- Today we eat like the troops.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat electronic intro)
- Good mythical morning.
- And happy veterans day.
Thank you to all the men and women who have served.
Now, Link I've got a question for you
that I promise is veteran's day related.
What is the longest that you have saved leftovers for,
then still ate it.
- Eight day old fried chicken.
- Oh, eight day old. I normally say one week.
So you're a little bit braver than me.
Well, these puppies will be ready for you
up to 10 years from now.
Yes, this meal ready to eat aka an MRE
is eaten by troops all across the world.
Partly because they can withstand these extreme conditions
and also because they have a shelf life
of between five and 10 years,
and we did this a few years back,
but it turns out we were only scratching the surface.
It's time for, (military percussion starts)
we salute our troops for their bravery and service,
but these MREs make our Tum Tums so nervous!
- We have acquired six, authentic US, military MREs,
or as I like to call them MREs,
that we are going to sample and then rank.
And now we're going to go ahead and heat up
the shredded beef in barbecue sauce right now.
So it can get to cooking over the course of the episode.
Rhett, let them have it.
- Okay, it comes with this.
it comes with this.
Yeah, I ripped from the wrong side
and then I'm going to just stick...
This is the part that you're gonna actually heat up.
This is the shredded beef and barbecue.
We're not really worried about the size because we're doing
- So that's going down in the thing.
- Entrees and then I'm just going to pour
some water in there could be any water,
because this is just to cause a chemical reaction.
- Here's some Barbecue sauce, don't want to use that, okay.
Let's see.
- Now I'm going to take this thing and give me that.
(Link yelps)
I need the thing that you have.
- Oh, so it's a hot pocket type situation.
- Yep, don't ever say that out in the field.
- Okay. - Okay.
And then you take this thing and you prop it up
against a rock.
- It literally says prop up against a rock, right?
Cause you gotta keep it up - And then it's gonna
take about 10 minutes to cook
and so we're going to get back to that in a second.
- Yeah in the meantime, we're going to try
the other MREs that are sitting and waiting for us
and we're going to rank them on this board.
- Yes we have from, going from worst to best:
red, white and boo; rank and vile; Sir, just okay Sir;
Saving private Ry-yum; you're a grand old plate
and a ten out of ten-hut.
- Ten-hut!
(Army percussion)
First up we have the chicken burrito bowl
and it is nice and warm.
- Where's the bowl? (chuckles)
- Now I'm going to say,
yeah, the bowl is just the packaging.
We're gonna rip this thing open.
You can go ahead and I think rip it straight down the side.
- Uh it's nice and warm, hot even!
- Yeah, we got some tortillas here to go with it.
A little pepper sauce.
Now it also comes with a side dish, dessert, crackers,
spread, powdered beverage mix, utensils,
accessory pack, gum, napkin and toilet paper,
moist towelette and seasoning.
We paid $26 for this on eBay,
because I mean, there's a culture of people
reselling these things because, Oh thank you.
Because if you want to get it officially,
well you need to be in the military,
but there's like,
- But there are some out there.
I didn't realize that the shelf life, you know,
you can get some of the,
sort of like the prepper sort of food that I have that,
or like that Jim Bakker provides that we tried on this show,
that stuff will last like 25, 30 years.
This isn't gonna last that long, cause it's,
you know, it's going to be five to 10 years or so,
but it's more about just it's a meal ready to eat
out in the field.
- Chicken burrito bowl, but we're making a taco.
(makes impressed noise)
That's not bad at all.
- It's not just not bad, it's good.
- How hungry are you right now?
- I'm always very hungry,
but I think that's the perfect time to,
that's what you need to be in, when you're eating an MRE.
You know , out there, you're working hard.
- Yeah you're active, so, and look at all the pieces
are familiar to me.
- [Rhett] These are full size pieces, man.
- This is not scary and it's got some beans in it, Rhett,
I know you love that.
- I'm going to just put it at number three,
because that's setting the bar pretty high,
- It can move up.
- But who knows what we're going to encounter here.
(military percussion)
- All right, next up we have
the Asian style beef strips with vegetables
and this was actually suggested on the video,
last time we did it from Thomas Wilkerson,
who said I am a Marine and I suggest the Asian beef strips,
which when I was in training,
this was the worst MRE out of them all.
(Link laughs impressed)
- Brandon Anderson also commented and backed that up,
y'all missed the guaranteed last place, Asian beef strips.
So we're a little bit afraid, shaking in our boots.
