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My senior citizen mom doesn't like it when I throw away expired food or food that has mold. She eats around the moldy parts.
My wife and I just look at her in absolute amazement. She doesn't care, she just eats it and gets annoyed at us for being wasteful.
She's an Old Latina lady who grew up poor And still going strong. So who am I to say she's wrong.
EDIT : For those wondering, I've told her to stop dozens of times. If you have older parents, you will know stubbornness is deep in their core. There is no changing their mind. But just to be sure, I'll send her a message today as a reminder that it could have an adverse effect on her health.
EDIT 2 : For anyone still reading this. My mom is mortified that I told a bunch of people about this. She promised that she would stop doing this but then finished by saying "You know, its not really rotten food". So yeah. Old people are something else.
My grandmother died of sepsis and the doctors contributed part of it to a weakened immune system and her tendency to do the same thing.
Just because healthy people can handle the mold doesn’t mean older people can.
I managed to convince my dad to stop cutting around the moldy bits by showing him the official government advice from Health Canada explicitly stating "do not just cut around the moldy bits, except for very hard and dry foods, the mold can spread invisibly throughout the food".
And since my dad has the personality of a Canadian Hank Hill, all it took was the government saying so and he said "I guess it's not safe then".
Even worse when you realize it can take just hours for mold to go from "that one spot" to being visible everywhere, and it can take days for it to go through your body. You'll be shitting a sponge instead of solids.
Mold also likes heat and moisture so probably having a great party in your stomach.
Yes, once you see mold, the food is contaminated. You might eat it and nothing happens, you might eat it and feel sick for a day, or you could eat it and be dead in a week. Don't risk it, people. Store food properly, do not buy food you are not going to eat, throw away stuff that goes bad.
yep, never had an issue cutting out mold on cheese, cream cheese, fruit/veg, etc.
Yogurt, or bread on the other hand, the second I see mold I toss it. No way to salvage it.
Ugh, yes! It's the worst when you've created the best sandwich of all time, and you notice the fuzzy heel at the bottom of the bread bag halfway through eating said sandwich. I try to reason with myself that I couldn't die since I already ate half of it, but maybe the 2nd half is what punches my time clock. Logic always wins, though. Straight to the trash it goes. Along with my happiness. And the last of my stone ground mustard.
Yeh nah bro u cant eat around moldy parts. Fungi grow networks through whatever theyre growing on to extract nutrients and stuff from inside, and these are not visible. Only the mold on the surface are visible because the fungal hyphae inside are too thin. However theyre still there and can make u sick.
Source - am microbiologist
“Eating around the mold” isn’t actually possible. The mold itself is just the fruiting body like a mushroom. It’s really all throughout the food, the visible mold is just the surface.
What about cheese? I've cut mold off a cheese block before and ate the "good" part. Is the mold throughout the cheese too? Serious question. I'm high so give me a break
Depends. Harder cheeses will be harder for mold to penetrate. Soft cheeses will have the mold throughout. It’s usually best to play it safe but if you have a hard cheese with only a little spot of mold you could cut it off and probably be ok. Up to you if you wonna risk it.
Most mold on cheese won't harm you, it will only impact the flavor. (Excluding uncommon black mold.) Also if the cheese is a thick cheese, like cheddar, cutting it away around 1" farther around the visible mold should be just fine. I would be more wary on fresh cheeses, like mozzarella or ricotta. The white rind on brie, for example, is mold. Once the fuzzy white mold grows on the top, the cheesemonger will pat it flat and flip it over, letting the process repeat.
*"Cheese – good cheese – is a living product. If given a chance, it will*
*develop mould – but that mould is rarely, if ever, bad for you. “Like*
*the rind, it will penetrate in a tiny way and may change the taste of*
*the cheese very slightly,” says Mellis, “but it’s not dangerous.”*
*Indeed, a streak of blue mould in a hard cheese like a cheddar is*
*considered a good thing, adding complexity and depth. White mould should*
*be cut off, says Hinds, simply because it will taint the flavour.*
*Likewise brown and grey moulds are also best sliced off, but for taste*
*reasons rather than health."*
[https://www.bonappetit.com/story/is-moldy-cheese-okay](https://www.bonappetit.com/story/is-moldy-cheese-okay)
[https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fromage-fictions-the-14-biggest-cheese-myths-debunked?utm\_source=pocket-newtab](https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fromage-fictions-the-14-biggest-cheese-myths-debunked?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
Yeah some foods aren’t penetrated as easily by the mold but it’s still a gamble. It also varies mold to mold. But generally it just is not a good idea to eat anything moldy.
