As the old saying goes... "Just because you CAN make a shelf-stable omelette, doesn't mean you SHOULD make a shelf-stable omelette." Words to live by...
i have seen it done... in an edible form.... but this is not food...this is...something you could use to ward off rats... note: the way i think they got the ones we had that turned out to be pretty good was by erradiating them so, nothing inside was alive to grow,rather then the chemical method i seem to remember these used.... thats... a bit...disturbing... "you could live off of it, but, would you want to" is also a good question ;)
@@KiwiDudeMRE if you add a bit of salt to the water, even old mre heaters will often kick off amazingly... a buddies father gave us a big bag of the heaters and said "Be careful, have fun" and... salt water..well you can have some fun with a stack of those and salt water..., we used a large glass water jug, in the middle of a kiddy pool, with the heaters... managed to get that thing so warm it was like bath water, only used like 6 heaters into the salt water in the glass bottle..... major steam came out of the salt water for over and hour and hours later it was still hot enough you couldnt pickup the glass jug with your hands....my mother was upset at first then... "oh thats nice and warm" added some epsoms salt and used it lkke a hot tub for the night...wasnt bad.... was fun... his father had suggested the salt water thing... we took it to an extreme... we did sat the glad jub on a folded towel in the pool... i was more putting it in the pool in case it boiledover or something...when we realized it was going to warm the pool if it got warm enough but not boil over... we added 2 more.... i miss those days...weird shit friends/friends fathers/random people would say "here, have fun" ....
Ugh, the sound the "omelette" was making was horrific. And the fact that you went in for a second bite makes you one brave man. Keep up the great reviews!
I could swear i thought i saw the Veggie Omelette move on it's own after it was de-pouched. I think it may have achieved sentience after all these years. If you look close at the surface you can see letters forming. NO EAT ME
Every time I bemoan the lack of breakfast meals in the MRE menu, I remind myself of these. I've eaten two of them, only because I thought the first one couldn't have been as bad as I thought I remembered. I was wrong; it was.
Rocky Raab Hi Rocky, I felt the same way about the Pork Sausage with Gravy. Most bad rations deserve a second chance, but rarely do they redeem themselves
I have also had the pleasure of taking a bite out of these, twice. Only tried it the second time because I swore the first one must have been rotten somehow. I just remember thinking no way this is what it’s supposed to taste like so I got a newer one, sad to say it’s still disgusting no matter when it was mad.
I feel like they knew. THEY KNEW... That's why they packed all those other delicious things. Seemed like a really hearty meal, considering. They felt so bad that the main entree was crap that they stuffed it to the gills with goodies.
All MREs as I recall had lots of extras. This one is wrong. It’s missing things. Missing the tobacco bottle, instant coffee, sugar and creamer and that gun isn’t chiclets it’s to turn your digestion back in after consuming all those preservatives
Cappuccino is coffee ;) And the Cider was supposed to be hot as well, that's why they gave you the beverage bag. And Salsa Verde is green, that's the Verde part.
Derek Hand An abundance of hot drinks, combined with an entrée like this. The chips were really stacked. The Salsa Verde was one of the highlights though. Dare I say better than Tabasco?
Kiwi Dude Salsa Verde is way better than Tobasco! Though here Salsa Verde isn't that common, too easy to confuse with "Green Chili" which is a local hispanic specialty. It's a spicy Pork Stew that's generally used to smother other foods like Burritos. So the only places to get stuff like Salsa verde are non-local mexican restaurants.
Hey Kiwi Dude, love the videos. Apple butter is pretty common in the northern Midwest where I'm from. Good on ya for trying that one though! "That does not smell terribly appealing." Very polite!
Ive eaten apple butter since i was a kid. Its basically heavily seasoned and overcooked applesauce. Ive always been a fan of the texture more than the flavor.
The Angry Chef I found it quite nice. Personally I'd consider it Apple 'Jam'. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be bundled in with the likes of Raspberry Jam, Strawberry Jam etc..
Kiwi Dude, I recently got some US military MREs from a buddy of mine at work. I opened one up, and I swear as I was looking at all the components, I described them in a New Zealand accent. I think I've watched too many of your reviews. ;)
@20:32 its almost as if the "scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Malcom from Jurassic Park is always relevant
It was thoughtful that they gave you a cider rather than two coffees since you received the vanilla cappuccino. Would have originally assumed it was a one size fits all type of accessory package.
Jayman2800 If you were hungry, and it was fresh - it wouldn't be too much of a struggle. I'd definitely unload the entire packet of Salsa Verde though.
I'm thinking that most soldiers would want a substantial breakfast, especially if they are off base and working hard. I dont see the need for trying to replicate an omelette, which even when made fresh can be horrible if not made correctly. Personally, I think they'd be better off just serving a lighter spiced meal like chicken with a sauce or a pasta than badly executed "breakfast foods". Whoever greenlit this omelette idea should have been shot for treason.
