1997 Vintage British 24 hour Ration Pack Tasting Oldest ORP MRE Food Review From Stickyfingaz745

[@VenerableEvil]

9:43 Steve's child-like joy over the Duncan's Rum & Raisin bar makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

[@kalibuskristof2174]

That's probably the rum...

[@charleslisauskas9067]

It makes me feel jelly

[@mojostevo]

"Look at that 19 year old chocolate, looking perfect. Hey you, yeah." My wife from the other room: "Uhhh, what the hell are you watching?!"

[@natewokurka7120]

mojostevo same 😂😂

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

what if she missheard it for " that 19 yr old tastes perfect "

[@TMWill-fi5fy]

😂😂😂

[@Romanamon]

Cannot. Breathe.

[@mahrufurrahman9759]

@@girlsdrinkfeck hùùkⁿf

[@ste887]

fun fact, oatmeal block + 2 creamer + 4 sugar + 200ml hot water = instant porrige, my choice instead of the biscuit on cold nights

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

Always added the hot choc as well.

[@andrewemery8495]

Ah, the oatmeal block! Pure nectar.

[@alexarcano]

Btw, purple sweets in the UK generally are not grape, it's usually black current.

[@TimmiTification]

Blackcurrant*

[@alexarcano]

+Tim Boddington yup, autocorrect is annoying.

[@SwampCeeMcGee60]

I'm moving to the UK. Grape flavour is disgusting. I welcome blackcurrant.

[@MaxmadV8]

+And I Keselowski (MeDaWonderWoman) we also have a drink you dilute with water called blackcurrant. you Americans don't use what we call fruit squash. concentrated fruit juice. you use power like cool aid except you don't need a whole bloody cup of sugar to make blackcurrant squash. unlike koolaid

[@SwampCeeMcGee60]

simonrcz I usually drink my Kool-Aid without sugar. I don't want to intake unnecessary calories from sugar because I'm already a fat ass 👍😉

[@hughjass5156]

I opened my fridge today and spied some week old chili mac. I ate i while pretending to be you. Nice!

[@richardhead7161]

Nice!

[@sameelatif]

fridge-excavator-archaeologist-master-general

[@scottcarter2929]

Hugh Jass your a hard man but no one is as hard as old steve irion guts

[@raminahmadi3000]

mmm check that out :D has that metallic smell, hey that's still perfectly good XD

[@__The_Real_V__]

Alright. Cool

[@OneEyePI]

I joined the army in Jan 98 so this made me smile bigtime. A couple of observations: You didnt get a breakfast with what you had there - you had 2 main meals (the pasta and the stew) and a desert (the choc pudding). Your lunch was the primula, biscuits brown and soup if you had time. Breakfast (if I remember right) was bacon and beans, burger and beans, sausage and beans or corned beef hash. I didnt eat baked beans when I joined, but I soon learned to love them Duncans chocolate was indeed good - sometimes there would be a yorkie bar or rolos too The oatmeal block could be used to make porridge, but this was usually done using the 10 man rat packs in field kitchens. Everyone takes the piss out of the chefs in the army but by God those guys could work miracles The best possible combo in my opinion was corned beef hash for breakfast, Lancashire hotpot for dinner and treacle pudding for desert. I used to swap my deserts and get another Lancashire hotpot That primula cheese was always rank The older packs had meat spread which was great - my youngest son and I recently found one dated 1989 at my parents house, which we ate. It was good. The coffee in the rations that preceded these was fucking awful. However, the "A" menu had a tin of chicken curry and boil in the bag rice, which was fabulous We used to stockpile these for when you had a late night in the pub and then heat them up by ironing them of boiling them in the kettle In my opinion, these rations were really, really good. I understand why they were changed after the shift to fighting in hot climates, but for a squaddie languishing in a firetrench in rainy wester europe, these things were bloody excellent.

