I Ate The Disgusting 1990s Chicken Ala King MRE (And Lived)

While Chicken Ala King might sound delicious this Meal Ready to Eat was definitely not one of my favorites. Count how many times I gagged or about puked from this delicious cuisine! If you are a prepper or just someone that collects MREs, IMPs, or readiness rations, I would maybe steer clear of this one.
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[@dbc603]

My first military field rations...in ROTC in the early '80s...were C-rations. When we got our first MREs in maybe '83(?), we thought we had died and gone to heaven. But a few notes on your review... 1. You don't drink the cocoa, sarge. You add just enough water to thicken it and eat it like pudding...right from the bag. 2. "This smells like toe jam." That's just the way that "cheese" smelled, big guy. But we ate it anyway, because doing so got you out of using the blue TP for at least 3 days. (Gave you 3 days to collect up enough of the TP to do any good, too.) 3. The crackers are still intact, because they are made from oven-baked masonite. They were the only part of that meal that was actually edible. 4. The chicken a la king was ass, even "fresh." No one liked it. 5. The "cakes" were tolerable, but the fruitcake was the worst. There was also a cherry nut cake, which was passable, and then the king of the cakes...the maple nut cake. Most guys would fight you for a maple nut cake. 6. You skipped out on the coffee. We just dumped the contents into our mouths and washed it down with a swig of water, just to get the caffeine. 7. It is highly doubtful any of the contents were spoiled, as it is unlikely there is anything organic in there in the first place. I kid, of course. You always make me laugh, especially at the memory of actually eating those things! Keep up the great work! 🤣

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

These notes were fantastic. Def will have to do a dedicated coffee review in this style

[@heathmurphy3735]

I too started on C rats...... thankyou for the reminder lol

[@marydoogan2486]

Tyler's risking his life for our entertainment. 😂

[@jaemusmcnerney1885]

Maybe a bottle of Botulism test strips might be a good investment to check food before eating.

[@ktshusta]

I was absolutely dying at the cheese and your “this isn’t good” 😂😂😂

[@ThePandoraGuy]

What once fed the soldier, now kills his enemy. Bon Appétit.

[@shannonstoop6110]

As a nurse no leakage is always a plus for us as well..lol

[@shannonstoop6110]

Hmmm nursing and this MRE have a lot of similarities..bad smelling stuff, things that look like poop, and vomit. Also the occasional fruit cake.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Hahahahha

[@aliciarea5583]

This right here 💯 agree

[@kalipw0210]

Me too boo boo! I have a very strong gut and looking at it when he squeezed it up made he heave a bit. Pot pie puke in a bag....that's a phuck no for me! 🤣🤢🤮

[@Old_Ranch_Hand]

This video had me crying with laughter! My wife didn't know what to think until I started explaining why I found it so funny. I had to eat a lot of these MREs in the desert and hated them all after 6 months. Based on how you were describing the smells I'd say it was still safe to eat because the smell obviously was still the same! I'm sorry to say you picked the very worst of the worst when you chose this one! They would definitely keep you from pooping for a week if you made the mistake of eating more than 1 in a day! Thanks for doing this video and giving an old man a laugh!

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Thanks for eating these bad boys back in the day!

[@frank.fisher4030]

Recipes were important back then. Heat the chicken and mix in half the cheese, which was halfway edible. Mix the cocoa, coffee, sugar, and creamer hot for a mocha. And if you had jelly, crush the crackers and add jelly, creamer, sugar, and mix well, and flatten. Sit someplace hot for a while, and you have a sort-of pop tart.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Field recipes are the best!

[@Pixilixx]

Field recipes sound like prison recipes haha

[@ericschmidt8720]

Speaking as someone who was in the Army in the 90s, Chicken Ala King was the best! Use the heater and mix the cheese in with the chicken. Chef's Kiss! Also, do you kids these days not know how to make Ranger Candy (What we used to call it) with the coffee, cocoa, sugar, and creamer mixed together in one of the foil packs and then you light it with one of your matches and it makes a nice sweet treat!

