2015 Spanish Individual Combat Ration 24 Hour Set MRE Review Marathon Meal Ready to Eat Taste Test

[Music] this is a 24-hour set of spanish armed forces individual combat rations now totaling out to four pounds 12 ounces and containing approximately 3 400 calories these rations are designed for high intensity combat situations with no safe supply routes or access to field kitchens so let's check them out first starting off with breakfast alright so breakfast okay so right off the bat we have a content sheet it gives you some instructions on a spit stove and whatnot okay so here's some hot cocoa mix oral rehydration salts it's got electrolytes nice some cereal with fruit and honey some water purification tablets makes out to one liter water per tablet so then here's some sweet biscuits and some sweetened condensed milk get three 25 gram packs of that that's generous oh hey look at this thing it's a toothbrush nice look at that a little piece of chewing gum two espio stove fuel tablets little 25 gram bar of chocolate some matches and some hand sanitizer fluoride toothpaste along with your toothbrush some toilet paper or napkins and a nespit stove now that looks pretty good all right let's get this out onto a tray nice okay so let's first start off with that cocoa beverage powder that smells rich and also those oral rehydration salts perfect way to start the day off it doesn't have much of a smell to it [Music] okay now i want to check out the cereal with fruit and honey that looks healthy i gotta check out this chocolate bar a little bit of surface bloom looks like milk chocolate oh wow look at that that's beautiful it's almost so nice you don't even want to eat it i'm still going to eat it so now the sweet biscuits oh this definitely smells sweet smells almost like a graham cracker with extra shortening in it you get 14 biscuits they've maintained their shape so now this hot cocoa that's very light very natural and low in sugar content as well seems like a versatile option because you're getting 75 grams of sweetened condensed milk which gotta see what this is looking like here you know the breakfast has an 18-month shelf life lunch and dinner both have a 48-month shelf life oh yeah i love this stuff and you know it might get a little bit dark in color it doesn't affect it that tastes perfect look at that gotta put some on the biscuits seems like the way to go now this biscuit on its own yeah it tastes like a cross between shortbread and a graham cracker it's very airy very light and dunk it in here see how that fares oh that made it very soft don't have to hold it in the hot chocolate for long or it'd probably break off into the drink there oh that's definitely a way to do it very dunkable i'll say that this is made by jamipsa they make rations for portugal uae the u.n like a for a total of 34 different countries actually yeah this is the way to go right here actually i gotta try this out oh yeah it is definitely the way to go that creamy almost like frosting in conjunction with the shortening and almost like light graham kind of flavor of this airy biscuit that's a match made in heaven i'm glad i thought of this this is on point you know when you wake up for breakfast and you're not really in the mood for real foodie food you're just in the mood for maybe something sweet and easy to eat and not a massive portion either and that's exactly what this delivers i need to put a little bit of this in here sweetened condensed milk food of the gods seems to be the right thing to do to knead the packaging i think it kind of separates a little bit oh look at this one's pretty dark check this out yeah that one that's interesting nothing wrong with it can't hurt you when it slightly oxidizes like that they give you the perfect amount they really do look at all those tasty looking biscuits so stata not bad that definitely adds a nice lightening color to the very almost thin hot chocolate it's not what i'm used to but say you don't like your hot chocolate creamy and sweet and more of just like a chocolate drink the other way is the way to go but this here oh yeah that and i didn't add too much this is just right it's still not overly sweet but it brings out the flavor of the chocolate makes it seem more you know of course creamy the sweetened condensed milk really does that it's a little more bold before it seemed almost like watered down might have been a perfect portion for like five ounces of hot water that's one of the best things you could ever eat you know you could i can't stop i'm like having a hard time going to the next component but let's wash it down with some of these oral rehydration salts oh wow that's very light on flavor no sugar just a light lemon oil essence high in electrolyte content perfect for you when you wake up in the morning slightly dehydrated and you need to get on the move something like this eat real quick slightly high sugar content hmm wow i didn't even mean to drink all that so now essentially a trail mix right here little pieces of almond oats raisins with a light amount of honey you can taste it just