Polish MRE / emergency ration taste test
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2021
- A rather tasty emergency/military ration pack from Poland.
I think this ration pack was sent by Michal a long time ago. (It's on his dedicated part of a shelf of stuff). I didn't make a video about it earlier as I had made a few videos about other MREs (Meal Ready to Eat) at the time.
One of the more unusual items in this one was a one-litre water treatment system with a rugged hangable ziploc style bag and a tiny chlorination tablet. Further investigation shows that the little water treatment tablets are very common and some contain silver for additional antibacterial effect.
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Your Polish pronunciation landed in a perfect spot of still being wrong enough to be funny, but actually close enough to be impressive.
język mój dupku
You managed to turn my exact abstract conceptions into words. Thanks you sie
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Yeah, that was amusing xd
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You come to Clive's channel for the electronics and stay for the fascinating and eclectic topics he covers. Where else can you learn about carbonated whisky, a fish pump and a Polish military ration pack within a few days?
As a total aside I went to Poland '97, a truly beautiful country in many ways.
you may have missed the couple episodes about anal sex "toys" that are designed to give you electric shocks.
Clive's "Mr. Bun-Bun's tragic easter" is his best video ever, and it has nothing to do with electronics, lol.
@@oreubens There’s words in that comment that I thought would never pique my interest.
@@markharrisllb well your butt usually only handles direct (one way) current. But when we're talking toys, that's alternating current. 😂
A fish pump? How many fish does it pump an hour? I must go look for it....
Let’s get this out on a workbench.
The only hiss here is Clive’s ozone generator.
Nice!
Beat us to it!
Nice hiss reference
No no, the hiss came after the video because of the beans >:P
Those beans...decadent. The meat...mushy. And the fruit drink has turned into rat turds... but strawberry flavor...
The chain reaction to scrolling past the thumbnail:
1. Holy shit, a new Steve1989 video!
2. Oh wait, it's Clive.
3. Fuck yeah!
I sure wish Steve would post more often, but Clive’s MRE’s do help hold me over!
I thought the exact same thing.
Clive needs a tray... nice
@@kenhukushi1637 Nice hiss ;)
Exact same reaction, with added dose of confusion as i rewatched his polish pack opening yesterday!
Those polish Ration are very delicious! Had the opportunity to try some during my tour. Very good experience and very good people! Salute to all my Polish friends!!
Listening to you trying to pronounce polish was hilarious :D But also, you did pretty good job, I wouldn't have much trouble understanding what you read. Your "Fasola po bretońsku" was almost perfect :)
Please forgive me
I jokingly pronounce everything I don't know as "sh" or "tsh". I think it works.
@@gustavgnoettgen 😊
I couldn't understand a word of it, but then... I don't speak any languages proficiently, I'm not Polish and I'm not sure why I'm here and/or commenting lol
And even I, who don't know Polish and can barely make my way through a menu, understood that the sachet was something with drink and tea.
But to be fair, it probably helps not to know Polish but to be able to recognise a few words as they are written (sorry Poles, your pronounciation is mental.)
You was quite good with pronounciation, and Your "fasola po bretońsku" was almost perfect 🙂
My partner is Polish, we watch your videos together so this was a treat! She was impressed with pronunciation and reckons you'd slice the konserwa rather than spread it, perhaps tipping it out the tin first. What else.. those sweets that melted would have been fizzy and the sausage in the beans is Kielbasa- you can get it in quite a lot of supermarkets and I can confirm, delicious!
I had figured the same when I had watched this the first time a few days ago. Kielbasa on it's own is great, and even with Perogi (sadly, i have not had the real stuff from Poland), just never had it with baked beans.
This sausage is kielbasa because well, sausage IS kielbasa. Hot dogs are kiełbaski (plural + diminutive of kiełbasa), chorizo is a kiełbasa, salami is a kiełbasa. So is bratwurst, andoullie, mortadella, 'nduja, lap cheong, frankfurter and black pudding. Heck, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to call haggins a type of kielbasa.
Fasolka po bretońsku requires some kind of smoked, sausage, typically garlicky one like "kiełbasa wiejska" (rural sausage) or "podwawelska" (literally "from somewhere near Wawel" - royal castle in Krakow, Polish capital between XI and XVII centuries and important settlement since at least 10,000 BC).
Beans here are most likely "Piękny Jaś" (Beautiful Johnny).
The can of meat when heated is not bad. Those lovely biscuits are good to keep in your pocket. The last thing you want is a snack that is crushed.