[@GrumpySam_AUT]

Ranger Candy... that sounds actually like a nice idea..

[@GrandmaMeesh]

I was so scared for you the entire video. 😆

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I made it!

[@dmularadelis1]

The never ending cheese turd and “tizzzzzzuuuuu”…could not stop laughing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂

[@tamarasykes3749]

Same!! 😂

[@HummaBirdieLove]

"if you were to put VOMIT in a bag" LOLLOLLOL Goog Grief! How old can they be before you say NOPE! horribly FUNNY!!!

[@UzairW]

Thanks for the vids Tyler! These are nice fun videos for me and the kids to watch when we want to settle down before bedtime.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Makes me so happy to hear you all enjoy them as a family!

[@pyrob2142]

This looks like the military equivalent of LA Beast drinking decade old crystal pepsi.

[@mathiasfinnegan5307]

Considering a fresh fruitcake is half-way edible, I'd say this one probably aged well.

[@user-wx9qd3rp5f]

First of all thank you for your service. Going where most of us would not go, and entertaining us also. You are a true American doing what Americans do best😉🤘

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I appreciate that

[@raginasiangaming6296]

This is easily one the BEST series on KZbin .

[@tamarasykes3749]

Your sound effects in this video SENT ME 😂🤣

[@999tjl]

We also had an MRE that had an omelet with ham. If i remember correctly.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I got that one too! Stay tuned for it

[@cristinacamargo_999]

OMG Tyler, how military man survived eating this in 90 s hahahahaha

[@mtnmist1]

I see they have improved with age... I'm still traumatized by chicken ala king. Watching this reminded me of Austin Powers getting ready to drink his rather nutty coffee at the lab...

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I'm traumatized from this one experience!

[@999tjl]

When i was in the military, we had a menu of 4 hot dogs. We called it a pack of *icks.

[@Mustang6971]

I'm glad I've never seen one the shit we do with one

[@chris76346]

The four fingers of death. There was a military store that sold the early mre's, grabbed that one by mistake.

[@PaulBuikema]

Amazing! This is the MRE that started it all for me. I had mine in 1991, cold, on a camping trip, wasn't aged at all, and I liked it! I do like chicken a la king normally though so that's a thing.

[@deepfrieddeals]

Production quality on these vids is skyrocketing.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Hey I appreciate you noticing!

[@Slay_Your_Life]

I can’t believe you ate the poop cheese. 😂 I love your videos! Please don’t stop making them.

[@TylerAutryUSA]

Oh man, I lost it when you ate the cracker, pure gold. I for sure had this MRE back in the day. My dad would bring a bunch home and it made playing “Army” that much more fun. I remember the fruit cake being like a super nasty Nutrigrain tasting kind of thing. The hot cocoa was awesome though. Great stuff, Chef.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I literally lost it when I ate the cracker hahaha

[@k.r.3598]

That MRE has turned into a Food Poisoning Deluxe Meal in a convenient package.

[@user-vw1mm6dj3x]

How uncanny is this? My friend's Dad was a Ranger in the 90's and had MREs in the garage. So my friend and I would play Army and eat them. Chicken ala king was the very first MRE I had in my life. I specifically remember it looking better than that. More like likely tasting better too. 🤣

[@alysonwinkler6631]

"it tates like a nursing home!" Lol! I almost spit out my coffee! Lol!

[@russelljohnson4527]

they gave you toilet paper, but you WON'T need it for 6 days, at least. it looks like it looked new. WE called it the Barf Bag. the one that would work today is the dehydrated pork patty with the industrial potato chip, along with the john wayne cookies. tasty, but like hockey pucks.

