1899-1902 British Emergency Ration Field Service Oldest MRE Beef Eaten Survival Food Review Test

[Music] this is a second Boer War British Armed Forces emergency ration field service it was produced anywhere between 1899 and 1902 now always 11 ounces or 311 grams there's a soldered cap on both sides check that out you're supposed to be able to grab it by a ring that was attached right here and you peel away this one has a ring pole that broke off years ago so someone decided to not open it now by the early 1880s that British Army began developing a more portable ration that could provide ample sustenance to soldiers in combat that are cut off from normal supply this was produced by the boville Company of London there were several variations of this ration made by blue grill during the Boer War and many ended up as royal navy surplus emergency supply and were used nearly 20 years later in World War one all right so again there's a paper label that would have said on the front right here and right here this ration is not to be opened except by order of an officer or an extremity it's to be carried in the haversack and produced at inspections etc the ration is calculated to maintain strength for 36 hours if eaten in small quantities at the time to open the package tear off the band in the centre where two tins will be found one containing four ounces of concentrated beef and the other containing four ounces of cocoa paste instructions for you sir on the lids of the tins the standard British ration during the Boer War was tin stews and meat hash tin beans meat fish poultry hawk and evaporated and sweetened condensed milk and hardtack those were your common food items so this is pretty much the original survival ration let's give it a look Wow I don't think that this is going to be edible but look at that so these are lids on it there we go this piece will end up getting me cut will make it impossible to open the thing all right let's get this out on your tray nice okay well when your rations about 20 years older than the hundred-year-old mess kit that it's on concentrated beef four ounces remove lid the beef can be eaten dry with or without biscuit dump 1/4 of the contents of this tin in boiled water for about an hour and it will make 1 pints of excellent beef tea it's going to be very difficult to open this is gonna be potentially impossible to open without damaging the can or cutting myself or something that's gonna be deal it's totally worth it there we go look at that there's your concentrated beef from probably 1899 whoa it still smells like beef oh it smells so foul and oh man nice look at that so then the hot cocoa this he has a nice rattle to it cocoa paste 4 ounces the contents can be eaten dry with or without biscuit 1/4 of the contents simmered for 1/4 of an hour in 1 pint of water will make liquid cocoa of good strength it's it's not going to be edible anymore that's for sure and corroded through I mean unfortunately this is the one where it has the the pin holes see that I mean it's not coming out either you're gonna have to scoop these out I'm not sure if I'm gonna eat anything and there's probably no real point you know that's okay though I do not mind that whatsoever you know this is the sort of thing that it's just incredible absolutely incredible to be able to see something like this that doesn't look so bad under there hmm that literally smells like metallic beef jerky and that's actually incredible look how it really is it's like it's concentrated dried beef and I mean I think it's like bullion it might be a little bit more to it than just that I can't imagine this being all that different back when it was still considered fresh I can't imagine it looking any different really I'm gonna scrape through this surface here and then I get to some part that might be edible look at that it's looking better and better as it goes on there I'm not gonna be able to help myself I'm gonna have to try it out once I get past that you know that stuff on the outside smells like metal and the rot and then once you get through that yeah that's all bad right there there's like foul totally like messed up parts of this and then there's like a center that's still good there's like the edges here I'm noticing it's all coming out easier and it's it's like no good you know the edges got hit by metal and moisture and who knows what something permeated but then the center the center of this seems like it might be okay so that's that's really good I'm just gonna keep chiseling away at this and I'm determined to find a part that might be acceptable for consumption and now we have a dried beef bar look at that that's the coolest thing that's a landmark right there alright so what I'm gonna do is this here I know this is ridiculous but I'm gonna save that I kind of can't help myself I can't throw any of this away I'm gonna save every bit of dirt and dust and rust and whatnot from this ration and I'm gonna do what I can to put this thing back together kind of reefs on it cuz it could it could use some restoration they'll believe that that Oh smells like metal and beef and I'm going to make a beef porridge out of this now this is totally inedible I'm not even gonna try and mess with the chocolate my apologies that part there I hope you can understand it's just it's just gonna be like eating rust and dirt and danger yeah this though this is history in more ways than one okay so I I kind of chiseled off a little bit more off camera here but look at that kind of as a wood shaving look to it that is from the Boer War and this is in significantly better condition than I expected this side got no corrosion and it made it it made it through all that time well I think it's like dried shredded you know pulverized beef I'm glad that these were separate containers they didn't react with each other component-wise and then also because this one had the corrosion that would have transferred to the other one potentially and you would have had to compromised components instead of just one I mean this here is a shame I mean this here is absolutely this part I might not even do much with this other than and you just oh yeah look at it's like a rock you could chisel it and it has a slight chocolate smell to it but it smells more like dirt and metal really there's not much you can do with the chocolate yeah Wow it's just you know there's really no point in messing with that thing all right so let's get to preparing this I just gotta get all of the stuff that has gotten moisture to it scraped out like I see some stuff here that turned color it's like almost reddish orange let's get that off there I think it reacted with the metal and some potential air and moisture that got in this is one of the most fascinating things look at that old beef that is old pulverized dry beef this is not like standard beef bullion this is 120 year old beef jerky essentially isn't that something oh yeah here we go that right there actually looks pretty good I don't know what to do it's like I really I really want to try a bite yeah yeah that is just truly a bizarre food discovery if you ask me pretty much doesn't get any weird doesn't get any weirder than this really I mean like when was the last time one of these was eaten I wonder I mean all those last time someone even open one okay sorry it's just oddly nerve-wracking could something be living in this I mean you see how it's kind of spilling over on the lid I mean I'm sorry I'm gonna let that kind of settle on my tongue for a second that's a little taste like dirt that little piece was broken off you just take it no massive a windy bite what is that in there oh I got look at this thing sorry I'm gonna be like playing with my food but yeah it's