LRP 1977 Beef Hash Long Range Patrol Ration MRE Review Military Eaten Oldest Food
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Howdy, folks! Steve 1989 back again with a nice vintage April 1977 Date of Production LRP Menu # 1 Beef Hash, sent to me by Ruleryak. We delve into this one with brave taste tests of food made the same year as Star Wars episode 4 - A New Hope. This was made 2 years after the Vietnam war and is pretty much the same thing that special forces and recon etc. had to chow down on back in the day.
Hope you guys like the video and this one teaches us that freeze-dried vacuum sealed entrees can last for over 35 years! In this case, it was 38 years old.. and my dinner!
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LET'S GET THIS OUT ONTO A TRAY, NICE™
NICE HISS™
I'LL BE COMING BACK AT YOU WITH SOMETHING NEW OR OLD, ALRIGHT COOL SEE YA™ - Zábava
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Steve, I'm also a Vietnam Vet. We ate LRRPs or MCIs sometimes just to avoid whatever slop the chow hall was serving, and we'd also take them up in the plane on longer missions. When airborne, we'd use canteen water, which was usually ambient temp. That was okay, but hotter was better. Oh, and we always mixed the coffee and chocolate powders together, added sugar and drank it that way. We used about 8 oz of water.
Steve is too young to have served in Vietnam. Welcome Home.
Hey man thank you so much for your service!
Yea I remember
Rocky Raab Thank you for your input ! Reading the comments after finishing one of those videos, looking for people with stories, is the best part !
Thanks for your service, Rocky, and I enjoy hearing from Vietnam Vets and their experiences.
This is a _vintage_ Steve1989 video, and boy, I almost cried when I didn't hear "Let's get this out onto a tray... Nice!"
i love the lets get this out on a tray classic steve1989 good stuff man with the estravagangzia
Your right. I almost went into depression. I had to immediately come to the comments for answers! 😂
Get it onto to the tray......that looks good! .???...okay who are you and what did you do to Steve?....gimme a Nice! , if your okay Steve!
I noticed that too...Let’s get it out on a tray nice😎
VIntage Steve is still very digestible!
I tried to watch gundog, and the other people you mention, just I just can't stay for more than two videos. I much prefer your calm style where everything is in view at all times and you take bites out of even the most questionable meals.
same man
yeah me too
nice
felixthemaster1 try rc gusto and gSchultz9 is pretty calm.. but Steve is cool..
felixthemaster1 I also tried watching some of the other guys do mre food review I like Steve the best hands down.
To fully understand LRRP rations you must sample a Chili Con Carne. While serving in the 173rd. Airborne Infantry (Viet Nam 1969) I experimented with them a lot. They would simply not reconstitute. Even after driving over the bag with a M 113 A1 APC (26,000 lbs.), they just would not take on water. Prolonged boiling in a canteen cup using C4 explosive did little to soften the crunchy beans. Forget the little blue heat tabs. To maintain proper body functions one would need to alternate LRRP's and C rats. Also when we would throw Ham and Lima Bean C rats to starving civillians they would throw them back at us.
Chuck Haynes thanks for your service and insight!
Damn that's wild, the civvies are like no thanks would rather starve to death.
Welcome home brother AATW
My father was a LRP , 173rd/74th
Thats rude of them. Guess they weren't starving.
I swear this guy must get half his nutrition from 30 to 60 year old food. lol. Love your vids, man.
9:36
Josh Nixon a lot of the time they loose their nutritional value sitting in storage so long
One other thing, he knows how to edit the videos and not turn what should be a 15 minute review into a 30 minute sleeper that makes your eyes glaze over. You go steve
Every time i see old beef, i honestly wonder how many of that cow's descendants i've consumed or drank the milk of.
Same.
Thanks for putting that in my mind
yeee
its genetic line most likely died out completely
now THAT makes you think
Yee Macghyee Yeeeee
Hi, We usually ate C-RATS, but I was issued three of these. The packaging was much darker as I recall. We had nesbit? stoves
with trioxane tablets for fuel. I tried the spaghetti, I thought it was the nastiest thing I ever ate. I didn't eat the other two. I lived
off canned mandarin oranges I brought with me. The item you refer to as napkins is toilet paper. The reason the striker was
moved to the back of matches is that a spark would sometimes ignite the whole pack causing a nasty burn.
The Cornflake bar reminds me of the time my Dad wasn’t totally awake and made me breakfast. He put orange juice in my cereal and milk in the glass😝🤣. I actually took a bite, maybe he wasn’t the only one not totally awake😉.