[@Broken_dish]

making hot cocoa with water and not milk has always been a crime in my eyes...everytime you show something on the camera my response is "is that mold thats looks kinda like mold"

[@CadWeapTech]

The fruit bar I was screaming mold😂

[@CadWeapTech]

In a mcdonald's parking lot with my window open😂

[@RickyFloresPhotography]

The sound off camera, priceless…😂😂😂

[@Natashakiable18]

Oof! That thing is about how old I am. That fruit cake looked moldy, but I'm glad you're daring enough to try it. I'd be too scared of food poisoning.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Tiny bites

[@donaldparlett7708]

Actually one of my favorite meals when I was in the Army back in the 80s.

[@LindsayRoo]

The relief sigh at the end! 😄

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

It’s over haha

[@lulahbelb.3670]

I feel like music or pop up edits would make these videos like 100/100.

[@jamespeyton2838]

think it is safe to say this gets 1 whisker out of 5 mustaches

[@TheCardinalSpear]

Brings back memories of going thru my dads mres when he got home from the field. Me and my friends made quick work of those things 😂

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Haha I bet!

[@kalipw0210]

Pot pie puke in a bag....you are absolutely correct 🤣🤣🤣 Looking at it kinda made me heavy and i can eat through anything.

[@bethbarry6231]

Beechies! Loved finding those in my Halloween haul every year. This was all fun and games and I was laughing out loud until you got to the cheese. Then I was whimpering and lit a candle. 🕯️🥺

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

It was soooooo bad

[@cheryljohnson6448]

I ate that for damn near six months during Desert Storm. Except when we hit the chicken joint at the back of KKMC. Or the chow hall occasionally had surf and turf.

[@evilcritter]

You are a brave man who had a bad day that day.

[@Mustang6971]

My first MRE had the mashed potatoes in them this was 2020, and they made me puke I was doing field training during basic good memories 4 years later.

[@DefenderHomesteading]

Best MRE review I've seen!

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Wow, thanks!

[@DefenderHomesteading]

The review was highly informative like Steve1989MREInfo, but then you had loads of humor. I was originally watching it at my desk at work, but had to finish it later because I was laughing so hard I couldn't work. I hope you keep doing the MRE/Ration videos, they're amazing! @@Butterworthdasyrup

[@oag8528]

You didn't talk to a 80s 90s vet first. The spread, you heat up in a pocket or rubbing hands together. The cocoa has to be mixed with hot water, the coffee, the sugar and the creamer. The chicken ala king gets traded to that one weird dude who likes it for the dehydrated beef patty

[@irishtheblack]

"Let's see if it has a crunch..." Me: "Sounds like a cookie..." TL: proceeds to gag Me: "Uh... nope... not a cookie..."

[@Mierla406]

Little did we know those are “Sage matches” they cleanse toe jam air

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Lol

[@marksanchez4761]

"now let's get this out onto a tray... Nice"

[@Former0311]

I remember the freeze dried pork and hamburger patties. Almost never had time or patience to rehydrate them. That was before the mre heaters and bottled hot sauce.

[@theEasternROMAN_Empire101]

Looks good😂

[@theshadyprotector8412]

Used to take one cracker and put some of the peanut butter(without mixing) with the oil on top. Squirt a little bug juice on it then use the matches to set it on fire. Nice, small, warm, low visible, flame for the inside of a foxhole in the middle of winter.

[@ryanmckeever7530]

In the reserves, I remember the cheese spread being cream colored, not orange brown. That spread has turned.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Oh it def turned

[@NewfieOn2Wheels]

This dude's gonna die by episode 10 with that mere mortal stomach. Meanwhile the top mre guys like steve1989 aren't even human.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Challenge accepted

[@NewfieOn2Wheels]

@@Butterworthdasyrup I'm looking forward to it.