+Samidela idela when in was in, if the mission didn't start before breakfast, we loaded up our tray when possible. If we were off base overnight, then it was this or pogey bait if we could get some. nowadays, if you are in a friendly area, you can go out on the economy and get fresh food and just cook for your squad, platoon, etc. thanks to the cutbacks, more troops are turning to the local option when they can.
had one that was scrambled eggs with bacon and cheese, not an "mre" but something a friends father bought that was similar, survival food, those turned out to be some of the best ones actually though, they erradiated the egg packets rather then using alot of chemicals so.. it didnt taste like a lab expairment...but like fast food scrambled eggs... (no joke, toss them in boiling watter for a few, then put the packets in your pockets and move around a bit, sit on them, flex them, then just split the end and either eat out of the packet or put it on a plate/in a bowl/cup, they made really great egg sandwitches using toast made over the fire... even his dad was blown away, ended up buying several cases of that kit because, it was just a good meal and, he would use the egg packets to make himself food on the way to work.. wrap it and some other stuff in a container he would put on the engine of his truck, by the time he was at work ready to go in and have coffe and breakfast... it was hot... this mre.. by all accounts, even the most brave and insane of my friends who have had it... itsa horror show... some weird enough didnt taste as bad others...you could smell the chemicals..... they would often just dump those in the bushes.... if it killed the bushes.... (not sure if that was a joke but...3 of them have said it...lol..) the rest of these, outside the eggs... are im told, quite passable, and if you hd a guy who liked the vomlet, you could often trade for something edible, i gather one fellow in a buddies unit once ate 12 vomlets in one sitting.. then...spent the next 12hrs in the head on the ship they had boarded after breakfast....not throwing up... but... blowing out... no thanks...i would rather just eat crackers...
I'll never have to have the veggie omelette MRE, but the new ones are pretty damn good. The breakfast ones aren't bad, in fact hash browns are pretty damn good, same with pork sausage, they are just a little light overall in terms of variety and you feel like they don't have many sides, especially compared to other MREs
Powdered cheese, powdered eggs, powdered milk for creamy texture... Playdough indeed! I remember having one of these from two MRE boxes I purchased several years ago. Off the bucket list, but now I'm getting flashbacks of that flavour and texture again.
Wow. Sat for fifteen minutes thinking and all I came up with for a comment is Wow. Speechless. You are not only brave but polite in your description. Many other words came to me while you ate. I'm sticking with Wow. Polite as I would get.
MrPlusses It's like the vintage MRE's. Taste and smell is pretty bad, but on the other hand it's fun to try the rare and unusual (in this case - notorious!).
There's probably someone somewhere who LOVES this menu number and wishes that he was still in the military so he could still eat this one glorious meal over and over again. If you're out there, speak up!
Apple butter is basically a cross between apple sauce and apple jam, it's a good way to preserve a bumper crop of apples... Omelets shouldn't be made shelf-stable... they're bad enough reheated
+Kiwi Dude Your a braver man then i am. As a german i was quite interested in US MREs, but everyone warned me that the veggie omelet is probably only a bit better then roadkill. Some even stated that the so called 4 fingers of death-frankfurter sausages were better. In the end i avoided this, and i think i am glad about this decision. Especially after your reaction :D
+Kiwi Dude the couple times I pulled the short end of the stick and had one of these in the field, I usually ate it cold. for whatever reason it tasted slightly better and because it was just one solid mass it looked a little more appealing in a strange twisted sort of way.
I am quite surprised you had the cojones to try this one in particular. Most US MREs, you can eat the entree by itself (and some you can eat at room temp), but the omelet DEMANDS the presence of the Salsa. I found, in my time, that the Cappucino tasted even better if you mixed some of the Apple Cider mix in with it. I also find it amusing you have your "Rock or Something" so labeled. Additionally, I always found it odd myself they didn't put a coffee in this one. Most of my brothers-in-arms would have just "dipped" the coffee, kind of like tobacco. if it were included. As for the granola - I always ate it dry.
Apple butter gets progressively darker as it gets older. Dark brown color is normal. What's not normal is to put your Salsa Verde of your crackers. It's a southwestern hot sauce. It's meant to go on the vomlet. With the salsa, the vomlet is passable, I've had to eat it in the field.
johny tard Cheers. Still crying over the Cricket. To make things worse Crystal and I were at a Rugby League game (Warriors vs Broncos) just prior to the Cricket and we lost that too.
The Slick Sniper Oh ok haha. NZ played in the cricket world cup final against our neighbors Australia and I still hate saying it but we lost. Painful loss too as we didnt play our best so it took most NZers a few days to recover and "get over it". always a next time for us lol :p
I would save my cheese spreads from other MREs for when I got these, if you mixed a whole cheese spread packet + the salsa and the salt these were actually pretty reasonable. Everything else in the MRE is way above average so making the cheese omelette part edible made this whole thing above average.
Salsa Verde is, at least in my experience, made with lime juice and green chiles, and I love it on my eggs for breakfast. However, something tells me those aren't really eggs. At least not eggs as we know them, Jim.
if you were in the field and you got one of these, you had a very good chance of going hungry, the omelet is simply inedible, everything else in the meal is decent, it was not uncommon to bro out your battle buddies who got these with extra crackers, salsa, cheese, etc, whatever you needed to choke the mess down
I can't say how many times I've heard the gum in MRE's referred to as, "Chicklett's gum". Chickletts were/are very tiny (maybe ~1/8" square, different colors - and flavors) pieces of gum. The chunks of gum that come in MRE's are vastly larger. I've never had bad MRE gum... it is just not anything like Chicklett's.
