As a Lithuanian soldier I always used to add chocolate bar to heating packet, let it melt and then put it into hazel nuts bag, then it becomes this treat that is amazing. Test it next time when you get lithuanian mre, some models has almonds and jams inside
@Jean-Louis Bourgeois Well... unless you know the basics of chemical reactions and that most of these MRE's chemical heaters create explosive gases. That is the reason why they tell you on the packages to segregate the tablet heater from the other heater.
Don't be offended but I sometimes listen to you when I am going to sleep. Not because you are boring but because you have a soothing voice & a great accent. I find it very comforting while I am being informed.
Sausas is a very important word for wine drinkers. I feel quite bad for not spotting that, especially since I did spot vistiena. Getting too focused on food in my old age.
I knew that it is gonna be rice porridge, because here in Czechia we say "rýžová kaše". So it is similar enough. But I had no idea what the rest of the words mean, so thanks for translation.
@@stumccabe honey's specific chemistry generally makes it not spoil even after thousands of years, because almost no micro-organism can grow in it. The only thing to be aware of is yeast, which would turn it into mead. That honey is not spoiled, just crystallised because it absorbed humidity.
There were biscuits made in the 1700's designed for sea travel that needed moisture to be chewable. Some have survived today, and they're still edible.
"Sausasis maisto davinys" stands for "dry food ration". I was very curious to see your reaction to our MREs. Never knew about the gasses that build up during the heating process, might try to do that some time hehe
Unless you're a young child/immunocompromised, at which point you probably shouldn't eat it at all ( botulinum spores in the honey that older individuals can cope with, but can be deadly to babies/those with weakened immune systems) Edited to add about IC
it wasnt natural ,my grandparents have a honey farm , natural honey never expires never freezes and an easy way to tell is dip something into it and lift it up if the strings break it is not natural if the strings never break it is natural !!
@@fouzaialaa7962 yes its natural. honey crystallizes. honey freezes. and yes honey *can expire*, but it wont go foul. also there is no thing called "real" honey. honey is just the product, not the material. since all honey comes from flowers etc there cant be any "real" honey cause there arent any "one and only" flower to make honey from. all honey that comes from insects and flowers can be called honey and be 100% real. and no, your grandparents didnt have any honey farms, it doesent exist any honey farms. however, beefarms...
For reference the Chemical Redox reaction taking place is Mg (s) + 2H2O(l) --> Mg(OH)2(aq) + H2(g). Chemically, no oxygen is formed but they also use Iron filings in FRHs to exaggerate the heat because the exothermic reaction of the Hydration of Magnesium isn't that strong :)
Thank you Clive for not editing out the part where you went to get some more water. I like it when the camera just continues rolling whatever happens. In this instance I just focused on the lonely bubble in your drink. ;-)
That moment when you glance through a bigclive video title, reading anything starting "lith" as "lithium" and don't think there's anything unusual on this channel about taste testing lithium. Especially since there are explosions promised.
Why can I imagine many freshly trained squaddies being tricked into being told to use the matches to light their cooking food to "make it cook quicker" 😉
I'm absolutely convinced at this point that anytime Clive makes a food video, what he's actually doing is monetising his post-pub munchies. Hence his occasional forgetfulness and desire to set fire to everything to make it cook faster. 🤣
I have grown to love your videos on food items. This one was great! Another one was the Japanese candy sushi that I tracked down and enjoyed watching my 7 year old make and enjoy. We were supposed to share it but after one bite, she claimed it all for herself. Keep up your fun videos.
We're on to you, Clive. Lithuania isn't even a real country, and there's no such thing as a "chemical heater". You fooled us with the Scottish MRE but we're not falling for this one.
