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The Warm Arts said:
Cheese Time.
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"They weren't kidding. See: it's like dough, in a swirl shape? Probably the same stuff as wheat snack bread, with slight textural enhancements. There's the cheese in there: the swirl."

"My main complaint are the almonds. They're too hard. Not a pleasant chew; too dry. Thirst-provoking. Demoralizing component. Hmmm."

Again, this is exactly the kind of thing you'd hear in a classic MGS game if there had been some kind of Legendary Quartermaster assigned as your rations-specific radio support and you called his frequency after picking up a pouch of trail mix.


I liked the subtle sound modification on the spoon music (coffee variety).

"I think there's a piece of olive in there! Look at that. Oh yeah, they went all out. Flavorful."
 
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Aunt Carol said:
"They weren't kidding. See: it's like dough, in a swirl shape? Probably the same stuff as wheat snack bread, with slight textural enhancements. There's the cheese in there: the swirl."

"My main complaint are the almonds. They're too hard. Not a pleasant chew; too dry. Thirst-provoking. Demoralizing component. Hmmm."

Again, this is exactly the kind of thing you'd hear in a classic MGS game if there had been some kind of Legendary Quartermaster assigned as your rations-specific radio support and you called his frequency after picking up a pouch of trail mix.


I liked the subtle sound modification on the spoon music (coffee variety).

"I think there's a piece of olive in there! Look at that. Oh yeah, they went all out. Flavorful."
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Steve as Para-medic in this case. Unironically would love for Steve to voice an NPC like this in a video game. He doesn't even need acting training, he already delivers his lines perfectly in his videos.
 
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PetiteFeet said:
Steve as Para-medic in this case. Unironically would love for Steve to voice an NPC like this in a video game. He doesn't even need acting training, he already delivers his lines perfectly in his videos.
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Just give him the food in real life and have a mic nearby. You could probably give him an animal carcass and he'd know how to safely roast it.

Also since he's been doing a lot of modern MREs, I wonder if it's getting too hard to find oler ones. A bit of a shame, since the Vietnam era ones are always fascinating.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Just give him the food in real life and have a mic nearby. You could probably give him an animal carcass and he'd know how to safely roast it.

Also since he's been doing a lot of modern MREs, I wonder if it's getting too hard to find oler ones. A bit of a shame, since the Vietnam era ones are always fascinating.
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Rarer, more expensive, less benefit to sacrificing them on-screen then keeping them for display and eventual resale, I would guess.

Still, the man has sourced (and EATEN!) American civil war rations, he can pretty much retire with his crown of Military Meals King unthreatened.
 
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Rick The Stick said:
With AI fuckery, and the amount of hours of Steve we have, I'm sure a mod to replace either Medic or Snake's lines with Steve's voice would be very possible.
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He does give me a higher pitched David Hayter Snake vibes at times when he talks about rations. I wonder how he feels about Calorie Mate.
 
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WonderWino said:
That said, I want to see him make some kind of horrible GI hot chocolate out of 80 year old powdered milk and crushed D ration chocolate bar
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He's said before that it's the milk that goes bad first in a ration, so he'd probably give it the sniff test first. Maybe there's some vintage canned evaporated milk.

That would be a neat special episode, though: stories from former soldiers about the special dishes they jury-rigged out of MRE components, and replicating them to try on camera. Maybe with modern components, since the soldiers were using in-date rations at the time for their concoctions.

As much as I like to learn about the food science and the story behind the production of an individual ration, we don't get as much info about how they were actually used in practice, probably because that was all oral history. Generation Kill (the book) had some interesting asides about the way the soldiers stripped and pooled MREs during the invasion, because they had a reporter embedded with them to record it. A lot of military history is written from the top-down, so these nuances are otherwise lost.
 
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The Warm Arts said:
Rations from Canada and Estonia, wherever they are. Enjoy.
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Estonian Chili Mac:

"That's a bit optimistic: a green tea bag for a combat ration."

"That's so good, you know it's made for it. MRE crackers are made for the mains. Adheres to the tomato sauce. Here."

I liked watching Steve's decision-making process as he gradually, inexorably, combined the whole ration.

"This is how an Estonian soldier eats. Take it all, and mix it together. ...I guess. Crispbread integrates perfectly. That weird little snack mix? Softens up the way it needs to. Unbelievable flavor. That is true gourmet Estonian field chow at its finest right here."

Canadian Meatballs with Gravy:

For a guy who's eaten food from WWII, this 1994 entry is really racking up the "aw, jeez" count in the initial unboxing. I'll admit I initially forgot that 1994 was as long ago as it was, but it's still newer than that Boer War beef. Then again, it's clear the Ancients knew how to preserve things better than we do.

"They were giving out Wet-Naps 30 years ago; that's pretty cool, y'know? Hey, they're really covering the bases, too. A toothpick--last resort, y'know. En garde!"

Steve breaking out his French for the Canadians.

"There's no questionable flavors or scents to it, nothing's off. It's like in the the middle of a shelf-stable food war zone: you got one component that made it through and seems to be relatively unscathed, and surprisingly it is the main. The meatballs and gravy itself is not only edible, but it is palatable."

"Paper towel? Legendary. That's reusable."
 
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Aunt Carol said:
It depends what kind of instant coffee is in the MRE. Is it spray-dried?
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Whateva you like baybeh
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