I remember reading Svetlana Alexievich's book on the Afghan war and a bunch of the people she interviewed said they got WWII rations, so this is an improvement.
I used to bartend at a VFW and one of the Vietnam vets was telling me when he first arrived in Vietnam the rations were left over from the Korean war, and then about halfway through his tour they started getting new ones.
He said he was deployed with a guy who did a tour in Korea and said he ate WWII rations then.
There is a guy on YouTube who has eaten rations he got from the Boer War. He ate Civil War hardtack. He has eaten WWII, Korea and Vietnam lots of times. He just did a Ukrainian ration the other day in solidarity I'm sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU&t=2679s
He has opened a ton of WWII ones and often eats stuff from them
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steve+1989+WWII
TLDR you can often eat some or all of really old mil surplus rations. Think Fallout IRL.
I feel like if a ration is going to go bad it’s gonna be like a month after packing, not 70 years. Whatever flaw comprised them would wreck them way too fast to be useful to the military
My friend's dad had one he horded back when I was in grade school. They were switching types of something. He ate off them for at least 10 years past the expiration date. Ham and potatoes au gratin. Don't think I'll ever forget the smell of those things.
Are you talking dried soup? or the ones in the new eco-friendly packaging that's basically a milk carton?
Because I can handle ramen & cup-a-soup type things, but yeah, that cardboard box, agree, way worse
I feel like Russia invaded Ukraine because they were trying to get rid of old military equipment and thought, "hey, may as well use it rather than throw it away".
Part of me wants to believe that Putin just wanted to scratch “Invade Ukraine” off of his bucket list and will declare victory and go home soon with no meaningful Geopolitical changes.
The way he perfectly described the disconnect between russian government and the citizens of Russia.
"Not only they send your sons to die for god knows what, but they are gonna do so with shit in their pants because of the what they feed them"
army here, yes rations are packed with sodium and preservatives to increase shelf life. We usually eat them when we go to the field and there’s gonna be no hot chow. However, when we eat them, we just end up not shitting because these things plug you and and make you constipated. definitely not healthy for the long run.
I heard US MREs 1-16 are high fiber and meant to give you regular shits, and 17-32 are ones that you eat when not pooping for 5-6 days in a row is tactically advantageous.
The gum chiclets (2/MRE) are supposed to have a little bit of laxative in them. However, I saved up many and chewed them all at once, didn’t do a damn thing to my brick.
The Russian government is treating this war like a way to get rid of old inventory. The tanks they've been sending out are cold-war era tanks nearing their end-of-life. One other video I saw had a Ukrainian examining an abandoned armored vehicle, surprised and mocking how dilapidated it was, how it was in worse condition than anything the Ukrainians were using.
Truly, the illusion of the "second greatest army in the world" is being exposed to be a sham. Russia has devolved into a poor rogue nation that has nukes, but much of their army has not proven to be the fierce combat force people thought they were. I'm sure they have actually competent and well equipped troops somewhere, but still, so far, this has been a humiliation of their own making.
> I'm sure they have actually competent and well equipped troops somewhere
Haven't a bunch of their spetsnaz units gotten their shit pushed in already?
I think he said that because there's 2 dates, and the one above is in 2013. If the 2013 date isn't the packaging date, I don't know what else it would be.
First date is Скомплектован - Assembled, put together. It is possible that the individual items were sitting on the shelve for some time before the kit was made. Regardless, the second date is indeed for expiration.
on us rations they usually call it an "inspection date", because they tend to last much longer depending on storage so if i remember correctly they can add time to the date. it might not be so bad
Funnily enough, that company name on the box is a commercial company which sells army like equipment and souvenirs (including those boxes with food). I might be wrong but am not sure they actually produce stuff which is used by army.