Big Clive: Couple of years out of date, should be ok? SteveMRE1989: Boils and eats Boer war rations and stuff from WW2! Love the channel bud, All the best fae Glasgow! :)
Used to do that aswell with old heater packs but in 16oz bottles and me and freinds had a thing rigged up that would poke the lid with a red hot sewing needle, the bottles ended up being sketchy rocket motors it was great fun xD
Unfortunately, "who cares kids won't be eating this because it's military" is quite inaccurate, as militaries often hand MREs like these out in bulk after disasters that interrupt the food supply to an area.
The vitamin C drink is also available in every general store, they probably don't bother making new packaging for the MRE. But it's also a moot point because the warning is bullshit and has been disproved ages ago.
The "MREs" distributed to refugees are not necessarily identical to the ones meant for the military, though. An MRE is just a "meal ready to eat". The term was first used by the US military for their field rations, but these days lots of private companies make and sell MREs. Specifically, the meals distributed the the US army during humanitarian crises are known as "HDRs" (humanitarian daily rations), and are quite different from MREs (they're cheaper, less nutritious, with no chemical heaters, and are designed to survive being air-dropped without a parachute).
That depends on what agency is handing them out and where. When we had major flooding here they hit local stores for pallet loads of water but the meals they handed out were all military MREs Our station was one of the centers and we were handing them out like crazy, except to folks who had served in the military !! They would show up on a monday, drop off 3 pallets of MREs and 4-5 of water.
Going under the table during a nuclear blast can actually help; if your building isn't demolished but the windows still blow out, being under a table can help protect you from debris.
Yeah. If you're too close to the bomb it doesn't matter anyway, you're gonna get annihilated or burned to death no matter where you are. But getting under something probably significantly increases your chance of survival once you get outside of the immediate demolition area. Not only could it keep you safe from flying debris, glass, and so on, it could also help deflect some of the force of the shock wave and potentially save your organs. And, perhaps most importantly, it could shield you from getting roasted by the actual flash of the explosion. Sure you might be surrounded by burning things and still be in significant danger, but if you managed to keep your skin intact then you've got a much better hope of getting out. So yeah, if you're too close to the bomb, getting under the table isn't gonna stop the entire building collapsing onto you, but if you're in that intermediate zone it can significantly improve your chances, and even if you're far away, you could avoid getting sliced up by flying glass when all the windows blow out.
Honey is also an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and can be used on wound and burns (see various .gov sites and nhs uk pages). A pretty useful thing to put in military MREs really!
observations : 1. Dinner is ready when the smoke detector goes off. 2. Could there be additional 'Marching powder' in the orange drink ? 3. Where was the Explosion containment pie dish while heating that pouch ?
-Lights bag he previously noted is producing hydrogen and oxygen. -Bag begins to burn with a flash. -quickly seals bag hoping to extinguish This is my favorite channel
That chicken stew pouch is the kind of thing I expect to see in a ration pack. I was surprised when you opened the Scottish one and the main "meal" was a Pot Noodle!
"Maisto davinys" seems to be the Lithuanian for MRE. It's what the English wikipedia article for "field ration" links to in the Lithuanian version (interwiki links are a good way to get translations of obscure terms sometimes). I think "davinys" means something like "portion" or "ration". "Sausas" means dry and "maistas" means food. (Disclaimer: I speak zero Lithuanian).
I figure MREs must have a very conservative expiry date, because they know people will push it, anyway. No hungry soldier or post-apocalyptic scavenger is going to look at an MRE pack and say "oh fiddlesticks, it expired yesterday, I guess I can't eat it!". The expiry is probably largely arbitrary, to avoid potentially poisoning people in otherwise good conditions, but there doesn't appear to be much in there that CAN go off. As for the honey, I'm pretty sure honey can't go off. I remember hearing the possibly apocryphal story that Alexander the Great had his body preserved in honey, because honey was known to never spoil. Whether or not the story is true, I think the bit about honey never spoiling is.
As far as your luck with the ration heaters, at least for the US ones i was always issued, you put the water in up to the line *before* you put the food packet in. When you put the food packet in it displaces the water and fully soaks the chemical packet.
