American tries a Canadian MRE!

all right y'all welcome back to comet arms channel okay so today we're checking out a canadian mre so again we've checked out a bunch of different mres we checked out norwegian rations swedish rations british rations estonian rations french rations we've checked out a lot of different rations today we're checking out canadian ration now i've not heard many things about these i'm not sure if they're going to be good or not i'm not even sure what canadian cuisine generally consists of i would imagine it'd be like a mix of you know some stuff coming up from america and then also some french stuff so i'm not really sure so i guess we're going to find out whenever we open this sucker up so this is menu number eight which is beef macaroni now immediately this sounds like something in the u.s ration we call chili mac but you know without the chili now this was sent by fan so thank you mark for sending it over i do appreciate it and thank you guys for for just sending stuff in general of course if you send like patches or any sort of like military stuff you'll probably see it on the patch wall back here and if you send me rations of course i'm gonna try and check it out on camera so thank you guys for thank you guys for the content really and thank you for supporting channel this way it's really awesome to be able to to share this sort of stuff with everyone else but again canadian ration not really too sure if these have a stigma i know u.s rations have a sigma and i mean you guys were telling me that british rations were really good i don't know if you guys were like trying to prank me or whatnot but british ration wasn't that good but at the same time i didn't really know how to eat everything you guys were telling me all these awesome combinations after the fact so yeah canadian ration let's i mean i guess we can just get right into it so it says like us on facebook so they have a qr code i don't know if my camera is going to focus on that much so you guys can actually go to that but okay i guess they have a facebook page which is i mean it's pretty bold i mean i imagine these rations have to be pretty good if they have a facebook page for them so yeah i'm expecting a lot but yeah it's menu eight beef macaroni so yeah let's let's open it up it's really it's about the same size as a normal us ration so i guess this is not like a 24-hour ration so yeah all right let's open up see what's inside so i don't know the right way to open this it is like a plastic bag which is kind of cool a lot easier to get into than the u.s rations those can be sort of a pain in the butt so it looks like it's like multi-layered paper almost okay and then we have a bunch of loose items on the inside so you guys can sort of see that so i mean i'd like to just dump it all out but i think it's a lot cooler if we just do it one by one so you guys can sort of see it like that okay so i think we have a meal here this looks very reminiscent to a us ration okay this is our beef macaroni right there pretty standard packaging so it looks like we have some water ground beef tomato paste macaroni okay so pretty much just macaroni with beef and like a tomato sauce so okay that's our main meal right there we have some oh hell yeah some peanut butter peanut butter is an awesome thing for rations it's in the u.s rations you can trade peanut butter for a lot of good stuff so if you have peanut butter you're definitely in luck so this is some canadian peanut butter so i mean okay never mind it's made by stone mountain in georgia so it's probably going to taste exactly like the u.s russian peanut butter but you might that's totally fine it has a canadian maple leaf on it so that's kind of cool all right we have some tabasco sauce hot sauce is awesome or pepper sauce whatever you want to call it it's always nice to have some tabasco sauce for just seasoning some stuff up you never really know when something's going to be super bland all right some strawberry jam again strawberry jam is awesome you can't really go too wrong when you're talking about strawberry jam okay so let's sort of put that to the side oh we have some nest cafe so this is yeah just some instant coffee it's pretty big pouch i gotta say so you're supposed to mix it with 245 milliliters of water which uh maybe is like around eight milliliters or something so there are eight fluid ounces so yeah it's pretty good package some nest cafe i've had nest cafe a lot it's pretty generic instant coffee but maybe they have some good stuff so okay it's always good to have some coffee oh dude a mars bar so we don't really have as far as i'm aware we still don't have mars bars in the u.s so i'm not sure if this is just like a a gift from the is mars like a a british thing because i always hear like the brits refer to mars bars as like their generic chocolate bar or something so is it a british thing or is it like a canadian thing so i did not know canada messed with mars bars but okay i'm excited to check that out i don't think i've actually had a mars bar i've had like a normal british cadbury dairy milk and that was really solid but i've never had a mars bar so that is awesome i'm excited to check that out that's kind of cool to have that in a ration too it's hard to get name brand stuff in rations sometimes in the u.s we have eminence and skittles but i mean m m's were made for