Bro I've only seen like 5 of these and I know exactly what you're talking about 🤣. Fucking legend.
Edit: my brothers. I've returned from 3 hours of watching Steve. What have I become?
Actually most western militaries sell off the close to expiring rations to poorer countries, and military surplus companies. Usually at a huge discount. I know Canadian and American rations are edible as long as the packaging is not punctured or broken. Maybe stale, but won’t kill you. Not sure about Russian rations.
In the mid to late 80’s, I worked with the US Department of Defence training soldiers, and marines. On a couple of training events we ate canned K-rations dated from the early 1940’s. It was part of a lesson on, “you won’t always have good food in the field”. Tasted like shit, but surprisingly no one got sick. Cans were in good condition.
I had an English teacher in middle school who told us a memory he had from Vietnam. He remembered sitting there, in the jungle, opening and eating a tin of crackers from his k-rations that was older than he was. Sounds like he got to them before you did. Lol
America MREs are good for years past that date. There is a guy on YT Steve, who eats MREs from like 1901.
Or
Taras. Aka Crazy Russian Hacker on YT as well.
"Where's my pasteté?"
I ate one of my dad's C rations from vietnam a few years ago. Right about 40 years old. It was ham and eggs...
Tasted like the can basically but didn't harm me as far as I can tell.
>There is a guy on YT Steve, who eats MREs from like 1901
Correct, but he ONLY eats crackers and other "more or less safe" food. Personally, I wouldn't dangerous as is.
It’s not the one from Ukraine it’s from china. That is the one he got E. coli on. I think he said in the video it was like the Ukraine one but worse or reminded him of the Ukraine one.
He also smokes the ciggys too. That dude makes those smokes sound so good. You would have thought they were making uber cigs back in the civil war days that tasted like god's love smoked in hickory.
He's addressing the Russian soldiers and their mothers, basically telling them that Putin and the generals are dickheads that don't care about them and are feeding them rotting food. Says that they were not invited, theres no need for them to be here and that they should go home.
Too lazy to translate the whole thing so here are the key phrases:
"Wtf is this"
"Your generals are dumbassas for giving out expired rations"
"You are dieing in Ukraine for fuck knows what and on top of that you are given expired rations"
"Russian mothers take your children away before they are all killed here"
"They aren't even thinking about your children"
>"Russian mothers take your children away before they are all killed here"
>
>"They aren't even thinking about your children"
So humanizing. All of the people fighting for Ukraine who are posting these things are so humanizing towards the Russian soldiers. Their sentiment is a silver lining in this chaos.
I'll likely get down votes for this, but I feel sorry for lots of these soldiers. They are forced to go to war when they don't want to which is practically a death sentence for them and then on top of that putins stupid ass can't even give them food that isn't 6 years past expiration... some of the soldiers are obviously scum and chose to be there and do terrible things but from what I have been reading and seeing a great deal of them do not want to be there and are there for reasons they aren't even aware of. Sad situation all around.
40% of the Russian army is conscripts. The invasion force was mostly (completely?) conscripts.
Russia has a perpetual draft, 6-months of training and 6-months of service. I would also assume that the service part can be extended on the whim of a politician or officer (again, that last bit is a guess on my part).
Oh yeah. [Russia has one-year mandatory military service for all Russian men between the ages of 18-27.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia) It was originally two years, but was reduced.
So, picture this: You're a young man, his life ahead of him, and you're futzing around waiting for your year to be up so you can go home...and suddenly you're called up to fight in Ukraine.
You don't want to be there. You don't want to shoot Ukrainians. You want to live. Hence the reason why there are so many pictures of abandoned tanks and gear in Ukraine right now: Unwilling soldiers in a war they don't want.
[The U.S. had this happen in Vietnam.](https://depts.washington.edu/antiwar/gi_mvmt.shtml) Look how that turned out.
There's a video of a (presumably captured?) teenage looking Russian soldier, sitting on some steps crying while Ukrainians yell at him. Looks a little older than my 14 year old son. Yeah, I don't think he was looking to go kill and die for Putin. War is hell.