[@OneEyePI]

@Gabriel thank you Gabriel, that's kind of you

[@jamesmcguire5018]

20 weeks in Basra in 2003 thank god for menu a

[@barrymerchant3320]

The Pasta would be for breakfast

[@wingbeater]

Pasta for breakfast, cheese, snacks and biscuits for lunch on the move the chicken and dumplings for dinner. Or you could do an ‘all in’ 😁

[@javathechava26]

my dad used to bring these back for me when he'd been on exercise. I can visually smell the contents by memory.

[@insertnamehere2635]

Wish my dad had saved some of his but he ate them all 😂

[@simonking195]

Biscuit Browns - you wont shit for a week Biscuit Fruits - counteract the Browns. British Military fact 101 :D

[@drbarnowl]

They actually focused on making them block you up - shitting on maneuvers consumes time, especially when you consider that unless your platoon syncs their bowels like women sync their periods, that someone is going to need a shit every hour or less. There were rumours that they purposefully added a constipant to them in addition to making the meals as low-fibre as possible.

[@eldenboi8354]

Stuart Elms hahahahahahaha

[@user-op1tq9ur3t]

Lol

[@philstaples8122]

The earlier rations packs ( 70's - 80's ) had Biscuits AB often called Biscuits Anal Blockage

[@jackmehoffe9372]

Getting down with Biscuits Brown!

[@thecodex0994]

I remember when my dad used to come back off exercises and he would save the boiled sweet and bisket fruit for me and my sister back in the late 80s early 90s

[@thecodex0994]

Its been 3 years since this comment posted and a single spelling mistake has been picked up congratulations you win nothing.

[@hechler444]

Before I started watching Steve, I didn't eat anything past best by or expiration date. Now it's not an issue

[@Jermster_91]

Eyes mold on bread "Nice".

[@insertnamehere2635]

Yeah if he can eat a hard tack from1863 i can eat something thats still from the same century

[@floydvaughn836]

I had a friend with a surplus store and an ancient MCI on a shelf. Tuna and a B1 unit. Over time it began to leak. Me: Dave, when are you gonna eat that? Dave: when it crawls over here and tells me to. RIP, Dave. Semper Fi.

[@wea69420]

seeing what this man puts himself through kinda reframes your world ngl

[@williaml.6922]

@hechler444: The best by and expiration dates are merely suggestions in some instances. 😃

[@frozyre7854]

Steve today is incredibly chill, honed his craft and more in the know about what he's dealing with. The Steve of the past, sounded awfully care-free, cautious, joyful and energetic. This is quite an experience to hear a more enlightened Steve.

[@ReclaimingRob81]

Biscuits Brown sounds like a 70's nickname...

[@408lurks]

Rob Houston comment of the century

[@lilmelon5400]

Rob Houston Lol. Right next to stevie wonder. But is a nice legit one

[@msmurder81]

Rob Houston damn it I can't stop laughing over this.

[@jakecheesman2883]

Rob Houston that's hilarious my friend😂😂😂

[@lancetennenbaum2509]

Boxy Brown from ATHF?

[@leahnewman5678]

Steve, awesome channel. I was a British soldier in the 90s. The Donald's chocolate was currency amongst the troops! The way everyone ate their oatmeal block was to put it in the hot chocolate with some biscuits fruit and crumble it up until it made the most amazing chocolate oatmeal dessert (maybe with some Donalds melted in too!) Rations of this period were pretty good!

[@bennym5244]

It was called Duncan's. Where were you on active?

[@mjona1754]

Training staff went berserk with us if anything was cooked inside the mess tin. "The reason you numties eat the scran in the bag is so that you don't get the squirts in the field coz you can't clean your tins properly, now see that tree at 2"o" clock on that hill......last one back goes again. Lesson learned.

[@sh1tbomb]

Oat block, biscuits brown and biscuits fruit will last longer than Britain itself .

[@michelguevara151]

🤣

[@chrisgreen3962]

Because I'm thinking right now greggs sausage rolls are being cooked that will outlast the UK

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

george barlow - I think I once had a pre-Battle of Hastings ‘Oat Block’ biscuit.

