1993 Croatian Special Dry Ration Review Freeze Dried Recon Patrol MRE Tasting Test
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2024
- This rare and expensive ration relic features an all meat freeze dried main course, four beverages, various snacks, water purification tablets, salt tabs, and matches.
It was an innovative, fairly high tech, unique, and well made ration that was built to last. It could have easily doubled as a survival ration as well - lasting much longer than just a day if need be. Truly a rare look at something that we probably won't see again any time soon.
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A Croatian MRE from 1993, even under the best circumstances has lived an extremely hard life.
I love this comment so much.
Za dom! =U=
A Croatian MRE from 1993, even under the best circumstances has lived an extremely interesting life.
@@GLEN1061 Are you familiar with the history?
for sure
"Let's check out this instant energy tea."
*opens packet, revealing something that looks like a dead colony of ants in some decomposed animal remains*
"NIIICE!"
LOL! the Joke rights itself.
Yup, looked like something I recently snaked out of a toilet jet. One of those rare “DON’T DO IT STEVE” videos. Niiiice.
@@dam00k Eh, can't be that bad. Remember that one time he opened a tin of meat from a Vietnam War era C-Ration, and you could gradually see it start 'blooming' as the video went? Very glad he didn't eat that one, he's had more bouts with botulism than anyone should.
I did hear a small question mark at the end of "nice".
The fact that Steve is still alive assured me that he's the main character of life itself
we are all side characters to his story, he has the plot armor
Watched your videos right before i got cancer, during treatment, during false remission, during second treatment, and now im watching you while bald-post bone marrow transplant. Thanks for being a mainstay and keeping my sanity. Love your international reviews especially so this was a treat.
Hey man thank you for stopping by and saying hi. Very glad you can get some enjoyment out of these reviews. I'm sending my best wishes to your recovery and good vibes. Hoping to see you around, take care and have a great night.
@@Steve1989MRE your videos have been with me through thick and thin.
I'm honored to have your reply, nice
Have a great night and thanks again.
@@Steve1989MREyour videos are a wonderful distraction I must say 😄
Get well, friend! 🤝
Keep hanging in there!! Glad your still with us :)
3:00 That matchbook cover is incredible and easily the best part of that ration... the drawing of an anthropomorphic matchook celebrating its victory over a Zippo lighter.
Oh that's what that is LMAO
Amazing piece of art to be honest
"IT BELONGS, IN A MUSEAM!" Indiana Jones.
I like the little elephant on the Limač stuff
Worth of making a shirt out of it…I would buy one (Elephant as well)…
Hello from Croatia Steve. This ration was made during homeland war and probably as rare as an unicorn.
Nice, mkay.
This was a true relic, I was super grateful to actually get a chance to see one. Thanks for stopping by to check it out too - nice
alright cool, see ya
Good job on the hs2000
@@patrickglaser1560 If you liked the hs2000 you might look into VHS, not the tape variety.
No fiber, no fat, just dry meatballs and sugar
@@neonaffliction Springfield calls it the hellion
It's amazing that Steve can find stuff like this. This would never have seen the light of the day for the general public were it not for his work and dedication.
Hey right on thanks Gary - this one might not be seen again for a good while. I remember paying like $350, which was cheap!
@@Steve1989MRE Thanks for archiving this including ALL of your classical touches. Thanks Steve, you're a real one, man! I love how many times you went back to that coffee, we rely on you for these tasting notes!!!!!
@@Steve1989MRE We love it , every episode is a near perfect time capsule. The history nut in me loves you to death for these!
@@Steve1989MRE DAME! For that much you can buy a M3 Grease Gun accounting for today's inflation. (which is like 250-300$ or something like that)
@@Steve1989MRE Thank you for your efforts.
If Steve says the coffee is "horrendous" it would most certainly incapacitate or possibly kill an ordinary man.
My dad brought a bunch of these when he came back from the front in 1994. I remember my sister and I splitting the chocolate. These were made during the war in Croatia and were packaged in December 1993.
Za dom spremni
Nice!
Damn idk why but what you said sounded so ordinary like your dad just came back after of day work but he came back from a god damn war !
wow this really brings back fond memories of my time in Croatian Army (Hrvatska kopnena vojska - HKoV). That was my favorite chocolate bar, shame to see it did not last all the years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Steve!
Za dom spremni
prestani lagati nikad nisi bio u vojsci foliras
I was thinking this would bring back some memories and nostalgia for people over there. The little packet of bonbons looks like an off the shelf commercial item, does it still have the elephant on it, do they still make it?
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine The candies are no longer produced.
Jeez I wouldn't have thought being in the Croatian army in the 90s would bring particularly fond memories... I'm not even from the Balkans and that shit nearly gave me PTSD as a kid.
Steve’s shelf he stands near is his equivalent of Ashen’s brown couch. It never changes, which is kind of comforting.