ration so it's it's kind of standard to have those in there okay so we have some tortillas this again looks pretty standard to what you'd see in u.s rations so it's probably going to look and taste exactly the same but there you go some tortillas it's a pretty nice packaging and it's not all like that annoying like this isn't like that annoying metal packaging seems like a little bit easier to to throw away and whatnot and open up so okay some some tortillas i guess if we want to use that with the beef macaroni we can okay so what do we have here compressed napkin that's pretty cool it's like a little napkin that you add water to now i've seen this with like kids toys because they'll have like these little kid capsules or capsules with like all these cartoon characters you throw it in the water turns into like a washcloth or something i've not seen this that's going to be fun to check out a little compressed napkin i mean i don't know how much napkins i mean they don't generally take up that much space but i mean if this turns into like a pretty big napkin that'd be kind of cool but okay we'll have to check that out i don't know i've never seen that before but it's kind of cool trying new things in a ration we have some peanut butter and banana trail mix that sounds really legit so sweetened banana chips i don't think there's i don't think i've ever had anything banana in any sort of ration so i'm really excited about this so yeah it looks like it's just peanut butter and banana so peanut butter banana chips bunch of good stuff okay that's gonna be legit i'm excited to check that out for sure so okay we have some actual napkins here or maybe just like a yeah it's pretty big and pretty thick too it's almost like a almost like a cloth but yeah just like a paper towel right here so if you want to use that you can clean some stuff up hell yeah okay we have a canadian spork so this says sterling so i'm not really too familiar it feels and looks like a us mre spoon except it looks like it's just cut to be like made into a spork so that's legit i do like getting new sporks i think we have like a swedish spork and a norwegian spork no no we have a i think we have a norwegian and a british pork so far and then we also have like that little french spork as well so okay that's cool we have another spork added to our collection now okay we have looks like a beverage bag so pretty standard beverage bag there we have an orange drink or two orange drinks actually so yeah these are just your i mean it just sounds like your standard orange drink mix so it's probably gonna be pretty granular and not really mixed too well to be honest so i'm not expecting a whole lot out of these gotta say we have some matches pretty standard just looks like normal matches you get in u.s rations we have some tic tacs that's kind of cool like you'll get like gum or something in us rations so i mean there's that it's not really the best gum i don't even know what brand it is but it's kind of cool to get some some name brand tic tacs i don't know if you have to worry so much about your breath smelling good to be honest whenever you're actually eating an mre but i mean it is what it is if you want to be nice to your buddies you can you know have these or you can just pop them in as a little bit of a snack or a pick-me-up or something so i mean it's cool and it's also it's just cool to see name brand stuff in a ration especially if you're like deployed or whatnot it's cool to see some some stuff that you would see in your actual country just like you know a little creature comfort right there and then the last thing in here is a dessert so this is sliced pears okay so it's probably going to be like the the pears that we have so it's just like you know a pouch or something so all right that's pretty good again getting any sort of fruit in a ration is nice i mean it's cool to have freeze-dried stuff but when you can have stuff in a pouch that's kind of cool too they generally don't taste the freshest again understandably it is packaged a certain way but it is nice to have like something that's a little bit more moist if you will but yeah that's pretty much everything right there so i'll give you guys a little bit of a close-up and then i'll start trying some stuff out but i'm really really excited about this mars bar and also this peanut butter banana trail mix because i mean trail mix is just awesome to have in the field so all right i'll give you guys close-ups so you guys can check everything out okay so here is everything so again we have our our peanut butter and our jam here we have our orange drink mixes we have our trail mix here the beverage bag all the little small stuff we got the awesome spork and then we have oh yeah that mars bar i'm really excited about that i'm i feel like i'm going to get let down because i feel like it's just a generic chocolate bar or something but i don't know it's just it's cool to try popular stuff from other places the tortillas we got the the beef macaroni the sliced pears and yeah it's pretty much everything this is going to be cool to check out though this little compressed napkin so all right yeah let's start opening some stuff up and chucking it out okay so i don't know what to start with first there's not a whole lot of like snacks so i mean there's that and there's also not a heater so of course in the u.s rations