The fruit bar is designed not make your fingers sticky.
"What's the worst that can happen?"
Says Clive, shouting from the bathroom, where he's spent the last 60 minutes. 😁
1765 was probably the date they were made lol
Yes you know
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Used the tablets when I went backpacking. They're much lighter than carrying a filtering pump.
The one thing that took some getting over was the swimming things that all died off after the requisite 4 hours treatment for the hardier microbes.
Oh, the manly romanticism of the Bachelor Bowl gets me every time~
Wow. You nailed that Polish :)
As Polish myself i am impressed.
Should pop the can top just enough to vent it, leave the top on to heat over the stove. It'll retain heat better.
That wire can handle is a stroke of genius!
The fruity drink known as granulated tea of various flavors was everywhere in the 90 and early 2000, there are rumors that nobody has ever dissolved it in water, cos everyone was just eating it like candy (jk ofc) but it was quite good that way, haven't seen it since.
It was around already in the 80ies!
If you like that particular sugar-granule -y thing the safest bet would probably be Ricola herbal tea. That stuff is fabulous as an ice cream topping or for flavouring custard. Lidl might have a store brand version - I think I've seen them sell other things (lemon-tea, maybe rosehip) in that format.
Weirdest thing in that genre was actually British: mulled wine. (Though for a Swede it tasted more like weirdly spiced slight off cross between tea and ribena, no relation to actuall glögg. BTW, one of my favourite things about Poland is that you can get warm spiced wine all year round.)
Still available in most supermarkets in germany, often even in multiple flavours
Literally picked up one in a biedronka today, they're in the sweets section
That is a pretty good MRE! I particularly like the fuel tabs,Metal Pot,And Toothbrush.
Thanks for another neat Video.
That bean dish is called Fasolka its white beans and sausages in a tomato sauce! I love it and get it in Tesco regularly in the world food section!
Don't you need the special flavouring from the cooker fumes for the genuine experience ?
Found a few of those tablets, that I have had for the last 25 years, and tried them out. They still lit up like they were new.
Pretty sure the cooker would be fine to use indoors, just like the Sterno heaters used at buffets and such
The MRE's we had on my military tour (84-86) had a shelf life of 7 years and were less than desirable back then. Now the taste of them is much better and people actually enjoy eating them.
Those new rations have "shorter" shelf life, but they're edible for 5 years if stored properly ;)
I love all of your videos that contain food for some reason. I'm serious, you need to make another channel just for "Trash Cooking" :D I would pay money to watch it!
am i correct in thinking that says British beans?
@@mycosys I'd think it's very possible, given that these things seem to be assembled from NATO components, and display instructions in a whole raft of different languages.
Send the biscuits to the Hydraulic Press Channel...
15:16 Fun fact: My grandparents used to add small amount of potassium permanganate to water for chickens in hot summer. It was supposed to prevent microbes from contaminating and spreading in the water and stop chickens getting sick. It worked really good.
From one pol to you good sir. Very happy to see your multilingual gift. Took me 18 years of polish school to get it just right....I still haven't seen the screen doored submarine though. Stay happy
"They're fine. What's the worst that could happen?"
Someone watches Ashens....
One day I hope you and Ashens get together and do a "YOU ATE WHAT???" video.
The crackers are what used to known a Sea Biscuits or Hard Tack depending on if you are a sailor or a land lubber.
In my experience of 'biscuits brown' as the UK Mil called them, they are designed to bung you up for several days 😁🥴 I quite liked them....
I though they were to supplement body armour.
They get much more soft when you let them soak in the baked beans sauce. Although chewing them like a dog chews a bone can also be a form of entertainment when you're really, really, really bored in the field and have absolutely noting better to do >:P
@@LordDragox412 yes indeed so lovely dipped in my tea or coffee
They are designed so hard so you can use them to hammer your tent stakes into the hardest surfaces.
That's pretty decent Polish. 'c' is never pronounced as 'k' it's always a kind of 'ts' or 'c' like in 'cyan' or 'tsunami' ... unless it's a 'ci' 'cz', 'ch' or 'ć'... em, right, pretty decent Polish anyways.
Ah, yes, the classic Polish language rules of "it's pronounced 'x' unless it isn't". I pity every single person learning the language in their adult years lol.
@@abadenoughdude300 Dunno, as a Greek learning Polish, I find the pronunciation rules pretty simple. If anything, I've had Polish people commenting that my accent was almost completely native-like
@@abadenoughdude300 well, at least there ARE rules (looking at English here). Basically you treat a few combos as their own things and exceptions are rare.