As a civvie, I checked out the prices on these from my (former) local army supply shop in Canada and found them extravagant. Wonder if they're cheaper to buy in other markets?
I'm sure someone answered it a long time ago but the purpose of the zip tie in MREs is probably to seal up the bag at the end when you fill up the bag with the leftover trash so it doesn't spill everywhere We had something like that although I would often just pocket the zip ties and they came in extremely handy in a pinch like zip ties always do I don't miss those cold winter days when you were sat at a guard post for hours in pitch black since daylight lasted for a few hours, usually you had damp clothes and no way to dry them and if someone forgot to relieve you from your position the food would already be frozen near solid. Didn't get many hours of sleep ever since we had like 2/3rds of our men on guard duty around the clock, and on top of that the truck drivers required more sleep uninterrupted so they didn't guard much either
Thanks Clive . For your reference honey never goes off ,the bee add some kind of 'enzyme' i believe which makes it never go off . They have found honey over a thousand years old and its still edible , amazing. I always enjoy these MRE videos you should get a mess kit to eat it out of , just a suggestion. :-)
Archaeologists found a sealed stone jar containing honey estimated to be 2,000 years old. Some was removed & heated to de-crystallise it & it was found to be perfectly edible. 18:20 is a piece of chicken, complete with skin.
Glorious Clive move. When he said that it would probably be a bad idea I knew he wouldn't be able to help himself. Hydrogen, Oxygen and a box of matches just too tempting.
Maybe not on purpose, but encouraging people to use a heater with an open flame near a bag full of H2+O2 seems like an accident eager to happen. Edit: From other comments it seems it's just H2, no O2, which is nowhere near as dangerous.
In case you guys ever wondered how a flameless ration heater works and you don’t have degrees in chemistry, the magnesium pellets are mixed with iron pellets. When you add water, it becomes a galvanic pile (a battery). Because the metals are touching each other, essentially the FRH is like a bunch of tiny short circuiting batteries.
20:20 Yeah, that statement didn't age as well as the featured MRE.
lol right 🤣
As a Lithuanian soldier I always used to add chocolate bar to heating packet, let it melt and then put it into hazel nuts bag, then it becomes this treat that is amazing. Test it next time when you get lithuanian mre, some models has almonds and jams inside
That's a good idea.
I was thinking that. I guess all soldiers think a like. :)
I think you invented nutella
Rokas Raulinaitis
This person is On another level of soldier all other soldiers strive to be on
Feral 88 well I have never heard the higher level of sarcasm in my life.
"There's a great temptation to light it. with a match. right now."
"That's a terrible idea, Clive, don't do that! Don't, Clive, stop!"
"No, I must."
Dr. Mitchell and Mr. Clive.
BigClive's reasoning is, "Why *_else_* would they include matches?!" lol
@Jean-Louis Bourgeois Well... unless you know the basics of chemical reactions and that most of these MRE's chemical heaters create explosive gases. That is the reason why they tell you on the packages to segregate the tablet heater from the other heater.
@@christopherkidwell9817 or maybe you'd do it, you know, for fun.
Damn it, now I wanna try that myself.
Pre-explosion chocolate: bloom.
Post-explosion chocolate: restored to like-new condition.
BigClive, you sir are a culinary genius!
I was to busy laughing to notice that but it does indeed.
Impressive.
Well spotted! @13:32 for anyone who missed it.
The bloom vs. the boom.
Well, all you need to do to get rid of the bloom is retemper the chocolate. Not as dramatic, though.
Did the Scottish nuclear heater run out of oomph?
Nah, but he's using it to power his TARDIS. :p
He should have saved that video for the first of April.
@@itsevilbert Why, it wasn't a joke!
@@AJB2K3 You sure? Cause I sure am not! He's messing with my mind!!! GAAAH!
Tom Cruise and the IMF stole it.
Don't be offended but I sometimes listen to you when I am going to sleep. Not because you are boring but because you have a soothing voice & a great accent. I find it very comforting while I am being informed.