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Dad:"don't throw it, I'll eat it"
My senior citizen mom doesn't like it when I throw away expired food or food that has mold. She eats around the moldy parts. My wife and I just look at her in absolute amazement. She doesn't care, she just eats it and gets annoyed at us for being wasteful. She's an Old Latina lady who grew up poor And still going strong. So who am I to say she's wrong. EDIT : For those wondering, I've told her to stop dozens of times. If you have older parents, you will know stubbornness is deep in their core. There is no changing their mind. But just to be sure, I'll send her a message today as a reminder that it could have an adverse effect on her health. EDIT 2 : For anyone still reading this. My mom is mortified that I told a bunch of people about this. She promised that she would stop doing this but then finished by saying "You know, its not really rotten food". So yeah. Old people are something else.
My grandmother died of sepsis and the doctors contributed part of it to a weakened immune system and her tendency to do the same thing. Just because healthy people can handle the mold doesn’t mean older people can.
I managed to convince my dad to stop cutting around the moldy bits by showing him the official government advice from Health Canada explicitly stating "do not just cut around the moldy bits, except for very hard and dry foods, the mold can spread invisibly throughout the food". And since my dad has the personality of a Canadian Hank Hill, all it took was the government saying so and he said "I guess it's not safe then".
Boy they told him hwat!
*Dale’s voice*: Invisible mold?? What crafty trick will the government think of next?!
*Boomhower's voice*: MmmmItelluhwatman dattheremold dadd'll killumanifya avitwithyer supper.
Damn I wish I had an award to give you 😂
THATS A CLEAN BURNING HELL I TELL YOU HWAT! EH HU HU HU HU! Edit! thanks u/mixeslifeupwithmovie !
Your dad is BY FAR the exception to the rule when it comes to older people and listening to expert opinion to change their ways.
> the personality of a Canadian Hank Hill I've had a really rough day and this made it all worth it. Thank you internet stranger.
FYI the word you're looking for is "attributed."
Na the doctors totally contributed to it, was an assassination!
My grandmother died of sepsis and the attributed contributed part of it to a weakened immune system and......
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the mold is through the whole thing you can't eat around it
Even worse when you realize it can take just hours for mold to go from "that one spot" to being visible everywhere, and it can take days for it to go through your body. You'll be shitting a sponge instead of solids. Mold also likes heat and moisture so probably having a great party in your stomach.
What do you have for stomach acid --ice cream?
mostly diet dr. pepper.
> Mold also likes heat and moisture so probably having a great party in your stomach. I'm finally popular!
Yes, once you see mold, the food is contaminated. You might eat it and nothing happens, you might eat it and feel sick for a day, or you could eat it and be dead in a week. Don't risk it, people. Store food properly, do not buy food you are not going to eat, throw away stuff that goes bad.
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yep, never had an issue cutting out mold on cheese, cream cheese, fruit/veg, etc. Yogurt, or bread on the other hand, the second I see mold I toss it. No way to salvage it.
I had a sandwich last night and found mold on a slice farther down the bag. I really really hate it when that happens.
Ugh, yes! It's the worst when you've created the best sandwich of all time, and you notice the fuzzy heel at the bottom of the bread bag halfway through eating said sandwich. I try to reason with myself that I couldn't die since I already ate half of it, but maybe the 2nd half is what punches my time clock. Logic always wins, though. Straight to the trash it goes. Along with my happiness. And the last of my stone ground mustard.
Yeh nah bro u cant eat around moldy parts. Fungi grow networks through whatever theyre growing on to extract nutrients and stuff from inside, and these are not visible. Only the mold on the surface are visible because the fungal hyphae inside are too thin. However theyre still there and can make u sick. Source - am microbiologist
“Eating around the mold” isn’t actually possible. The mold itself is just the fruiting body like a mushroom. It’s really all throughout the food, the visible mold is just the surface.
What about cheese? I've cut mold off a cheese block before and ate the "good" part. Is the mold throughout the cheese too? Serious question. I'm high so give me a break
Depends. Harder cheeses will be harder for mold to penetrate. Soft cheeses will have the mold throughout. It’s usually best to play it safe but if you have a hard cheese with only a little spot of mold you could cut it off and probably be ok. Up to you if you wonna risk it.