[@mikeb4375]

Aaaahhhh good old MRE Menu #9 you where living if you got one of those the ones you never wanted to see was Menu #1 Dehydrated pork patty or Menu #3 Dehydrated Beef patty. The only thing good out of those was the apple sauce or beans. with tomato sauce. In the MRE class of 81 to 85 of the 13 menus you wanted to stay away from menu 1 and 3 completely. and menu 2, 6,12b if you had no way to heat them. Remember in this class there was no MRE heaters packed in with the MRE. Which means as a typical grunt you didn't want to eat 45% of the available menu selections.

[@GrumpySam_AUT]

i think most important after that "dish" would be a sip of hard liquor to digest that stuff.

[@darallen1023]

Dear God!! What were you thinking?!?! Chicken Ala King was, by far, THE most hated MRE in the 90's. We used to hide them in the field and burn them with the trash (because our Plt Sgt said "nobody goes back to garrison until those MRE's are eaten and gone). Thank goodness for diesel fuel and matches (the ONLY useful part of a Chicken Ala King meal). My wife watched the video with me and understands why they were hated. Please don't try the dehydrated pork or beef patty (aka track pad).

[@kathrynr.7065]

I asked my husband, a Marine, which is his favorite. He likes sloppy joe. I just enjoy the "rock or something" in the directions. I hear jalapeno cheese is so popular it can be used as currency 👍👌

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Jalepeno cheese is elite

[@oldrust601]

I would never eat anything that was very old... Food poisoning comes to mine 😢😢🤢🤢

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Tiny bites. Having a strong stomach helps but yea I would not recommend anyone try this at home!

[@thedragking2524]

let get this out on a tray

[@MikeB-tw5zw]

We would trade the beef or pork patties for the CALK all day, everyday! The thing called a cracker was worse than eating the cardboard box it came in and the cheese spread was great for curing diarrhea or stopping you up for a month.... minimum. Even the rats wouldn't eat the fruitcake.

[@evilcritter]

Audio disappeared at 17:23. Did you have music that yt blocked?

[@Esquizofrenia_123ABC]

What a nice detail the amphora

[@Dwight.Schrute69]

Back in Desert Storm, this was one of the better MRE's. Looks like they didn't age well lol.

[@ponwajeechrans7372]

Well if you die ,you know why😂😂😂❤ your video.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Still kick in and filmed this about a week ago haha!

[@jsimpk13]

My brothers MREs in the late 80s/ early 90s came with Hershey bars. The only reason I would ask them for their MREs when they came home to visit.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Easily the best things in them!

[@jasonthomas12]

Also called chicken smegma when I was in during the 90’s

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Mmmmmmm

[@jillreinking7648]

My husband said the chicken ala a king was actually one of the best... that should tell you something. He did say if they had cocoa and crackers they would crush the crackers, add them to the cocoa with their sugar pack and add water to make a cake/pudding.

[@lowkey1969]

Chicken al la King was great. The Ham and Chicken loaf wasn't popular, so there was a good chance of snagging two if you were the last guy through the chow line and needed/wanted the calories....which I did. Learned to like them. The worst was Diced Beef with Gravy. Smelled like cat food.

[@OKWqc]

Great work BTW, but still feels like I'm cheating on Steve.... ;)

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Haha I’m honored for you to watch

[@redrum707monkey]

you sir are a brave man 😎👍

[@rschrader]

Did the sound cut out about 5 minutes before the end?

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Yea I had to remove it

[@Vortechtral]

Your cheese spread needs more fibre!

[@macbrown99]

I could hear Steve1989 calling out like the Ghost of MREs Past as soon as you said the cheese was hard

[@wretchedmess]

Enjoy the videos! Man, Chicken Ala King was the absolute worst, and the fruitcake was terrible, too. Someone mentioned the cherry nut cake, which was OK, as well as the chocolate nut cake, and the cookies. We would dip the coffee like chew, and make "pudding" out of the cocoa, sugar and creamer. I liked the freeze-dried pork patty the best.