[@ELUSIVEJIM]

Unfortunately Duncan's Chocolate lost its contract for the MOD in 2003 which in turn put he company into liquidation. The £700,000 a year contract for the MOD went to Nestle. So no more rum and raisin from this great Scottish company.

[@yoyoholck]

Britain selling out their own companies

[@lefroy1]

Blair. Labour. Enough said.

[@jdh6752]

I still really crave Duncan's hazelnut chocolate. And Mackintosh's Golden Cup

[@gulfrelay2249]

@@lefroy1 is it ironic? Labor/Liberal/worker's parties are always selling out Laborers/ workers?

[@JS-sy8do]

What the heck! That's a shame.

[@TarHeelBrit]

Those matches are far superior to the pinky red ones we get in current rat packs. Dude stay away from the Biscuits Brown. There's a reason they're known as Biscuits AB or Biscuits Arse Blockers. You won't go for days it your eat them.

[@SuperMikeFender]

My father's friend who is in the RAF managed to procure me a ration pack when I was around 10 years old (I was born in '92). I saved it and took it on a camping trip with my family. It practically fed me for 3 days at that age. I still have the matches somewhere but could never light them. I really smiled when I found this video because as soon as I saw that chocolate and the pasta and meatballs I knew the chicken was coming and the chocolate pudding! Only thing mine didn't have was the Primula cheese.

[@whlrradio]

Your voice calms me down like you wouldn't believe!

[@kristenking669]

Raymond Mathhens Its ASMR. he's amazing at it!

[@Sticky745]

Whooo Hooo!! That was an awesome review! I finally get to see this gem in action, and to see how amazingly it held up! Great review brotha, I'm glad your wish finally came through. The raisin rum chocolate looked impeccable, that is crazy! It looks like it was in a time capsule, that took you back to that time.. Great stuff! Keep up the cool vids and cool muzic!

[@moog1975]

hey good lookin out he really made this review great u can hear the pure excitement in his voice

[@02tyrb]

*opening meatballs and pasta* *looks inside* "oh uh eh ew, looks fine"

[@sfoemw]

Its funny when he keeps going back in to smell things that smell bad 😂

[@SimderZ]

Yeah, we tend not to have grape flavoured things in the uk.. Purple = Blackcurrant

[@jameslewis2635]

The British army have long known the addage that an army marches on its stomach. I am suprised how well it lasted though. Your comments about it being perfect for a cold or rainy day is quite apt as that is two things that the British are very familiar with.

[@David-tm4yj]

The oatmeal block is supposed to be broken up and added to creamer,sugar and hot water to make a kind of porridge, i was given that tip by a drill instructor in 1989 and it has served me well :-)

[@Jermster_91]

Looks like a Cookie

[@tomw9659]

In the U.K. It's day of the month/month /year not month/day of the month

[@adamt7667]

Tom W as it should be in the civilised world

[@phonkey]

The only civilized format is ISO 8601: yyyy-mm-dd

[@locutus155]

Smallest to largest simple.

[@B2091]

I remember the yorkie chocolate bars in these normal ones said "not for girls". Army ones used to say "not for civvies"

[@CallieCrossroad]

That is adorable

[@SBry94]

I was in the cadets over 10 years ago. we got issued rations on camps. The rations they gave us were always at least 2-3 years out of date. I remember ripping a ‘not for civvies’ yorkie bar in open to be greeted by a once brown, now white bar of chocolate. Steve would of loved it!

[@tams805]

@@SBry94 You missed out on the Duncan's Chocolate. When I was in cadets we sometimes got 90s rat packs.

[@FrigidPhoenix]

I recently found your channel, I find it extremely interesting seeing what they ate in the military and im always amazed by how well most things are preserved despite being 10 + years old. A couple of these things I would try myself it looks so good hahaha. Great reviews, looking forward to seeing more.