"Sausasis Maisto Davinys" means "Dry Food Ration"
"Troškinta vištiena su ryžių koše" is "Chicken stew with rice porridge"
Sausas is a very important word for wine drinkers.
I feel quite bad for not spotting that, especially since I did spot vistiena. Getting too focused on food in my old age.
Thanks for the translation bud.
I knew that it is gonna be rice porridge, because here in Czechia we say "rýžová kaše". So it is similar enough. But I had no idea what the rest of the words mean, so thanks for translation.
Came here for this comment. Thanks
O, lietuvis komentaruose! Sveikas.
20:20 this has not aged well :/
I'm not sure I need to see another MRE vid...... *OH! explosion - - -CLICK*
The honey is probably the last thing to go bad in that MRE
Simon Langhof . They found honey in one of the Egyptian tombs that was still edible after several thousand years.
@@stumccabe honey's specific chemistry generally makes it not spoil even after thousands of years, because almost no micro-organism can grow in it. The only thing to be aware of is yeast, which would turn it into mead. That honey is not spoiled, just crystallised because it absorbed humidity.
Honey can't go bad. Heating it at 60°C should liquify it.
There were biscuits made in the 1700's designed for sea travel that needed moisture to be chewable.
Some have survived today, and they're still edible.
Not unless they mix corn syrup with it or other additives...
"Sausasis maisto davinys" stands for "dry food ration". I was very curious to see your reaction to our MREs. Never knew about the gasses that build up during the heating process, might try to do that some time hehe
Beware of the gasses that build up after consumption.
The comment about Russia near the end of the video makes you think sadly how times have changed in just a couple of years.
Really did not age well
That was my thoughts also. Comment did not age well
@@TheWes.tit aged as well as a promise from the Russian government to open up a refugee corridor
"I'm worried"
"Let's light hydrogen"
Famous last words pt2
Right after, "hold my beer" and "watch this"
11:59 - Honey _can_ go off, if you add water and let it ferment. It's called mead. ;)
That doesn't make it go off, it just improves it :D
Dont forget honey have to be brewed first. Like malt.
Natural honey, which that was, doesn't expire, answering your question.
Right, but it will crystallize so sometimes packages have a Best Before date.
Unless you're a young child/immunocompromised, at which point you probably shouldn't eat it at all ( botulinum spores in the honey that older individuals can cope with, but can be deadly to babies/those with weakened immune systems)
Edited to add about IC
@@tncorgi92 You can just dip the jar of honey in hot water and it will turn liquid again
it wasnt natural ,my grandparents have a honey farm , natural honey never expires never freezes and an easy way to tell is dip something into it and lift it up if the strings break it is not natural if the strings never break it is natural !!
@@fouzaialaa7962 yes its natural. honey crystallizes. honey freezes. and yes honey *can expire*, but it wont go foul.
also there is no thing called "real" honey. honey is just the product, not the material. since all honey comes from flowers etc there cant be any "real" honey cause there arent any "one and only" flower to make honey from. all honey that comes from insects and flowers can be called honey and be 100% real.
and no, your grandparents didnt have any honey farms, it doesent exist any honey farms. however, beefarms...
The chemical reaction that heats up the flameless ration heater does produce Hydrogen but consumes Oxygen, basicly by rapid oxidization of Magnesium.
I thought it must be mostly hydrogen, there was no loud crack when it went off and continued staying alight, indicating there was no oxygen.
Lucky for him that it did... If it produced hydrogen AND oxygen it would have reacted far more violently to a Clive with a match!
For reference the Chemical Redox reaction taking place is Mg (s) + 2H2O(l) --> Mg(OH)2(aq) + H2(g). Chemically, no oxygen is formed but they also use Iron filings in FRHs to exaggerate the heat because the exothermic reaction of the Hydration of Magnesium isn't that strong :)
@@juststeve5542 and I could see Clive reacting back with a spudger attack on it 🤣 luckily no whisky involved in this one
Thank you Clive for not editing out the part where you went to get some more water. I like it when the camera just continues rolling whatever happens. In this instance I just focused on the lonely bubble in your drink. ;-)
Clive and his alter ego
“no Clive, don’t do it!!!”