Love watching your videos. Somehow makes me feel like I understand my father more than before. Instant coffee, coco, and the other strange things he seems to enjoy. He's a Marine, Viet Nam Veteran 68-69ish. Has had bouts with Cancer, and I try to care for him. Anyway, really enjoy watching. Much love, From Texas.
We mixed the cocoa and coffee, when we stopped on patrol, loved the Long Range Recon. Patrol rations, although we did have to carry more water. They were just so much easier to deal with and lighter. USMC 1968 RVN . Ours came in sort of a nylon bag, with a plastic bag inside.
Thank you Steve,,I was served LRP at Ft Drum NY for winter training..Its was all I ever wanted to eat as long as I can get HOT water..I would suggest you add way more(boiling Hot)water and let it set foe a Half hour or more.Gristle will disappear a bit better.!The hash was great,Chilli conconi was better if you couldn't hydrate,Beans tasted like peanuts!lol...Id forgo Hot meal if any of these meals where laying around...The Cornflake Bar,Was there a Lemmon? I thought I fav was the lemon but may have been Orange,Really good to wake up to,Refreshing.Thank you for you fantastic channell...Do you or will you do Astronaut food?
TY73s
Dude I love your enthusiasm it's really infectious, a really nice pick me up after a long day at work. Subscribed! :)
Is there any way to acquire astronaut rations from the ISS? That's my biggest curiosity for MREs. I also really love the cigarette portions. It feels like being a scavenger in the apocalypse reminescing of a time when cigarettes are plentiful.
*****
Could you imagine squeezing out the peanut butter bag onto a space tortilla? And the swallowable toothpaste? Oh man...
+Steve1989 MREinfo aren't they same as normal MRE freeze dried food ? I heard that they are produced by the same company.
Russian ISS food is easily obtainable, all types of meal, about $6-$15 per one item new, depending on complexity (not including shipping&handling).
Suspicious Tumbleweed* The food on the ISS is just freeze dried food in little plastic bags that have nozzles for them to put in water.
Tycho343 Mountain House aka Oregon Freeze Dry, yeah.
man i have to say watching steve when going to bed is amazing especially when its storming outside or snowing.
Steve has the biggest balls of all the MRE reviewers. He actually seeks out these old expired meals and takes them on. Tip of my hat to you brother.
Amazing that the potato chunks have held their form after 38 years of slow metabolic decay. The freeze drying process is a good method of long term food preservation.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one to mention this. My Uncle and my good friends (Vietnam Vets) would cut open a claymore mine and cut a chunk of the cordite from the mine. They explained you could light the cordite and it would burn nicely and the troops would use this to heat/cook their rations. My buddy said, the troops would do anything to help the taste of their rations, especially heating up and using Tabasco, if they had some. Great videos by the way!
Thank Steve for another quality review. You are a true MRE historian! Your historical little additions really paint a picture of the era. I love your incredibly thorough knowledge of the subject. Your calm presentation is very Bob Rossesque. Keep it up!!
i just wanna sit home all day and watch you open up old food its so fucking satisfying i have no idea why......
So I searched up DMP corporation... And all you get is a wastewater treatment center in South Carolina... Maybe not the best cocoa beverage to be drinking Steve lol.
still waiting on the coffee tasting extravaganza!
Hey! I love your channel. I never thought I would find MRE's so interesting! Keep making content :)
I love how you keep your workspace so tidy. This is soothing to my OCD
I cannot stop watching your videos. I actually for a while wanted to do a taste testing of MRE's (although more modern ones). Seriously keep it up! Love watching these.
New to your channel and I enjoy your stories and historic perspective of these older rations. Your videos are important to understanding military history as well as the sacrifices of veterans.
Steve's videos have come quite a ways since this one!
It's always interesting seeing how people change & improve their videos over time
@anew742 They've become unnecessarily longer over time.
I've never had a whole MRE in my life, I've had maybe 5 entrees from MREs but never had the chance to open and eat a whole MRE ever. After watching this video, u made this 39yr old MRE look great. It really inspired me to go online and order a whole case of MREs on eBay. I paid right under $60.00 on a 2010 case B US MREs, the seller had very good feedback and extremely high rating over 3000. I asked the seller how it was stored, he told me he purchased these brand new in 2011 and they've been kept in his basement the whole entire time. Also he said he recently opened a case, tried a few and they were good and seemed brand new. Once I get this case, I'll do a video of me opening the case and do one MRE. I'll be showing all the contents and fix it up to eat everything included in MRE. After I try everything I'll give my opinion on it all. I will also do different menus that in the case B. Also once I'm able I'll order MREs from different countries and doing videos on those. Thanks for all ur videos
Did you ever make any videos of all the MRE's you said you were going to do?
