1. Russia
Some of the foods included are crackers, apple sauce, pea stew, carrot and potato stew, meatballs, bacon in fat, rice with peas and meat, melted cheese spread.
2. The UK
Some of the foods included are a sports drink, coffee, tea, muesli oats with milk, cranberry cereal bar, candy, vegetarian pasta, fruit cake, oatmeal cookie with hazelnut spread, salted nuts, tomato pasta salad.
Hong tried military meals from 12 different countries, and he said in a statement to BoredPanda that the foods were often quite dry and heavy for the stomach, as expected, so he couldn’t try these on a daily basis for health reasons.
3. The USA
Some of the foods included are marble pound cake, crackers, skittles, chili, macaroni, a grape-flavored energy drink.
4. Germany
Some of the foods included are pea stew with mini sausages, hazelnut pudding; rindfleisch lyoner grob, crackers, meat with rice, oat milk with fruit and granola, dark bread, cranberry cereal bar, dark chocolate.
But when it comes to choosing the best meal, Hong said that “every ration is unique to the taste and culture of their corresponding nation.” This may be true, but when asked to choose his personal favorite, the Russian ration actually ended up being the winner! Hong liked the Russian IRP "because it offers the most protein of all the MREs I had. The pork fat or sowbelly is probably the oddest choice in it; it tastes like bacon when you mix it with the rice included.”
5. Spain
Some of the foods included are beef and pea stew, tuna, mixed fruit, pate, and instant vegetable soup.
6. Ukraine
Some of the foods included are pate, pork, sugar, tea, rice and beef, tuna, biscuits.
7. Croatia
Some of the foods included are beef soup, turkey pate, biscuits with pepper, salt crackers, liver spread, sardines, beans, chocolate, pineapple, papaya, coffee, orange drink, tea.
8. France
Some of the foods include granola, ham, terrine forestiere, crackers, oats and fruit, instant tomato soup, chocolate, nougat, candy.
9. Poland
Some of the foods included are chicken casserole, honey, condensed milk, hardtack, tea, coffee, hard candies, raisins, a stick of gum.
10. Canada
Some of the foods included are banana-flavored oatmeal cereal, bread, baked beans, sliced apples, ketchup, strawberry jam, peanut butter, hot cocoa, coffee + creamer, orange drink.
11. Italy
Some of the foods included are crackers, biscuits, jelly, chocolate, tortellini, beef, tuna, soup, coffee.
12. China
Some of the foods included are Fruit, cake, rice, sausage, hot sauce.
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