19:10 Pea soup is the oldest German MRE dish! It was used in the Franco Prussian war of 1870! It was an instant soup and it had no sausages….. This instant product (“Erbswurst”) was still manufactured until a few years ago….🙂
First time I saw the erbswurst as a mre component was from way back in the early days on Mrejapan's channel. Always wanted to try those knorr erbswurst tablets but has eluded me to this day lol. Shame it's been discontinued ☹
@@EverybodysDarling Erbswurst war getrocknete Erbsensuppe, die man mit Wasser anrühren musste. Sie hieß Erbswurst, weil das Pulver in einer “Wurstform” war…..
As a Berlin Vet I can tell you if you haven't had a chance to travel to Berlin and try the street foods you need to! Currywurst is and was their number one street food with Doner Kebab following close. Berlin is an awesum and fun city with gobs of history. Iche Liebe Berlin. It kinda saddens me with the fall of the wall the Berlin Brigade had to close down and we had to leave Berlin. It was a great duty station and sad more young Americans can't experience being stationed there.
In Germany the Currywurst is served like a sliced hotdog covered in Curry ketchup sprinkled with curry powder. French fries on the side with a brotchen (roll).
7:10 The “Curry Bockwurst with potatoes” is probably supposed to imitate “Currywurst mit Pommes” (fries) which still is one of the most popular fast food dishes in Germany 😉
Can't really have fries in a ration pack since it's all mixed with the sauce. So just plain potatoes makes sense. A proper Currywurst is fries, with the chopped bratwurst on top, the curry sauce, curry powder and some places add mayonnaise.
The dynamic duo! 🥰 My friend brought my all 4 types when he served in the Bundeswehr back in the 90s. He said EPA stands for “Ekel Panik Angst” (Disgust Panic Fear). I liked them all, especially the “Griesspeise Malibu” - it was some kind of porridge with exotic fruits in it. Great review. Have a nice WE! Btw they trade here in Germany around 30€…
Don't know what y'all are talking about, that brown bread in a can looks perfectly fine to me... ...then again, I grew up with German parents who became Americans. 😉 P.S. -- What's wrong with garlic? < nature's best antibiotic it is! 😋
It's so surprising that these rations have so much food and so high quality foods. Great review. I just got this new, I think it's new, recovery bar - salted caramel marshmallow crisp. I hope you get some and review...
Before the naysayers jump on Amanda, pumpernickel is an acquired taste and European processed meat products are not for everyone. I think it was a very honest assessment based on the taste preferences of the tester.
Hi Amanda and Nathan! Really good MRE review! I think I would really enjoy this MRE! German MRE's are amazing! The match lighting with y'all was funny! Enjoyed video as always! Hope Phillip gets well soon! 👍😎
This Ration can’t possibly get any more German than this... Erbsensuppe, Currywurst und Pumpernickel 👌😂 The fact these bags are from Erasco, brings you pretty close to original tastes how it actually should taste!
Good evening Amanda and Nathan good to see neither of you have what Phil has thank goodness. Stay well and warm this weekend. I am on call for the fire department here in Florida and I have all my staff ready to roll from home. It is freezing (by our standards) here in Tampa and it is a safe bet people are going to be stupid. Plus being a full moon you know how that goes. Please give Phil our best wishes. Have a great weekend and I have been waiting for this review ao I am going to sit back and enjoy what should be a nice warm up for the cold weather
You guys finally convinced me I had to get one of these last month. You're right, pricey. And the shipping was almost as much as the ration! But they are good ones. Nice video, as always.
Some great quotes today. “Spam is really porky” “Get that meat taste out of my mouth” 😂😂 I love you two working together, it totally reminds me of me and my brother. Great review!
Looks delicious, sausage and hashbrowns were always my fav IMP in the Army, nothing beats hot sausages after a long cold day in the canadian tundra lol.
Wow that ration was loaded . I thought you would pull out an Oompah band next ! Amanda you just need a pocket knife. I laughed my but off when you dropped that match ! Loved the review .