Yup. The sports almanac, the Zappa tape... If one day they're suddenly gone, then we know something terrible must have happened.
Goes incognito for years… then comes back with content after content after content. We salute you Steve!
Years? It was only two months 😂
It was a year in my head
Before that he didn’t upload for more than a year, THATS still fresh in my mind
@@meuko I guess it takes time to find all of these different rations, but every time I see a new upload I'm glad!
@@canaconn2388na he went MIA for a year. He just recently started making a resurgence
Hell ya! Croatian here, What a treat!!!! Homeland war era ration, a lot of history here.
This is one of only two or three creators whose videos I must watch as soon as I get home from work.
Hey right on thanks man. Hope you have a great night and see ya around
alright cool, see ya
Steve and John from Primitive Technology, they are the few legit CZcamsrs still around now
I'd like to take a minute to appreciate how Steve changes the pitch of the "dings" when he taps the spoon on a glass so that it makes a little song. Such a weird little touch that is probably fun to do when editing the video together, and it always makes me smile. He's been doing this for a really long time and I haven't really seen it mentioned in comments before (not that it hasn't been).
Anyway, thanks for all the interesting things you do with these videos, and thank you for continuing to use your synth music and photos for the intro and outro. That synth sound immediately brings back memories of PC game music from the mid 90s. Love it! :)
You just know that the coffee would kill a lesser man outright if Steve is calling it bad
Lmaoooo
It's only been up on YT 15 minutes, and ALREADY I am confident that this is the best review of Croatian Special Dry Ration I will ever see. Big like! Nice!
Nice! The balkan war period is so fascinating to me, and I love seeing these rations preserved and explored for us. It humanizes the experiences of the regular soldiers.
So glad you could stop by to give this one a look. It was a rare gem - often overlooked history and I hope some old schoolers from the era get a chance to see this too.
That matchbook is a piece of art! I would make that into a t-shirt design.
Not only a t-shirt, but if the cover art could be scanned and cleaned up, Steve could even look into a reproduction run of actual matchbooks.
Im with you man.Would be nice to have the cover as a hi res photo. Spreadshirt it and go!
My dad was a UN peacekeeper with 3VP back in 93' shared tons of stories and pictures from his time over there, one sticks out of a small house that was destroyed that had a little old lady living in it and my father and a few others helped her find all of her remaining belongings and set her up with some CAF rations. Now I get to carry the torch in not only his regiment but the same damn battalion as him current day. This video made my day seeing something from a warzone my father was in. Poor souls in every war past and present may you find peace.
Steve your music is always fire, keep it up.
Hey Toxis right on man thank you.
The John Carpenter of MRE Reviews
@Orangefan77 it reminds me of Boards of Canada
I second this!
The music ALWAYS reminds me like "Lost Patrol" on A500 😎
Honey! Grab the popcorn and cancel our plans… Steve dropped a new MRE video!
Tonight we are dining in... Croatia!
Lol yeah
Right, like there's even a single one of us that has a girlfriend lol
Honey, no sex tonight, I need to watch a CZcams video!
I love the matchbook going full 'DOWN GOES FRAZIER!!" with the art. The imagery is just super cool.
LOL! Steve you are the MRE MAN! Imitators cry every time you raise your creative head! They copy your old stuff with crap trays, plastic ware and fancy knives, but will not eat 120 year old beef and 80 yr old smokes while still commenting on the “hiss”! I’ll take your sporadic creative genius and daredevil approach over all the imitators, even if it’s only twice a year, but please don’t do that to us. Good health and please continue on with your journey.
What imitators?
I have been watching you for years and I love to hear how much you actually care about this stuff. It is super interesting to learn the history behind the things that sustained soldiers during war efforts. Thank you for bringing these to video
Thanks so much man, I hope to come through with many more cool reviews as time goes on. nice
Take care & see ya around
Steve is the ultimate hobbiest. Knowledgeable, savvy collector, etc. In another world/time Steve would have the most rad model train setup
Bold of you to assume he doesn't have a burner account documenting his lionel collection
Nothing like starting off a new year with a bunch of new MRE videos. Thanks Steve! Now let's get this video out onto a tray. Nice
It's February tomorrow.
Back to back, nice
Nice
lov u buddy , thanks for all the vids@@Steve1989MRE
Amazing another upload!!!
Nice!
I'm jelly you got that real Wrigleys gum. My granddad worked for Wrigleys in the 90s so i got free Wrigleys in my childhood, I could taste something was very wrong when they switched. I even got to try Winterfresh before it was sold in the US in 1994. I got one of the first packages meant to go on shelves that year and it's now a core memory, I'd still chew that gum.
It happened with all of the gums, that spearmint flavor, the old school Juicy Fruit, Brooklyn gum and Double Bubble are flavors that i will cherish forever in my memory
The auto tune mixing the glasses was amazing
Some nice stirring music in this one with 4 beverages!!