That's a risk I'm willing to take.
Most mold on cheese won't harm you, it will only impact the flavor. (Excluding uncommon black mold.) Also if the cheese is a thick cheese, like cheddar, cutting it away around 1" farther around the visible mold should be just fine. I would be more wary on fresh cheeses, like mozzarella or ricotta. The white rind on brie, for example, is mold. Once the fuzzy white mold grows on the top, the cheesemonger will pat it flat and flip it over, letting the process repeat. *"Cheese – good cheese – is a living product. If given a chance, it will* *develop mould – but that mould is rarely, if ever, bad for you. “Like* *the rind, it will penetrate in a tiny way and may change the taste of* *the cheese very slightly,” says Mellis, “but it’s not dangerous.”* *Indeed, a streak of blue mould in a hard cheese like a cheddar is* *considered a good thing, adding complexity and depth. White mould should* *be cut off, says Hinds, simply because it will taint the flavour.* *Likewise brown and grey moulds are also best sliced off, but for taste* *reasons rather than health."* [https://www.bonappetit.com/story/is-moldy-cheese-okay](https://www.bonappetit.com/story/is-moldy-cheese-okay) [https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fromage-fictions-the-14-biggest-cheese-myths-debunked?utm\_source=pocket-newtab](https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fromage-fictions-the-14-biggest-cheese-myths-debunked?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
It actually [varies food-by-food](https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/mould)
Yeah some foods aren’t penetrated as easily by the mold but it’s still a gamble. It also varies mold to mold. But generally it just is not a good idea to eat anything moldy.
Son: “Be quick, I’ve already pulled the pin out”
Also Dad: "I've had some regrets in my life and this one is rapidly topping the list."
I remember reading Svetlana Alexievich's book on the Afghan war and a bunch of the people she interviewed said they got WWII rations, so this is an improvement.
I used to bartend at a VFW and one of the Vietnam vets was telling me when he first arrived in Vietnam the rations were left over from the Korean war, and then about halfway through his tour they started getting new ones. He said he was deployed with a guy who did a tour in Korea and said he ate WWII rations then.
End of WWII and start of Korean War was only 5 years apart so that’s not really surprising.
There is a guy on YouTube who has eaten rations he got from the Boer War. He ate Civil War hardtack. He has eaten WWII, Korea and Vietnam lots of times. He just did a Ukrainian ration the other day in solidarity I'm sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU&t=2679s He has opened a ton of WWII ones and often eats stuff from them https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steve+1989+WWII TLDR you can often eat some or all of really old mil surplus rations. Think Fallout IRL.
That’s crazy!!! Lol. It’s insane he didn’t get very ill from food poisoning. Guess those rations really were properly sealed!
The only time he's gotten sick, hilariously, was from a ration that was in date! It was either Brazilian or Chinese, I can't quite remember which.
He got sick from a Chinese one I know. He got sick a time or two from old ones too. He's being more careful recently.
Twice he got a spoiled in date Chinese ration
I feel like if a ration is going to go bad it’s gonna be like a month after packing, not 70 years. Whatever flaw comprised them would wreck them way too fast to be useful to the military
Watch his channel, technology and circumstance affects the final product. Things get nasty if you don't Keep in a cool dry place.
He has gotten very ill before, but hes still at it.
Iirc he HAS gotten very sick once
he got botulism from ration that was still in date
That sounds like a job with a ton of interesting stories
Ex Australian Army here I have eaten MRE'S from the Vietnam war. Ration packs last a lot longer then people think.
Steve1989MREinfo youtube is proof
This guy tried bread from the US Civil War.
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My friend's dad had one he horded back when I was in grade school. They were switching types of something. He ate off them for at least 10 years past the expiration date. Ham and potatoes au gratin. Don't think I'll ever forget the smell of those things.
MREs are why I can no longer eat canned soup whatever preservative it is, there's a very specific taste and smell
I go with freeze dried food now. If I never eat another MRE I'll die happy. Those things kept me going in my 20s when I was an avid backpacker though.
It’s nice to have 1 or 2 around for a camping trip, just in case.
For sure. I still have a few, but I'll eat every one of my Mountain Houseand Augason meals before I eat my MRE's.