In the U.S. MREs I used to take the cocoa pack and add the sugar and creamer pack to it and a little water to make GI pudding. If you made it a little thicker you could use it as a frosting for the pound cake
greetings from Germany. Nice video and nice review. the Bundeswehr has changed the supplier for the mains from Busse (the rectangle containers) to Erasco (the brown pouches). Erasco is well known in Germany for canned food like stews, soups and stuff like that. It is interesting that they keep the company name on the mains. I think the pouches are not so smart for the soldier, because he has to heatened them up in his messkit instead of putting the old style mains directly on his stove. Not all EPa has the buscuits. I had 2 boxes without the biscuits now. One hint for you: you put to much water into the dessert and you have not stirred it enough. Less water would be better and stirr the dessert until it gets a tougher. Then it will be great. The price is very high. The EPa were sold for 30 - 35 € + shipping If you have some luck you get them cheaper.
@@blarfroer8066 it depends on the personal equipment of each soldier. this contains a personal cooking set with cups to cook and heat up water and a small reusable stove for fuel tablets. Many other nations provide a single use stove that you have to fold out of a metal part with some fuel tablets. so some nations use the FRH some have an option with stove and fuel tablets. by the way, one famous sentence about the German EPA is, that the food taste equal "good" if it is hot or not
@@blarfroer8066 over decades, the main meals were not delivered in retort pouches. This new change might cause some changes in future for the EPA. As the US Army did it for the US MRE, the German Army changes things in the EPA to improve it. It often feels, that is tradtion to sit down, have a rest with a smale fire for the German soldier. So the option with the stove worked well. The change to retort pouches, hm I was personally surprised about it. It is not impossible that the FRH may come in the future, or they switch back to the old style package.
@@nielskoester4065 I know all of that. Still, they started using retort pouches with the interim rations from France and now they completely went for them and still don't supply frh. Ukraine switched from cans to retort pouches and immediately added frh.
Dang Amanda ripped those packages open like they offended her grandmother 🤣🤣🤣 criminals everywhere are now crapping their pants afraid to meet her in a dark alley ‼️
Nathan, Nice video. Amanda has brought an interesting element to the channel. How about some stories from back in the day with Amanda and you, like you getting your ass beat by her haha. My thoughts for Phillip. Peace Luke T
I have 3,5 questions: Do you eat all the stuff or just try it and toss the rest? Also, why do you use plastic cups and cutlery, and do you reuse those or toss them? Wouldn't it be cooler to use a propper mess kit?
You guys are doing great. When other reviewers have gone to the wayside, this channel keeps making great videos. Just wish German rations were more accessible and cost effective..... Yeah,like that will ever happen.
What a difference to the ones I had thirty years ago. In every regard. It surprises me every time when somebody reviews those "new" ones. Another thing that surprises me (and makes me wondering) why there are no multi language descriptions on the items. I thought that would be NATO standard by now that at least English as a second language is used on the descriptions. @Amanda, the pea dish you mentioned could be "Schöberl" but I´m not sure because your description was to vague. And it´s originally an Austrian dish not a German.
Hey Nathan & Amanda hope Philip is getting better. Man do they load those rations up, surprised they don't come with Rolaids but at least you would enjoy the heartburn. Gonna have to look for opportunity to get a few foreign mre s sometimes the main aren't always my cup of tea, but all the extras would still make a filling meal on their own. Another good review you 2.thanks for making me hungry,,!🙂🤐😎
you should open the "EPA's" in proper style with the infamous "German Swiss army knife". ;))) Famous for not even being able to cut a ripe banana with it and at the same time a KILLER WEAPON if the saw's protective cap is missing
From this year on the EPA will have a new name. It is changed in ……. EPA. 😂. Seriously the changed it from „Einmannpackung“(=OneManPaket) in „Einpersonenpackung“(OnePersonPaket) In german it is the same short form.🤷🏼♂️
don ´t forget that the Bundeswehr made a contest to find this new name. The winner got 10 EPa ;-). One important point for the suggested names was that the short "EPa" could be used with the new name. Under this condition, Einpersonenpackung and to have a name for all genders - this was without alternatives.
Americans love it super sweet And it shows in this taste test. No wonder there's a lot of obesity in the US. Original American products wouldn't sell in Germany as people here do not like at all if it's sweetened over the top.
I with you Nathan, cold oatmeal yuck. I think you did a good job with camera without Phil. Great job Amanda love your scissors lol. Lot of stuff in that ration could eat for days.