nerve-wracking what am i doing is this like the oldest beef ever eaten that tastes like Brad that's taste like bread and beef and there's like little pieces of bone or something there's something hard whoo I'll let it settle on my tongue I'm not eating that right away barely any flavor it takes like pulverized beef jerkey old breadcrumbs mixed with cardboard a little bit of chlorine that's what it tastes like and it's leaving a slight film residue sensation that cow it was dead over 118 years ago that's the weirdest odd it's kind of morbid sorry okay here's an interesting story there's a collector that has one of these and then like a couple repros or something at least one repro he was he had like one sitting next to the other and he was talking about how he found a case the 60 of these remaining a case of 60 of these did he quote unquote did not have the funds so he said he didn't have the funds for it and this was I think he said it was 10 maybe was 20 years ago someone else was asking was there any way like we could track it down he's like nope there's no way I I'll never be able to find it again that's disgusting I'm not eating any more of this dry took this little bit that like I wouldn't get off the for pre-chewed 118 year old beef bread fiber is that fat is that cartilage is it bread you know a grain I don't really know but if if this is anything like the US Army emergency ration of World War one then this is some sort of grain in there mixed with beef and you can see these like little fibers coming off of it dry like here take beef jerky tear it like down the center and you see all the little meat fibers like I can see tons of those coming off of this it just tastes like there's there's so much like bone and cartilage and stuff mixed in like it's filled with that and when they say boil it for an hour yeah that's definitely the way to do it that's that's what we're gonna do with this here and then this here I'm going to save their various reviewers and people that are going to want this and I don't need it all this literally says eat it dry or wit you know with or without a biscuit or boil it for an hour there are no other instructions all right so it's been a couple days it's been two and a half days and I ate the couple bites that's what you want to do sometimes you don't want to dive right into 100 plus your old beef so I left everything on the set that doesn't smell too bad you know it actually reminds me of the smell of fish food take this to the side we're going to be boiling this for an hour and it's good to know you can eat it dry and not get sick all right there we go so what I'm gonna do is we're gonna set this here this is lit cooking with C's 1989 show we're going to be cooking a hundred and eighteen year old dried beef from the Boer War it's the only thing I have here paper towel oh yeah do that mmm there we go hmm instantly has a kind of stale smell that's if you ever gone to a food truck and they they have hamburger and the hamburger isn't pure beef there's like flour mixed in with it that's what this kind of smells like but then also stale ooh yeah and with no seasoning we're going to put this back on thank you every 10 to 20 minutes all I'll take the lid off and we'll check it out all right so I'm I've been boiling it for only seven minutes so far yeah it's just there's a smell it tells you whatever this is it's not appetizing it's been boiling for exactly 15 minutes oh man I stepped out of the room for I guess like 10 15 minutes it smells awful in here so about 30 minutes oh it just wafts this like foul beef smell all right so it's been about 40 minutes you can see how it's rendering down there oh it just smells awful no it's not that's good oh really oh just poking it around there just keeps making me like wheeze is the only way I can put it here let's get a better look at this well I'm scraping it about I'm glad it didn't burn like scourge onto the pot look at that oh that is if you could smell it like listen it's not normal if it can make me wheeze like that I mean imagine how grateful you'd be your officer says all right bust out your emergency ration guys you're sitting around making hot cocoa and then variations of stuff like this so there you go you can make a porridge of sorts and you know this is um this kinda reminds me of like that F grade beef like steaming hot you know try here it's like get a little bit juicy oh yeah hmm that's kind of lacking in flavor I'm like kind of just getting a small amount so it just tastes like a that's weird it kind of tastes like beef mixed with refried beans actually it's what it kind of reminds me of but then like hmm whoops what's that you know that's uh that's fat or something hmm biting down on that and it's just I don't know what that is yeah just it definitely smells like foul meat you know well if you were a a soldier during the Boer War and you're starving and you're in South Africa and all you have is this and some hot cocoa sorry but literally my heart is pounding because I know this so I'm normal I'm just probably not safe especially from the way it smells it can't possibly two bites before was one thing I thought who can it would be okay this isn't a small light that created at all it's like a meat grain porridge probably fried it some little patties I keep going for these little wimpy by it's thinking like by taking smaller advices gonna be safer or something might as well just go for it oh that is just how they do anymore what am i doing there's just all this fat and cartilage whatever this was was never that great scene was like there's some liver or something in there it's metallic it's foul it's old an 18 year old bowel me and I think I'm gonna stop at this cuz oh there's that white piece from before what is that it's just like old cow vein I was kind of freaking me out hmm meat paste know you could you do a lot with this seems fairly first it's all get your mess cup or whatever it is he cooking in maybe like four or five guys you know throw a portion up there their meat part into it into a pot who knows how he did it might as well just finish this last bit well teasley coarse-ground liver cartilage I don't really know what okay so it's been two more days and my apologies this has been the strangest review I mean really what can you do with that old beef my theory to this is this ration could have easily fed ten men literally he's some really watered-down cocoa and like just a thin porridge in a in a serious survival situation for a group of guy is something like this actually could stretch out much further than just for one man for 36 hours and my guess is those those soldiers back then there was a very good chance he sings or lasting them for much longer than 36 hours I'm not going to make a tea I can't I can't ever smell that that stuff heated up ever again I can't ever eat any more of it I'm going to freeze this I'm gonna keep this inside of the tin close it back up solder it I felt a little bit sluggish after eating it I didn't even get the sweats or anything I just there's probably all sorts of different animal by-product in this you name it it's probably in this and that's why it smelled so bad it's just cheap meat I'm gonna save this and most of it will probably be given away to other reviewers maybe a scientific analysis maybe somebody else that can take it and recreate it for some sort of proper reproductions well anyway this was a Boer War era 1899 to 1902 British Armed Forces emergency ration field serviced the great-great-grandfather of survival rations who knows what this stuff is it's the the original mystery meat well anyway this is Steve 1989 I hope you liked the video I'll be coming back at you it's something new world all right cool see [Music] you

