for you man.
Thank you, sir
Thanks for your service 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸
Thank you for your service sir
I find myself weirdly addicted to your videos... great job!
I completely agree. cx
Lol!!,,,exactly!!!,,,,,that's it,,,weirdly addicted says it all
me too
Hahaha I said the same thing..... I don't know why... but Im addicted lol
hahaha same. I'm not into military stuff at all but i cant stop watching these videos :')
Steve: won't eat chicken noodle soup from 1965 because its to old.
also Steve: eats an entire bowl of 120 year old beef.
Well the old dried beef didn't have botulism in it like the canned moisture containing soup did.
Dehydrated food is probably going to outlive the human race
Those peaches look like an Exxon oil spill....
looks like he ate the peaches and replaced them with what was scrapped out of the bottom of an old oil pan
you ever seen the movie holes? reminds me of the part where they're eating those ancient jars of peaches lmao
I don't think peaches are supposed to be black...
Its like a horror movie i want to yell don't go in there.
It looks like a fecalpheliac vomited on the top right corner of his tray
"solidified fat" was the name i danced under
CthulhuInc lmfao
CthulhuInc 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
well,Yeah!Next on the stage,give a big cat house welcome to chucu..chucocu..
solidified fat!😹
Hahahahahaahaahaha
Nice Lovecraft thumbnail pic👍
Steve is pretty jacked from all those MREs
Derek K frrr
More from landscaping in the Florida heat.
He needs to work on his delts though.
Nodoze
Shit is full of vitamins and protein, it makes sense
I was in Vietnam in 1966-1967.We were in Long Binh did no see too many C rats but we found another use for the peanut butter,mixed with insect repellant made a good long burning fuel then we could heat up the noodles which were not too bad.Another ration that I liked was the ham and eggs take them out of the can slice,heat up used a little tabsco sauce not too bad.
That's by Hoh Chi Minh City, right? Should have eaten out - excellent restaurants, especially the seafood is spectacular. I've been to Nam too, but only for two weeks - so much to try and so little time; sometimes I envy you guys.
TY for your service
I had no idea peanut butter could be used as fuel...
@@jeromewagschal9485 peanut oil
@@fenriz218 I'm sure they had the ability and funds to check out the town while in battle
Doctor* what did you eat?steve* a mre from the 70s. doctor* did you at least put it on a tray first?steve* yes.doctor* NICE!
😭😭😅😅
Lol
😂😂😂
Good one
Think he said that it was from the mid 60s
I’m always waiting for his mom to yell “Steve are you smoking in your room” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
If a G like Steve still lives with mom, what hope do I have?
@@a.hollins8691 what’s a “G”?
@@lilovs9952 A Gangster aka a cool guy 😎
I WAS GETTIN CHANGED MAHFUGGAH!!!
"You reviewing those MRE's again?!"
Chicken and noodles! Yep! And Pall Malls too?? The peaches literally turned my stomach when you opened them!
I had a stroke about seven years ago and lost my memory function from about junior high on. I know that I was in the Corps and served in Nam because it's on my DD214. But there's only a few memories that are still there. Now that I've seen your vids I have a clear picture of sitting on a sandbag and eating. I also remember coming back from ops and getting disarmed at the wire and receiving a bottle of Chevas Regal. Still don't remember any of the four times I got shot. That's good.
I know you've probably hear this hundreds of times but have you ever thought of going to a hypnotherapist so you could make an attempt to reclaim some lost memories? There are so many different methods that work to bring back some of what you lost :) I would suggest doing some digging online to see if you could find something that you might want to try. Hope you're doing ok and thank you for keeping us safe!
Thank you for your service, sir. I'm glad you made it back.
Ty for your service
God bless you, sir. Thank you for your service!
What do you remmember from 'nam?
I have no idea how I first started watching these videos but it was months ago..
Yea me either, started like a week ago. Who knows lol. NICE
This guy is eating 80 years old food and im afraid to eat a yoghurt after day of expiration
Lol 1965 wasn't 80 years ago.
In general
@@charlesdarwin6224
That's what I THOUGHT-
it's not 80
years old!