we have our flameless ration heater so i'm not sure if you guys in canada get issued your own like little stove sets or something because we've seen that with other rations where you have like the little stove set and you can use that to heat up your stuff but yeah i'm not really sure how y'all would do it but i'm sure you get issued something that's probably why it's not included in the ration itself so okay i want to try out this peanut butter and banana trail mix like right away i'm not really sure it's peanut butter but i don't think you need to mix anything with it so let's just let's get this open and see what it looks like it feels like it's almost like a granola but it is like a trail mix so i guess it's just gonna be like a powdered peanut butter or something okay so this is kind of interesting so again we have the banana chips if you guys can see that we have the banana chips but then we also have some looks like some knock off like m ms then we also have some other stuff so let's see okay so we also have some like coconuts and whatnot in here so i'm not really sure where the peanut butter is exactly unless these are like reese's pieces that might actually be the case like these might be like reese's pieces and that's sort of where the peanut butter comes from but all right so yeah that's pretty much it so let's try it out [Music] hmm yeah i'm sure you canadians have some pretty solid jawlines after eating this sort of stuff yeah so it is like the reese's pizzas so that's where the peanut butter comes from the banana chips are pretty good but those coconut chunks are super hard and i feel like i'm about to like break my jaw eating them to be honest [Music] yeah banana chips aren't really too hard but these coconut pieces are i don't know they're really rough [Music] yeah so i'll try a little bit more because it's really good i'll say that it is extremely good and a really nice combination with peanut butter and banana the coconut throws it off a little bit but i mean it's nice having coconut ration you don't really see that too much besides like chicken korma yeah really solid combination but this has 20 of your fat and also 55 of your saturated fat and 18 grams of sugar 3 grams of protein so not generally the healthiest but if you're trying to get some long-term energy this is definitely the way to go i just i imagine if it gets cold it might be much harder to eat so yeah i don't know i'm sure you guys have some really really solid jawlines but yeah for me i'm good tastes great but i don't want to chew any more of that because it's kind of jacking up my jaw a little bit i gotta say okay so let's check out hmm let's just check out these tortillas again i think these are gonna be exactly how we see them in the u.s rations which are i don't know they're kind of like not really rubbery they're just very very fake tortillas there's no crisp to them at all yeah yeah okay these are even more so so if you guys can see that that like shine on them they're almost like oh man these are like worse than u.s rations i think these are yeah they're very very artificial um they feel like [Music] they feel like if you take a mouse mat that's really thin and then just try and eat it like you guys can hear it just it feels like a mouse mat almost so like kind of cushiony but you know somewhat edible i guess so yeah let's try it out i know exactly what it's going to taste like because i've had a lot of these unfortunately [Music] yeah i mean they're not they're really not that bad i've snacked on them a lot just by themselves and i'm not sure if that's like a weird thing to do but i mean i tend to just throw these in my pocket and when i really really need something to eat i'll take them out but otherwise i don't really mess with them too much i usually trade them for like other things like crackers or bread or whatnot so yeah not the greatest but it is what it is so let's check out these sliced pairs again i think these are just going to be like the pears and like that weird mix okay yeah so here's the pouch right here and then yeah you can just feel it's in like a little like some some jelly almost some like weird liquid so let's see i guess we don't have so 28 grams of sugar so yeah there's definitely some added sugar in here but i mean it is what it is it's kind of just like canned pears if you buy them from the store so open it up yeah and you guys can see i'll try and get one of these on a on the spork so that's pretty much what it is it's just it's just sliced pears they're not diced or anything but this is nice to have especially in the morning or if you just need like it's not really something that you can take out and eat easily especially when this stuff gets all over the place because if you're spilling this juice all over the place it has a pretty strong smell so if you're doing like a lot of like crazy recce stuff might not want to eat these on the move but yeah it's nice when you get to sit down and enjoy these because yeah they're pretty nice and they're pretty nice in the field especially not a whole lot of fruit in the field oh that tasted kind of weird it's not like spoiled or anything and i can tell it's not really spoiled but it kind of tastes a little bit off and i know i might just be like the added sugar in that but it wasn't really that refreshing i gotta say i don't know it's weird it's like they took