Combat boots perhaps? Nope, I'm wearing tennis shoes.
(Rhett laughs)
- So you know I made a hole for you and a hole for me.
- Oh, okay, let's just suck out of each end.
See, who gets happier.
- No, let's just stick some scissors
and we don't know where they've been,
let's just stick them in there and open it up.
- Let's just take a look down in there.
- [Rhett] Hold on, don't spill it out.
- And you got yourself Asian beef strips.
Can I get down on it?
- Nope.
- Just to scent it.
Ooh. - Can I get down on it?
- Oh my Gosh I would not get down on this.
- This is why everyone has their own.
- You guys made me scared,
but it smells kind of dog foody.
- It smells a little off.
(chewing)
It's not horrible.
- The noodles are real hard.
Maybe that's because it's a bamboo shoot.
- I mean, it's not as bad as I thought
it was going to be based on Thomas and Brandon,
- The beef strips are horrible, dude.
- That's not horrible.
- Just like, yes it is.
That's as low as you go,
(imitating Rhett) No it's not horrible.
That means it's horrible.
- I mean it's way worse than the chicken burrito bowl,
so we're in agreement there.
I'm just trying to be honest bro.
- And you know what,
I'm going to go with what they said and then
- I feel like it could get worse.
I'm just leaving the possibility that it can get worse.
(military percussion)
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Okay, next up we got chili and macaroni.
This one, we heard a lot of good stuff about,
many service members told us it was their favorite
in the comments on our last MRE taste test.
So we're listening to y'all and in fact,
many mythical crew members have friends who are veterans.
They also agreed that the expectations are very high.
This comes out to like less than nine bucks,
if you buy 12 for $107.
- Oh, look at this I did it right on that one.
(Rhett woos)
- [Both] Yeah!
- Oh, I looked down at my fork
and I almost poked myself in the eye.
- You know, it happens to the best of us.
- Thought about wearing the vest with sans shirt.
- I think not.
Okay, so I mean, this is again,
- Not Queso, chili mac.
- This isn't like dehydrated stuff.
- Now mythical crew member, Ben,
your brother-in-law, I've gotten information,
he was a Marine, he's a retired Marine.
Ben told us that they use this stuff as like currency
they trade it because this is the one everybody wants.
- For me it does not hold a candle to the chicken burrito,
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to offend anybody.
- This has a comforting quality to it.
- [Rhett] It's good.
- [Link] It all comes together,
but like it's a little spicy too.
- I can almost be fooled into thinking,
that that chicken burrito was from a restaurant.
- Let me take another bite of my chicken burrito.
- I could almost think that was at a restaurant.
I mean, am I at a restaurant? It's this a restaurant?
That's what I started thinking a second ago,
when I was eating it.
- You're right.
- I mean, it's good, innit?
- Yeah, shove it in there and I'll close the rock down.
Actually, you know what?
- Listen, we gotta move these up.
- Let's move that up.
I mean, I don't wanna put it to too low.
Yeah, we're gonna leave room just in case.
Hey, and that's for menu 10 and that's for menu 16
and that's for menu seven.
- So many menus.
(military percussion sound)
- And now from menu nine, we've got beef stew beef.
- Beef stew and what?
- And nothing.
- Here's the beef stew and I got news for you, Stew.
It comes with multi-grain bread.
- Oh, Oh. Is this from menu nine?
Oh Yeah, I didn't, if you had told me that
from the beginning, even though I did say it.
- So taking a look at the multi, Oh my goodness,
look at this bread.
- [Rhett] Is it multigrain?
- Did we eat this last time?
Because I must have erased it from my memory.
It's a dense but soft.
- Huh? Can I have?
- Yeah. Break it off, break off a piece.
And it is perforated, look at that.
It makes little sticks.
- I'm going into the beef stew with the bread.
- [Link] That's a nice little feature
- Oh, look at that.
I got a big old piece of beef.
- Uh I like that idea, bread as a spoon.
(Rhett makes enjoying sound)
- This is pretty tasty, man.
I feel like I got to go straight beef stew on this
just to get a real test.
- Yeah, I don't know about the beef,
Cause I think that was what brought down the,
what's it called? The Asian style beef strips.
- Again it's better than the Asian style beef strips,
because it doesn't have that,
there was a spice in the Asian style Beef strips,
that wasn't working, but it's clearly towards the bottom.
I think you've got to put that at number five,
unless you strongly disagree.
- Yeah put it at number five, but let's not forget about
these perforated multi-grain wafers.