[@samlaw9938]

I used to mix the hot chocolate drink with the oatmeal block and a suger, was an amazing porridge😋

[@Silverjaine]

I was 18 when i started watching this channel now I'm almost 26 .. And i hope you keep uploading new videos cuz i keep coming back to watch old ones. :(

[@MrPlusses]

You and this ration need to find a motel room.lol Thumbs up for another video treat.

[@Jaybird196]

:)

[@frootloot6789]

@Maevna omg 😂😂😂😂

[@rroberts6800]

You've got an incredible pallet dude. You're articulate about it too. slick

[@pete48172]

Yay - now this is my era :-). Sorry you got Menu G - who wants pasta for breakfast? (Yeah, you mixed up the meals wrong). Biscuits Fruit are obviously awesome, I'd buy em now for a snack if I could. A lot of people aren't keen on Biscuits Brown, but I always liked them with the cheese or meat paste (even if the latter was a little too much like cat food). Older rations had proper teabags instead of the instant stuff, and actually I think they went back to bags for a while after (or maybe we just got some older batches). Green boilies :-). The oatmeal block I was told was a leftover from the older Compo rations, where it was meant to be crumbled and boiled with water into porridge - in the ORPs it was officially just a kind of biscuit to be eaten as is, but if we had the time and spare water we'd sometimes make it the old way, with a bit of the creamer and sometimes chocolate powder added (though of course you'd need to clean the mess tin afterwards) Yep, we had a batch of rations where we were ordered not to eat the primula - story was that for each batch they kept a sample case back at RLC HQ, and each year they'd open one and test if it was still safe. If the answer was no, they'd send out a signal to the whole army saying to ditch that batch if you had any. Probably bollocks. Sad to hear that these are apparently hard to get hold of now - to us they were nothing special and I used to kind of assume I could find them on eBay fairly easily if I ever had a burst of that kind of nostalgia. But I guess not. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@X737_]

Do you remember the Kendal mint cake in the early 90s ones? Yuk

[@EatsTreatsMREs]

Its now klenex extra large, it was for men just because of the size and you can buy primula cheese still in the UK, my dad loves it, he served in the 70's.

[@GraemePryce1978]

Rum & Raisin chocolate is quite common here in the UK. Our chocolate tends to be higher in milk content than o lot of other countries too, because our moderate climate suits its storage really well. The Primula cheese may have been taken out of ration packs but it's still a really popular brand with TV ads and everythign in the UK so I'm guessing losing their military contract didn't worry them too much!

[@jakubnovak9446]

I was supposed to write my research goals for morning doctors' studies interview. It's midnight and I'm binge watching stranger eating 20 year old food. AWESOME!

[@wishy6658]

Watching Steve open an MRE is like watching a kid opening a present during Christmas day.

[@atiqahdiyana5665]

When he got a chunk of the primula cheese on his fork I literally screamed “don’t you dare Steve!” And thank god he didn’t eat it. We need you alive man

[@29jug11]

What you thing is a artificial Grape flavour, is in fact....Black Currant......A fruit super rich in Vitamin C

[@tomo870]

You'd actually eat the pasta meatballs for breakfast, if I remember at the time the other breakfast meals were sausages and baked beans or bacon and baked beans. Snacks for lunch so no main entrée, so you'd have the cheese and biscuits (there was also meat pastes at the time) fruit buscuits, soups etc. Main evening meals would of been the chicken dish and pudding, I think there was also a fruit cocktail and a rice pudding. I also recall a steak and vegetables and pasta and chicken, there was also a treacle pudding at the time. These old packs are way better than the new ones! I wasn't fussed on the chocolate at all.

[@tomo870]

+Steve1989 MREinfo The stuff we used to throw away would make you cringe mate! To be fair the food was really rich and I used to suffer with indigestion after eating it. We also used to call the drink powder (lemon & orange) screech haha, because it was really strong! Before we got the instant white tea, we would boil a little water, dissolve the boiled sweets, dip a tea bag in and add a dash of rum or brandy! Kept you warm on cold days!

[@Jaybird196]

+tomo870 When you say the "screech" was strong, do you mean that was very sweet, or bitter? Thanks.