Warfighter tested. Warfighter condemned. lol It was great to finally see your take on the dreaded "vomelette" as Jaybird196 so accurately described it. I'm glad you spared the boss the horror. XD
Mate. Thank you so much for your awesome videos. I was just wondering if there was a reason why some countries to 24 hour rat packs & others do a separate pack for each meal type. Keep up the awesome work with the videos.
Glad you're enjoying them. You'll find that many countries have both individual and 24hr ration packs. It would really come down to mission specifics and logistics as to which one was distributed. Cheers.
One has to guess how many were tossed in the field before their management up stairs figured out that these were not being eaten. Maybe the USA should add menu reviews like those nice Canadians do in theirs. Cheers.
Are some of them really good? Cause I've always wanted to try one, but I don't think I'm brave enough. If I were to get one, which would you recommend?
As far as urban legend goes, I believe that the main course of this MRE, the omelette itself, matches perfectly to what people would think of when they think of MRE's. Not all that good, and looking like regurgitated something. Most MRE's are, or at least look, quite good. People need to remember that soldiers cannot be AFK because of stomachs problems from food as they are needed in the battlefield, so the food may not taste the best but it should never give you stomach problems. That said, I think that MRE's have developed quite a nasty reputation over the years that because they are "food on the go" and aren't in conventional storage, they give you stomach problems. Perhaps past MRE type food stuffs did, but modern MRE's are much more soldier-minded rather than government-minded, where they look at food and make it so soldiers want to eat them and enjoy them to some extent, while still being able to produce and pack them efficiently.
the scones in our exp, have always been "a little off" something about how they make them shelf stable..chemicals...only way i could ever choke one down was with 2-3 packets of that apple butter..smother it in spiced apple paste!!!
It's one of those 'must try' menus, especially for those of us doing reviews. Thanks to Sgt. Potshot for making it happen. I won't be rushing out to try it again ;-)
Fun story, we had MRE's the night before a PT test (technically our lunch because it was a night shift class), I was unlucky enough to get Veggie omelette, being a gung ho 18 year old, I figured why not, I'm stud right? Throughout the night and during class I shat my brains out, and when it finally came to the 2 Mile run, I added two and a half minutes.
If this omlet is that bad, I would like to spray it with pepper spray (I don't recommend, it burns like hell, I would only do this for a training to eat one of the spiciest pizza or burger) or add some kind of Carolina Reaper sauce (in comparison to pepper spray it is not that spicy).
Cold. It Can be served Hot. There is anorher MRE review where everything looked expired. I kept telling "NO! DON'T EAT THAT!" and made me go through the MRE's I have in storage and throw half of them away. Watch him eat those eggs brings back horrible flashbacks.
Yes , My sister in Charlotte, NC has a friend who puts up her own Apple Butter. Unfortunately her kids would not eat anything from a jar without a label on it. Well fortunate for me when i stayed with her family....i got to eat it. haha
So I watched your video on the Chili Macaroni which BTW is my personal favorite, and with that pack you got what I call the "golden ticket" skittles, beef jerky, jalapeno and cheese spread, ect.... However this time you got what I and many other people call the MRE from HELL. The only 2 decent things in that pack were the cappuccino and the apple cider which that powder mixed with other meal combos is really where it shines.
Ok for the record this MRE is dated back to 2008. Having this MRE within a year of production is much different. Although the lasting effect of people saying how this caused such gastrointestinal distress they no longer make the omletes and have settled for Maple Sausage which is quite good.
It looks more like mashed potatoes which is one of the more gross things about it. You know when food is supposed to look a certain way? Seeing it like this makes it even more gross.
lol understand completely not wanting to give this to the Boss, to bad it was so old would have been interesting to see her react to the nasty cheese and veggie omelet. lol oh well our loss is her gain of not having to taste the very worst meal ever fielded to our troops.
MRE videos are my favourite! As a long time viewer of Gshultz I found my way here. Nice to hear a fellow Kiwi accent! Are you still in NZ? Or living abroad?
Nice! I'm down in the deep south in Dunedin. As a fellow kiwi, do you also find it a bit weird how MRE main meals are described as Entrees? To me an entree is more like a starter than a main! Perhaps it is just me.
kasilz I did find it odd at the beginning, but now it feels normal. In all other situations though, I too consider an entrée a dish to come before a 'main'.
I've got a question and it's been bugging me for a while. What happens if you overfill the water? Does it explode or just doesn't work or something cause I'm very curious about this haha
It's more or less about efficiency and resource management. If you drown the thing in water it's still going to work, less efficiently. That is the reaction will still occur, but it won't heat correctly. If you use too little water it may not have enough to finish it's reaction correctly and may not heat the entree thoroughly. EDIT: Pretty much the do not overfill mark is the average point in which the vast majority of the heater elements will have enough water to function correctly.
I've used a bunch of them over the years, and what FoolishDoug said is correct. If you don't add enough water, you never really get a reaction to start. Too much water, and you don't get enough air into the heater to have a proper reaction either.