@@charlesdarwin6224 yeah but he already have eat MREs from American civil war sooo we can say
THIS GUY IS EATING MORE THAN 100 YEARS OLD FOOD
@@charlesdarwin6224 He did eat a 110 year old WW1 beef thing.
"You can't turn back time, but you can smoke a 50 year old cigarette". 😂😂😂 sounds like an ad
You can't turn back the clock...., but you can smoke a fifty year old cigarette. LMAO. Dude you alright.
My dad brought home a bunch of these that the Air Force was sending to surplus back in the mid 70's. We had them when we went camping.
cptkettch that must've been one shitty trip :(
THAT CHICKEN DIED 50+ YEARS AGO
thinking the same thing
I wonder how fresh bodies look in their coffin from 50+ years ago
That peanut did too
*nice*
Gangsta Unicorn lol
I haven’t had a smoke in 10 years, I’m now craving a packet of smokes from the 60s and 70s, I may just settle for a coffee
That was the first things to be removed from the accessories package; the smokes and the coffee ,
There's something enjoyably nostalgic about watching a muscled, moustached man smoke a cigarette with his coffee.
When Steve had the spoon poised in those peaches, I yelled. " No, Steve!" I panic throughout these vintage rations after watching him eat the 100+ year old beef. He's fearless, lol!
Jennifer M LOL where is that vid??
Jennifer M mmmmmmmmmmm
at this point im willing to bet Steve is actually immune to botulism.
@@thesayxx Wait! Has he made any other videos since?
@@GADFLY53 yea the last one was 11 months ago. Steve replied to a reddit post on his subreddit a month; I'm currently working on 4 videos and rotating around on 'em. Required additional education and understanding.
This brings back memories of 1969 and the 3rd Marine Division. I was a Hospital Corpsman with Mike 3/9. My C-ration was a little different but they still had those delicious chocolate coconut bars in them. Man were they good! Believe it, or not . . . that poster of Okinawa behind you was where I went after Richard Nixon pulled the 3rdMarDiv out of 'Nam about August of that same year. I was stationed at Camp Scwaab and later at Camp Hanson. Great place! I met a real nice Japanese girl there with whom I became good friends, although sometimes I think she hung out with me just to practice her English. I hear the Japanese want the U.S. troops off their island now. Things change, I guess. Anyway thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Thanks for your service!
Thank you, sir!
Wts your age sir now???
@@djarsh1 71
Thnx for your service
My dad said not to pour off the oil in the peanut butter or canned cheese. You light it and use it to either start your fire or like sterno to cook your main course. Try it!
Anon E. Moose z
@@maryworld3 z
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Cool
@@maryworld3 Z
"perfectly aged cigarette" lmao this guy is so great!
LOL. The peaches. Hilarious. That brief unrealistic moment of consideration, while black peaces stare you down. Botulism meal.
Bored Gravy .. I know! I can’t believe the thought even crossed his mind for an instant to take a spoonful. Bleh! “It kind of looks like pudding. Shiny pudding. “ DONT DO IT STEVE!!!!
The peaches have rotted. Back in the 60s they were sliced peaches in a heavy, sweet syrup. There were canned pears, peaches, and fruit cocktail, all with the same type of syrup.
I showed my Old Man this last year before he passed away. It brought back memories of his time as a Combat Engineer in the US Marine Corp during the Vietnam War.
"Didin't expect it to shoot juice up into my face". That's what she said
😭😭😅😅
Lmao
lmfao
I’m from 3 yrs in the future and now that’s what he said too.
Oh god when he scooped the peach and said “ya know” I almost yelled at my phone not to eat it
They were still good. They just turned tactical.
8:36 the last casualty of Vietnam war
lmao
holy shit lol😂
hahahaha
Well in all actuality Agent Orange is still killing our vets. Guys that otherwise would have lived longer had they not come in contact with it.
I laughed so hard at your comment I gave myself a headache.
Love the 'Smoking History' segment. I can feel the nicotine through the screen. Great stuff.