Nathan, I have been trying to figure out who you sound like. Someone from the past and it just hit me. It is Kirt loder of mtv fame. He was a v j from back in the day. If you don't know who he is google him. You sound just like him. Good video by the way.
The Landsers of the Bundeswere I served with didn't call them EPAs..they called them "Ay-Packs". If you want a real review, get 40% of needed sleep, have a high physical load, be cold and wet...and a draftee...
A great review I laughed a lot which is good Camera work sucked but thats all OK too I can tell Amanda would not make it the field eat rations I say that with a smile I sometimes had problems myself!!!
Wow folks, what a giant ration lol. Germany... I live about 70 km = 45 miles away from the German border. And Peaspoup ok? I cooked it myself around new years. I promise you, it's full of onion haha... didn't notice? Yes, expensive and huge MRE :-)
You'll pate' in almost all European MREs. Pate' is universally favored in all of Europe. Pate' is little known and little liked in the United States. The closest American food item to European pate' is devils food meat spread and its competitors. And it's still not quite the same.
Pumpernickel is an old word for Furzender zwerg and weans fartin dwarf you have roggenbread its not the same Pumpernickel will make you gasing like hell in this amount
Just a question Nathan. Is it your lingo to always say " that's how it goes boys". Assuming that you know you have women viewers . I just wonder if that's just you and your lingo ?
19:10
Pea soup is the oldest German MRE dish!
It was used in the Franco Prussian war of 1870!
It was an instant soup and it had no sausages…..
This instant product (“Erbswurst”) was still manufactured until a few years ago….🙂
First time I saw the erbswurst as a mre component was from way back in the early days on Mrejapan's channel. Always wanted to try those knorr erbswurst tablets but has eluded me to this day lol. Shame it's been discontinued ☹
@@spicytunarolls777 Erbswurst is no more produced for two or three years.
Erbswurst 😂 nich nie gehört... 😋
Erbsensuppe/Erbsen Eintopf mit Würstchen ☝️
@@EverybodysDarling
Erbswurst war getrocknete Erbsensuppe, die man mit Wasser anrühren musste.
Sie hieß Erbswurst, weil das Pulver in einer “Wurstform” war…..
@@eslSlightz Ah, das erklärt es wohl. Klang mehr nach einer amerikanischen Erfindung um komplizierte Deutsche Worte zu vermeiden 😁😋
As a Berlin Vet I can tell you if you haven't had a chance to travel to Berlin and try the street foods you need to! Currywurst is and was their number one street food with Doner Kebab following close. Berlin is an awesum and fun city with gobs of history. Iche Liebe Berlin.
It kinda saddens me with the fall of the wall the Berlin Brigade had to close down and we had to leave Berlin. It was a great duty station and sad more young Americans can't experience being stationed there.
In Germany the Currywurst is served like a sliced hotdog covered in Curry ketchup sprinkled with curry powder. French fries on the side with a brotchen (roll).
I was in Berlin in 2019 and Currywurst is one of the foods that I still crave.
7:10
The “Curry Bockwurst with potatoes” is probably supposed to imitate “Currywurst mit Pommes” (fries) which still is one of the most popular fast food dishes in Germany 😉
I always have it at least once when i visit Germany. Just like spaghetti ice-cream.
Mit Brotch! I used to get this often Curry Bratwurst Mit Pom Frittes and Brotch.
@@Freshwaterboy
Brötchen 😉
Can't really have fries in a ration pack since it's all mixed with the sauce. So just plain potatoes makes sense.
A proper Currywurst is fries, with the chopped bratwurst on top, the curry sauce, curry powder and some places add mayonnaise.
The dynamic duo! 🥰 My friend brought my all 4 types when he served in the Bundeswehr back in the 90s. He said EPA stands for “Ekel Panik Angst” (Disgust Panic Fear). I liked them all, especially the “Griesspeise Malibu” - it was some kind of porridge with exotic fruits in it. Great review. Have a nice WE! Btw they trade here in Germany around 30€…
Don't know what y'all are talking about, that brown bread in a can looks perfectly fine to me...