slightly well that's very satisfying i could have added sweetened condensed milk to this and some water and made a nice little cereal but this is less messy i'll say that you get every bit of it that way too but to change things up you could improvise with this breakfast and do a lot the raisins they're dry but they're not sticky they're easy to chew into but they're dry they're pretty sweet i taste the honey and the raisins as well like everything's been sprayed with a little bit of honey gosh that's awesome really balances out the sweetness of everything else in this meal so then this chocolate it's like i really don't even want to bite into it but because it's so nice oh there goes your head that is a light milk chocolate that seems very shelf stable like heat resistant almost waxy wow lightly sweet look at that it almost tastes like the chocolate that's inside of the shell of an m on an m m oh yeah this is great oh here goes most of that followed up with all the trail mix here that's a perfect combination i have a bite of chocolate with some of this oh yeah well i gotta say breakfast has been amazing this is a very easy to eat meal all the way around very enjoyable the only fault i can find where this is no spoon that's it they should include a small spoon this drink some people could complain with the say it's flavorless and boring it's very refreshing it seems like the amount of electrolytes in like two bottles of gatorade it's pretty amazing with no sugar or food coloring so it's very efficient so that was breakfast that's an awesome meal right there the only thing i need to check out real quick is that toothbrush and also the hand sanitizer real quick i got to see maybe a little portion of hand sanitizer i've never seen that in any other ration jamipsa not sparing any quality or expenses so far i've got high hopes for lunch and dinner here i think they're going to be pretty good it has a light interesting kind of smell to it almost like a citrus smell now for this toothbrush we're going to want to firmly place in there because otherwise they'll flop off look at that hmm wintergreen medium bristle an efficient toothbrush wow this is great not bad so in about three to four hours i'm gonna come back with lunch all right now we're back with lunch here menu a2 [Applause] all right so this one we have a another content sheet same thing as the last time instructions on the s bit and whatnot fluoride toothpaste right off the bat here then a chicken pasta soup oh hey look at these you have four of them isotonic vitamin c beverage base l-arginine l-tartrate amino acids and yeah not bad vitamin c also has electrolytes a little five grams what are the vitamin c again twelve hundred fifty percent of your daily value of vitamin c and each one of these packs that's 5 000 of your daily value of vitamin c and that's decent and then a quince cream twins is a kind of fruit quince cream it's it's like quince jam another hand sanitizer all right now water purification tablets you get two of them squid and ink three asp fuel tablets instead of um two for breakfast oh hey galician stew big old can of that 300 gram main ring pull top here some more gum i forgot to check the gum out for breakfast so hopefully i'll remember for lunch more matches there's that toilet paper you get three packs of that i'm assuming dinner will get this as well definitely giving you money's worth there and a nesbit stove that looks awesome all right let's get this out onto a tray nice okay so let's first start off with that chicken and noodle soup that definitely smells like some decent chicken broth right there and for that vitamin c isotonic beverage base i'm gonna put two in a glass [Music] okay so now the main course i'm gonna have to heat up the galician stew so now the aspen stone this thing has a stamp sheet metal that looks pretty heavy duty like so so now i'm going to drop a cube in there nice little extra fuel stove cube and break up this is just a lot like those italian ration cues i think it's like the same kind look at that see how well it lights up one more there we go oh yeah that's lit wow look at those white beans pork carrots i'm not going to peel it back any further we want to leave a little bit of a handle effect with that ring pull cool so while that's doing its thing i'm going to check out the squid and ink how's this gonna be look at that black ink and oils it has a very nice fresh seafood smell to it it smells like just the it just smells like the ocean that's awesome look at those oils and the ink those are whole squids in there wow that little guy third one now fourth this is what makes rations exciting look at the tentacles on that one they're like tucked in now with all jamipsa jams and all that right same thing with the uae same time i've never seen these things like easy to pull there's no like little break tab anywhere anything like you literally have to like use a knife hmm quince it really smells like a ripe pear jam like rape pears and honey is what this smells like yeah you have to use a knife every time to open these things