[@tomo870]

+Jaybird196 very bitter, sour tasting. Whilst I was in Kenya, there was a lack of fresh water. The Royal Engineers detachment would pump the most foulest looking water you had ever seen from a river and turn it into drinking water. The only problem was it was heavily chlorinated. If you added the powder to a litre bottle of water it would mask the taste of the chlorine.

[@Jaybird196]

+tomo870 Hmm. That's about what I figured. I wonder if the bitterness of the powder is a holdover from WW2, as that was a common complaint, among troops who drank such, as a part of their field rations. Thanks, for telling me, BTW. I'd heard former British soldiers call it this, but I never received an answer as to why, exactly.

[@benthomaswoodward]

You could break your teeth on those treacle puddings. I bet Salisbury plain is full of buried ones.

[@mattboyd8450]

Having served in the British army my self this review braught back good memories first ration I had was meatballs and pasta. Great review love your channel.

[@stuartmays]

Thank you for the memories from a 1990s British Infantry Soldier

[@A-Negative]

Steve: (Smells cheese) “it smells like terrible BO, you know what it reminds me off? I’m not gonna say it, some things just shouldn’t be said.” Every male viewer: has a flashback and knows exactly what isnt being said.

[@jackmehoffe9372]

Smegma!

[@Spudchucker92]

Ah the awesome smell of unwashed ballsack. 😂😖

[@galaxywolf4930]

What does it smell like???

[@vincedibona4687]

Think malodorous vagina but on testosterone.

[@toniholland2430]

Oh and don't let me forget almost the best part "let's poke it with a fork,just for the heck of it!!" x'D xD rofl

[@strattubes]

Great video. You did it perfectly, editing out the chewing and other eating sounds. Left just enough of a hint of it in so that we could hear that you were experiencing the food, and almost subconsciously visualize the flavors. And you know a hell of a lot about military food. Your videos are a treat.

[@MEGA-CHAMP]

Steve do you even eat normal food?

[@Jaybird196]

+Steve1989 MREinfo ;)

[@FlankerTanker]

I have to say this was one of the most entertaining reciews I have watched for a long time. I enjoyed watching this so much. Thank you..

[@Steve1989MRE]

Hey thanks so much FlankerTanker! I searched for a long time before finding that 1996 ORP. It was an awesome experience - glad you could enjoy it to.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

In 1991, Duncan's won a Ministry of Defence contract to supply chocolate bars for military ration packs. Duncan's provided over 4 million 60g chocolate bars to the forces from 1991 until 2003. In 1991 Duncan's supplied two flavours of their bars to the MoD, a Raisin and Cereal Chocolate bar with a maroon wrapper and a plain milk bar with a blue wrapper. The milk bar had the Duncan's "Of Edinburgh" logo on it instead of the newly standard "Of Scotland" In 1992 with the new GP ration pack that had swapped from cans to pouches, there was a significant increase in the amount of Duncan's being supplied, with all menus containing at least one Duncan's bar. In 1993 and 1994 more Duncan's were being supplied to the MoD to build up ration stocks after the Gulf War, with eight flavours being supplied, these being; Rum and Raisin Raisin and Cereal Plain Milk Milk Chocolate With Mint Mint Crisp Milk Chocolate With Orange In 1995 a special "Milk chocolate, with milk" bar was put into 10 man rations, but that is the only time it has been found. Then in 1997 with the ration packs being made more mass produce-able and for cost reasons, Rum and Raisin was removed in June 1997 as were many other flavours leaving only the plain milk and raisin and cereal. Their most famous product was the walnut whip whip is now mde by Nestlé.

[@ne1273]

That cheese spread was removed from 1997 ration packs when I was in and they were in date,,, I used to put hot water and chocolate with the oatmeal block to make porridge. 👍👍. My favourite was bacon and beans ,,, Good days,,,

[@sweetestperfection90]

0:49 wow that Kleenex pack takes me right back to being a kid in the 90s, I remember that specific packaging!

