MRE-tasting

For my non-American readers: "MRE" stands for "meal ready to eat." It's a type of military ration containing about 1200-1500 calories' worth of nutrition. Two or three of these meals per day should be sufficient for normal activity, but if you're in the middle of a war zone, you might want three or four. My own experience with MREs is that they aren't terrible, but they're also not great, and since they're designed to provide a soldier with a lot of energy for battle, they're also full of carbs. On top of that, most MREs also come with snacks in the form of crackers or weirdly stamped pieces of bread, all of which would be dry as a bone were it not for things like peanut-butter-and-jelly packets, cheese packets, etc. Even with those packets, though, I guarantee that, if you were shooting out diarrhea before chomping down on an MRE, you'd be solid as a rock after only a meal or two. You know how the Jews joke about eating dry matzah crackers during a Seder, or eating matzah-ball chicken soup and how the matzah clogs you up? MREs are like that.

In the video below, Max the Meat guy partners with the gargantuan Chef Rush to try MREs from around the world. I think you can already guess which country is going to come out on top. I thought the video was fun and funny, but there was a little too much mugging by Chef Rush, who seemed to like jump-scaring poor, tiny Max with sudden, threatening movements. Dominance displays.