Russian food in general is super big on making great pâté and jams so if you like that kind of thing you can't go wrong. I've seen so many of these MRE videos and I think each one has seemed good to me (of the ones that aren't ruined by age of course). I like how you can get a sense of the taste palette of a whole country through its MREs. It's like a microcosm into what people there enjoy.
I think the only one I remember thinking looked terrible was one of the Chinese 2018 ones. I actually like Chinese food and the quality just looked terrible. Can't believe they would feed that shit to their soldiers.
pâté and jams
Two of my favorite food items on the planet. Hence my preference for Russian and French MREs! I'm also hoping I can get my hands on an MRE that has kasha in it. Been curious what that would taste like. I know it would taste better if I learned how to make it, but the canned stuff tickles my autism for some reason.
I saw the chinese mre videos! Steve got deathly ill off those suckers. Funnily enough, that plays into the whole "microcosm of the country" thing. Same with the pitiful South African MRE all decked out in nigger colors and fonts with 3 types of shitty kool aid lmao.
Oh geez how do I explain kasha, it really by itself doesn't taste like anything at all and yet it does at the same time. It's like something you add to a dish for texture, that's why it's used in so many eastern dishes. People often do eat it by itself and I can only imagine someone doing that if it is fresh and seasoned with something like butter. I know a lot of westerners who have tried kasha and they don't particularly tend to like it. I guess it is something you might have to grow up with like Russian soda (kvass).
I thought maybe the poorer quality MREs from those two were because of it being from a poorer nation but I've seen the MREs from other poor nations like the Jordanian one and that one looked perfectly fine to me. It just doesn't seem like China gives a shit about their soldiers.
I'm not a big fan of sugary or sweet stuff unless it is fruit or honey based. Half of the SA one was just processed sugar the other half of the funding was spent on designing the packaging lmao. You don't have to make your MREs look like artwork, I think most soldiers would care more about functionality and quality of food than nigger fonts.
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