If so, where can I watch them?
TIA
Something addictive about watching your videos, spent last two days (been off work due to injury) watching them, brilliantly done, and very interesting! thanks for taking the time to do stuff like this.
Regards Russ
this is a time machine ! i love watching the really old ones you opend
Awesome review as always! My Japanese mama always made beef hash with cabbage and rice. I remember not liking it very well, but this ration kind of made me crave that. Food memories. Hate gristle. My husband loves it. Can't wait to see what's next!
We were still getting LRP rations issued in the mid 1980's we referred to them as Lurps. My favorite was chicken ala king!
I really love your videos totally enjoying the hell out of your channel. My grandpa was into old MREs and he would always bring and old one with on hikes and we’d try it out for dinner and compare it to the new ones on the market in the 90s.
Happy to see OG Steve eat an MRE that’s exactly as old as I am.
The stiff-ish paper liner often got saved or used as a fire starter. Or it might have been used to draw on, sketch a quick map or make some notes. The citrus taste in the cereal bar... might have been an early attempt at an all natural "binder" agent to make that compressed cereal "treat". Like orange or pineapple juice stirred into the dry cereal, then compressed and zapped in dehydrator.
On the topic of water, Another major issue when fighting in the SEA jungle, is the humidity water sources in the jungle are limited at best and with thick bush its near impossible to find a water hole. Because its also so damn humid and hot, rain that hits the ground gets turned into mud and hardly even forms a puddle. Resources are mostly rivers and the occasional stream. another issue also about digging for ground water is the sudden appearance of ants and other terrible things that will sting you and possibly kill you, Plus the clay deposits and due to the ground being turned into mud and constantly being dried and wet, it forms dirt that super hard to dig especially when it has had some time to try. Water as u said is a very rare commodity in the jungle. If your going in, take as much as u can carry, you'd rather take that extra weight to avoid heat stroke and to help fight the fatigue of the humidit and if u can, clean up a little, humidity breeds what we call crotch rot and athletes foot. Common symptoms if u cant get clean. That or bring extra fresh sock and underwear.
Not as bad as you, we dont have to deal with alligators as frequently as u guys down in Florida, but its pretty similar, Hence why ranger training is actually done in the swamps of Florida. Its just that the tropical jungles have a lot of flora that's native to SEA, poisonous fruits, snakes...scorpions ( the small brown variety* ...SPIDERS...and the common poisonous black millipede, Hornets, wasp....Wild boars. The best time to get water is during rain fall, because the jungle is so dense, a a lot the water doesn't actually reach the ground in rain droplets, it pools up and depending on the denseness might just sprinkles in a sorta drizzle or comes down and floods you. Water does puddle up on dead leaves or rather large surface area leaves like the banana tree. Which is by itself a treat, since it might have fruit, good source of potassium right there. Now i am maybe exaggerating a little bit. Cause i only spent a couple days in that jungle. But navigating it is quite interesting and digging a grave size hole fox hole to which ur gonna stay in can be amusing, but thats where im getting my experience about bugs and the rather hard dirt. But water is super scarce, especially if he hasn't rain in a few days...Moistures everywhere it sucks u dry of your energy and causes fatigue. Than there's those pesky mosquito's malaria and all that. Hence why we have industrial strength insect repellent. stuff actually burns alittle when u apply it...works well though.
True-notice that jungle inhabitants usually wear no clothes-saves them from damp clothes against the skin-that is what gives you fungal infections.
I've eaten that exact meal in the service. We would mix a coffee with the hot chocolate. Tabasco with the main and we'd water it down and close the bag with a clothes pin and let it sit. That cereal bar was something we ate on the move.
You're the coolest person ever!! I love your videos - been watching them for hours!!! Thank you for this amazing channel!
well just cleaned my whole desk which took a good hour or so and I was watching your videos the whole time while cleaning absolutely great I love you so much I watch your videos all the time
“Let’s listen for that vacuum seal hiss.... there was one” no no no. It’s Nice Hiss Steven.