Ik I can get or make food of all variety, but MRE videos always make me envious. I love seeing what foods other countries package as comfort food. Great video clive😁
I absolutely LOVE them MRE packs!!
Dzien dobry Clive. Thoroughly enjoyed your detailed review of the Polish mre. You made it look quite delicious actually.😀
Please try and get an Italian ration pack, they tend to cost an arm and leg on ebay as they contain wine and even the bog roll in the pack is Armani !
Does the wine taste loke lightly chlorinated water?
That bean pot and wire handle, is very clever.
"Cracking toast, Gromit!" - Wallace.
Love those MRE's! I have seen some of the packs we received in the military with iodine tablets for purifying water. It doesn't matter what they put in, they will all have some sort of weird taste to them. I personally use a Miox water purification system. It is based on the coarse salt added to the electrolisys chamber, add the appropriate amount of water, screw on the cap and press the button on the side for how many liters of water you need to purify. When its done, add to your water pouch and wait one half hour. Uses a couple of the CR123 lithium batteries. Its the same principle as the spray bottle sanitizer you featured in a video a few months back except this little gem costs around 100 US Dollars. Originally designed for the military but it has since been discontinued. The company still produces industrial sized "chlorine" generators based off of the same concept but as usual they re very pricey since they too are geared towards the military
Might be discontinued because of the batteries. Using _one_ CR123 battery is perfectly safe. Using _two_ (or more) means that you really have to check voltages for charge balancing. When they charge backwards due to one discharging more than the other, they are known to detonate, and spray hydrofluoric acid vapour, which isn't nice for your lungs. You can even find photos of the damage on the candlepower forums. I'd be adding a 18650 battery case or similar to it.
"That's fine. It's only a year out-of-date." Oh, yeah. Bachelor fare, for sure.
Clive, you didn't prepare the chocolate drink mix with the chlorinated water for maximum military goodness.
You know, there is channel in YT where person tries even decades old mres..
@@timokallio-kokko7175 Steve 1989 - "MmmmmKay not bad"
NORMAL VIEW!!!!!
Mmm... chlorine malt.
When I did my mil service, we got MRE's that were 7 years out of date. nothing wrong with them. Though the chocolate bar had significant signs of chocolate bloom.
THey just HAVE to put a date on there.
Well made cans will last for decades. the expiry date is just fluff :D
Manufacturers put those dates on so you will throw away perfectly good stuff and buy new cans so you can throw those away a few years later as well.
The main meal in an armed forces ration pack are crammed with preservatives to give them a long shelf life, and that can cause severe constipation to the person eating them. I would eat these types of ration packs every day for upto five weeks on military exercises. My usual daily and consistent 'ablutions' would stop after a few days and typically I'd go to the toilet after that every three to four days along with suffering from indigestion. Loads of different slang for what came out after a few days, 'giving birth to a baby's arm', laying a conger eel and so on. I once brought home to my day, a 12 man ration box. He loved the meals but it messed his digestion up for weeks! Bunged up as he would say.
I love watching these, I love the variety between all the places :)
That pot/handle combo can be a replacement explosion containment vessel.
Have you seen how expensive the “in date” packs are?!? ... I just love all the goodies in there!! I think I could gain a Michelin star ⭐️ for my efforts making a meal and garnishing it with wild edibles!!! Big hugs Clive!! Great to see you on again!!
Have you seen how expensive the "really, really out of date" packs are? Clive could've let it sit on the shelf for a few hundred more years, and he would've been a millionaire!
@@LordDragox412 very good point!! ... that said, I’d be less likely to want to eat a 100 year old pack!!! :-)
I just go 10 of these (due next month) and I paid about 40 euros in total. ;)
@@DubiousEngineering Well, neither Steve1989 nor Ashens died from eating them yet, so there's nothing to worry about >:P
Ahhhh Clive, I've missed your MRE videos so much!
Looks quite acceptable, actually. Especially in times of need!! Thanks for the video!
Feels distinctly Polish when the first listed item in larger font is...Beans. Someone needs to share this with tjwparso...
My New Year Eve's entertainment. This is the only video I've ever seen that says "it's not swollen up, so that's good".
I fell for it again! I am sitting here for 17+mins watching Clive eating ... Now should I 👍 or ....