You're a braver man than i. edit: ok, one thing i never understood mainly because it could be done so easily. Why the hell do FRHs don't have separate pouches? Let's say you'd want to heat up one meal, yeah? You'd pour water in the chemical area, then pour water in the food area. Heat would travel through the water and heat up the meal. Instead you have to deal with this, frankly, clumsy design that doesn't always activate the whole set of pads (and this is in leisure conditions, not in combat or in the field, mind you) you have to wipe it etc etc. I dunno, just doesn't seem right to me. And other types of FRHs seem to confirm that it could be done in other ways. Just my two cents worth of rant.
aserta I agree. The U.S. FRH is lagging behind these days. I have to say the Korean version takes the cake for ease of use. Self-contained water, rip cord activation, and nothing wet comes into contact with the food.
Jaybird196 As you hear it. Separate pouches for the two different actions of the FRH. 1. for the chemical reaction 2. for the food to heated It's incredibly simple to do it. I mean, i've modified my old vacuum sealer to allow me to glue two bags together when i want two meals to "stick around". If i can do that, they could certainly design and make a FRH that would separate the processes.
As the old saying goes...
"Just because you CAN make a shelf-stable omelette, doesn't mean you SHOULD make a shelf-stable omelette."
Words to live by...
Absolutely!
i have seen it done... in an edible form.... but this is not food...this is...something you could use to ward off rats...
note: the way i think they got the ones we had that turned out to be pretty good was by erradiating them so, nothing inside was alive to grow,rather then the chemical method i seem to remember these used.... thats... a bit...disturbing...
"you could live off of it, but, would you want to" is also a good question ;)
@@KiwiDudeMRE if you add a bit of salt to the water, even old mre heaters will often kick off amazingly... a buddies father gave us a big bag of the heaters and said "Be careful, have fun" and... salt water..well you can have some fun with a stack of those and salt water..., we used a large glass water jug, in the middle of a kiddy pool, with the heaters... managed to get that thing so warm it was like bath water, only used like 6 heaters into the salt water in the glass bottle..... major steam came out of the salt water for over and hour and hours later it was still hot enough you couldnt pickup the glass jug with your hands....my mother was upset at first then... "oh thats nice and warm" added some epsoms salt and used it lkke a hot tub for the night...wasnt bad.... was fun... his father had suggested the salt water thing... we took it to an extreme... we did sat the glad jub on a folded towel in the pool... i was more putting it in the pool in case it boiledover or something...when we realized it was going to warm the pool if it got warm enough but not boil over... we added 2 more.... i miss those days...weird shit friends/friends fathers/random people would say "here, have fun" ....
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"Who thought of that..." should be the title of the vid lol! Good on you for trying that. Cheers
Ugh, the sound the "omelette" was making was horrific. And the fact that you went in for a second bite makes you one brave man. Keep up the great reviews!
bellaxfatal Cheers. That omelette was like nothing else I've eaten before. Salsa Verde was the hero.
I could swear i thought i saw the Veggie Omelette move on it's own after it was de-pouched. I think it
may have achieved sentience after all these years. If you look close at the surface you can see letters forming.
NO EAT ME
Bill23799 Lol.. It might be one for Venkman, Stantz & Spengler to check out.
Every time I bemoan the lack of breakfast meals in the MRE menu, I remind myself of these. I've eaten two of them, only because I thought the first one couldn't have been as bad as I thought I remembered. I was wrong; it was.
Rocky Raab Hi Rocky, I felt the same way about the Pork Sausage with Gravy. Most bad rations deserve a second chance, but rarely do they redeem themselves
I have also had the pleasure of taking a bite out of these, twice. Only tried it the second time because I swore the first one must have been rotten somehow. I just remember thinking no way this is what it’s supposed to taste like so I got a newer one, sad to say it’s still disgusting no matter when it was mad.
Great reveiw it's so nice to see the mre community feels like the only community that's dosent bicker with each other cheers
berkek23 You're all fine folk in my books :-)
"Ignore the elephant in the room"
And the big dump it appears to have taken on your tray!
philyboyo It did seem like it could have come out the backside of a huge Play Doh elephant.
Certainly lives up to it's infamy. Not surprised we didn't see the boss trying this one!
I feel like they knew. THEY KNEW...
That's why they packed all those other delicious things. Seemed like a really hearty meal, considering. They felt so bad that the main entree was crap that they stuffed it to the gills with goodies.
Qotastic I agree. They probably experimented with a few different condiments before settling on Salsa Verde as the saviour too ;-)
All MREs as I recall had lots of extras. This one is wrong. It’s missing things. Missing the tobacco bottle, instant coffee, sugar and creamer and that gun isn’t chiclets it’s to turn your digestion back in after consuming all those preservatives
"they don't include coffee which is weird.."
a cappuccino is coffee.. -_-;
I was thinking play dough just as he flashed the picture. Kiwi makes very entertaining vids.
MRE: moderately realistic eggs
Mush, Resemblance to Excrement
I like your editing style, it's so smooth.
I fully expected it to look pretty bad, but, HOLY JESUS! That might just be one of the worst looking foods I have ever seen this side of roadkill.
It's pretty bad.
3 days in a row out in the field for lunch I randomly picked this item. Would rather have starved than eat the insult of an omelette.
Don't disrespect roadkill like that
Cappuccino is coffee ;) And the Cider was supposed to be hot as well, that's why they gave you the beverage bag. And Salsa Verde is green, that's the Verde part.
Derek Hand An abundance of hot drinks, combined with an entrée like this. The chips were really stacked. The Salsa Verde was one of the highlights though. Dare I say better than Tabasco?