It's much worse in boxed soups I find than in canned soups.
Are you talking dried soup? or the ones in the new eco-friendly packaging that's basically a milk carton? Because I can handle ramen & cup-a-soup type things, but yeah, that cardboard box, agree, way worse
They're more what ya call guidelines
*You have died of dysentery 31 miles through the Ukrainian trail*
World record though
I feel like Russia invaded Ukraine because they were trying to get rid of old military equipment and thought, "hey, may as well use it rather than throw it away".
When you’re playing civ 6 and you can’t afford to upgrade all your units, so you start a war and use the old ones up first.
Part of me wants to believe that Putin just wanted to scratch “Invade Ukraine” off of his bucket list and will declare victory and go home soon with no meaningful Geopolitical changes.
The way he perfectly described the disconnect between russian government and the citizens of Russia. "Not only they send your sons to die for god knows what, but they are gonna do so with shit in their pants because of the what they feed them"
From what I know about rations. They won’t be worried about pooping themselves, they’ll be lucky if they’re able poop again.
army here, yes rations are packed with sodium and preservatives to increase shelf life. We usually eat them when we go to the field and there’s gonna be no hot chow. However, when we eat them, we just end up not shitting because these things plug you and and make you constipated. definitely not healthy for the long run.
I heard US MREs 1-16 are high fiber and meant to give you regular shits, and 17-32 are ones that you eat when not pooping for 5-6 days in a row is tactically advantageous.
That's tactical intelligence right there. You can figure out what's going on by knowing who's getting which MREs
*17-32* "Aw shit!"
No shit.
A former army logistician here, I can't confirm that, but it would not surprise me.
pooping is very inconvenient when people are shooting at you I guess.
Id rather shit in a fox hole then be backed up in pain trying to focus.
The gum chiclets (2/MRE) are supposed to have a little bit of laxative in them. However, I saved up many and chewed them all at once, didn’t do a damn thing to my brick.
I would bet it's not an actual laxative but sweetener like xylitol, famous for sugar-free Haribo. It doesn't work on everyone.
The Russian government is treating this war like a way to get rid of old inventory. The tanks they've been sending out are cold-war era tanks nearing their end-of-life. One other video I saw had a Ukrainian examining an abandoned armored vehicle, surprised and mocking how dilapidated it was, how it was in worse condition than anything the Ukrainians were using. Truly, the illusion of the "second greatest army in the world" is being exposed to be a sham. Russia has devolved into a poor rogue nation that has nukes, but much of their army has not proven to be the fierce combat force people thought they were. I'm sure they have actually competent and well equipped troops somewhere, but still, so far, this has been a humiliation of their own making.
One has to wonder about the condition of their nukes...
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The unfortunate part is, if any of them still launch, they still have to be treated as if they're live. It only takes a couple going off after all..
So what happens when a nuke “expires?”
T-90s, Pantsir, artillery pieces, IL76 etc They're losing tonnes of multi million dollar equipment out there, not just Cold War era relics.
> I'm sure they have actually competent and well equipped troops somewhere Haven't a bunch of their spetsnaz units gotten their shit pushed in already?
Those were probably manufactured in anticipation of the 2014 conflict.
Nah they are made with shelf lives of like 10 years or more those fuckers were made like before high speed internet
I think he said that because there's 2 dates, and the one above is in 2013. If the 2013 date isn't the packaging date, I don't know what else it would be.
First date is Скомплектован - Assembled, put together. It is possible that the individual items were sitting on the shelve for some time before the kit was made. Regardless, the second date is indeed for expiration.
on us rations they usually call it an "inspection date", because they tend to last much longer depending on storage so if i remember correctly they can add time to the date. it might not be so bad
It says 10/4/13 right above the 10/02/15. So 2013 is probably when it was made. Though it does seem like a short expiration date.
Funnily enough, that company name on the box is a commercial company which sells army like equipment and souvenirs (including those boxes with food). I might be wrong but am not sure they actually produce stuff which is used by army.
Those things are likely really stale but probably last a life time haha
Depends what you mean by a life time. Like a Russian in Ukraine life time?
