Eating 35 year Old US MRE Beef Stew Vintage Meal Ready to Eat Taste Testing Review

After going carb-free and on a diet consisting solely of turkey legs and roast sirloin for the past 16 days, I decided to reintroduce myself again with a hearty, fresh,

ready

-to-eat

meal

, lots of number five

beef

stew

s, one of the originals , this is one. of two menus that have been in service since the beginning of the

meal

,

ready

-to-eat service time back in 1980, main production actually started in 1981, but it was

beef

stew

and spaghetti with meat sauce, those are the only two original menus that lasted all this time. this one was full of new york freedom built into the bronx, new york, they really got the short end of the stick when it came to military contracting and ended up going bankrupt, that's a real shame, let's take a look at it, okay, so right away . the bat is the main course full meat stew is here on the 44th day of 1985. good

year

cocoa powder drink type 1 fortified cookies cherry and walnut cake that's amazing those cherries sugar flour nuts lard whole eggs water salt yeast in powder bitter almond oil the meat The stew back then was different, it had beans packaged by a southern warehousing and packaging company incorporated in Bennettsville, South Carolina, a mix of freeze-dried fruits, an old-school spoon, a packet of peanut butter accessories a day, let's take a look at this now, whenever you get your hands on it. on a

vintage

mre i'm telling you you have to open that accessory package and bury your nose in there and give it a good whiff, it smells like an industrial machinery plant with an old couch anyway, oh that's some kind of instant coffee , sure it's 2.2 net grams with ascorbic acid chewing gum combine with cream salt sugar with big letters look at that you can't miss it and then some toilet paper and it's not blue, which is great, okay, like this that's all set, let's open this beef stew real quick it's outside the outer box, it's always stuck there, so you have to destroy the box, unfortunately just to get it out safely.

I actually opened the bags, so you have to do it like this, that's not so bad. actually we're going to save that, so we're going to take this that looks perfectly fine, I mean, this is all that's here, I mean, this was stored in the best conditions, it's in a cool room for the last 30

year

s , we'll boil it in the bag for about eight minutes, okay, let's sit on your tray, okay, first let's start by checking that coffee and cocoa powder drink, we have coffee and some type 1, my favorite, well, there's the type 2, I also like type 3, I like them all.

Yeah, that smells better than usual, maybe it's because I haven't had coffee in five or six days. I have not consumed carbohydrates again. 16 man, that smells amazing, like a little sweeter than usual. My senses are just waiting, let's move on. and throw this in here, look at this fine granule first, oh yeah, look you know the light is not complete without some military mochaccino, whoever anyone enjoys a little of this, oh wow, and it smells perfectly fresh, no rancidity , no metallic smell or bleach or anything like that. that's like that that's perfect okay let's throw that in there too okay come on let's go ahead and check out that fruit mix.

I missed the whistle. I think it was there. I just opened it too quickly. Let's see how it looks. Not bad. a little crumbly here, let's lower this here freeze dried fruit and then the cherry pecan pie. I have to see this right now. It is so exciting. These things make my hands shake, but I'll tell you something like this. We will do it. here, get this out of there, oh yeah, oh wait, it's pretty stuck in the box, there we go, a nice cherry pecan pie packaged on the 163rd day of 1985. All kinds of fun things were happening that day, man, that thing looks good too, oh wow, those.

I can smell those maraschino cherries, it just slides out too, that's a great spot. You might also see peanut butter and cookies here. We need this very quickly. Get a little friction that always gets things going. I don't need it like this once it warms up. up, yeah, there we go, that's kneaded peanut butter and crackers, those are cute, small, perfectly shaped, no, I mean, they don't break at all and they're salty too, I'm tempted to take a little bite mm -hmm, peanut butter, oh yeah, this is going to be perfectly fine here, let's just put it all in one, we'll save the other cookie for the beef stew that's art right after that beef stew that smells perfectly good, it smells fresh and tasty, which is a masterpiece of a beautifully irradiated replica bag, oh yes, those beans, we have one here and I am very grateful to be able to eat something normal after all this time and the meat is like a nice natural chew in its pieces usual not too processed, it is different from the modern meat stew, it is a thicker sauce.