- I'm not going to forget about them ever
- Cause that might pull this thing up,
when it's all said and done.
- Push!
(military percussion)
Dustyn Anderson, shout out to you, we read your comment,
LOL, y'all never tried spinach fettuccine!
It's something else. Being in the military myself,
if you come across one of those in your bag,
it's better used as a pillow.
Pretty good side items however
- Oh, well we're not testing the side items.
- Yep, Dustyn we're going straight into it.
- How did I get to be the designated ripper?
(speaking over each other)
I mean, you're the one
- I'm only the bread rep.
- You've got the tactical vest on.
I feel like I need a fork.
- Yeah, there it is.
- For this one.
- Your vest friend right here.
(both chuckle) Ready for you.
- Oh man. I can already tell Dustyn's right about this.
That spinach, the way the spinach came through
has a fish food sort of quality to it.
- Really?
(Link coughs)
- If you think the Asians beef is worse than that,
then you're not my vest friend.
That's the worst thing I have tasted today.
- Dustyn with a Y you are correct, sir.
- Yeah, that is shifting the scale.
- Oh, it's actually shifted my point of view.
Like I'm not happy anymore.
(Rhett laughs)
- Okay, all right, so
- [Link] Rock out!
- Rock in! - [Link] rock in.
- We work as a good team.
- Yeah, we do.
- Rock in, rock out.
- We can be like a medic
and then the guy who holds the medics stuff.
- Yeah, right, you're the guy who holds the stuff, right?
- Well we can, no
- Yeah! - No!
I'm afraid of blood.
(Rhett laughs)
(military percussion)
- And finally it's cooked up and ready to go over here.
This is what we started out with.
The beef shredded in Barbecue sauce.
- Comes with some tortillas and
- Or shredded beef and barbecue sauce.
I mean, I guess they didn't do the shredding
in the barbecue sauce.
Verbs.
Uh it's hot!
- They say it comes with jalapeno
- Feel how hot that is, medic man.
- I kind of want to put that down my breeches.
- I need the tortillas friend.
- Oh you do? Okay,
- You can open one - I'm here for your friend.
- [Rhett] Put it right there friend.
Now this is all very uniform.
- [Link] (chuckles) Uniform.
(Rhett laughs)
- Yeah I was going to see if you would follow along.
- now see, I'm heating up my tortilla on that.
- Here you go, watch out, move your hand.
All right, wow you have the option of
putting more barbecue sauce on there.
- It comes with jalapeno cheese spread,
which is wildly popular.
- Oh yeah, there it is.
- Oh cheese spread, you were holding back on us.
Dang, I can't believe
- You wanna keep that cheese spread for yourself.
- You were gonna be spreading on your own, I get it.
(crew laughs)
- Maybe a little bit, that is a pretty good sauce.
- Oh my goodness. - Just a dabble will do you.
- See now this right here,
- Just a dab will do you, feel excited!
The ones whit the tortillas are good, I think
(both make enjoying sounds)
- I like that Barbecue sauce.
- But every once in a while.
You're eating pretty good, cause this is pretty good.
- Did we intentionally save the best for last?
Because I think that's, what's happening.
- To me, these two in the tortillas
- [Link] This is just tasty.
- are better than everything else that we tasted.
Now I've got my original chicken here.
You still got some in the tortilla.
- I don't need to go back, this is comforting.
- Really? But look at that.
- You think this is better, listen.
- Look at the pieces of that.
You've got real beans, real pieces of chicken,
you've got corn, everything is intact.
You could be fooled into thinking
that you were at a restaurant.
If you got this shredded beef at a restaurant,
you'd be like, ah.
- Yes, that that may be the best,
but this makes you the happiest.
- Are we gonna have to do rock paper scissors on this?
- Yeah.
- I guess I'm kind of telegraphing.
- Yeah, okay, you ready?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so paper covers rock.
(crew laughs)
And I'm saying, but listen, they're both very good.
The two things in the tortillas are very good,
but just because of the rock paper scissors,
we are saying that the official best meal that you can get
in the MRE world is from menu 16,
the chicken burrito bowl, followed very closely by menu two
beef shredded in barbecue sauce.
- Yeah, if you join the military to have fun,
that's your choice.
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- You know what time it is?
- Hey, Rhett and Link
This is PFC Castill doing my tour in South Korea
and I just watched your MRE video.
And with that, I would just like to say
it is time to spin the wheel of mythicality .
- Well we've got another one right now
coming at back at ya.
(Rhett laughs)
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