SteveMRE1989 you should make a short update under each video about how you felt after eating some of those MRE's. like 12-24-48 hours after. i see youve done that in some videos, but id love to see more of those updates too with more of your videos. keep up the good work. love what you do :)
@Aaron Smith "blowing out his bowels" what a statement 😂
Steve died 3 years ago dude
@@yeahright343 are you dumb ?
@@elrymoe it's called humor. You should try it sometime. You can start with a mirror.
@@yeahright343 where is the joke ??? You just said Steve is dead, where is the funny ? You should start learning the meaning of a joke, before you make one.
Zappa, Michael Bein, and a Back to the Future....all in one shot! 😉🤘
Just another awesome video.
+Steve1989 MREinfo I didn't know you smoke
+Fazeboy55 same I didn't even know that he smoke...
YUP. HE CHANGES THE ALBUM EVERY REVIEW. I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE DO LITTLE EXTRAS LIKE THAT.
Makes me wonder if he has Frampton Comes Alive in his collection.
netsurferx1 I'm sure he must. He had Phil Collins recently too.
peaches are sploosh from holes
Tru
so true
+TexasSmoking I'm sorry man haha xD
BUDDHA. Classic EP. Just got it on LP
lol
always a pleasure to watch your vids mate haha
Scrolled down to type the very same thing. Keep these coming, Steve!
Kiwi Ready to Eat Meals any better? NZ was in Nam, would like to see ration sample.
My buddies and I survived on these meals as kids on all our camping out trips. Loved the coffee!
I haaaaaate peanut butter. Of course, if you're hungry enough ... but it's also bear and raccoon lure.
I just googled Kern foods Inc, California who made the peanut butter you showed at 3:19. Don't know if the company still exists or not. All it says is that they were mostly into manufacturing tomato products, jams and jellies and fruit drinks..... The owner passed away in 1991 . Cool video!!!
I won't even eat bread or milk that's 1 day past its due date and my dude eating shit 50 years old wtf 😭😭
Milk is good up to a week after the expiration date. And bread is fine until there's mold on it
+Josh Lukowicz milk is not that shit goes bad as fuck fast lmao haha
+Josh Lukowicz I don't know what kind of milk you've been drinking, but it sounds like it has been exposed to Chernobyl radiation.
Same
lol
I just cant believe something this old is still preserved like that. Amazing.
You do great..and I mean great detailed reviews. There is something super attractive about you. I think it's the respect you have for what these mres stood for and who they were intended for.
You should write ad copy "That's what a cigarette should taste like"
The Don Draper of the Internet Age
Can we just take a moment and appreciate the work he does in rearranging his display case ..devils in the details♥️
[Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival plays faintly in the background]
What made this video for me was seeing the frank Zappa vinyl in the back ground haha! Absolutely love that!
13:07 I see you like Huey Lewis & The News. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
and thats the power of love
Isn’t that from American psycho
Geez, I always thought "Hip To Be Square" is the same song as "The Heat is on" 😂
HEY PAUL!!
HEY PAUL 🪓🩸💀
"let's get this onto a tray......NICE!" This always cracks me up.
This is really so interesting but also painful because it feels like history is being destroyed. All things must end though, such is time.
WOW....you lucky getting peanut butter. I always got the cheese spread that tasted like it was made with 1/2 ratio of velvetta with 1/2 ratio of ground up 1-a-day vitamins.
man what i'd do to try one of these super old cigarettes! i dont smoke anymore either but dayum they must taste amazing...
Same. I quit sometime ago, and all I can say about modern cigs is that it tastes like crap. I did smoke the pipe, which had a significantly better taste. But, I would kill to have a retro cigarette if it's as good as Steve says it is. Alas, you can't import cigs into Canada.
+Samuel Anwar Try a cigar. The more expensive ones (but still somewhat reasonable) taste great.
+Samuel Anwar try rolling your own cigs with good tobaco, the taste is so much different
Not always true. As long as they stay airtight
Still have a pack of camel sealed from 1965 from my grandfather.
You make some damn fine videos Steve, I must say, you are the one that got me into MREs. Great job on this one.
+Steve1989 MREinfo No problem brother, thank you too!