Kiwi Dude Salsa Verde is way better than Tobasco! Though here Salsa Verde isn't that common, too easy to confuse with "Green Chili" which is a local hispanic specialty. It's a spicy Pork Stew that's generally used to smother other foods like Burritos. So the only places to get stuff like Salsa verde are non-local mexican restaurants.
Hey Kiwi Dude, love the videos. Apple butter is pretty common in the northern Midwest where I'm from. Good on ya for trying that one though! "That does not smell terribly appealing." Very polite!
Your review , well, tends to agree with most others I have seen on this mre. As always, great job dude !! Peace, Magnum, John.
MultiMagnum62 Cheers John. Great to be able to tick this one off the list. Thanks again to SpcPotshot
Ive eaten apple butter since i was a kid. Its basically heavily seasoned and overcooked applesauce. Ive always been a fan of the texture more than the flavor.
The Angry Chef I found it quite nice. Personally I'd consider it Apple 'Jam'. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be bundled in with the likes of Raspberry Jam, Strawberry Jam etc..
Here in the southern US its served with toast. IHOP for example, serves it along with normal jellies. So you're right for the most part :D
"Why... Why why why why?" ._.I feel sorry for your taste buds.
James Sutcliffe It took a nice cold beer afterwards to cleanse the palate ;-)
omfg
i would never eat that
i smelled it through my screen
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Kiwi Dude, I recently got some US military MREs from a buddy of mine at work. I opened one up, and I swear as I was looking at all the components, I described them in a New Zealand accent. I think I've watched too many of your reviews. ;)
Brandon Frost Lol! That's the way :-)
@20:32 its almost as if the "scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Malcom from Jurassic Park is always relevant
It was thoughtful that they gave you a cider rather than two coffees since you received the vanilla cappuccino. Would have originally assumed it was a one size fits all type of accessory package.
Daniel B Absolutely. I totally overlooked the cappuccino as standing in for the normal instant coffee.
You got balls of steel trying this my friend, I wouldn't even go within 15 feet of that and I have never even eaten an MRE.
Jayman2800 If you were hungry, and it was fresh - it wouldn't be too much of a struggle. I'd definitely unload the entire packet of Salsa Verde though.
I'm thinking that most soldiers would want a substantial breakfast, especially if they are off base and working hard. I dont see the need for trying to replicate an omelette, which even when made fresh can be horrible if not made correctly. Personally, I think they'd be better off just serving a lighter spiced meal like chicken with a sauce or a pasta than badly executed "breakfast foods". Whoever greenlit this omelette idea should have been shot for treason.
+Samidela idela when in was in, if the mission didn't start before breakfast, we loaded up our tray when possible. If we were off base overnight, then it was this or pogey bait if we could get some. nowadays, if you are in a friendly area, you can go out on the economy and get fresh food and just cook for your squad, platoon, etc. thanks to the cutbacks, more troops are turning to the local option when they can.
Samidella idella I like your reply.
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had one that was scrambled eggs with bacon and cheese, not an "mre" but something a friends father bought that was similar, survival food, those turned out to be some of the best ones actually though, they erradiated the egg packets rather then using alot of chemicals so.. it didnt taste like a lab expairment...but like fast food scrambled eggs... (no joke, toss them in boiling watter for a few, then put the packets in your pockets and move around a bit, sit on them, flex them, then just split the end and either eat out of the packet or put it on a plate/in a bowl/cup, they made really great egg sandwitches using toast made over the fire... even his dad was blown away, ended up buying several cases of that kit because, it was just a good meal and, he would use the egg packets to make himself food on the way to work.. wrap it and some other stuff in a container he would put on the engine of his truck, by the time he was at work ready to go in and have coffe and breakfast... it was hot...
this mre.. by all accounts, even the most brave and insane of my friends who have had it... itsa horror show... some weird enough didnt taste as bad others...you could smell the chemicals..... they would often just dump those in the bushes.... if it killed the bushes.... (not sure if that was a joke but...3 of them have said it...lol..)
the rest of these, outside the eggs... are im told, quite passable, and if you hd a guy who liked the vomlet, you could often trade for something edible, i gather one fellow in a buddies unit once ate 12 vomlets in one sitting.. then...spent the next 12hrs in the head on the ship they had boarded after breakfast....not throwing up... but... blowing out... no thanks...i would rather just eat crackers...
The infamous egg cheese and veggie omelette took down another victim.... Lol
Great review KiwiDude and wishing you all a very Happy Easter!!
***** Thanks Leanne, Happy Easter to you and yours too,
Kiwi Dude This MRE was packaged on my Birthday
That cappuccino was packed 20 miles from my house.
cool story bro
lol
Apparently pretty nearby.
Of course it would make sense to make them close to a military installation with an airport and train access.
cougarhunter33 send me some mres will you
I'll never have to have the veggie omelette MRE, but the new ones are pretty damn good. The breakfast ones aren't bad, in fact hash browns are pretty damn good, same with pork sausage, they are just a little light overall in terms of variety and you feel like they don't have many sides, especially compared to other MREs
Powdered cheese, powdered eggs, powdered milk for creamy texture... Playdough indeed!
I remember having one of these from two MRE boxes I purchased several years ago. Off the bucket list, but now I'm getting flashbacks of that flavour and texture again.