flavor out of them out of the pears which i guess happens when when it's in a ration but okay um i mean it's not horrible it's still not horrible but it's definitely a little bit off there's something in there that kind of throws it off a bit okay so i want to get into this beef macaroni again i think it's just going to be macaroni and like a tomato sauce with some some beef thrown in there so probably not going to be the best thing it's probably just going to smell like if you guys have chef boy rds where you where you are just like a canned spaghetti that's probably what it's going to smell and taste like because when you see any sort of like pasta in a tomato sauce in a ration it almost always has the same smell and taste we're sort of surprised with some of the stuff we've had but yeah generally it tastes and smells pretty similar yeah so it smells exactly the same we'll try it out i'm not gonna clean this spark off too much because it's not much on it but yeah it's definitely more beef and sauce heavy if you guys i try and get this on a spoon there are noodles of course but it's definitely a lot more of beef and sauce you kind of have to fish for the noodles a little bit at first but they might have just settled to the bottom so let's try this out it does look kind of similar to the chili mac that we have just not as like spicy i guess so let's try it out [Music] hmm you can never really go wrong with this the reason why they have this exact like flavor combination in so many rations it's just a very simple thing to put together it works really well in a ration and you also don't really need to heat it up to enjoy it like even cold it's pretty good so i gotta say this is this is a little bit better than we have with like it's not really like a chili mac but it's better than the spaghetti and and meat sauce we have in our rations yeah i like that one that definitely tasted a lot fresher than some of the stuff you see in u.s rations and i don't know why maybe it's just newer because a lot of times the stuff we get is pretty old but now i don't really know how to explain it but i think that macaroni and sauce was a little bit more refreshing than the pears actually was and i don't really i mean the term refreshing is sort of you know subjective i guess but i don't know it just it tasted better i think at room temperature that tastes a lot better than the pears does if the pears was like a little bit colder maybe it would be better but yeah i think i think just having it settled having the pears settle with the sugar kind of threw it off a bit but that was solid so that was a good one i'm not really sure i want to sort of leave this mars bar to the end we can try this peanut butter though because i mean peanut butter you can't really go wrong with it and i mean rash and peanut butter generally taste pretty similar except for that weird i think it was like the sweetest peanut butter we had that was pretty cool okay oh man you have to like breach this peanut butter pouch that was pretty cool because it had like a lot more sugar and like texture in it than most peanut butter does but yeah this looks like a pretty generic peanut butter it's just like a creamy peanut butter definitely better when you warm it up a bit start you know get it started but yeah if you guys can see that it's just pretty generic peanut butter there's not really a whole lot to say about it it's probably going to taste exactly the same as our us stuff because it's made by the same people yep it's a it's rash and peanut butter so there's not anything in there sometimes in the u.s rations you can have crunchy peanut butter which i hate i mean i think crunchy peanut butter in general is that kind of weird i gotta say it's nice having a little bit of texture like natural texture but when you have just like peanuts embedded into it not a fan if you guys are a fan of crunchy peanut butter let me know in the comment section try and defend it because uh i think it's pretty barbaric and i'm i'm not a fan so okay let's put that aside and get the strawberry jam again i think this is made by the same people yeah it is so this is going to taste the same as our strawberry jam if i had known this was so hard to get into i would have brought my breaching kit or at least like a knife or something i don't know why these are a little bit harder to to get into the normal rations maybe because i'm not an infantryman anymore i'm not eating these as much maybe i'm just getting soft or something i don't know what it is but all right so we we breached it a little bit let's check it out [Music] holy good grief man yeah the first ingredient is sugar and it tastes exactly like that it literally tastes like sugar with like an afterthought of strawberries i don't know if that's the same as what we have in u.s rations it probably is and i just didn't notice but yeah that is um oh that is some pretty gnarly stuff i mean you could throw in a little bit more strawberry and a little bit less sugar i think it would be fine but holy cow that is like just tastes like straight sugar so i'm not really sure what you're going to use it with either because like i mean you could probably use it with the tortillas by itself i guess or you could use tortillas with the macaroni and sauce but i don't know you're not really going to use it with the pears and you're probably not going to use it with