I agree me too!
I love how he seems to stop for a second and consider eating the inky black mush that was once peaches. Only Steve lol.
The commentary is absolutely hysterical 🤣🤣🤣!!! I have to admit I re-watched the noodles spraying you at least 50 times because of how funny your reaction is, too funny!!!
Like how Steve has Frank Zappa Album in background. “Sheik Your Booty”
Great record.
I'm addicted to watching these and idk why. Would really like to try these out. Dope.
How pissed were the soldiers when they stopped shipping cigarrettes?
😂😂😂 salty as fuck
Many died in the line of fire, when all they wanted to do was to bum a smoke from the Vietcong - too bad they didn't speak English and "bro, can I have a cigarette...?"
You're in danger of being shot, being blown up by mortar fire, or blown up or impaled by a trap in an illegal war that we started based on lies and half truths so we can have more influence in South East Asia. That being said we've stopped packing cigarettes in your MREs, because they're bad for your health.
+Joshua Mainly to stop the spread of communism rather than just more influence.
I Got that Nope.avi Yeah, but what I said isn't exactly wrong either.
I get an extreme sense of satisfaction watching you smoke those vintage cigarettes, every time.
With the trusty P-38. I always got stuck with the (eggs cooked with ham). One time I got Lucky Strike cigarettes in the green pack. That was around 1975.
Thank you for opening this relic and for NOT tasting the peaches or the chicken noodles.
yeah!dump that💩out @ the wire(after saving that quik start fluid)& get those cans hanging off the wire!😹
Weren't that bad; got use to them actually. Traded my cigarettes for fruit cocktail most of the time. Vietnam Cu Chi 1966-67.
what was life like back then? i was born in 2002 and im 20 now. people talk about the 1960s and it's almost like it was a different world. how was life different then?
@@bilbo_gamers6417 I'd say it was a simpler time and you looked forward to more; whereas today everyone has already done everything at an early age with nothing, or little, to look forward to. Take care
"Cant turn back the clock but can smoke a 50 year old cigarette"
Black coffee is the best.
My two older brother's , One was in the Army and the other in the Marines use to bring some C-rations home for us to eat, Not bad. This was way back in early 1970s. Good video Steve.
The ones we had to eat were made in 1943!!! This was in 1968/69 in Vietnam. Only towards the end of my year did we manage to get the newer ones with fruit.................Yum Yum
I love the album in the background. It's Frank Zappa from the Sheik Yerbouti album. That's awesome, Mr. Steve!! 😊😊
No hiss on the p’nut butter can? Hiss status report, soldier!
The "coffee" tasted a lot like pure chicory.
The single most important thing in those boxes was the Toilet Paper.
The entree cans were "cooked" (heated) by making a stove of an old small can.
Holes were punched along the bottom from the side with a "can opener" and then holes punched upward on the open end for tines to hole the can that was being heated.
One -third of a Troxene, or Hexene tablet was used to heat the food.
When not available, a CC of C-4 was used and the food constantly stirred to prevent charing.
(A CC of C-4 could boil a B-3 can of water in less than ten seconds.)
C-4 was not authorized, as Command assumes that GIs were breaking open Claymores for the C-4.
But on two occasions, my seven man squad was sent out with a 111 APC and 500 kilos of C-4 to blow stuff up, and we were told not to bring any of it back. They did not want to load a partially opened case into a Chinook for a return trip to the firebase.
Man I'd love to smoke one of those old cigs with Steve...just to sit back and here him tell me about these rations and cigs and enjoy a nice smoke n coffee... that would be freaking awesome
My uncle was drafted into the Vietnam War in 1966 at age 20. Boy was he excited each time the Hueys flew in to drop the C Rations on the LZ. All I think is “We Gotta get outta this Place.” 🇺🇸🇻🇳💥
These videos are a freaking advertisement for the cigarette companies. I want to smoke so bad when I see those classic cig packages.
no they aren't lmao but same they look so good
A MAN'S cigarette!
ah, nothing like a 50 year old cigarette with your 50 year old coffee
Steve has eaten a lot of very questionable things, but I can’t believe he even thought about eating those “peaches” lol
"peaches" 😂😂😂👍
In 1968 Boy Scout 48hr survival training we each got one meal of C rations and than had to fish or trap along with forage to get by for 48 hrs. We had to turn in the little 4 cigarette packs but could use the rest. I remember I got the Lima Beans. Our troop was sponsored by the U.S. Army. We were all Army brats and lived on post and got lots of military training and equipment.