jamipsa jams they don't really want you to get into them too easily that looks awesome so where do i start i suppose with the soup i really want to check this out while it's nice and hot oh hey that's not very salty but it has just enough salt oh hey look at that little piece of chicken broth goodness with the noodle oh wow now that was bursting with a nice all-natural not overpowering chicken flavor the noodle was a little al dente almost crunchy i could let this sit for longer and i mean i really mixed it up but oh yeah look at that with the broth and the chicken stock right in that noodle oh that is so satisfying an excellent chicken soup it's like chicken soup without msg in it can't go wrong with that so now i gotta try out some squid and ink look at that that thing's beautiful look at that he's got a real dangler there that's why we gotta try it out hmm a little bit of garlic oh that squid is so tender and a little bit chewy it's not overpowering you know there's ink the ink and oil wow here check that out looks like something had come out from the bottom of a car that's leaking oil and he wouldn't expect that flavor it tastes like garlic it's a little bit salty it just tastes like the ocean and so fresh if somebody put this on a real nice plate and said here try this out i wouldn't think it would have come from a can i'll say that oh yeah a perfect shoe and it's slightly rubbery but in a satisfying sort of way if that makes any sense i mean oh wow yeah look at those tentacles they just like tuck in there i don't know if that's like all hand tucked or what or if like when the squid dies its tentacles kind of retract into its body or how it works but and it seems pretty natural because i'm hitting a slight granular texture that i think might be sand oh that's so good you know this is one of the greatest canned seafood masterpieces i have ever had in my life i can't stop eating it you know when seafood is just overpowering and strong this does not have that in the slightest bit it's somewhat mild in its diverse range of flavors squid and ink i want to find this again i'd love to have this in a homemade dish one of these days vitamin c isotonic with amino acids and electrolytes [Music] oh that smells like lemonade but it's not overly sweet it has a slight bit of sweetness prevalent amount of electrolytes and you can taste a little bit of vitamin c vitamin c is not very flavorful you know like ascorbic acid citric acid is citric acid it's not even all that good for you but ascorbic acid and this here the antioxidants amino acids and electrolytes this is the most well thought out military ration beverage base i've ever seen no no um food coloring i want to buy this in a store if they had it unfortunately everything's got sweetener sugar and you know blue dye or yellow dye number five in it and all that stuff but like the quince cream go right to this that's heating right up i hope it doesn't overflow the glitchy and stew doing so well over there i hope it's pretty much like not having to tend to it which is amazing now this here smells like honey and pears this tastes like a cross between pear and strawberry jam with honey in it and it's granular gritty again not overly processed look at that consistency and it just sticks right to the spoon don't chew on it though the texture seems like there's pit still in it right so like if you chew on this stuff you could crack your teeth oddly enough that's like candy and the only bit of sugar in this meal in this lunch what an efficient ration so far that especially you don't even have to tend to it over here i'm not having to do a thing check that out that's beautiful and like i don't think i'm gonna have to do anything maybe just if anything just have a little bite right off the top one white bean and some broth looks oily and wow let me get another little bit of that that's like soup okay see that little bit of broth that was smoky tastes like pork in there there's pork fat rendering in that right now that's going to be amazing i cannot wait and in the meantime go back over this chicken soup oh this is so good the shells they trap in the chicken goodness if you can see in there a little bit of brown see that each one of these shells has a savory chickeny kind of flavor all right so i think this thing is nice and ready oh yeah nice and hot oh that smells just absolutely incredible at that genuinely one of the more appetizing looking things i've seen in a ration right there that looks like fat back or pork belly some kind of sausage we'll find out and then some more lean cuts of pork potatoes white beans and spinach that is quality right there it's right with this bite right here and then that broth just looks so appealing that is so incredibly tender tastes like some little paprika and i'm not sure what else yet in this broth i'm in heaven over here this is such good food spanish soldiers they've got one heck of a rash look at this it just cuts right in it's just these smooth textured potatoes piping hot the one fuel tablet did the trick i gotta get a big old bite of spinach actually