a peanut butter banana trail mix so i don't know kind of a weird add-in normally at least like with the rations that we have you have like a piece of bread you can throw this on if you have peanut butter you'll have like a piece of bread or something you can throw it on so it's kind of weird that it's just added in there but i mean i guess it's nice if you want to do some trades and whatnot uh i i don't know i probably wouldn't trade anything for that because it's pretty pretty harsh so okay i think it's time to do the mars bar and then we'll get to the coffee and then we'll try out this cool compressed napkin so all right mars bar don't let me down yeah i mean it looks about as sugary and you know unhealthy as most american candy does so i don't know let's open it up see what's see what it looks like immediately it looks like a snickers i'm not really sure what what exactly is inside here okay sugar corn syrup milk cocoa butter so is it just like let's just break it open and see it looked like a snickers at first okay so it's just got like i guess that's like nougat with some sort of maybe like caramel or something all right i mean i can tell that oh man that just smells like a really good like dairy milk or like a milk chocolate like the dairy milks in the uk are just really solid some of the best milk chocolate i've ever had and this taste or this this smell is very reminiscent of that so yeah let's try it out yeah oh yeah you can definitely taste the difference in the i don't know where this came from but you can really taste the difference in the milk chocolate especially much better so this is uh i think this was manufactured in canada but i don't know what you guys do different with your milk chocolate but it always tastes so much better so yeah mars canada i guess maybe you guys follow the same recipe as they do over in the uk but yeah this milk chocolate is just leagues above what we have in the us and i don't know what it is i heard some brits say you like hershey bars which i don't understand that at all i think hershey bars is like f-tier candy f-tier chocolate even it's just like it's the worst it has no flavor even if you get like the dark hershey bar it's got like nothing going on for it like if you compare that with like a toblerone or like a british dairy milk not even close so this yeah leaves a bet above any sort of hershey bar or you know a lot of chocolate bars you'd get in the us so very solid awesome thing to have in here honestly you could have a ration with just like three of these and i'd be perfectly content with that probably not going to take you very far because it's really not that healthy but man it would just it would be awesome snacking on these all day so it's a nice thing to have i would actually eat that i don't tend to eat the candy in the u.s rations but that is just it's good and i don't feel as guilty eating it just because it tastes better and less sugary all right so we're gonna make this coffee i mean tabasco sauce is tabasco sauce tick tacks or tic tacs and then we can make this orange drink and also check out these cool napkins so we'll go do that right now [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so okay so we have the orange drink here and then we also have the coffee so now something that i noticed when i was actually pouring the coffee is it looked a lot lighter than normal and that's because it has like the cream and sugar already mixed in which is just i mean it's kind of like a genius idea i didn't even know that you would you could do that i mean it makes a lot of sense that you could do that but i've never went out and bought it i've bought instant coffee before but i've never actually bought or even seen the stuff that has the cream and sugar already mixed in so that's just that's such a cool idea i don't normally drink black coffee not a fan of it at all but i'll drink it for these ration videos and that's kind of what i was expecting to do for this one but yeah i mean that's kind of a pleasant surprise so we'll start with the orange drink because again i'm expecting it just to be a little bit more actually now i'll start with the coffee first because i think if i go to the orange orange has a weird tendency of leaving like a flavor on your tongue it makes everything taste horrible so i'm gonna start with coffee so i think that's a that's a safer bet especially so yeah let's try it out again it looks pretty legit you guys can see when i was mixing it it looks like it's got the cream and sugar already added in so that's awesome it's like a little cappuccino or something [Music] okay wow so in u.s rations we have like cappuccino mixes which you know you'd have to use a flameless ration heater and whatnot to heat up inside the beverage bag but this tastes like one of those cappuccino mixes which i didn't actually look at the packaging so i'm not really sure what it was advertised as but i know it just it looked like it was just like a creamy coffee or something but yeah it tastes like there's those cappuccino mixes so it's got like a cream and a sugar but it's also got like you know more flavor than normal coffee would have so yeah it's good it's really good actually honestly that's probably the best instant coffee we've had any in any of the rations and well yeah i would say it is now the french instant coffee was really really good that was the best