- Yeah, we're here to have an MRI test.
- We're here to do American MREs.
- whatever that- - Let's-
- I have no idea what that is.
- ...Get this out onto a tray.
(acoustic music)
- Is it the rations that Snake from Metal Gear Solid eats?
Because if so, I'm very excited.
- Basically, but they're fancy commercial versions.
- Ooh, Otacon. - Yeah.
- I think of the army stuff, yeah.
But, I'm curious-
- This is proper prepper crap,
like if you think the world is ending
and you have enough food there to last you five years.
- John and I go around Ireland
in John's camper van, right?
So like,
we're always going on these camper van trips.
So, I would be interested in trying some food.
- They'd be perfect for you guys.
Because obviously they would never go off.
(acoustic music)
- It looks like just bacteria.
- The granola.
- This looks like space food,
but not like cool space food for astronauts,
like alien food.
- "Freeze dried granola with milk and blueberries."
"Just add water. No cleanup."
Au contraire,
I would say after eating this,
there'd be quite the cleanup involved.
- It's porridge, it's granola with milk and blueberry.
The milk would've been freeze dried,
so all you have to do is add water
and then it's like...
I love it!
- So Colin kindly left, actually, some of the stuff
in the bag so we can have a look
at what we're dealing with.
- Yeah, but that's what overnight oats,
like, you just put a bit of milk,
leave it in your fridge and then wake up in the morning.
- Know what? It's not actually too bad.
- Dude, just eat it. Stop being a little bitch.
- Again, I'm not a fan of blueberries,
but they're not bad with the granola.
- It's actually really nice, so sugary.
- Wait a minute, that's all in here?
All you do is add water?
- All you do is add water.
- That is impressive.
- That's the idea, man.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- I just got it.
MREs are awesome!
- You know, if you were going camping,
this is so ideal because it's so compact.
- Mm hmm.
- Like, the scourge of going
to, like, music festivals and stuff is your food.
- Yeah. - It's genuinely your food
and your drink, so this is like life-changing.
This is actually...
My appreciation for this is growing
and growing with every spoon.
- Huh- - Whoa, 2027.
- Best used by May of 2027.
- Wow.
- It does say no cleanup though,
and he's got two bowls to wash.
(laughing)
- Well, see the idea is, as well,
that you can open it up, pour the water in, stir it all up-
- And then just eat it out of the bag?
- In the bag and then- That's genius.
- Yeah, and then eat out of the bag.
- So, these are essentially for the end of the world,
for the zombie apocalypse.
- [Producer] So overall thoughts on these, guys?
- Eh, you know, its okay.
- It's really good, it's really good.
Like I'd happily have that for breakfast.
It's really nice.
- The only thing as well- - It's very light.
- I just don't understand why you gave us a fork to eat it.
- Yeah, that's...
- That was a red flag for me, to be honest.
Not the look of it.
It was just the fork.
(laughing)
- [Producer] I'm dumb.
(acoustic music)
- What the fuck is this?
- Beef stroganoff would be the best DJ name ever.
DJ Beef Stroganoff.
(imitates air horn)
- Stroganoff?
- Although, this guy disagrees.
- He's laughing, look at him.
- He's literally laughing, saying,
"I can't believe you're going to eat this."
- Smells like stew, which is soup with things in it.
- It looks like my puke after a night out,
like I'm not gonna lie.
- I thought you were gonna say, "my pubes."
(laughing)
- Why?
- Because look!
- What? How is anyone's pubes looking like this?
- Man, this is kick ass. So this was just in that
in powder form? - Just boiling water, yeah.
- Just boiling water.
- MREs are fucking awesome.
- It's not bad.
- Mm. - Yeah?
Thanks for feeding us again, TRY Channel.
- I'm absolutely astounded
at the flavor that is in these.
- This tastes fine, isn't it?
- If I didn't know it came out of that pouch,
I wouldn't believe you.
- It's not bad.
Isn't it not?
- Not bad, for literally, just like, two seconds of prep.
- That's really flavorful. That's really good.
- The texture isn't like, "Oh, that's lovely beef,"
but it's like, oh, I'd say a kind of beef?
- The mushrooms are really nice though, aren't they?
- Yeah.
- How were they dried
and now they're just like, soft and living their life?
It's so weird, like, right?
It's like a science project
or something in a bag.
- Man, you could pretend you're a serious chef.
Just get a lot of MREs and be like,
"Yeah, there you go. It took all day to make."
- I'm amazed.
- Wow. 10 out of 10.
- I'm still going back for more.
- I think this is... I think it's tasty.
- Yeah, we're still going back for more like-
- I want to put it down because
I know we have to eat more, but man, it's good.
- I'm so impressed with that.
That was, like, seriously good.
Like, honestly,
as soon as I saw these little pouches coming at me,
I was like, "Oh, God."