[@skudzer1985]

I like how sometimes when you bring things too close to the camera the framerate goes down and it starts to look like an 80s music video.

[@SBry94]

I was in the cadet force as a kid and we used to get issued rations when out in the field. They actually banned cadets from having the powdered drinks. We used to call it ‘screech’. Sent the kids wild! I was too much of a goodie two shoes to give it a go.

[@Fridelain]

It would be neat if you put together your own ideal MRE.

[@katokhaelan4881]

Oh man, too awesome! Glad to pledge to your Patreon and I can't wait to see what you'll try next!

[@salaciouscandy4006]

That boiled sweet was probably black current not grape, that's the way with purple candy in the UK.

[@chappydeb]

Steve, love to see you really enjoying a well preserved ration. Your enthusiasm is freakin' awesome. Love ya, Deb

[@broadsword6650]

“Look at it! Let’s poke at it with a fork...” A Steve1989 classic 😃

[@liamoneill1042]

The Duncan's chocolate was absolutely delicious, loved it. It used to go slightly white when it had been in the pack for a while but that seems to have aged really well

[@l33pul]

Agreed, but didn't packs come with one of each blue - raisins and red- plain chocolate. The Yorkie bars were ok in all fairness.

[@WolfieRich1]

"December 3rd 1997" Steve, that's the 12th of March.

[@FATGIZMOO]

I'm a big fan. I love seeing all these awesome videos of MRES being opened from decades of storage. It would be awesome if I could receive an MRE

[@ianrobinson151]

I remember the possessed cheese, it was scary 😳

[@davebarrowcliffe8539]

Ian Robinson 😂😂😂😂 Me too! "Cheese-posessed"... That stuff would stop you shitting for a fortnight. 😂😂😂

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

Looks like a chocoholic wetdream for dinner. A real stunner that it survived. Nice review Steve. I'm surprised that the military doesn't snag you to review the new rations.

[@Reallyhardsock]

You can still get kleenex for men here in uk, there just a thicker version of standard tissues

[@aserta]

+sgt spacehead Still pretty good. Whenever i cross Europe i keep a pack of those around. I really hope they don't fuck them up.

[@EvenWaysMusic]

I think they're bigger in area too

[@TimmiTification]

And primula cheese spread!

[@achmeineye]

I wonder what they're designed for... ;)

[@TimmiTification]

achmeineye mega lols 😁

[@SindyJ37]

It's so cool and fun to share the excitement with Steve as he explores his various MREs. I'm so glad he makes these videos

[@OAleathaO]

I'm sure you could get him to eat all the cheese if you offered him a box of those Duncan's of Scotland rum & raisin chocolate bars. Actually, with the way he raves about them here you could probably get him to do quite alot in exchange for a big box of them. ;)

[@l.michelle3497]

This review is making my stomach rumble !! That tomato soup sounds and looks delicious 💖💖

[@sincerelyria]

Great video! Can't imagine how horrible the smell is🙊😣 I really enjoy when you and stickyfingaz do these types of videos! Keep up the great work👍

[@Will-Xaru]

I love these videos. I never realized it but MRE's are like little time capsules. They totally bring you back to a different point in time. Awesome.

[@A-Negative]

Sophie’s Choice: Steve could have as much as he wants but can only have either Duncan’s RR Chocolate or Fruit Soup for desert for life. Both he wandered the earth, searching them each out for 6 years.

[@jackmehoffe9372]

Wtf

[@MrStensnask]

I remember those small Wrigley's packets from shops back when I was a kid and I'm from '86. I can still remember the sweet and fresh taste. They were really tender.

[@Dr_McKay]

When I joined the RAF in 2009, I was given a ration box from 1991...

[@X737_]

Did it have the little tins of bacon grill or similar?