"Steven" lol
I love how your passion for this comes across. subscribed and look forward to your vids. keep up the awesome work!
love your channel! i'm using MREs / MRE culture as an inspiration for a series of short pieces of writing
Nov. 11, 2018 and still da only food taster for me. Thanks for the vids Brother, lotsafun to watch and oddly, very calming. Cheers.
Really enjoy your videos. It would be cool if you were able to interview some of the military folks involved in designing ration products and menus.
"Looks good. Give it a shot." Words to live by, love checking out the earlier vids that I hadn't gotten to! You the man Steve!
Those cereal bars remind me of what I always pictured when I imagine survival food - like the way they always show it in TV and movies. It looks like that food morsel thing one of the characters in the movie, James and the Giant Peach had, in the scene where they were all fighting over it before it occurred to them that they could just eat the peach. Can you imagine if you only ate peaches and drank peach juice for like two months, or however long it'd take to cross the ocean?
+Melissa0774 And on this peach, is there a peach porta potty? Possibly port side, probably preposterous. I ponder the peach poty privy proximity to the peach core... three times fast.
I didn't say poop.
+Circie Quisling I read the book, from what I recall there is a hole in the peach so....
They totally fucked it. XD
These videos have a nice light undertone
And a rich, exotic flavour. Also they really have a pleasant mouth feel.
They have an oakey afterbirth.
also a slight hiss
With a robust aftertaste
Truly decedant.
Love these videos brotha !!! I would love to watch another super old one ! Like 105+ years ! 🙏🏻
nice, did not know about the other channels, now I have something to watch when I am caught up on these!
Ah, remember the days when 40 year old food seemed old?
Hey Steve love your vids! I appreciate your time and effort on these reviews! I have spent over 20 years of my life eating rations like this and can say that many can be quite enjoyable and others downright inedible. Please continue to do a great job and I look forward to more! I'm subscribed! Just curious, where do you find the foreign rations? Anyhow, thanks again!
Kris Henning they buy them off the Internet and they also send them to each other.. when you hear him mention someone like gundog sent me this ration.. etc..
I love your videos. I'm actually addicted to watching this. makes a shitty day at work much better.
My friend recommended you to me a few weeks ago, now I'm absolutely hooked, your the man, keep up the good work from Glasgow Scotland
i grow up eating these. literally eaten cases of the 80s mres .brings me back.
im so addicted to this videos its already 7:15am here in the philippines and im still watchin huhu
I enjoy your videos whenever I’m eating ... especially when you’re smoking a vintage cigar and drinking a vintage coffee in your hand and I’m doing the same thing at the same time 😋 (mine is modern btw)
Awesome review. I really wish one of these freeze dried companies would make the beef hash entrees again. its one of my go-to comfort breakfast items.
Again, awesome job. looking forward to the next vid. ;)
+Elandil I agree with you. When i win the lottery I'm buying one of the in home freeze driers and making that very thing!
+gundog4314 actually, i would be bouncing betweenthat and the FD fruit cocktail from the old brown bag MREs....they may have crunched like styrofoam, but dang they were good.. ;)
+gundog4314 I want one, too :). That, and an Excalibur dehydrator.
Mate, you sound really excited by these rations. Your videos are great to watch.
I really enjoy your reviews! Keep on making them ;)
This was an amazing review! I got your message and I'm not sure why you can't reply to my message! I noticed the changes and you're quickly becoming an amazing youtuber! Your videos are always so fascinating. I don't know as much about MREs and the military as most of you but I find this stuff so interesting watch! Always fun to learn! Look forward to more videos soon! Happy New Year!
I love these videos!
I've never eaten a MRE although I am a hurricane Katrina Survivor. The history and explanations alone keep me coming back to your channel. Have you ever gotten sick from anything you've tried? What was the rankest smelling menu you've had?
Jesse Michael , I volunteered in Waveland, MS, and St Bernard's Parish. I handed out tons of FEMA supplied "rations" and there wasn't a military MRE in the lot. Most were a little bullshit cellophane wrapped trays with packaged junk like Doritos and Oreos, pretzels, etc. in each of the compartments. Honestly, the govt response was embarrassing, and wasteful, in a lot of ways. Meanwhile, us civilians set up our own kitchen and fed folks good wholesome, hot food.
Back when Steve had hairy arms.
Whoa wtf 😆
When you pass a million subscribers it’s time for cosmetic updates :)
I always feel sort of glad when you get to eat some of these things. It feels like its more fulfilling a purchase vs when some things are too old or in not good enough shape to eat.