...then again, I grew up with German parents who became Americans. 😉
P.S. -- What's wrong with garlic? < nature's best antibiotic it is! 😋
It's so surprising that these rations have so much food and so high quality foods. Great review. I just got this new, I think it's new, recovery bar - salted caramel marshmallow crisp. I hope you get some and review...
Why?
Germany is a wealthy country and can afford to feed its military personnel well.
This is not a single mal but a full day pack. So equivalent to 2-3 MRE
Before the naysayers jump on Amanda, pumpernickel is an acquired taste and European processed meat products are not for everyone. I think it was a very honest assessment based on the taste preferences of the tester.
Hi Amanda and Nathan! Really good MRE review! I think I would really enjoy this MRE! German MRE's are amazing! The match lighting with y'all was funny! Enjoyed video as always! Hope Phillip gets well soon! 👍😎
Curry wurst with fries and mayonnaise,
Life does NOT get any better!!!
(Best German street food ever)
Nathan Amanda I like the way you say Zucker I am German and it's great to hear how some people pronounce German words
Thanks team.Prayers for Phil. You two just have me the munchies. HA HA HA.
I think Phillip needs a raise guys
This Ration can’t possibly get any more German than this... Erbsensuppe, Currywurst und Pumpernickel 👌😂
The fact these bags are from Erasco, brings you pretty close to original tastes how it actually should taste!
Good evening Amanda and Nathan good to see neither of you have what Phil has thank goodness. Stay well and warm this weekend. I am on call for the fire department here in Florida and I have all my staff ready to roll from home. It is freezing (by our standards) here in Tampa and it is a safe bet people are going to be stupid. Plus being a full moon you know how that goes. Please give Phil our best wishes. Have a great weekend and I have been waiting for this review ao I am going to sit back and enjoy what should be a nice warm up for the cold weather
Thanks David, we have snow rolling in tonight
You guys finally convinced me I had to get one of these last month. You're right, pricey. And the shipping was almost as much as the ration! But they are good ones. Nice video, as always.
@choossuck On line place called MRE Empire.
Some great quotes today. “Spam is really porky” “Get that meat taste out of my mouth” 😂😂 I love you two working together, it totally reminds me of me and my brother. Great review!
These are so nice. So many great items. The smokey flavor sounded really good. One of the better set up 24hr rations. Awesome review.
So far, so good 😊. I really enjoy watching you guys go through the MRE stuff.
Looks delicious, sausage and hashbrowns were always my fav IMP in the Army, nothing beats hot sausages after a long cold day in the canadian tundra lol.
I, lived & moved around Germany from about nine years w/ my childhood family
I just can't get enough of the comedy, laughed so hard.
looks great! use the bread to mage a sandwich or sop up the stew.
Wow that ration was loaded . I thought you would pull out an Oompah band next !
Amanda you just need a pocket knife.
I laughed my but off when you dropped that match ! Loved the review .
Pretty sure a soldier in the field is burning enough calories that they are able to eat this whole ration no problem.
Even Rambo would not be ashamed to use that huge scissors XD
This menu is on my mre got-to-try list!
Mine too, but Bob doesn't have any,😊🤐😎
In the U.S. MREs I used to take the cocoa pack and add the sugar and creamer pack to it and a little water to make GI pudding. If you made it a little thicker you could use it as a frosting for the pound cake
You did a good job Amanda. He did a good job too Nathan LOL
I really enjoyed this video. The food looked great and the banter was fun.
Thanks for the video.
Those for sure food heavy. Thanks for sharing.
i often eat salty oatmeal in the wintertimes to get me going and warm inside
Love watching y'all do the rations 🙂👍....its makes me hungry 😋
You could crush up some of the banana chips and add it to the chocolate pudding
greetings from Germany. Nice video and nice review. the Bundeswehr has changed the supplier for the mains from Busse (the rectangle containers) to Erasco (the brown pouches). Erasco is well known in Germany for canned food like stews, soups and stuff like that. It is interesting that they keep the company name on the mains. I think the pouches are not so smart for the soldier, because he has to heatened them up in his messkit instead of putting the old style mains directly on his stove.
Not all EPa has the buscuits. I had 2 boxes without the biscuits now.
One hint for you: you put to much water into the dessert and you have not stirred it enough. Less water would be better and stirr the dessert until it gets a tougher. Then it will be great.