- Yeah.
- "I don't know how I'm gonna to cope with this."
But honestly, absolutely not.
- Do you remember when I said that
the last one tasted like stew?
And looked like stew?
- This one is a stew.
- We're having stew.
- Potatoes, wha-hey.
Cooked beef, wha-hey.
Carrots, peas, corn oil.
- Tiny cubes.
- I'm loving these Shutterstock images on the packet.
- "We're camping. We're loving life."
- I can just see Shutterstock watermarked across this.
- Look at these people, so happy
before their bear attacks them.
- Ah, look at the size of the beef.
- It's like baby food,
everything is cut up into microscopic size.
- Every single thing in this bowl is like
the shape of a square.
Why is everything a square?
- He's taken the glasses off.
- It's steaming up.
- Oh, I was wondering. I thought like
his taste buds don't work when his eyes are concentrating.
- My only weakness.
- Man, that's nice.
- Yeah, that's good.
- It tastes like an authentic stew.
- I mean it does taste like beef stew, doesn't it?
- I wouldn't be mad about this, as stew goes.
- But like, for freeze dried beef,
it's pretty good, isn't it?
It's not like tough or chewy or anything.
- No, it's really tasty.
- You wouldn't expect this to have been
like just rehydrated a few minutes ago.
- Like it does.
The meat in this is definitely better than the stroganoff.
- Nowhere near the last ones,
nowhere near as nice. - No.
- But still not bad for something that came out of a pouch.
- [Producer] If someone gave this to you now,
would you know it was made from this?
- Not a chance. - Not a chance.
- Not a chance, even the beef is like...
- It's not obvious that this has been freeze dried.
- You wouldn't think it was from a bag.
"Hey, I made that in my bag."
- I wish meat was smaller now in a soup,
now that I have the option.
- Yeah, I actually would consider
cutting my meat up a bit more now.
- Yeah, but I do miss my big potatoes.
My carrots that are like, big and round.
Like not little.
Like look at that little cube.
I feel like it's Tetris.
I feel like it's a game of Tetris in this bowl.
- We're being very kind to this,
but can you imagine serving this up
to an Irish person in their 60s,
telling them it was a beef stew.
And watching their head fall off their shoulders
as they lambast you with 800 years of Irish history.
- All right, this goes off May 2027, right?
If YouTube is still around, I want everyone
to put it in you calendars,
in your little Google calendars, May 2027.
And I want everyone to go back to this video
and comment saying, "That stew went off today."
That's what I want.
Think that'll happen?
- No.
(laughing)
I was joking when I said lasagna.
It's a lasagna with meat sauce.
- Lasagna!
- That looks wrong.
- Lasagna?
- No.
Why would you have lasagna in a bowl?
If it was spaghetti it would look more normal,
but lasagna is supposed to have the sheets.
What are you doing?
- I'm here for this.
- I love lasagna because it's basically just pizza
without the bread.
- Like why would you call it lasagna?
You might as well just call it spaghetti bolognese.
It looks more like- - Yeah, that's a good point.
- See, you know when cheese stretches?
- You can see little strands of cheese in there
doing cheese stretches.
- It's like it's cheese.
- It is like it's cheese!
- Oh, I'd love to chop up a few onions,
put it in there.
Aw, this hike sucks.
- Yeah, this is not pleasant.
- It's not great in terms of flavor.
- Oh man,
the Italians would be furious,
but man it's amazing.
- Getting a bit ambitious with what they can make
out of hot water and a bunch of dust.
- I was hoping you'd bring out dessert for us, Colin.
Like I thought this was going to
be cheesecake or something. - Yeah, three course meal.
- A bit raging, not gonna lie.
- All the Italians that are watching this video
are just crying.
What have you done?
- To all the Italian viewers,
we know we don't know how to make lasagna.
We know that what we make here is not lasagna.
- Just add a bit of water.
(laughing)
- But if you handed me this bowl
and said, "This is a freeze dried lasagna
that I literally made in like five minutes
with some boiling water."
It's so impressive.
- Wouldn't be the best cut.
- No, I don't think it's sirloin.
- No. - Or filet.
- No.
- Eh, it's probably forehead of the cow.
(laughing)
- I think the stroganoff is my favorite
and then this would be second.
- Really impressed with what they can do-
- My God.
- ...with freeze dried food these days.
Like, if I was a prepper, I'd be delighted.
You know, if I was getting ready for the apocalypse,
I'd be like, "Yeah, I'm gonna eat well."
- Look, it's amazing what these people can do
with science and technology to make food last forever.
- As someone who goes on camping trips,
that is something that I would definitely
consider bringing with me.
- Yeah.
- Because sometimes you can be camping
and you're so far away from
any restaurant at all. - Yeah.
- You're like, in the wilderness.
So, all you need is a little flask of hot water
and boom, done.
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