it's pretty hot but go for it anyway that is a super hot meal right there that works so much better than an frh famous ration heater might not be good breathing in those fumes but the payoff is some properly heated hot food here right here this is that's spinach melt in your mouth consistency tastes like sauteed spinach incredible look at that piece of pork right there the marbling of fat with that lean meat look at that sausage again excellent fat marbling you can see that white in the center there oh that's an incredible chorizo sausage i actually don't know if it's smoked or not it it might be picking up the flavors of the pork i don't think it's smoked chorizo i think it's unsmoked chorizo and i had to go for two bites of that right off the bat that's the only piece of it you get what kind of cut of pork is this i'm going for this piece of pork right here the fatty and awesome looking piece check that out the layer of fat at the top that binds the flavors of light onion some paprika smoky savory just so incredibly enticing in flavor just makes you want to go back for more that's like bacon right there tastes like some incredibly good uncured lightly smoked bacon those white beans melt in your mouth everything's so slow cooked look at how that meat flakes like that seems like it's been slow cooked for like 10 hours or so in a crock pot jamipsa they hit it out of the park this is their best ration that i've tried so far uae u.n gotta try portugal next this ration through and through is already one of my own personal favorites i can't get over it this kind of separates the electrolytes and everything kind of settled to the bottom i'm gonna miss this meal i'll be looking for it for a while i gotta thank mre mountain for hooking me up with this spanish set emory mountain off of ebay you know the guy that runs it awesome dude and his selection's on point he can get all sorts of stuff such an incredible meal right here this isotonic beverage base that isn't overly sweet one could complain that this is light on flavor kind of boring not me this is a palette cleansing light lemon oil essence yet again just like the oral rehydration sauce which is just an electrolyte beverage base without the vitamin c like this and amino acids this is amazing that really was a top-notch meal so in about four to six hours here i'm gonna be back with dinner okay now here's dinner menu b2 [Applause] okay so this one we have another corsa menu sheet same instructions all right so right off the bat we have an instant vegetable soup some more toothpaste fluoride toothpaste another hand sanitizer some sardines and tomato sauce meatballs with peas little 200 gram main smaller than the last one that's interesting i guess it leaves room for things like this fruit cocktail here a couple dense on the side but i should be fine and then this is a pate with pepper oh cool we get four more of these isotonic beverage bases three s bit fuel tablets another thing a toilet paper another piece of gum i actually have to remember to try that out this time some matches water purification tablets and an espet stove not bad all right let's get this out onto a tray nice okay so let's first start off with that vegetable soup and that isotonic vitamin c beverage base [Applause] so all right so we're gonna heat up those meatballs and peas these things never really maintain their shape that breaking in half that's actually pretty amazing oh yeah that's lit so for those meatballs look at those oh that has a nice brown gravy kind of smell and something else i don't know what that is yet maybe this heat will bring it out in the meantime i'm gonna check out these sardines look at those wow that doesn't smell very fishy at all just a light fishy smell and mostly a lightly acidic tomato sauce that smells almost sweet nice sardines good size to them so the pate look at that next nice little hiss this stuff almost seems over packed in the can there bad cool little imprint i like that it really has the look almost odorless it barely smells like anything those meatballs and peas are heating right up that's a real sizzler the fruit cocktail looks like it's in a nice light syrup oh that's looking awesome that light syrup has a prevalent peach and a light flavor of grape juice you know i kind of wouldn't mind checking out the sardines and tomato sauce real quick it's almost mostly oil really from the look of it so this here that right there considering the size of these sardines it's incredibly tender and appealing check it out wow i mean there are bones in it but they're so fine a little bit of scale i don't like that part that's a big scale on that one so yeah this is what you eat first when you're good and hungry sardines are such a satisfying protein boost the tomato sauce is a light acidity and kind of sweet again a fine flavor it really does taste like the smell of the seed and the meat it's like a dark lightly smoked kind of oily meat you know fish these are quality sardines the bones are very soft there are five lunch menu a's and both say lunch if you hadn't noticed that the b says