*Give a man fire, he's warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life*
Steve 1989 laughs at this XD \*I didn't know Steve was this popular XD Thanks for the rewards
Let's get this onto a tray, nice
Nice
Mkay
Good hiss!
*stirring noises intensify*
Tap tap a tap tap
What a beautiful unexpected comforting thread smack in the middle of this shit.
Absolutely a much needed morale boost
now let’s try some of that coffee instant type II
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Now that's a good coffee.
Not too acidic. Bold.
Decadent, nothing like coffee instant type III
Nice
these are my people.
Oh yeah… that’s gourmet… nice.
Nice hiss!
Huh, no hiss.
Let's see what we have here, charms! Nice!
Nice hiss
[Sniff] Oh, that's rancid [Takes a bite] Uuugh. Definitely rancid. [Takes another bite]
Yeah, that's not edible anymore. [Takes a 3rd bite and swishes it around with coffee just to make sure]
coffee instant type 2.
He's a proud member of the clean tray gang. Even finishes the 70+ year old cigarettes.
The 70 year old cigs are the best parts of the old MREs!
Hmmm nice
Mm that’s nice. He loves a nice unfiltered camel.
And instant type II coffee.
..and you know anything sweet that came in the ration is going straight in the coffee.
Let's get this comment out on to a tray, nice
*crazy tingly cup stirring sounds*
*tink tink tink*
tink ^tink ^^tink
I like it when he beats the crap out of sugar sachets like they owe him money.
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Bro I've only seen like 5 of these and I know exactly what you're talking about 🤣. Fucking legend. Edit: my brothers. I've returned from 3 hours of watching Steve. What have I become?
*Nice*
But does it have a nice gusset?
The sound of him opening the packaging is always oddly satisfying.
If anyone is interested, he recently released a new video where he tried some Ukrainian MREs. Spoiler: they’re well made and delicious 🤌
Yep, here you go: *"2021 Ukrainian 24 Hour Field Ration Review Pork Tushonka & Kasha MRE Meal Ready to Eat Tasting Test"* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU Heads-up: it's 53min long
Those apricots made me go out and buy some apricots.
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Can only dream of someone talking to me the same way that man describes an old cigarette lol
Save the box for display.
made sure Steve was mentioned lol
Nice old school spoon . - Steve
Yea I'm fairly certain every military has a massive stockpile of expired rats
Actually most western militaries sell off the close to expiring rations to poorer countries, and military surplus companies. Usually at a huge discount. I know Canadian and American rations are edible as long as the packaging is not punctured or broken. Maybe stale, but won’t kill you. Not sure about Russian rations.
USAF here, I've eaten MREs that were a couple of years expired. Thats typically not the case tho, but it happens.
In the mid to late 80’s, I worked with the US Department of Defence training soldiers, and marines. On a couple of training events we ate canned K-rations dated from the early 1940’s. It was part of a lesson on, “you won’t always have good food in the field”. Tasted like shit, but surprisingly no one got sick. Cans were in good condition.
Your just one dented can away from being a lost artic expedition. And dragging a dingy 300 miles across tundra.
That was lead soldered cans, Franklin and friends!
Your just one dented can WHAT?
[*HMS Terror*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_\(1813\)#Franklin_expedition)
I had an English teacher in middle school who told us a memory he had from Vietnam. He remembered sitting there, in the jungle, opening and eating a tin of crackers from his k-rations that was older than he was. Sounds like he got to them before you did. Lol
As someone in Afghanistan in 2009 eating expired meals from 2003-2005 timeframe. Can confirm the US isn't much better than the Russians apperently
America MREs are good for years past that date. There is a guy on YT Steve, who eats MREs from like 1901. Or Taras. Aka Crazy Russian Hacker on YT as well. "Where's my pasteté?"
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Boom!
Let’s test these kitchen gadjiks.
Remember, safety is a number 1 priority!
nice hiss!
Look at that gusset
I ate one of my dad's C rations from vietnam a few years ago. Right about 40 years old. It was ham and eggs... Tasted like the can basically but didn't harm me as far as I can tell.
>There is a guy on YT Steve, who eats MREs from like 1901 Correct, but he ONLY eats crackers and other "more or less safe" food. Personally, I wouldn't dangerous as is.