we had so far but it was still black coffee and i don't generally drink black coffee like that so this is definitely my favorite so far so let's try out this orange drink again i think this is going to be pretty generic it mixed pretty well i mean with u.s ration mixes they generally don't mix that well so i mean there's that yeah but it tastes exactly the same so maybe they just changed up the it might exactly it might be the exact same stuff we get in us rations so maybe they just changed it up a little bit but or maybe i can actually mix it accurately since i'm not in the field so that's pretty good i mean it's it's kind of refreshing it just tastes very artificial as you can understand yeah it tastes like i don't know if you guys have sunny d where you're from it's kind of like the worst thing ever it's like orange juice but just like awful this tastes like sunny d but slightly better so i don't know if you guys have sunny d where you're from i'll post a picture of it right here if you guys have some sunny d where you're from let me know and i drank it a lot when i was growing up but i would never think to buy it now as an adult because it's just it's just an abomination of a drink basically but yeah that's basically the ration video so that coffee definitely the highlight also that peanut butter banana coconut mix was good it'd be a lot better if it was a little bit easier to chew i mean the macaroni and tomato sauce can't go wrong with that tortilla i mean it is what it is peanut butter is nice to have the strawberry jam was okay that little napkin that was pretty cool and it was also like a lot stronger than i thought so i mean yeah i mean i don't know i don't think it's really too convenient to have to add water to to make a napkin i gotta say just all i know is whenever i'm out in the field and i don't have a whole lot of water to go around because i just have like two canteens or whatnot it's kind of a pain in the butt when i need to use it for brushing my teeth drinking you know adding water to a paper towel it's kind of a pain in the butt so i don't know if i would necessarily agree with doing that i mean the us rations we have you know tissue paper we also have like these little moist towelettes so i mean that kind of suffices i just it's kind of a pain in the butt whenever you need to source water from anything in the field especially when you need to go walk somewhere and do that because you try and be as lazy as possible when you're in the field but yeah that's basically this ration review so a solid ration really not anything special to be honest it it's very similar to a u.s ration i gotta say that except some of the items taste a little bit better some taste a little bit worse you know kind of like the tortillas and the pears but yeah pretty standard ration it was missing some of the stuff that we would see with a lot of normal rations like a heater or whatnot and again i think you you guys probably get issued some sort of stove or some sort of heating contraption so if you're in the canadian military let me know what you use to actually heat up your food if you do you know use anything you might just tough it out and i mean i've seen you guys with your your grizzled beers and whatnot so you guys are pretty tough i think you're going to be good eating cold food but let me know if you have any heating contraptions for any of your rations so i try and keep it pretty authentic with how i you know try not to add anything that you can't source from the ration itself so i try and keep it pretty authentic again i'm not going to try and heat it up it's really not that big of a deal tasted pretty decent cold so yeah but yeah let me know if you guys are in the canadian military let me know what you think of your rations and if you've had any rations from like the us or otherwise let me know how those compare to your rations but i think they're pretty much on par with us rations so generally not that great i say if i had to rate it out of 10 i would give this one maybe like a a 6.8 or something it's it's okay the coffee definitely brought it up a lot but a lot of the other stuff brought it down a bit the mars bar was good that snack was good but again it's just pretty generic so yeah let me know what you guys think of the video let me know what you think of these items specifically if you have them in your rations as well let me know again that mars bar was on point so definitely higher quality chocolate than you'd see with us stuff so yeah i do appreciate it thank you guys for watching thank you again for sharing all your stuff with me if you guys aren't subscribed definitely consider subscribing i do appreciate it again i think about 92 percent of y'all aren't subscribed and again that's just the nature of my videos they kind of jump around a lot i do a lot of videos pertaining to different countries so if you guys you know if you like checking out content about different countries or seeing reaction videos about other cool military stuff feel free to hit that subscribe button i do appreciate it thank you guys for watching comment and let me know what you think and send any other recommendations my way thank you again that is it for this video i'll see you on the next one you

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Length: 31min 23sec (1883 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021