lunch the a says lunch trust me the b menus are dinner the a is lunch but i've yet to ever see a spanish ration that says dinner look at that some good wholesome sardines oh that's very fine and buttery if you have pork liver there's not one bit of metallic iron flavor to this it is not your conventional weird pate this is oh wow this is a masterpiece soup here vegetable soup is still way too hot wow i taste onion and almost burned my tongue so oh hey look at this over here decent so this drink mix clean my palate with this that is an incredible palate cleansing refreshing rehydrating healthy beverage base while that's heating up i'm going to enjoy this got red cherry grapes cherries pears peaches the pears have a perfect texture they don't melt in your mouth they're not mushy but they aren't too firm either where they're way too fibrous and strange they have a perfect bite to them think about it this is this is your dessert some real food still something that's healthy gives you a nice little sugar boost here and fruit is always a welcome addition to a ration always makes for good trade that's the thing that everybody eats first is fair amount of fruit juice in it too you know the light syrup almost like apple juice it's so sweet but a lot more complex like cross green pears peaches and grapes awesome the meatballs i think it's ready that fuel tab there's barely anything left to it that's perfect look at that so you eat like half your meal by the time this is heated up it's such a like i said it's such a well-thought-out ration really i mean everything about it the lack of a spoon is probably the only thing and i still haven't tried the gum out yet we'll find out a scale in the sardines i'm not going to be nitpicking this is hands down one of the best so this if it had a little grip like you know polish rash in this post oh yeah it's really hot polo's 24-hour rations they have this little like handle same with the french rcirs that's that's one thing this is missing this could totally use something to grip that can again small features that lack of a spoon or fork or sport nice so these meatballs whoops so that one was a flyer so let's see the center of this thing very looks very lean and it is so the last meal has the same thing as this one it says smoked paprika that has a light smoky flavor and something kind of sweet like what is that wow i've never had this in a ration before that has saffron it's kind of like cross-prem honey and like dried grass saffron smoked paprika garlic yeah that's i'm going for the juices before anything else because this is such a complex range of quality flavors these are the most well-seasoned rations i mean folks will say the french rcir like you know they're they're made by top you know chefs and everything but this here is um absolutely on par with the french rcir the peas i'm gonna try them out on their own they seem potentially mushy well two of them were and one wasn't that's kind of a mixed bag they just kind of melt in your mouth we get like twice as many peas as you do meatballs but look at the size ratio it's kind of funny like i'd just prefer to get more protein anyway i mean peas have protein and carbohydrates fiber vitamin a but this right here this is the star of the meal right here these meatballs look how lean that is so this soup getting down to the bottom yeah there's some dried onion a little bit of basil the croutons after a while they get pretty nice and soft it's a light amount of salt that was awesome it's not over seasoned it's not overly salted these meatballs totally don't taste like they came out of a can that's for sure that was perfect so let's check out this gum looks like a big chicklet oh wow that's a strong spearmint that's pretty good gum too it was a little bit firm to the chew so this was a spanish armed forces individual combat ration definitely one of the best military rations ever produced and currently in service highly recommended to anybody who's into rations thanks so much again to mre mountain for hooking me up with this thing this was definitely an awesome experience well anyway this is steve 1989 off mre info hope you liked the video and i'll be coming back at you with something new or old all right cool see ya [Music] you

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Id: hpwIJVt_5L0

Length: 36min 59sec (2219 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 28 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Eyeless_Sid]

I can't believe I just watched that whole video.

[u/TrollingEntity]

Nice!

[u/[deleted]]

Galician Stew, or Caldo Gallego as it’s known in Spanish is an amazing soup that I really recommend trying if you guys ever get the chance. It’s so hearty and rich, and the bits of pork with fat on them are sooooo good. It also makes for an excellent late night drunk meal. My mom is Spanish and I’ve had most of these meals homemade, and I’m so impressed with how delicious and amazing these MRE versions look.

[u/RazsterOxzine]

He seems kinda jittery.

[u/jamesfinity]

seems weird that the breakfast doesn't have coffee?