Nicely done Clive 👏
All 5 of my emails are now subscribed. Somehow I'm always watching Clive everywhere I go
Clive, a number of years ago, friends from the States here were planning to visit Mexico. That country is known for having bad water. My friends were planning to take bottled water with them, which meant they had to sacrifice other things to accommodate taking the water with them. I suggested they take water treatment tablets with them, which they did, and it saved them a bit of grief. As I recall, the tablets were halazone, available from a local chemical supply company.
Never seen permanganate being used to drink as medicine. It was only intended to disinfect water as camping aid and also to prepare a disinfectant wash for wounds.
Very nice video. I didn't know how the MREs are looking like in my country. As always informative and with a dose of humor :) 1:45 haha (tea-like drink instant)
The next time you come across armored rusks, first break as fine as possible and treat as an addition to all hot dishes, canned food and jams. Then you are already working with molars.
You are my favorite person to watch taste test MREs. Probably weird, but true
Not so bad, not so bad. Last of course was abomination, but kudos to you, Clive, for trying.
I like our rations cause you can get creative with them. This can with handle can be used for days if cleaned. SI-1 are pretty much unedible as is (closer to hardtack than anything) but are great for soups. And stove can be used even without fuel tablets. I like it.
Ps. Some of them have a few plastic cups and multiple plastic knifes and forks and spoons. Nice stuff to get tradey.
Outstanding prenaciantion :D Your polish is very good :D cheers!
I don't think Clive noticed the food warmer instruction sheet was in English instead of Polish. :-)
As always, thanks for the video. Always a good time!
The baked beans are typical Polish baked beans called literally "Brittany style beans" which contain, apart from the tomato sauce, pork fat, sausage and marjoranne seasoning, and looking at the French wiki it seems that the French, including the Bretons, have nothing to do with the stuff. Weird.
Awesome big Clive
Greetings from Poland!
Incredible, I just got 10 of these and go off to the mountains tomorrow.
Yay! Another excellent Clive foodie MRE review :-)
You know what i love about that video...
While Peanut Butter Gamer eat candy and act as if he was about to puke.
You eat things that looks like puke and act as if it was candy!
I enjoy that sincere simplicity!
For anyone interested, you can find big jars of fasola po bretońsku in pretty much any supermarket that has a Polish/Eastern European section (and if you have one of those dedicated shops near you, job jobbed). It's great stuff, simple to cook, and you have a free empty jar to use how you wish afterward.
You actually made it sound quite appetising!
Panzer wafle... Those waffles are named that for a reason. That fruity drink is a fruit tea. For someone that is not a native Polish speaker you pronounce those words good enough to be understood.
When I was in scouts for backpacking trips we used little iodine tablets that looked similar to that one for water sterilization. Great video!
Are you sure it wasn't bromine ;)
@@MOOEYSMITH Honestly it’s been so long I’m not really sure. For some reason I thought they were iodine, but they could’ve been chlorine for all my memory is worth.
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I didn't even know we had one of these… thanks :P
Fascinating, how memory works: I could literally smell the chlorine when you opened the water bag 😮
Water sterilisation bag has a nice gusset. Not bad.
The 'Special Rusks' are known to users as 'Armour Sheets' 'Panzer Crackers' and 'Panzer Waffles'. The taste is Caraway seeds, generally.
Now I remember!! It was THIS kind of content that made me subscribe to your channel!!!
0:20 So hori... wait a minute.. this pronunciation actually is quite good.
Identifying napkins and toilet paper must have been an achievement of its own.
So first thing.. your try to read in polish went great :) ok.. I will keep watching and comment more if needed
Kurka wodna Clive, Twoja wymowa jest zajebista!
Google translated the first part as "Clive's water hen." I think Google has a way to go toward accuracy.
@@tncorgi92 hehe true. It's like "Holy cow, Clive". Might have missed a comma, but it still translates as "Water hen, Clive". Don't know which is worst :P
You need to get another one & invite Ralphie round for a takeaway & present that. I'm sure the look on his face would be priceless. PS might be an idea to slip a little bottle of whiskey inside first LOL
Actually your pronunciation was not that bad. Yes, I'm Polish and I know that Polish language is one of the most hardest languages to learn in a world. And by the way, I tried some of these Polish military rations and I like them very much, they are considered as one of the best in a world by most people.
Damn, I wanted you to heat the sausage beans combo on the provided stove for authenticity! Oh well! 😉
Well presented mate thx you
Why do I like these MRE videos?? But I do! Thanks!