"no surgeon general warning... Definitely a Classic! these are gonna be good..." haha my favorite line
the peaches look like the blood of saten
lmao
That's the stuff they used in Constantine when Satan pulls the cancer out of Keanu Reeves chest D:
+Space Bud95 love that movie...
and then he throws steve buscemi in the wood chipper
What is saten?
I always know I can thumbs up your video before I even watch it.
Lord, I would kill for one of those Pall Malls.
dtouey yeah right...I want to try one of those good ‘ol smokes. I roll my own but this sounds like it tastes regal
Proper smokes!!
fuckin same, and ive quit smoking, lmao!
Would you kill some charlies?
I was in the reserves in 1972. this was boot camp food,, twice as I was infantry,, for 7 day field exercises. Also a few times on weekend drills in the reserves (we were mechanized, training in the desert). Never ate anything but the crackers, and the pound cake. Smoked the Pall Malls. All we ever got was ham and lima beans in grease with no heaters. You can go 7 days without food, except for crakes, pound cake, and Pall Malls.
You've inspired me to get on Ebay and buy some Vietnam era C-rats, because I have to try these cigarettes and find out how much better smokes used to be back then.
80s Winstons smelled like raisins and tasted peppery.
that peach juice reminded me of sploosh from holes
AH man those peaches sure were looking funky. But those smokes sure looked good.
That peanut butter was almost too nice to open.. So shiny! But hey, at least the contents were still edible/enjoyable :)
Where is poundcake. That was the best
It's nice to see someone talk passionately about something they love and I remember you said in another video that you don't smoke as in a habit but you go the extra mile by lighting up a vintage smoke.. Its a shame that the world can't take a leaf out of your book and be more passionate about things.. I bet you watch movies like platoon and hamburger Hill and mad respect from me in the United Kingdom take care and stay safe..
The sound of the coffee being stirred in that metal cup is one of the most satisfying things ever. 👍
I like watching him smoke the old smokes
13:08
‘There is no denying it....... I’m hip to be square’
Here, there and everywhere!
5:38 Frank Zappa looks jealous while lookin at you
When I was 8-9 boy the boy next door received army ration from his older brother, in the army! He sat down in the back yard and consumed some of it and never shared any of it with the rest of us. Around, 1966.
When the camera cuts to him saying ,50yr old peanut butter and still fresh is hilarious to me don't know why
I googled Botulism and it sounds horrific :o
lmao
Its not that bad,only 5-10% of ppl dies from it!
+Dave K. I would call a 10% mortality rate pretty bad tbh
+Dave K. so you mean millions of people?
+Timothy L actually, botulism is quite rare, but still deadly. I wouldnt go with the millions.
Scientist should use your efforts and experience to learn better methods to preserve foods for ever so your family tree can continue eating old mres
These videos are always calming
"We took out the cigarettes cause theyre bad for you!" (mortar explodes in background with bullets whizzing past your head)
I love how he almost took a bite of the jet black 'peaches' but wouldn't even consider the fine looking chicken and noodles. I guess that's why I'm not an expert :)
"Smells sweet and metallic. Nice!"
Dude these vids are awesome keep up the good work.
Oh also, always wondered, how long does it take you to open a can usually?
Man, watching you smoke has to be one of the sexiest things I've ever seen. 😍
❤
Nice.
Steve1989 MREinfo Nice!
lets get that on a tray
"Nice."
Had these on ftx exercise in 74/75. Theses were still issued for several years after manufacturers stopped making them.
So I quit smoking 9 months ago and I typically don't miss it. But seeing you smoke that 50 year old cigarette, describing the flavor, it made me miss it for a moment.