I just got recommended your channel and I fucking love your content! Keep up the great work!
Woaw you like it so much you be dropping that f-bomb lol
Watch like alle youre neew vids so this one just popped up in my feed same vibe even 4 years ago love it
Love the videos Steve even the old ones please keep em coming
Still waiting for that coffee tasting extravaganza 😁
steves enthusiasm for old food is unrivaled
Anyone brave enough to eat that deserves my subscription
incredibly impressed by how much you know! super entertaining.
it's amazing seeing how these turned out after so many years.
A flashback to younger, greener, more chipper days...without the now-familiar Steve’isms, lol. 😂
What a great vid!
My brother, a Navy vet, turned me on to these videos. While this isn't something I would have given much though I have really enjoyed these. Keep up the good work.
Steve1989 MREinfo: my uncle was in the Army and he had MRE's in his home, my sister and I would love to go throw the packs to see what were in them. Some of the meals are really good. Thank you for doing videos they take me back from when my uncle would bring some MRE's home and we would go through them :)
I heard the hiss in Alaska! Man I have sat up many nights way too late looking out of one eye and hating it in the morning watching your videos!
Very cool! That orange flavored cereal bar is really interesting, you just don't see things like that today. That would be really interesting to try.
I used to substitute the milk in my frosted flakes with orange juice as a kid. It was delicious at the time. I bet thats what those bars taste like.
Probably more like using water and about 6 or 7 vitamin C tabs I would think!
Awesome video Steve! I saw that the cocoa was packaged in Mobile, Alabama. That's only about an hour from where I am and I'm there all the time! Pretty cool to see something packed so close to me!
+Steve1989 MREinfo UGRs?
Super video handling and editing !!
Hey Steve!
Love your videos man lol especially when you're like "Nice...nice!" then when you say "Alright, let's put in on a plate *puts packets casually on plate* ...nice" ...haha gets me every time man.
What's the oldest MRE you've tried? Do you have a video link for that bud?
I'd like to see some WW1 MRE's lol but I know that's going to be non existent because of the age.
man...i love your videos! greetings from germany!
DMP-owned 'Quality for Less' in Mobile, AL and went out in 1984. (Profile: "ICED TEA MIX, GELATINE DESSERT MIXES, PUDDING MIXES, AND PUDDING-BASED PIE FILLING MIXES")
You are amazing steve. Please keep on doing this. I really like your videos.
Before Steve shaved his arms 😂
You beat me too it.
This was cool. Can't wait for your next obscure ration
Coming to you from the uk. I'm stressed about work and one of my projects and I can't sleep. Your videos are really interesting and relaxing. I hope you have lots of packs to review. Don't release all your content at once :). Keep it up!
+Steve1989 MREinfo MOAR
Now, you've got me craving Corned Beef Hash. I haven't had that since 1977...
I don't know why watching these are so addictive XD
I love your passion for the ration.
Always a treat to find one of these that I've not seen before. Honestly, canned commercial hash still has odd bits in it. Interesting point about MSG being dropped. Not a fan of it.
these vids make my day haha thanks for being so enjoyable
You do a fantastic job man. Keep it up!
I love how you talk about MREs like people talk about wine lol
wish I could get my hand one some of these old rations!!
Oh, good! Another one worked out for you :) . I'm glad it was a pleasant surprise for you, to find that the ration was not only edible, but also even enjoyable, Steve. Most people I've seen attempt eating the LRRP rations cannot say the same. Something always seems to go wrong.
My opinion on this ration type is that, apart from concerns about potable water acquisition (to say nothing of being in need of , possibly, a side dish, and more drinks), it is quite a good ration. As to the orange flavored cereal bar's availability, there is something LIKE it, in the form of the orange New Millennium bar, minus corn flake under/overtones. 'Might be worth your time.
+Steve1989 MREinfo Have fun! I hope it will be to your liking, the bar.
always amusing to go back and watch your older videos while the stylized catchphrases were just kind of starting to coalesce
NOBODY TELL STEVE THAT FRESH FOOD EXISTS. I enjoy his uploads too much.
Oooooo, April 1977, my birth date 😊 Then again, every days a birthday when Steve1989 is reviewing an MRE! Lee, UK 🇬🇧
I'm from Rochester N.Y. nice, I like it. I love your videos
I Don't know how I got to these videos but seeing the Vietnam mre brings back memories of my dad ..he has that shit I remember the mint wood tooth cleaner..thanks for the memory