William Wescott Lol.. Yes, it's definitely not a menu I'd rush out to try again, but great to have tried the legend.
How you stomach some of these is beyond me! But I love watching these!
Wow.
Sat for fifteen minutes thinking and all I came up with for a comment is Wow. Speechless.
You are not only brave but polite in your description. Many other words came to me while you ate. I'm sticking with Wow. Polite as I would get.
MrPlusses It's like the vintage MRE's. Taste and smell is pretty bad, but on the other hand it's fun to try the rare and unusual (in this case - notorious!).
There's probably someone somewhere who LOVES this menu number and wishes that he was still in the military so he could still eat this one glorious meal over and over again. If you're out there, speak up!
morrisseyowesmemoney Lol.. I would love to hear also.
You mean a psychopath😂
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Kiwi You are one of those people I'm really have huuuuuge respect and admiring their job, and You are real risk taker ;] , keep up that great work ;]
Eggs should only ever be eaten fresh, and eggs from seven years ago...never.
Razzlewolfflight Agreed.
Apple butter is basically a cross between apple sauce and apple jam, it's a good way to preserve a bumper crop of apples... Omelets shouldn't be made shelf-stable... they're bad enough reheated
Try jail omeletes
When he poured the omelet onto the tray I gagged like never before, It looked disgusting.
Verde is green in Spanish, so at least they came through for you!
Idda Knoe Salsa Verde was one of the highlights :-)
1:23 It's the famous Rock or Something!
*tastes omelette*
Ugh.....why?
+April Jones At the risk if using a double negative, I couldn't not.
Kiwi Dude I was quoting you. I loved that reaction to the taste of the omelette.
+Kiwi Dude Your a braver man then i am. As a german i was quite interested in US MREs, but everyone warned me that the veggie omelet is probably only a bit better then roadkill. Some even stated that the so called 4 fingers of death-frankfurter sausages were better. In the end i avoided this, and i think i am glad about this decision. Especially after your reaction :D
+Kiwi Dude the couple times I pulled the short end of the stick and had one of these in the field, I usually ate it cold. for whatever reason it tasted slightly better and because it was just one solid mass it looked a little more appealing in a strange twisted sort of way.
MRE omelet, AKA 'Lung in a Bag'
I want my oown "Rock or something" just to look at and smile while I watch these videos. LOL
nightmares returned so did the taste
I am quite surprised you had the cojones to try this one in particular. Most US MREs, you can eat the entree by itself (and some you can eat at room temp), but the omelet DEMANDS the presence of the Salsa. I found, in my time, that the Cappucino tasted even better if you mixed some of the Apple Cider mix in with it. I also find it amusing you have your "Rock or Something" so labeled. Additionally, I always found it odd myself they didn't put a coffee in this one. Most of my brothers-in-arms would have just "dipped" the coffee, kind of like tobacco. if it were included. As for the granola - I always ate it dry.
Sean Condon You're right there, Sean, the Salsa is ESSENTIAL to eat this one!
LOL!!! It looks like what my son left in his diaper today.
SubieSpecial Lol!
haha " Baby Poop Entree "
Nearly scared me when you pulled the 'scone' out. I thought the moisture absorber was mold.
Salsa verde (green sauce) is usually used for homemade tacos! I'm surprised to see it in this MRE haha.
A fine addition, I feel :) .
Sasha U I can imagine it going well with a number of other menus, but this is the first time I've seen it. Hope to see it again!
Apple butter gets progressively darker as it gets older. Dark brown color is normal. What's not normal is to put your Salsa Verde of your crackers. It's a southwestern hot sauce. It's meant to go on the vomlet. With the salsa, the vomlet is passable, I've had to eat it in the field.
That apple butter resembled a garden slug!
Another great review man. You took one for the team. That omelet looked rank! Hope your over the cricket by the way mate...:\
johny tard Cheers. Still crying over the Cricket. To make things worse Crystal and I were at a Rugby League game (Warriors vs Broncos) just prior to the Cricket and we lost that too.
The Cricket?
The Slick Sniper The game with bat and ball.
Kiwi Dude I ment what do you mean by "Getting over it"
The Slick Sniper Oh ok haha. NZ played in the cricket world cup final against our neighbors Australia and I still hate saying it but we lost. Painful loss too as we didnt play our best so it took most NZers a few days to recover and "get over it". always a next time for us lol :p
I would save my cheese spreads from other MREs for when I got these, if you mixed a whole cheese spread packet + the salsa and the salt these were actually pretty reasonable. Everything else in the MRE is way above average so making the cheese omelette part edible made this whole thing above average.
Salsa Verde is, at least in my experience, made with lime juice and green chiles, and I love it on my eggs for breakfast. However, something tells me those aren't really eggs. At least not eggs as we know them, Jim.
James Douglas The Salsa Verde was definitely the highlight. The eggs were... "Highly illogical" ;-)
Kiwi Dude *Spock voice* Pain! Pain!
Jaybird196 Lol ;-)
Taking one for the team with this menu! lol
djsolaris979 I approached this one under the best possible test conditions - hungry!
The Cider was meant to be put into the beverage bag and added to the MRE heater bag.
if you were in the field and you got one of these, you had a very good chance of going hungry, the omelet is simply inedible, everything else in the meal is decent, it was not uncommon to bro out your battle buddies who got these with extra crackers, salsa, cheese, etc, whatever you needed to choke the mess down
Watching this just in time for Halloween.
