Best Army in the World!!!

[Zardnaar]

Calling all nationalists here on CFC for some good old fashioned my country is the best.

However I'm going to use a different criteria for best army in the world.

The criteria is what country has the tastiest or tastiest looking MRE. An army marches on its stomach.

All MRE are heavy on calories, salt, suger, dried or canned food.

There's plenty of videos out there as well. I've watched Belarus, China,R Canada, UK, USA, Ukraine etc so I thought it would be fun to post some at here at CFC.

 

[Zardnaar]

New Zealand

This guy covers the NZ MRE. I actually know what these taste like and you can buy most of what's in it at the supermarket.

I would give it high marks for being light and easy to carry. Taste wise most of it is decent with mains being chicken sweet and sour with rice.

It's heavy on the snacks however and lacking a decent breakfast type meal. There's some muesli and ramen noodles. The muesli in it is bland.

Not the most exciting ration however. Probably one of the healthier ones for the mains type meals.

Lots of snacks ergo suger even by the standards of MRE packs. Needs a lot of water as well for cereal, soup, noodles etc.

Using the criteria laid out NZ loses this war. If you had to carry the damn thing however it gets high marks with the weight being half of some other countries MREs.

 

[Birdjaguar]

La Grande Armee 1805 France.

EDIT: Oops. I didn't fully read the OP. Nonetheless my post stands.

 

[Zardnaar]

Belarus

While unable to taste it this is a very interesting looking MRE. More interesting than the NZ one.

3 cans so one for breakfast/lunch and dinner. Lots of snacks and other interesting things to eat. Looks fairly standard in terms of nuts/candy/chocolate/crackers.

The 3 cans are meat. They look a bit like pet food but can't judge canned meat by its appearance. Let's be honest they are all gonna fail that test. Would have to try the food.

Also has pate which I'm not a fan of but if hungry enough..... Lots of protein and salt I'm guessing in the pate and cans.

I would hate to carry this one. Looks like I could carry two NZ ones almost relative to that box. If you're going out hiking for a week I would pick the NZ ones. A weekend the Belarus one looks more interesting.

Overall Belarus defeated NZ IMHO. Lukashenko crushes Ardern in the battle of the MREs. KGB arrests her a d sends her to the Gomel region

 

[Ajidica]

Dutch, Danish, or Belgian army.
They go home on weekends.

 

[FriendlyFire]

The French have the best rations, I dont think any other army spends as much on food.
Worest have to be Chinese, they went for longest shelf life and the items inside look terriable and cheap
Even the rations from poor countries are better then the Chinese ones, I like the one from Baltics they just a box filled with commercial canned supermarket items.

 

[Zardnaar]

The French have the best rations, I dont think any other army spends as much on food.
Worest have to be Chinese, they went for longest shelf life and the items inside look terriable and cheap
Even the rations from poor countries are better then the Chinese ones, I like the one from Baltics they just a box filled with commercial canned supermarket items.

Chinese one was better than expected but yeah.

Baltic ones look alright. Not marking anything down for cultural reasons.

So far Belarus winning. If some posters say a countries MRE tastes terrible I'll knock it off and replace with a different country.

Apparently Belarus one double the weight of NZ one.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Korean MREs probably second best, the meals are all simple but they added a lot of spices and flavouring
That British guy that kept saving all the Korean MREs for later is hilarious

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've had American MRE's and I thought they were pretty great.

 

[Hrothbern]

Dutch MRE is food. Not much taste really. The only item tasty was blueberrie jam that I usually traded for anything that had more calories or protein just like the low nicotin cigarettes. The main meal (canned beans etc) when posible, and otherwise chocolate or biscuits.

During the 7 months traing period of my conscription service, I always had for field exercises lots of chocolate and 500 grams packages with raisins I bought myself. I smoked in those days 2 packages of Gauloises per day, so I had lots of that also sealed in plastic against rain and all the exercises where you got in mud and canals.

During the 11 months operational period the MRE was unimportant for field exercises because I was always on motorised equipment that included as stowaway "de matskist" our group treasure chest filled with our own foodstuff, our egg-rich pancakes, bacon stripes, syrup, chocolate, nice cookies, nuts, liquor, etc, etc. Officers were bribed into ignoring that chest with getting the first hot syrupped bacon-striped pancakes and the bonbons.
During a two-week winter exercise so cold that the water froze in the watertank trucks, Sambuca and Baileys turned out to be the most popular

 

[Zardnaar]

Dutch MRE is food. Not much taste really. The only item tasty was blueberrie jam that I usually traded for anything that had more calories or protein just like the low nicotin cigarettes. The main meal (canned beans etc) when posible, and otherwise chocolate or biscuits.