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Length: 26min 40sec (1600 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 16 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/FlyingCake]

Classic Steve. "I should stop eating this (takes another bite)".

[u/InsertGenericNameLol]

"Nice."

[u/DanWillHor]

No way I'm eating that.

eats it

I'm sorry, guys.

apologizes for being nervous about eating 119yo year old beef

Ok, I'm done. I'm not eating any more

except for this piece here and some stew I make with it

Gotta love Steve.

Bonus FYI: Eating old, rotted war rations makes you yoked af.

[u/One_pop_each]

Watching this guy’s shit is so relaxing. I never go on youtube for vids so I’m glad he gets posted here. It’s interesting as hell.

[u/Ancient_Whaler]

"What am i doing?" Classic steve

[u/onlytook]

You would just get some disease that no doctor has ever seen. Fucking House M.D. would be called in as you go into convulsions and a coma and would be racking his vast intellect for any clue as to what you have. Lupus? No, it's never Lupus. Polio? Legionaries disease? A rare neurological disease only ever seen in mice and octopi? No, none of those things make sense.

So he unethically sends his crew into your MRE and military artifacts house to snoop around. They find the rusted can and bags of meat and death powder. Was he making chemical weapons? Is he an Alt-Right turbo Nazi terrorist? He DOES have a stahlhelm, which the Nazis wore.

So they administer the antidote to Ricin poisoning, assuming that is the poison that he was making for his terrorist plans, but suddenly he gets even worse! Goodness, they made the wrong call, House was wrong and his patient is about to die!

House is distraught and as emotional music plays in the background he is throwing his ball against the wall, his leg obviously hurts, he can't concentrate. Wilson comes in and starts to make small talk "Man, that guy is kinda a loon right? Collecting all those war artifacts, guy must have been real obsessed". Suddenly House jumps to his feet, grabs his cane and limps out of the room. Wilson is flustered because House just leaves him without an explanation.

House busts into the team room with the white board and calls his team massive idiots and berates Doctor Foreman for being black, Doctor Chase for being a poof, and Doctor Cameron for not jumping his dick. He then explains that Steve1989MREInfo is suffering from a rare and previously thought extinct form of food poisoning from eating 115 year old beef.

They inject him with magical drugs and he wakes up and is fine. House insults Cuddy and the show fades out on House looking sad and popping Vicodin as everyone else is shown having healthy personal relationships outside of work.

[u/galenwolf]

Steve what the fuck man, don't eat it!

[u/bajanga1]

It’s always interesting when one of your old smoking buddies had an idea to eat mre’s on the internet and now he’s huge. It was funny last Christmas when my brother showed me Steve’s videos and I had never seen them and was like “no fucking way Steve is a massive sensation!” Can confirm Steve is a cool dude.

[u/Raincoats_George]

He needs to be careful. I've watched him eat all kinds of this shit. He's one tin can away from a nice dose of botulism.