The price is very high. The EPa were sold for 30 - 35 € + shipping If you have some luck you get them cheaper.
I'm still confused why they don't add flameless ration heaters with the retort pouches, like most countries do.
@@blarfroer8066 it depends on the personal equipment of each soldier. this contains a personal cooking set with cups to cook and heat up water and a small reusable stove for fuel tablets. Many other nations provide a single use stove that you have to fold out of a metal part with some fuel tablets.
so some nations use the FRH some have an option with stove and fuel tablets.
by the way, one famous sentence about the German EPA is, that the food taste equal "good" if it is hot or not
@@nielskoester4065 i know about the esbit stove. but it just makes sense to provide an frh if your meals come in retort pouches.
@@blarfroer8066 over decades, the main meals were not delivered in retort pouches. This new change might cause some changes in future for the EPA. As the US Army did it for the US MRE, the German Army changes things in the EPA to improve it.
It often feels, that is tradtion to sit down, have a rest with a smale fire for the German soldier. So the option with the stove worked well. The change to retort pouches, hm I was personally surprised about it. It is not impossible that the FRH may come in the future, or they switch back to the old style package.
@@nielskoester4065 I know all of that. Still, they started using retort pouches with the interim rations from France and now they completely went for them and still don't supply frh. Ukraine switched from cans to retort pouches and immediately added frh.
Dang Amanda ripped those packages open like they offended her grandmother 🤣🤣🤣 criminals everywhere are now crapping their pants afraid to meet her in a dark alley ‼️
You are doing great , Amanda . Nathan , you are doing better with the camera than what I would ( I would make it a blurry wavy mess )
the Roggenschrotbrot has an aquired taste because its super healthx and not a simple white bread we have over 1000 different breads in germany
Nathan,
Nice video. Amanda has brought an interesting element to the channel. How about some stories from back in the day with Amanda and you, like you getting your ass beat by her haha. My thoughts for Phillip.
Peace Luke T
the german biscuits are much softer then i remember they got called Panzerplatten - Tankplates
I have 3,5 questions:
Do you eat all the stuff or just try it and toss the rest?
Also, why do you use plastic cups and cutlery, and do you reuse those or toss them?
Wouldn't it be cooler to use a propper mess kit?
You guys are doing great.
When other reviewers have gone to the wayside, this channel keeps making great videos.
Just wish German rations were more accessible and cost effective.....
Yeah,like that will ever happen.
You know the Germans make good stuff - for a premium price!
The biscuits are called "armour plates".
Your brother throw food like he hate to do review 😂 thanks god sis saves the day
What a difference to the ones I had thirty years ago. In every regard. It surprises me every time when somebody reviews those "new" ones.
Another thing that surprises me (and makes me wondering) why there are no multi language descriptions on the items. I thought that would be NATO standard by now that at least English as a second language is used on the descriptions.
@Amanda, the pea dish you mentioned could be "Schöberl" but I´m not sure because your description was to vague. And it´s originally an Austrian dish not a German.
The paper they showed in the beginning has translations on it. Three languages.
@@redwolfexr Thanks for the clarification.
The pea dish ist ganz einfache Erbsensuppe 🤷♂️😉
More light will give better focus and greater depth of field
Hey Nathan & Amanda hope Philip is getting better. Man do they load those rations up, surprised they don't come with Rolaids but at least you would enjoy the heartburn. Gonna have to look for opportunity to get a few foreign mre s sometimes the main aren't always my cup of tea, but all the extras would still make a filling meal on their own. Another good review you 2.thanks for making me hungry,,!🙂🤐😎
Mix the mousse au chocolate with cold water. Greetings from south germany
Good camera style Nathan .Gravol helps. HA HA HA.
Die Einmannpackung wird demnächst ersetzt durch die Eintagespackung (one day Pack)
The wurst is yet to come.
"Ohne mampf kein Kampf" are we say
Greetings from Germany, Brandenburg
Love these rations.
Wow! Currywurst in a ration now that's awesome, I love Currywurst
the tuna comes in saladcream its like a light mayo but isnt rly a mayo
you should open the "EPA's" in proper style with the infamous "German Swiss army knife". ;)))
Famous for not even being able to cut a ripe banana with it and at the same time a KILLER WEAPON if the saw's protective cap is missing
Magnificent!!!