During the 7 months traing period of my conscription service, I always had for field exercises lots of chocolate and 500 grams packages with raisins I bought myself. I smoked in those days 2 packages of Gauloises per day, so I had lots of that also sealed in plastic against rain and all the exercises where you got in mud and canals.

During the 11 months operational period the MRE was unimportant for field exercises because I was always on motorised equipment that included as stowaway "de matskist" our group treasure chest filled with our own foodstuff, our egg-rich pancakes, bacon stripes, syrup, chocolate, nice cookies, nuts, liquor, etc, etc. Officers were bribed into ignoring that chest with getting the first hot syrupped bacon-striped pancakes and the bonbons.
During a two-week winter exercise so cold that the water froze in the watertank trucks, Sambuca and Baileys turned out to be the most popular

Yeah we kinda had catering. Didn't really eat MREs.
Generally a packed lunch or mobile kitchen.

Officers generally didn't care about extras as long as you weren't to blatant such as a pizza or something. Closet full of chocolate oh well.

 

[Красный Комиссар]

At the Institute, during military training lessons, we were taught that at the first opportunity, a soldier should be given hot food, and dry food is in case it is not possible to prepare hot food. For this purpose, there are field kitchens, bakeries, etc.

I ate Ukrainian army rations. As part of the stew in a tin, rice barley or buckwheat porridge with meat (also known as "tourist Breakfast"), Everything is quite edible, but it is not possible to eat it every day. A lot of sugar. tea, instant coffee, and a lot of cookies. Such cookies it is possible to break your teeth. Probably from the cookies should be prepared "kanun" (pour boiling water and add sugar, eat the resulting mixture). But you can't eat it every day, either. Harmful, and caries will be.

But this was the second or third version of the dry-pack. The very first one that appeared after the coup d'etat included sprat in tomato (the cheapest fish preserve) it was often spoiled (swollen cans).

 

[Kyriakos]

Aren't armies supposed to be stronger the worse the food is that they can live on?
At least that was so for the Spartans, who mostly ate something called "the black soup".

One will find a similar belief in Asterix, which makes many wonder how the british didn't have an army to speak of.

 

[Commodore]

I've had American MRE's and I thought they were pretty great.

You must not have had the veggie omelet. That thing is a crime against humanity.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You must not have had the veggie omelet. That thing is a crime against humanity.

Correct.

I loved the corned beef hash MRE. I don't remember the others.

 

[Commodore]

Correct.

I loved the corned beef hash MRE. I don't remember the others.

They didn't have that one when I was in. I know every few years or so they change up the available meals. My favorite when I was in was the chili mac.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

They didn't have that one when I was in. I know every few years or so they change up the available meals. My favorite when I was in was the chili mac.

Yeah I had it in the late 90's/early 00's while camping with my dad and they were mostly likely old stock from surplus stores. Now that you mention I think I do remember him saying it had been discontinued.

 

[Zardnaar]

At the Institute, during military training lessons, we were taught that at the first opportunity, a soldier should be given hot food, and dry food is in case it is not possible to prepare hot food. For this purpose, there are field kitchens, bakeries, etc.

I ate Ukrainian army rations. As part of the stew in a tin, rice barley or buckwheat porridge with meat (also known as "tourist Breakfast"), Everything is quite edible, but it is not possible to eat it every day. A lot of sugar. tea, instant coffee, and a lot of cookies. Such cookies it is possible to break your teeth. Probably from the cookies should be prepared "kanun" (pour boiling water and add sugar, eat the resulting mixture). But you can't eat it every day, either. Harmful, and caries will be.

But this was the second or third version of the dry-pack. The very first one that appeared after the coup d'etat included sprat in tomato (the cheapest fish preserve) it was often spoiled (swollen cans).

Alot of them are like that. They're for short term use.
The NZ one you could almost eat every day or at least eat it longer than some of the others.

Might not want to eat all of it though.

They all look heavy on salt, suger etc.

 

[REDY]

According Czech youtuber the best European MRE was Estonian one. He loved bread in the can, the main dished looked awful but tasted great.

 

[Zardnaar]

According Czech youtuber the best European MRE was Estonian one. He loved bread in the can, the main dished looked awful but tasted great.

Czech, probably plastered off his face on beer.