[@jackmehoffe9372]

Describe it dammit! Lol

[@taverntime9767]

Just binge watched a bunch of your videos for the last 5 hours and subscribed. Thank you for all of the really cool variety and history. It's awesome ^_^

[@markandrewward5718]

Mad how you mention bravo two zero ... I’m dingers nephew 👍🏻

[@danieljaramillo87]

What 19 years ? Where was that ration kept in the freezer. Oh man respect ❤

[@davebewshey1549]

Hilarious his reactions are like someone in a fine restaurant eating some decadent meal they've never seen I love it

[@Spaxcore]

Can't imagine anyone else being that excited over Bovril and a Cup A Soup 😂

[@peacan696969]

Really enjoying your work man. I'm usually not a commenter but I've watched all your videos and felt I had to say something. I'm not a military man but I just find these ration videos so interesting and I think its largely down to your passion and great presentation skills. Keep up the great work man,

[@SchaumaMan]

how is that chocolate not even a bit oxidized? that is just amazing!

[@thatsleepyguy136]

it's amazing how well this one held up. Props to stickyfingaz! Wonder if this one was kept frozen.

[@professor_lembach]

"Look at it! Oh jeez! Let's poke it with a fork! Just for fun."

[@bryngerard4334]

The oatmeal block has been a mainstay of the British ration pack for many decades. I had it in 70's and it was probably used all the way back to the 50's. You can crumble it and add the milk powder to it and some water. Yeah the Cheese! this was always the last thing eaten (only if you were really hungry) with some of the dog biscuits. The other thing almost never eaten was Mock Turtle Soup.

[@HeatherEvenson]

I've never wanted to be 19-year-old chocolate more in my life.

[@fortifiedmentality8067]

This brings back memories. It reminds me of when my dad used to bring back these same rations when I was young.

[@Rigg15]

That cheese block would be the perfect item to hide in someones car in the hot summer months.

[@jackmehoffe9372]

Calm down Satan!lol

[@giro14]

This ration is something from my childhood. My father was a member of 118 field squadron of the Territorial Army, my mother was the caretaker of a Territorial Army Centre so I was audience to a lot of British military service from The Troubles to Afghanistan. This ration pack sparks my nostalgia like nothing else. Decent meals aside Duncan's Chocolate were the peak of my experience with the ration pack I was left with. Usually a combination of the menus less desired like both biscuit browns and fruit with at least four pocketed meals.

[@TheKatoV1]

English chocolate is often considered better than American :)

[@machinenkanone9358]

American chocolate sucks

[@TMWill-fi5fy]

I like all chocolate.

[@kylefenton1960]

It literally has *of scotland* in the name and you call it English?

[@chaimafaghet7343]

@@kylefenton1960 not to mention it was legendarily shitty chocolate

[@datsapanda5495]

Steve your videos are awesome. My dad brought home some MRE entrees when i was about 12-13 and i thought they were the greatest thing ever. Seeing these videos reminds me of those and now has me wanting to try rations from all over and actually experience the whole thing instead of just a main! Thanks for your videos they are really "Nice!" and you my friend have a hell of a voice for making anything seem intersting like a white morgan freeman id listen to you talk about toilet paper for an hour lol. Sitting waiting for the next video as i've finally watched all of your videos as of watching this one! Keep up the AMAZING job.

[@Zero96]

Love your content, helps me sleep at night 😂👌🏻

[@kristenking669]

Kyoo Its ASMR. He's amazing at it!

[@christiansmith2730]

Seems like Steve tipped a few back between breakfast and lunch! One of the best reviews I've seen yet! The poke it with a fork for fun! The jokes, and the "two thumbs up"!!!!! So great!

[@FollowMinaIntoTheDark]

at that moment he said, "It doesn't taste 19 years old!" & I immediately thought, "Neither do I!" .... 😂😂

[@samclarke3573]

id like to find out ;)

[@iamggost000]

+Sam Clarke the thirst is real

[@GuyFieri420]

hmu

[@LosN209]

Don't let the still-frame thumbnail picture of her fool you.... she looks cute in the picture, but don't they all?!