Perfect for ASMR. I actually like eating noises under these circumstances. Makes me feel like I’m around the campfire with good friends. Now I’m hungry.
It's been my experience that the beverage bags in the US MREs, while efficient enough for their designed purpose make extremely good "dry bags" for your wallet or phone. Their durability and toughness ensures that things placed in them to keep dry, stay dry even under complete submersion.
It's surprising how great of a job they do designing and producing the MREs. This and the Russian one both look delicious.
Edit: Oh and the pink fruity drink things are probably there to hide even the slight taste of chlorine.
Interesting to see so many tools in MRE
i really hope not all of the MRE rotations would not include one, but sure if shit hits a fan then would want my hands for few of those
those lemony things - most likely meant for pre meal hand hygiene
We generally soaked the biscuits in the powdered milk/coffee etc. It's better than breaking your teeth on them. It takes about 20 minutes to soften them LOL. A wheat based product is included because it's a slower release carb than the sweets and the drink so you'd normally have it as a kind of gruel for breakfast. The drink (in a real MRE) will also be a source of electrolytes (ie salts) and will also have a sterilising effect - you would normally mix it and drink it later when you needed it.
As a veteran of real MREs eaten in the field, I think the easiest way to tell the difference between a real military MRE and one designed as a civilian MRE/emergency ration is the packaging. No army in the world would give its soldiers any packaging other than drab olive or dun beige depending on where you are in the world at the time. Also, military packs are usually a little larger, and are designed to last a day - so you'll usually get items you can use for morning/midday/dinner plus things like the drinks, sweets, and salt tablets you can use during the day.
To a military man this is serious shit. Love them or hate them, the key to staying active, alert and useful in the field is understanding the reasons behind what they put in the ration packs and using them appropriately.
0:01The inscription on the label "Najlepiej spożyć przed: 23 LUT. 2019" - it means: Best before 02/23/2019
Your Polish is excellent, friend. Cheers.
i have some caned RSP from Norway that was packed in 1969, I'm down to my last one can, but I had a stack of them, I had a can like 10 years ago.
Jeez, when you mentioned the word _Lucky Bag_ , it brought back so many happy memories of 3d (that's threepence, not some CAD aberration) lucky bags full of wonders such as lucky tatties with plastic toys embedded in them, flying saucers, plastic $hite, sugar conkers on twirly string, necklaces from sherbet buttons and other wondrous things that a kid of the 50's and 60's would like LOL - great stuff. Unlike those MRE rations which are far too healthy to consume by the looks of it - I'm glad your newManx/Scots constitution can handle that :-))
I just remembered, those weren't _Lucky Tatties_ , they were something to do with Tobermory LOL. Maybe someone of a similar age will remember WTF they were :-))
I meant to add that there were never any sheets of toilet paper in the _Lucky Bags_ - not even the dreaded Izal :-)
Hi Clive, good to see you review MRE food packs please review another please 👍
In case you haven't seen them yet, here's a list of previous ones: ua-cam.com/play/PL9RSa3DSTGzKkXB-51uuAdZcaOGopS7rx.html
@@huubpeters7972 thank you for the signpost, like Clive I'm fascinated whats contained inside these MRE packs.
English speakers trying to read Polish will *never* not be funny. God bless.
Lemon wipes, "I'm not sure whether you should use them on your ... "🤔😬😆 oh dear Clive please don't go there. TMI.😂
That actually was quite neatly packed. I liked the bean can lid. Also the water distillation pack should be convenient enough. The cutlery however is never good
Interesting mixture of foods, this was great. I quite fancy trying those Kofik sweets but they are hard to find!
You might find it easier to get the similar Kopiko sweets. Sometimes found in Lidl or Poundland (in the uk) and via ebay.
@@fullmetalhaggis Thanks, will check them out
I don't think I would eat ANY of that stuff unless I was STARVING! LOL
Water purification tabs, I remember reading somewhere that some can give you diarrhoea, the medical orderlies advice, since diarrhoea dehydrates you, drink more water…
It is nice they have a lid for the two cans. That way you do not have to eat it all at once.
Big clive, I have a question or maybe even a challenge. Would you be able to build an induction motor using an alloy wheel or a drum brake as the surface to generate torque... I've been trying to think of a way to convert a car into an electric hybrid on a budget, mainly for stop/start traffic when you don't really need allot of power (maybe 1-2kw).
4:07 in PL we say: Soldier you have beans (fasolka po bretońsku) you should eliminate (..ill) enemy by one BiG FART!