I look forward to these almost as much as the reviews themselves.
He almost always does that. I love it so much!
I haven't had Wrigley's spearmint gum since they changed the recipe. I could smell and taste it from memory. The matchbook design is fantastic.
as someone who was born in Yugoslavia and remembers just barely some of the old designs from childhood, this really brings back memories with those matches and candy and the sugar packet. It just hits differently seein these old colors softly paled away in the past 30+ years.
Its beef soup cubes ,you should boil them for 10min to get the soup...its something we use all the time here in the balkans
As a long time fan, it's always exciting to see uploads that hit closer to "home" in some way. I'm sure a different group of your viewers experience the same feelings with every video.
Thank you for all the work you do, please keep it up!
Thank you Steve!
Hey druid you're welcome and thank you too for checking this one out!
Translation for 2:09:
Special dry meal (Specijalni suhi obrok)
Name of the product (Naziv proizvoda):
Desert chocolate (desertna čokolada)
Dehydrated meat block (mesna kocka dehidrirana)
Candy "Limač" or "poni" (bomboni Limač i Poni) Context: old school fruit flavoured hard candy, just this particular brand was long gone after 90s.
Ponita Context: really popular form of instant energy drink in this part of Europe, just here in Croatia is mostly referred as "Cedevita" after the most popular brand of said drink made by "Atlantic group"
Poni čaj Context: Dont know what is that for a tea, even my father has hard time remembering it.
Chewing gum Wrigley's (guma za žvakanje WRIGLEY'S)
Kitchen salt (kuhinjska sol)
Izosan 1 (pills for disinfection of water for drinking)/(tablete za dezifekciju vode za piće)
Franck kaffee (instant coffee)/ (Instant kava) Context: Our really old coffee making brand/producer (dates to 1892.), its mostly associated as best quality coffee (and is much more expensive)
Sugar (šećer)
Asepsoleta (antiseptic wet tissue)
Packaged: December 93 (PAKIRANO: Prosinac 93)
Hvala!
By far steve you're the best reviewer of MRE ration thanks for theses video
Hey right on Chris thanks man
He is the best reviewer on the Internet for anything, period.
I've never seen a chocolate bar explode like that! 😮
Only Steve can poor two drinks at the same time without spilling a drop! 😎👍
two days in a row and 2 videos today. thank you so much for all that you do!
_We are not worthy of these regular uploads_
_extreme close up_
They barely happen and he disappears for months at a time. They are not regular, at all. I enjoy the videos when they happen, but really, think about what you said.
Speak for yourself chump.
Im worthy
Nice!
alright cool, see ya
Regular for steve@@whysix3417
When the month was horrendous, Steve at the 11th hour comes in clutch ,thank you Steve 👏
Thank you Steve. Nothing more therapeutic than your content.
Always great videos, no question why Steve has earned so many subscribers. I appreciate the wonderment, enthusiasm, proper and knowledgeable narration to bring us into this without the luxury of smell and taste/texture. Excellent!
I remember watching your videos to destress right before my maturity exam (high school finals in Poland) and now I've been done with college for quite a few years now. Amazing how time flies and how comforting your videos still are to me. Nice.
Wow! 3 videos in 2 days....I'm in heaven! Appreciate you Steve!
Nice!
alright cool, see ya
Heck yeah! Keep em coming! Seeing new MRE’s is the nice hiss of opening YT!
I’ve watched you since I was in middle school. I’m 18 now and in my first year of college. Your videos have always been of great relaxation whilst being interesting as well. Thanks for being a part of my childhood!
MREs like this made me realise not only are these videos really entertaining and fun to watch they are also really valuable archival videos. Thank you Steve
*My Psycologist:* "Croatian Matchbox-man who beats us Zippo's in the ring isn't real, he can't hurt you."
2:59
It's amazing to see such a piece of history from the Yugoslav Wars. I didn't know that the Croats had a ration, which is similar to the US Patrol ration. Even more amazing is that the components held up together for the past 31 years since the date of manufacture. The sugar packet on 17:42 even has an advertisement in Croatian: Nigdje ga nema do "Podravka" džema ! (There is nothing like jam from Podravka). Podravka is a Croatian brand for condiments, sauses, candies, jam and instant soups. They are famous as the creators of Vegeta, a universal condiment, which is very popular in ex-Yugo countries. I would love to see more rations from the Balkans. Too bad, that there aren't rations from my home country, Bulgaria.
Any luck in finding out who made that orange powder? Tried looking for it and had no luck with googling. I am familiar with Cedevita being pretty popular :) so very interested in what seems like a predecessor.
No, Cedevita was the original, invented in 1969. in Pliva, the largest Croatian farmaceutical company. Ponita was one of many knockoffs, produced by Podravka (hence the Po- prefix). It got altered formula and new name Lerovita in 2009.