[@copperbubba]

In the gulf in 91 we used to swap packs with US troops for some variety, never sure who got the best deal..... 🇬🇧

[@ConnorRK-nk8rg]

The chicken in that MRE died 10 years before I was born

[@SpcChavezEJ]

I loved that MRE, but it did go bad even when it was recently packaged. MRE bread was great with these. This MRE seems to be about 30 years old, the late 90's version was a little different looking.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Yes it tasted old that’s for sure!

[@DaviTochetto]

Hey from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@PincheChineaux]

This brought back memories for me, but it is not the worst of the 90’s MREs…. Omelette with ham was definitively the worst

[@andreasp3995]

You should do an ASMR version of this video, whispering into a giant fake ear. That would be awesome.

[@kevinmiller3711]

Always trade for the spaghetti with hot sauce, because you can stomach it cold. Also you could make MRE bombs by throwing then on your vehicle engine and forgetting them

[@AintPopular]

nah man you gotta try those no matter how bad they look

[@npylesubway]

Purrrrfect 👌🤣😂

[@hugeinjapan4635]

If you can find the old dehydrated beef patty, they might still be ... good? They were the worst of the worst.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

anddddddd searching now!

[@hugeinjapan4635]

@@Butterworthdasyrupmay the odds forever be in your favor.

[@hugeinjapan4635]

@@bshaw71no self respecting maggot would waste their time with it. I ate one dry once; one a dare or lost a bet...I can't f'n remember that far back, but rest assured, alcohol was involved. In any case, dry, wet, covered in bees.... unsuitable for consumption by any organism.

[@SpcChavezEJ]

Try locating the potatoes au gratin MRE, it'll be a funny surprise. I belive it was menu #8 from 93' to 94' update.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

On it!

[@levie-5c674]

Id like to see you eat the jambalaya. Early 2000s era

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Challenge accepted

[@erikwilson5732]

I had the Chicken Ala King MRE in boot camp in 1987. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

You could use that saying to describe most MREs I think

[@JREone]

It wasn't good when it was put out the fruitcake can literally seal a radiator that has a hole in it as we found out the hard way. I don't recall any more from the late 80s to early 90's being that great but we were lucky to have them in desert storm

[@darkmerchant1]

There’s an automotive product perfect for you. They’re cleaning wipes called Son of a Gun!

[@ianperkins8718]

Smells like a nursing home in a bag. I’m using this anytime I smell something

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Copyright trademark lol

[@ianperkins8718]

Dang it…. You can’t stop me

[@ashleyedwards572]

at 8:03 should have been the thumbnail 😂

[@ericgilbert9265]

Try the veggie omelet aka Vomelet

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

Oh I’ve had that one 🤢

[@andrewshanahan3369]

Worst smelling thing ever - continues to smell it 😂😂😂

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I can’t help myself haha

[@coolstuff2319897]

Not everyone can be Steve

[@professionallyclueless2395]

The trick is listening for a hiss when you open stuff, hiss means the vacuum seal is still intact and the food is good in theory, no hiss may mean something is rotting and giving off gas

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

This one gave of gas before and after

[@aaronbelix1627]

haha that was actually one of the better tasting ones. omelette with ham, tuna with poodles always made me sick. we use to fight over that nasty cheese, smelt like arm pit when you opened it and sometimes was gritty like sand in it.

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

I sure hope the cheese was better tasting back then compared to how this was now!

[@aaronbelix1627]

lol it should be we always trained only a 5 year shelf life on MREs and 7 years on T rats@@Butterworthdasyrup

[@ST-vg1gc]

Man, Those fruit cakes were good back in the day. You were right not to eat most of the rest. It wasn't palatable when it was fresh.

[@llano5581]

I did not care for that one when it came out. I liked C rats and LRRP so not sure I am a good judge.

[@YouCanCallMeButter]

If the toilet paper is blue, that means you’re pregnant. 😂

[@Butterworthdasyrup]

AHHHH

[@corghhh]

I joined the ARMY in 1990 had all of the brown bombers they will do when your starving , thats the best I can say bout them. LOL