I don't know how this is possible, but beef stew from 1985 is better than beef stew from Well, I had beef stew from 2019 about six months ago. This right here, you don't need the salt. Let's have that coffee, this is a perfectly preserved meal and it really just goes to show how the old ones were made to last. I don't think the new ones can last like this. Old cookies had trans fats. The new ones don't. They're really squared off, these things stay together no matter how much better they

taste

, you'll need water to remove them, so logistically it makes sense that they removed the salt from the cookies, everyone talks about how the salt should have stayed, I don't .

I don't think so, although I love it, unless maybe 1 in 12 menus still has crackers, which would be nice. I need something to drink. Man, that's almost over. Let me put this here. Some freeze dried fruits they perfected. years after this, this is a perfectly shaped freeze-dried fruit of the time, they are usually not kept together. I'm not exactly sure how or why freeze dried fruit from the late '80s and early '90s, you know, it's not like they're not only hold up better, they hold together better than this, you know, it's pretty good if you wanted add water again, reconstitute it, what a delight, it really smells quite strong of pineapple and who doesn't like it, it's good. for this is a beauty the nuts aren't even dark that's just amazing I mean it really smells so strong like those sweet cherries well we'll see if there's anything rancid still doesn't have a follow up usually just wait a few minutes but I'm pretty sure which is perfectly fine.

I can not wait. It's not very sweet either. A perfect combination of flavors. I mean, the cherries are in the foreground. The exterior texture is so soft that it feels like smooth plastic. totally unnatural like something you would never want to eat but then the way it smells oh wow make that lima bean look at that let's take a bite here that's a lima bean right there okay let's eat this , actually here, I really needed carbs like I felt like I was starving and started to get a little cold. You don't want to boil the bag for too long because it will start to absorb like the

taste

of plastic, so you just have to be strategic.

I will appreciate every bite. of this, like in life, enjoy every bit of it oh wow, look at that cherry, I mean the cherry piece of a cherry is like 35 years old, oh wow, that alone is full of flavor and it all goes so well together , there are a lot of kids who miss pecan brownies, they were discontinued after 1992 and replaced with pound cakes, which is fine I guess, I still say these are better. Those first cakes were a bit strange, there was a standard chocolate and mint cake like a vanilla one and then a lemon cake, I also saw an orange cake a couple of times, but they are quite rare, they are more nutritious and formidable in Calorie wise and more than just macronutrients, nuts have poly and monounsaturated fats and It's quite, you know, nutritious, there's a little bit of real food and the fruit and cherries have some fiber.

There was a chocolate pecan pie that was added in 1988, I think, and that replaced the orange pecan pie which, oh, and the pineapple pecan pie, and then there was fruit pie, OMG those are like gold , there are clove spices in them and if you can find a new one it's like winning a scratch-off ticket for about $300. In fact, I'd choose the fruitcake over the scratch-off ticket any day, but Yeah, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, I ran into ladies from 2015, they're in worse shape than this, it's one of the best meals I've ever had tried. I will never forget this last bite.

The military mochaccino is so smooth, I mean you. You can taste the coffee, but I'm telling you even if you don't like coffee, just go out and get yourself some coffee and some type 1 and some old school cocoa powder drink, make it and tell me no. so this here there is no bitterness nothing strange about this it's okay, let's take a look at that gum you have to be careful with old gum sometimes it doesn't bite well you can break your tooth so be careful wait oh oh yes it's something like a wonky hey wait a second that's fruit it was like a light mint oh wow that's the closest thing to old school 30's juicy fruit I've ever had outside of that it really reminds me that it's like fruit with mint it's quite weird that you come across a fruit that i have tried once before and that pairs wonderfully with the cherry pecan pie and fruit medley that i experience, well anyway, this is steve 1989 i hope you liked the video and I will return to you with something new, very good, great.