*I* *must*
Clive Alter in Fate, when?
Jekyll and Clive
"That was exciting."
"I'm not doing that again."
His Beavis side
I wonder if the cable tie is for sealing up the rubbish bag?
It is
That’s what it says here in Lithuania section. 😀. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_ration#Europe
Was just looking through the comments to see if anyone had already pointed this out...
@s 👌
He won't light it, he won't light it, he won't light it.
- Oh ffs, he just *lit* it 💥🔥💥!
Those rusks are known as panzer waffles. You don't eat them, you glue them to the front of your tank to add another 100mm of armour.
LOL I love that! Such an underrated comment.
When you gonna measure the voltage in one of those heater packs?
Should be between 1.2 and 2.8 volts if I didn't miscalculate
@@alexpaww how do you calculate that?
@@polygorg Google "electrochemistry cell potential calculation"
@@alexpaww k thx
That moment when you glance through a bigclive video title, reading anything starting "lith" as "lithium" and don't think there's anything unusual on this channel about taste testing lithium. Especially since there are explosions promised.
Cody from Cody'sLab would probably do it...
I read that the same way at first too :)
“Right, let’s get this out onto a tray... nice!” Those who know MRE, will know what that means. Great video Sir Clive, your videos always cheer me up!
Sets MRE alight: Nice hiss
When Clive starts opening tins with a P-38, then all will be right with the world. Mmm. No bleachy smell... Not bad.
When I watch MRE videos :
'Steve, don't you dare eat that, you'll get ill!'
'Clive, don't set that on fire, it will explode!'
Steve's been a bit slow on the uploads recently😄
I thought this was a Steve video at first. The thumbnail had me fooled
"what's a few years between friends" could be jail time tbh
might wana stick with AVE advise on that front.
@Edward Bourke - Glad I'm not the only one who's mind went there.
I'm extremely happy that you were tempted to take a match to the heater pack. That was awesome.
“Ohhh, let’s destroy the place, shall we?” Seriously? You immediately gotta make me bust out laughing?
Why can I imagine many freshly trained squaddies being tricked into being told to use the matches to light their cooking food to "make it cook quicker" 😉
"to give it a bit more oomph err... fump"
Troskinta Vistiena Su Ryziu Kose Roughly translates to "Dismembered remains of a man in his late forties"
Excellent. They're delicious.
Disappointingly, Google Translate says it actually means “shredded chicken with rice”. How mundane.
@@bigclivedotcom The Scottish Army Ration 5 seems to offer a better balance overall. Until you lose your balance by drinking the Scotch 😁
55 isn't he.....?
I thought the "minor explosion" was going to be in the bathroom afterwards. Glad i was wrong.
Keep up the great videos Clive :)
You should *ALWAYS* drink dark and stormies before videos. ;)
I Like this Clive👍
then show off your brick collection.
Clive: ate the exact same MRE 3 years ago
Also Clive: *I've never seen this before*
Clearly it's a bloody tasty MRE
I'm absolutely convinced at this point that anytime Clive makes a food video, what he's actually doing is monetising his post-pub munchies. Hence his occasional forgetfulness and desire to set fire to everything to make it cook faster. 🤣
Not the first MRE video on RUclips
But definitely the first time I've seen someone put a match to the self heating meal bag 👍
"Minor explosion"
Oh Clive. You wild bear ❤️
more of a silly goose if you ask me...
They pulled honey out of Tutankhamen's tomb and it was still fine.
Those bees know their stuff.
600 millions years of evolution that is.
F-bombs and explosions, this is truly a blessed day.
I have grown to love your videos on food items. This one was great!