GREAT video
..LOOKIN' GOOD, AND YUMMY
Currywurst is made 2 different ways one is ketchup based wit cirrypowdwe and the other way is a fruty sauce made from scratch
From this year on the EPA will have a new name. It is changed in …….
EPA. 😂.
Seriously the changed it from „Einmannpackung“(=OneManPaket)
in
„Einpersonenpackung“(OnePersonPaket)
In german it is the same short form.🤷🏼♂️
don ´t forget that the Bundeswehr made a contest to find this new name. The winner got 10 EPa ;-). One important point for the suggested names was that the short "EPa" could be used with the new name. Under this condition, Einpersonenpackung and to have a name for all genders - this was without alternatives.
I loved currywurst when i lived in Germany
Hi Amanda! Hi Nathan!
you have to fold the match packet back again to strike it betwinn for more friction
Great flight ration.
Americans love it super sweet And it shows in this taste test. No wonder there's a lot of obesity in the US. Original American products wouldn't sell in Germany as people here do not like at all if it's sweetened over the top.
Just like amanda will get better with time about the reviews Nathen im sure will also get better with the camera lol
Best wishes to Phill . .
its funny alwayys in a charming way that they useing the translator app when it is translated in the box as a papersheet
A tuna melt sandwich would be really good. :)
I with you Nathan, cold oatmeal yuck. I think you did a good job with camera without Phil. Great job Amanda love your scissors lol. Lot of stuff in that ration could eat for days.
Our German food is not too bad her
Nathan, I have been trying to figure out who you sound like. Someone from the past and it just hit me. It is Kirt loder of mtv fame. He was a v j from back in the day. If you don't know who he is google him. You sound just like him. Good video by the way.
Love both you guys. Your doing great except Amanda needs to do more detailed descriptions more then I don't like it. Or it's ok. Other wise all good.
Also...we traded 3 MREs for one, but you had to find an inexperienced soldier to make the trade...
Dont want know what you have Paid !Thx and grettigs from Gemany !😉Crackers are named Panzerplatten(Tankplates)😂
These are about $80usd right now
The Landsers of the Bundeswere I served with didn't call them EPAs..they called them "Ay-Packs". If you want a real review, get 40% of needed sleep, have a high physical load, be cold and wet...and a draftee...
Oh ja this one really is german 😎🔥❤️
Nathan we will see the dang food whenever you take it out! The food packet shots and reminders are unnecessary!
A great review I laughed a lot which is good Camera work sucked but thats all OK too I can tell Amanda would not make it the field eat rations I say that with a smile I sometimes had problems myself!!!
Enjoy the interaction between both of you. Makes a better video
Wow folks, what a giant ration lol. Germany... I live about 70 km = 45 miles away from the German border. And Peaspoup ok? I cooked it myself around new years. I promise you, it's full of onion haha... didn't notice? Yes, expensive and huge MRE :-)
You'll pate' in almost all European MREs. Pate' is universally favored in all of Europe. Pate' is little known and little liked in the United States. The closest American food item to European pate' is devils food meat spread and its competitors. And it's still not quite the same.
SHEARS
It's for 4 soldiers
Grunts actually hump these massive meals? Who’s hauling all the water? This grunt is out!
Where can buy this mre?
Dropped some on your shirt ? Think of it as a snack for later 🤣
LET'S GO BRANDON
How is Phillip?
He is way better
@@NathansMRE Send him my best!
Apologies. Clicked the wrong button.
Pumpernickel is an old word for Furzender zwerg and weans fartin dwarf you have roggenbread its not the same Pumpernickel will make you gasing like hell in this amount
Немецкий паек видимо лучший в Европе....
Skip the gd drinks!
FOODIE DELIGHT
Damn she got some thick wrists
Tell the truth. How much are you supposed to eat, and how much is to trade for sex?
Just a question Nathan. Is it your lingo to always say " that's how it goes boys". Assuming that you know you have women viewers . I just wonder if that's just you and your lingo ?
It’s not that deep
@@Pisstopher that's what she said..hahaha 😉🤷♀️
That is one hell of a rat pack , no wonder the German Armed forces are so happy 😀
Wow! T German military really spoils their personel!