@@Rigedana thanks for the info!
2:07 what is written by hand is "Žigice" which translates to matchstick
its important to note that Steve has an insanely high tolerance for potentially toxic chocolate
Steve and Tray back with another amazing video!
When the world needs him the most, he uploads!
Man these videos just make me so happy. So calming and so interesting. I love it ❤ Please never stop uploading :)
Dude... I just love your videos.. so honest and just the best human feel to it.. makes me happy in times like this.
Steve out here just rapid fire dropping absolute bangers of videos today. Nice.
It is so rare because life was pretty hard there in early nineties. I'm also pretty surprised some of the rations weren't eaten
I was in Bosnia in 1993. Thanks for this Steve. Great video as always.
My buddy and I saw you uploaded and now here we are in discord watching it together. Thank you for the content Steve, stay safe out there.
We missed you Steve 😢 thank you for coming back!
I have been in the ration game for a while, but ive never even heard of this one.
Croation LRP basically?
Thanks for preserving history, Steve!!
Three videos in as many days. What a wonderful week. Thank you Steve for the awesome content. 30 year old Croatian mre was amazing.
I’ve been watching every day Steve whether you were uploading or not. But nothing beats new content
Thanks for the upload Steve😁👍
Hey right on thanks for stopping by!
Tea may actually be bergamot or the local evergreen berry substitute version.
Makes me happy as heck to see you still uploading been here since 2018.
So nice to kick back and relax to these videos!
The Croatians put together an interesting ration! Thanks for sharing it with us, man.
Try steeping the beef in hot water. You might get a bouillon analog as a by-product.
Good to see you again again Steve!
Hey thanks Opfor! Glad you could stop by to check this out out. Also got a Swedish ration out tonight as well.
I'm so happy to see you uploading more often, thxs for the great content
It would be nice to take a tour of everything you have on display, such rarities and interesting components. Thanks man, I would never have known this thing existed without your excellent work.
Three in one day? #Blessed. Thanks Steve!
Cheers for the upload Steve
Hey is that you Lyrical Squirrel? I think that used to be your name. I remember your avatar in the comments, but the name was different. Either way, thanks for stopping by man.
@@Steve1989MRE Yes it’s me Steve 🐿️ thanks for the uploads over the years, top tier CZcams channel
I always look forward to your videos! Thanks for making them!
I appreciate you and your videos Steve! Thanks for still doing what you do for us! You're truly a CZcams institution at this point.
I thought he was gonna stir both drinks at once after he poured the water in both at once and I got very excited
Nice
Double upload, nice
Nice
Steve, I've been watching your content for a long time now and just wanted to say keep up the good work.
I love that Steve came back and is making new episodes... Thank you Steve.. love your work Brother...
Woah woah, you are really spoiling us Steve! ❤
The handwritten part on the ingredient list says "matches"
You always amaze me with the things you are willing to eat, and I've admired that for years. You stepped it up in this one, Steve. Bravo. You are one of the most impressive CZcamsrs out there in my opinion.
Absolutely phenomenal that Steve is able to find these rations somewhere, somehow. Amazing. Thanks for providing these tasting tests all the time.
As one guy said in the comments; "confident that this is the best review of Croatian Special Dry Ration I will ever see"
Makes me think back to the 1961 West German Military Survival Ration that was packed like a H&K G3 magazine, just to fit in the holster, with the best chocolate ever.
Whoa! Thanks Steve for all these new videos.
Hey right on man thanks for stopping by to give em a look!
I dunno man. I was half expecting a sealed pouch of Red Man and two mini bottles Croatian spirits.
Damn Steve suddenly produces so many new review vids =D TY Steve a delight to watch them each and every time
Keep it up Steve! Always nice to see a new video posted!
I watch the videos in double speed (just like everything else) and my favorite part is the plastic spoon on the glass cup noise. Idk why it's almost melodic
I dont think he liked the beef🙄
I really appreciate that you keep your knife sharp enough to open these packages like this.
I love steves spoon tunes i look for them in every video.
Girl: Babe you hungry? What you wanna eat tonight?
Steve: Hmm...How bout a 31 year old Croatian ration?!
You’re about a decade off
Holy shit 😂 you're right!
God I'm getting old....
I was about to comment this @@tap9095
Nice, m’kay
Nice
Stuck at home with a cut hand from a work injury, really appreciate these videos Steve!
So happy and grateful for another video of yours
As a Serb i need to say that this video is nice and i like Croatia! Slava rodu!
First
Nice
Nice hiss
One minute ago huh? And I just saw another! These are always so high quality and entertaining, I can't wait to get into collecting survival equipment and learning how to build things!
Nice!!! You've plum done it again Steve. Great video and it's cool to hear the musical glasses when you stir your drink mixes. God bless ya and be safe.