Another one was the Japanese candy sushi that I tracked down and enjoyed watching my 7 year old make and enjoy. We were supposed to share it but after one bite, she claimed it all for herself.
Keep up your fun videos.
The Scottish MRE is still the best ration
Tacit Tacet Less nutritious, but more inspired!
The best ration maybe, but the best video? Maybe not.
I mean, I would have thought so too, but this video explosively propelled itself to the top.
You don't take much risk saying that here do you.
call it the big dick bag.
@rustybuttpate I see what you did there.
MRE doubles as an incendiary device for clearing bunkers
20:20 Oh Clive, that didn't age well.
"No Clive don't, stop...But I must." lol
Don't ever change Clive. Please.
Presumably the major explosion happens at some point in the middle of the night in a porcelain explosion containment bowl?
I love how bigclive always says "mmm" _before_ he puts anything in his mouth
BTW, steve1989 recommends using less water than specified when mixing up the coffee.
He´d also recommend to wait a couple of Decades before tasting it.
@Mialisus Nice!
Nice.
However, he does not recommend botulism.
@@Zyryth Mmmmmkay.
First time I’ve thought “Clive is high” whilst watching a video of his.
Just very late (about 3am) after exactly three dark n stormies. Each with exactly one measure of rum.
Made me chuckle. Little tipsy myself.
@@bigclivedotcom Ah- that could be the reason you tried to make a Hindenburger.
Oh... the humanity!
@@bigclivedotcom Do you have a measure much like mine....
@@ridley68 Aye Laddie. We'll not be needing that cork anymore!
2020 Clive: Russia isn't planning to take over the world any time soon.
2022 Russia: hold my beer
12:55 "A great tempation to light it... with a match" Clive I absolutely love the way you just get zoned out in making your ideas come true
You know he's calculating the possible velocity and spread of a chicken dinner 🤣
We're on to you, Clive. Lithuania isn't even a real country, and there's no such thing as a "chemical heater". You fooled us with the Scottish MRE but we're not falling for this one.
Lol, I know you’re joking but there’s some people that don’t know Lithuania exists so I’m just saying it for those, not correcting you or anything
I enjoy watching these MRE videos. You are always entertaining and you give a good review of everything.
13:04 I love this channel you're like the darkest timeline version of Scott Manley
Well that's a crossover I wasn't expecting.
Big Clive: Couple of years out of date, should be ok?
SteveMRE1989: Boils and eats Boer war rations and stuff from WW2!
Love the channel bud, All the best fae Glasgow! :)
Hho Generator, those Lithuanian's 😎i remember in the 90s my uncle would get me case's of mre's ...long short of it.. those heaters in 2liter bottles💥
Used to do that aswell with old heater packs but in 16oz bottles and me and freinds had a thing rigged up that would poke the lid with a red hot sewing needle, the bottles ended up being sketchy rocket motors it was great fun xD
Love the banter and "terrible" ideas lol. Keep em coming big fella.
Unfortunately, "who cares kids won't be eating this because it's military" is quite inaccurate, as militaries often hand MREs like these out in bulk after disasters that interrupt the food supply to an area.
The vitamin C drink is also available in every general store, they probably don't bother making new packaging for the MRE. But it's also a moot point because the warning is bullshit and has been disproved ages ago.
The "MREs" distributed to refugees are not necessarily identical to the ones meant for the military, though.
An MRE is just a "meal ready to eat". The term was first used by the US military for their field rations, but these days lots of private companies make and sell MREs.
Specifically, the meals distributed the the US army during humanitarian crises are known as "HDRs" (humanitarian daily rations), and are quite different from MREs (they're cheaper, less nutritious, with no chemical heaters, and are designed to survive being air-dropped without a parachute).
That depends on what agency is handing them out and where. When we had major flooding here they hit local stores for pallet loads of water but the meals they handed out were all military MREs Our station was one of the centers and we were handing them out like crazy, except to folks who had served in the military !! They would show up on a monday, drop off 3 pallets of MREs and 4-5 of water.