I can't say how many times I've heard the gum in MRE's referred to as, "Chicklett's gum".
Chickletts were/are very tiny (maybe ~1/8" square, different colors - and flavors) pieces of gum. The chunks of gum that come in MRE's are vastly larger.
I've never had bad MRE gum... it is just not anything like Chicklett's.
This one was actually the favorite of a friend of mine when he was in the Marines.
+CookwithSarah I'm sure he had no shortage of people willing to trade with him! Lol.
Warfighter tested. Warfighter condemned. lol It was great to finally see your take on the dreaded "vomelette" as Jaybird196 so accurately described it. I'm glad you spared the boss the horror. XD
***** Great to have tried the legend. Won't be rushing to do it again :-)
_"Weird that there's no coffee."_
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Seriously though, always enjoy these videos for some reason. :)
doesnt he know cappuchino is coffe
coffee*
Was about to say lol
Great video kiwi dude! You're a nice dad for not making The Boss try that omelette ;)
Kato Khaelan Cheers. My Wife would have never forgiven me ;-)
That there Vomelette is pristine. Like you got it Day one after packing
I was going to have eggs for supper too! ick! Eggs in the Navy were never right even fresh because they weren't fresh.
Props to you for eating that. It looks more like that company packaged something that came out of a diaper, and called it a veggie ommlet
endoftheroadj It's one of those 'go to your happy place' menus ;-)
Mate. Thank you so much for your awesome videos.
I was just wondering if there was a reason why some countries to 24 hour rat packs & others do a separate pack for each meal type.
Keep up the awesome work with the videos.
Glad you're enjoying them. You'll find that many countries have both individual and 24hr ration packs. It would really come down to mission specifics and logistics as to which one was distributed. Cheers.
One has to guess how many were tossed in the field before their management up stairs figured out that these were not being eaten. Maybe the USA should add menu reviews like those nice Canadians do in theirs. Cheers.
Where do u get them from i want one thank you for your videos they are wonderfull
I could have sworn you posted another video that had the cheese and veggie omelet, but I may be going insane. O_o
Reike4chan Gschultz9 did the same menu recently :-)
The cappuccino has coffee in it. So, there wasn't your usual packet of coffee crystals, but it still did have coffee. :)
Are some of them really good? Cause I've always wanted to try one, but I don't think I'm brave enough. If I were to get one, which would you recommend?
Kiwi, cappuccino is the coffee in the MRE.
Max Starmer Lol.. of course. I totally missed that one!
As far as urban legend goes, I believe that the main course of this MRE, the omelette itself, matches perfectly to what people would think of when they think of MRE's. Not all that good, and looking like regurgitated something. Most MRE's are, or at least look, quite good. People need to remember that soldiers cannot be AFK because of stomachs problems from food as they are needed in the battlefield, so the food may not taste the best but it should never give you stomach problems. That said, I think that MRE's have developed quite a nasty reputation over the years that because they are "food on the go" and aren't in conventional storage, they give you stomach problems. Perhaps past MRE type food stuffs did, but modern MRE's are much more soldier-minded rather than government-minded, where they look at food and make it so soldiers want to eat them and enjoy them to some extent, while still being able to produce and pack them efficiently.
That seems like a fall themed mre with the cider and cinnamon roll
Portal2master cinnamon roll mre...you may be on to something
lol nooo coffee, that vanilla cappuccino is actually a coffee. 😂
the spiced cider is usually warmed up to drink
cool video. thanks!
the scones in our exp, have always been "a little off" something about how they make them shelf stable..chemicals...only way i could ever choke one down was with 2-3 packets of that apple butter..smother it in spiced apple paste!!!
I swear there must be something wrong with me, but toss some Tabasco on the omelette and I loved it
Yikes! That looks terrifying. I'm glad you had the bravery to do it, hahah.
It's one of those 'must try' menus, especially for those of us doing reviews. Thanks to Sgt. Potshot for making it happen. I won't be rushing out to try it again ;-)
Hahah, I bet! I'm glad to see you alive after eating that one. :P
Thank you
Fun story, we had MRE's the night before a PT test (technically our lunch because it was a night shift class), I was unlucky enough to get Veggie omelette, being a gung ho 18 year old, I figured why not, I'm stud right?
Throughout the night and during class I shat my brains out, and when it finally came to the 2 Mile run, I added two and a half minutes.
Oh my... i dreamt about getting an MRE and when u woke up and checked youtube you uploaded.... eh its kinda the ssme thing
Brandon Limbono It was definitely an experience. Really glad to have cross this one off the list. Thanks again to Sgt Potshot for sending it in.
If this omlet is that bad, I would like to spray it with pepper spray (I don't recommend, it burns like hell, I would only do this for a training to eat one of the spiciest pizza or burger) or add some kind of Carolina Reaper sauce (in comparison to pepper spray it is not that spicy).
I think you were suppost to use hot water with the oats? Correct me if im wrong.
The Slick Sniper you're right. It was oatmeal. Needed hot water.
+The Slick Sniper I could not see anything about the water needing to be hot or cold on the granola pack, but I assume it's up to personal preferance
NO! That was not meant for hot water it is granola! Granola is eaten as a cold cereal.