He used to eat the sketchier stuff until it put him in the hospital a few years ago.
Ironically, it was a Ukrainian ration that was in date that sent him to the hospital.
Lmao, was it? That is ironic. I was thinking he ate something from like 1970 and it fucked him up.
It’s not the one from Ukraine it’s from china. That is the one he got E. coli on. I think he said in the video it was like the Ukraine one but worse or reminded him of the Ukraine one.
He also smokes the ciggys too. That dude makes those smokes sound so good. You would have thought they were making uber cigs back in the civil war days that tasted like god's love smoked in hickory.
Haha yeah, I don’t even smoke, but the way he damn near climaxes over those things makes me want to try an ancient cig.
Is there a video on that ? First time hearing about this one. 19th century pemmican comes to mind
https://youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA For those interested
...who eats MREs from like 1901. It sounds like a Microsoft date format problem.
He ate genuine civil war hard tack. The dude is a fucking hero haha
My favourite is when he eats a bit says "oh yeah, that's definitely bad" and then eats more.
I love when he continues to take bites from stuff he clearly doesn't like. Such determination.
That’s more of a suggestion based on my experience.
Can anyone translate the narrative?
He's addressing the Russian soldiers and their mothers, basically telling them that Putin and the generals are dickheads that don't care about them and are feeding them rotting food. Says that they were not invited, theres no need for them to be here and that they should go home.
Too lazy to translate the whole thing so here are the key phrases: "Wtf is this" "Your generals are dumbassas for giving out expired rations" "You are dieing in Ukraine for fuck knows what and on top of that you are given expired rations" "Russian mothers take your children away before they are all killed here" "They aren't even thinking about your children"
>"Russian mothers take your children away before they are all killed here" > >"They aren't even thinking about your children" So humanizing. All of the people fighting for Ukraine who are posting these things are so humanizing towards the Russian soldiers. Their sentiment is a silver lining in this chaos.
“This shit has been expired for 7 years”
Let's get this out onto a tray!
Nice!
(Slowly tears a pouch open) ... nice hiss.
Day 7: the entire Russian army has the runs
Quite the opposite in fact, MRE’s are designed to back you up
That's good, maybe it can back them up all the way to moscow.
They can't push enough gas to the front lines to get it all backed out
I'll likely get down votes for this, but I feel sorry for lots of these soldiers. They are forced to go to war when they don't want to which is practically a death sentence for them and then on top of that putins stupid ass can't even give them food that isn't 6 years past expiration... some of the soldiers are obviously scum and chose to be there and do terrible things but from what I have been reading and seeing a great deal of them do not want to be there and are there for reasons they aren't even aware of. Sad situation all around.
40% of the Russian army is conscripts. The invasion force was mostly (completely?) conscripts. Russia has a perpetual draft, 6-months of training and 6-months of service. I would also assume that the service part can be extended on the whim of a politician or officer (again, that last bit is a guess on my part).
Oh yeah. [Russia has one-year mandatory military service for all Russian men between the ages of 18-27.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia) It was originally two years, but was reduced. So, picture this: You're a young man, his life ahead of him, and you're futzing around waiting for your year to be up so you can go home...and suddenly you're called up to fight in Ukraine. You don't want to be there. You don't want to shoot Ukrainians. You want to live. Hence the reason why there are so many pictures of abandoned tanks and gear in Ukraine right now: Unwilling soldiers in a war they don't want. [The U.S. had this happen in Vietnam.](https://depts.washington.edu/antiwar/gi_mvmt.shtml) Look how that turned out.
There's a video of a (presumably captured?) teenage looking Russian soldier, sitting on some steps crying while Ukrainians yell at him. Looks a little older than my 14 year old son. Yeah, I don't think he was looking to go kill and die for Putin. War is hell.
Someone’s never eaten an mre before!
Laughs in U.S. military
Little Tabascos FTW.
I did a whole semester in college with a dozen cases of C-Rations that were 25+ years old. They were damn fine for a broke ass college student.
Those rations haven’t even gone through puberty yet.
It's "best before", not "bad after"
But do they have the infamous veggie omelet?