Going under the table during a nuclear blast can actually help; if your building isn't demolished but the windows still blow out, being under a table can help protect you from debris.
Yeah. If you're too close to the bomb it doesn't matter anyway, you're gonna get annihilated or burned to death no matter where you are. But getting under something probably significantly increases your chance of survival once you get outside of the immediate demolition area. Not only could it keep you safe from flying debris, glass, and so on, it could also help deflect some of the force of the shock wave and potentially save your organs. And, perhaps most importantly, it could shield you from getting roasted by the actual flash of the explosion. Sure you might be surrounded by burning things and still be in significant danger, but if you managed to keep your skin intact then you've got a much better hope of getting out.
So yeah, if you're too close to the bomb, getting under the table isn't gonna stop the entire building collapsing onto you, but if you're in that intermediate zone it can significantly improve your chances, and even if you're far away, you could avoid getting sliced up by flying glass when all the windows blow out.
Honey is also an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and can be used on wound and burns (see various .gov sites and nhs uk pages). A pretty useful thing to put in military MREs really!
"I'm not doing that again..." Yeah, right! I think I've watched enough of your videos to know that you ARE going to do that again.
And I did.
Lmfao! That's exactly why most watch not just for the obvious technical knowledge, but for those moments when your brain wonders "What if?"
Curious Clive,,, I love watching your content man your not just funny but abit nuts as well.
A better translation would be "Dry food ration". Also, in 4:10 it was "stewed chicken with rice mash". Kudos ;)
I laughed so many times during this video. Loving your channel!
observations :
1. Dinner is ready when the smoke detector goes off.
2. Could there be additional 'Marching powder' in the orange drink ?
3. Where was the Explosion containment pie dish while heating that pouch ?
The most creative way I think I've ever seen to burn one's dinner... and you pointed it right at the fuel tabs as well.
I believe the cable tie is so you can use the original packaging to contain the waste left over from the MRE
-Lights bag he previously noted is producing hydrogen and oxygen.
-Bag begins to burn with a flash.
-quickly seals bag hoping to extinguish
This is my favorite channel
As I start watching this I'm thinking to myself...how can I trust you anymore (after the Scottish 'high calorie' MRE vid)!
Man it would be a blast to share a drink with you man. Cheers thanks for the company.!
That chicken stew pouch is the kind of thing I expect to see in a ration pack. I was surprised when you opened the Scottish one and the main "meal" was a Pot Noodle!
the scottish one was fake
"Maisto davinys" seems to be the Lithuanian for MRE. It's what the English wikipedia article for "field ration" links to in the Lithuanian version (interwiki links are a good way to get translations of obscure terms sometimes). I think "davinys" means something like "portion" or "ration". "Sausas" means dry and "maistas" means food. (Disclaimer: I speak zero Lithuanian).
You are correct. Davinys means ration, portion would be porcija.
Disappointed that you didn’t get it out onto a tray
Nice
I found the lack of hiss....... disturbing.
I watched you for 1 year now and didnt think that you'll try Lithuania's MRE. It was really exited to see you try our MRE!
The lighting the hydrogen off made be irrationally happy. :-)
"May have adverse effect on children" Military doesn't drop mixed chicken noodle soup for food assistance.
I figure MREs must have a very conservative expiry date, because they know people will push it, anyway. No hungry soldier or post-apocalyptic scavenger is going to look at an MRE pack and say "oh fiddlesticks, it expired yesterday, I guess I can't eat it!". The expiry is probably largely arbitrary, to avoid potentially poisoning people in otherwise good conditions, but there doesn't appear to be much in there that CAN go off.
As for the honey, I'm pretty sure honey can't go off. I remember hearing the possibly apocryphal story that Alexander the Great had his body preserved in honey, because honey was known to never spoil. Whether or not the story is true, I think the bit about honey never spoiling is.