[@jakekappa287]

+Redshot 62 i love that show lol haha and big lez show

[@andrewconley6737]

Sounds super pervy that you kept talking about how great everything tasted about this 19 year old

[@Turb5ter]

Steve just a thought, but you should a special video reviewing random normal food.

[@Turb5ter]

Ya man, idk just keep up what you're doing!

[@starilie]

+Steve1989 MREinfo I know I'd certainly watch videos other than MRE reviews from you. You'd probably be entertaining reviewing a napkin.

[@benthomaswoodward]

Very cool to see your excitement over something I use to dread so much!

[@WINSTANLEYOBXa]

Everyone had to ditch the Primula Cheese en mass prior to deployment to Afghan circa late 2001!

[@GamerPyk]

Awesome review as usual Steve! I saw on your patreon page that you compose the intro/outro music yourself and just wanted to say that it sounds REAAAAL nice :D

[@BigBoss-wr3ww]

Anybody else immediately look for Duncan's of Scotland chocolate to buy?

[@tsmith4838]

Big Boss i did said they closed in 2003

[@moomoosnmummy]

i just did- theyre closed :(

[@samscrivens326]

Big Boss, there are numerous companies in the UK that sell rum and raisin chocolate, only thing better is rum and raisin ice cream!!

[@nightrise45]

Rum and raisin fudge is pretty solid too.

[@Silverjaine]

Nice Pic

[@vileindividual]

You can tell steve was pumped for this one. Could barely contain his excitement throughout the whole thing though I can't blame him, stuff looks like it held up really well

[@tourama]

There used to be a chocolate bar called old Jamaica out in the ninety's in the uk , it was lovely, I have heard it may be being brought out again

[@flashtin166]

I looked online, it might be back.

[@docthebiker]

Old Jamaica is a much darker chocolate with about 40% cocoa solids. About the closest to Duncans (which closed in the seventies after losing the army contracts) was Cadbury's Dairy Milk rum & raisin with about the same percentage of cocoa. I bought a big bar of R&R late last year in Johannesburg. The chocolate tasted just like UK D/milk but I could hardly taste the Rum (which I can in the Old Jamaica).

[@shoominati23]

We still have Old Jamaica here in Aus, and I'm pretty sure Cadbury's do a milk chocolate version of it too. You should see the special blends Nestle do that only come out in Switzerland, now they take the cake! There was one with milk chocolate and orange in the centre to die for.

[@MotionlessKnight]

He said he had been looking for this for 12 years, and he's only a year older than me and this was 4 years ago, so he had to have picked up this hobby in at least his mid teens. Seems this has been his passion for a while, which is neat.

[@quantization]

Love it! I just hope you don't run out of MRE's to review. I mean I don't really know how many different ones that have been made.. :p (I'm a MRE noob)

[@X737_]

One of the nicest and you can buy them online is the French one with duck and mash with gravy seriously 😂

[@georgeholbrook1886]

I served in the Her Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers from 1983-1999. I think I had these 'new' rat packs just once. The predecessor rat packs were our main staple.. and very good indeed...unless you got the same menu like ten days running...which happened! Apart from when on promotion cadres where a single 24 our pack would be issued to each man per day, when we went out as a troop on FTX we had either ten man or four man rat packs. We would have a Chef with us in each troop in the field and would have a mix of rat packs and fresh rations. He could usually cook some pretty decent meals. My last Operational tour was at the end of the War in Bosnia, that where we had these 1997(ish) rat packs, and our chefs a mixture of our own squadron chefs and Part time volunteer Soldiers from the UK would do some decent meals with them (fresh and rat pack mix again) Get a rat pack from the 1980's!

[@2dividedby3equals666]

You're getting too picky Steve. That is just cheese spread with character, gourmet ration cheese.

[@eldenboi8354]

only the best

[@michelguevara151]

2dividedby3 cheese : possessed

[@danieljaramillo87]

Wow it’s amazing a 12 year old English ration, and Steve goes for it. I mean that is talent . Not to mention taste buds. He has to be able to distinguish ranted to edible . Hats off to you ! ❤