Cold. It Can be served Hot. There is anorher MRE review where everything looked expired. I kept telling "NO! DON'T EAT THAT!" and made me go through the MRE's I have in storage and throw half of them away. Watch him eat those eggs brings back horrible flashbacks.
You are braver than most soldiers trying that crap lol.
lmao the scary lightning bolt.
Apple butter is a big thing here in the states. Either a southern U.S. or New England.
OBTW... Apple butter looks like that when you buy it
ARTSIEBECCA Cheers.
Yes , My sister in Charlotte, NC has a friend who puts up her own Apple Butter. Unfortunately her kids would not eat anything from a jar without a label on it. Well fortunate for me when i stayed with her family....i got to eat it. haha
So I watched your video on the Chili Macaroni which BTW is my personal favorite, and with that pack you got what I call the "golden ticket" skittles, beef jerky, jalapeno and cheese spread, ect.... However this time you got what I and many other people call the MRE from HELL. The only 2 decent things in that pack were the cappuccino and the apple cider which that powder mixed with other meal combos is really where it shines.
Spartan536 It was great to try the legend, but yes - the cappuccino and apple cider were the highlights!
Ok for the record this MRE is dated back to 2008. Having this MRE within a year of production is much different. Although the lasting effect of people saying how this caused such gastrointestinal distress they no longer make the omletes and have settled for Maple Sausage which is quite good.
randomsanwhich It was great to try the legend. I'm glad they saw the light and retired it though.
Hey you should do a video on your camera setup when you do the mre videos
It looks more like mashed potatoes which is one of the more gross things about it. You know when food is supposed to look a certain way? Seeing it like this makes it even more gross.
Yeah this one is infamous. My dad was in the army. It is said to barely rank above dog food. Barely.
Psychosmurf43 It was great to try 'The Legend'. Not in a hurry to try it again though ;-)
I'm curious, have you ever gotten food poisoning eating one of these older ones?
Hey kiwi dude you should do a video on your camera setup. I want to get into mre vids but I don't know the camera setup
lol understand completely not wanting to give this to the Boss, to bad it was so old would have been interesting to see her react to the nasty cheese and veggie omelet. lol oh well our loss is her gain of not having to taste the very worst meal ever fielded to our troops.
MRE videos are my favourite! As a long time viewer of Gshultz I found my way here. Nice to hear a fellow Kiwi accent! Are you still in NZ? Or living abroad?
kasilz Hi there, I'm a big Gschultz fan myself :-) Still in N.Z (Auckland).
Nice! I'm down in the deep south in Dunedin. As a fellow kiwi, do you also find it a bit weird how MRE main meals are described as Entrees? To me an entree is more like a starter than a main! Perhaps it is just me.
kasilz I did find it odd at the beginning, but now it feels normal. In all other situations though, I too consider an entrée a dish to come before a 'main'.
i've never seen that MRE before and i've eaten hundreds of MRE's over 3 years. im certainly glad that i never experienced it!
HawkXe It's one of those 'must try' MRE's, but you'd never go in for seconds ;-)
i like how you said egg omelette :P
I've got a question and it's been bugging me for a while. What happens if you overfill the water? Does it explode or just doesn't work or something cause I'm very curious about this haha
It's more or less about efficiency and resource management.
If you drown the thing in water it's still going to work, less efficiently. That is the reaction will still occur, but it won't heat correctly.
If you use too little water it may not have enough to finish it's reaction correctly and may not heat the entree thoroughly.
EDIT:
Pretty much the do not overfill mark is the average point in which the vast majority of the heater elements will have enough water to function correctly.
I've used a bunch of them over the years, and what FoolishDoug said is correct. If you don't add enough water, you never really get a reaction to start. Too much water, and you don't get enough air into the heater to have a proper reaction either.
FoolishDoug Plus, it's a waste of vital drinking water.
FoolishDoug Great answer, Doug.
it wont heat
in what universe is that a scone
You're a braver man than i.
edit: ok, one thing i never understood mainly because it could be done so easily. Why the hell do FRHs don't have separate pouches? Let's say you'd want to heat up one meal, yeah? You'd pour water in the chemical area, then pour water in the food area. Heat would travel through the water and heat up the meal.
Instead you have to deal with this, frankly, clumsy design that doesn't always activate the whole set of pads (and this is in leisure conditions, not in combat or in the field, mind you) you have to wipe it etc etc.
I dunno, just doesn't seem right to me. And other types of FRHs seem to confirm that it could be done in other ways.
Just my two cents worth of rant.
'Mind expanding on what you mean by "separate pouches" ?
aserta I agree. The U.S. FRH is lagging behind these days. I have to say the Korean version takes the cake for ease of use. Self-contained water, rip cord activation, and nothing wet comes into contact with the food.
Jaybird196 As you hear it. Separate pouches for the two different actions of the FRH.
1. for the chemical reaction
2. for the food to heated
It's incredibly simple to do it. I mean, i've modified my old vacuum sealer to allow me to glue two bags together when i want two meals to "stick around".
If i can do that, they could certainly design and make a FRH that would separate the processes.
Kiwi Dude The Korean one is brilliant, yeah.
aserta I'm still having trouble visualizing what you mean. 'Sorry :( . Do you have a video, I might have a look at?