As far as your luck with the ration heaters, at least for the US ones i was always issued, you put the water in up to the line *before* you put the food packet in. When you put the food packet in it displaces the water and fully soaks the chemical packet.
That is the same with this one. He put less water than you should.
BIG CLIVE: "What's the worst that could happen?"
FIREMAN: "Tell me again, how you burnt the house down."
😁
These rusks are famous polish "suchary specjalne" we call them *panzerwaffle* also because of the hardness
"What's a couple of years between friends". I tried that excuse, she still said no.
The wet wipes usually smell like lemon furniture polish.
Average Human: "My food is warming up"
Clive: "The chemical reaction is happening in this pouch to my left." 8:54
As a civvie, I checked out the prices on these from my (former) local army supply shop in Canada and found them extravagant. Wonder if they're cheaper to buy in other markets?
Retail MREs on the civilian market are ridiculous. There are places online where you can buy them in cases and pallet lots for a LOT less.
@@Blazer02LS Which places? (I'm in the UK)
I was laughing before you lit the hydrogen mix, I was crying after, thank you so much for your videos.
clive had so many dark and stormy's he forgot he already ate the exact same Lithuanian MRE 3 years ago
The explosion makes it better.
Very interesting video as always. I really like these army ration videos. Please keep making them.
"Not doing that again" until next time.
I'm sure someone answered it a long time ago but the purpose of the zip tie in MREs is probably to seal up the bag at the end when you fill up the bag with the leftover trash so it doesn't spill everywhere
We had something like that although I would often just pocket the zip ties and they came in extremely handy in a pinch like zip ties always do
I don't miss those cold winter days when you were sat at a guard post for hours in pitch black since daylight lasted for a few hours, usually you had damp clothes and no way to dry them and if someone forgot to relieve you from your position the food would already be frozen near solid. Didn't get many hours of sleep ever since we had like 2/3rds of our men on guard duty around the clock, and on top of that the truck drivers required more sleep uninterrupted so they didn't guard much either
"Dry Food Davis" was one of my favourite bluegrass banjo players.
I love this section of your videos (MRE) meal tests.
“Is it going to go bang? Yes, yes it’s going to go bang” *instant panic*
The food heater that doubles as a weapon you can use against the enemy after dinner
A sample of honey about 3000 years old from Egypt was found to be safe for consumption.
Thanks Clive . For your reference honey never goes off ,the bee add some kind of 'enzyme' i believe which makes it never go off . They have found honey over a thousand years old and its still edible , amazing.
I always enjoy these MRE videos you should get a mess kit to eat it out of , just a suggestion. :-)
Loved the part where you ignited the gas from the heater!
Archaeologists found a sealed stone jar containing honey estimated to be 2,000 years old.
Some was removed & heated to de-crystallise it & it was found to be perfectly edible.
18:20 is a piece of chicken, complete with skin.
The cable tie is for the thumbs of the captive, who you are about to inflict the MRE on...….
I've never seen anyone light their MRE on fire.
Glorious Clive move.
When he said that it would probably be a bad idea I knew he wouldn't be able to help himself.
Hydrogen, Oxygen and a box of matches just too tempting.
Lets light this FRH. Boom, nice!
Maybe not on purpose, but encouraging people to use a heater with an open flame near a bag full of H2+O2 seems like an accident eager to happen.
Edit: From other comments it seems it's just H2, no O2, which is nowhere near as dangerous.
Clive: Hold my dark and stormy
In case you guys ever wondered how a flameless ration heater works and you don’t have degrees in chemistry, the magnesium pellets are mixed with iron pellets. When you add water, it becomes a galvanic pile (a battery).
Because the metals are touching each other, essentially the FRH is like a bunch of tiny short circuiting batteries.
"Oooh, crystalllllllz! Are these drugs, then?" - Big Clive, 2020
The chance of a small explosion is what brings me back to your videos
Is this heated by an old Warp Drive?