As someone who has tried over 25 different countries military MREs....Polish ones are in the top 3 of best ones...and they still make their own homemade main meals, unlike many of the other countries who now use commercialized companies to supply the main meals (3 different companies provide the meals for over 15 different countries now)... you definitely started off trying the international ones the right way...

The crackers, called "Panzerwaffles" are actually dual purpose. They're to be eaten, and also can be used to cut steel sheets.

Brave one you are, for trying "PanzerWaffle". We use it in hand to hand combat if enemy is to close and you have no knife.

"Suchary", pronounced as [soo'Harry] means literally "dry biscuits". It comes from the word "suchy" [soo'hee] which basically means "dry". Very traditional biscuits here in Poland. "Specjalne" [speh'cee'alneh] means "spacial". They are hard. They've always been that way as far as I can imagine and remember. They tend to be more salty (a bit) , sometimes with addition of some spices, but definitely not sweet. "Makaron" [ma'carron] means pasta indeed. "Makaron po bolońsku" [ma'carron poh ball'onscoo] literally means "pasta a'la Bolognese". "Malinowy" [malee'novee] is an adjective and comes from a noun "malina" (raspberry). Hey, no offense taken for mistakenly taking Polish for Czech 😉 The pronunciation I gave here is obviously as close as I can provide. In Polish the letter "w" is never pronounced as in the word "wood", but as in the word "very" 🙂 The letter "e" is never like in the word "Lee" but rather in the word "letter" (the first "e"). I hope it all tasted good, for an MRE of course 😉 The easiest way to tell the Polish language from the Czech language (by what's written) is that in Polish there's no diacritic signs such as "š" and "č" (those V-shaped additions on top). Instead, in Polish, we'd use two letters  "sz" and "cz". Both in Czech and Polish they are pronounced as "sh" / "tch" almost as in the words "shoot" or "perch" (or Czech! 😁). I loved your boot camp stories 👍 Damn, I'm hungry now 😁 The spam is called "mielonka" [myeh'lonkah] in Polish I guess from looking at it, and if it is what I think it is it is best to take it out of the can and use a knife to slice it and put it on those crackers. Then, they would go very well with sweet coffee ☕👍

"Konserwa tyrolska" shouldn't be heated up. You eat it cold.

SU -1 In jargon, soldiers jokingly "Pancerwafle". The addition of caraway has a beneficial effect on the digestive system and has vitamins: A, B6, C, E, Riboflavin, Niacin, Thiamine and Folic Acid .100g contains: 1615.9 kj / 386.2 kcal.

i love my polish friends. tough as nails, salt of the earth.

edit - for anyone who may not understand what salt of the earth means, it means you are hard working, good people

If somebody is curious:
"Malinowy" means "Raspberry" in Polish
"Suchary" means "Crakers"
"Specjalne" means "Special"

Hi, ex-polish military here :)
So,
- you got a fairly good menu (although hungarian gulash is by far the best),
- you got one vit. C and one coffee candy
- large zipper bag was usually used for water purification, but the tablets were in a larger 24h patrol ration,
- panzerwaffles are kinda legendary around here, You can replace teeth broken by them - with them,
- the raspberry instant drink is supposed to be drank with the straw while the bag is zipped,
- salt works great added to the flameless heater water,
- spam cans are the best ashtrays,
- the shortest recorded unit of time is the duration of xylithol chewing gums taste,
- the only purpose of the honey is to make everything sticky, also, for some reason it helped with the insect bites, perhaps someone knows why, I always added the honey to the heater pack, liquify it and used it to make the raspberry tea sweeter, sugar can give quite an energy punch during long marches
- the green plastic bag is made from a very thick plastic, which works great as a tinder (SORRY GRETA, DEAL WITH IT),
- I know it will sound a bit disgusting, but the wet wipes used as a toilet paper is the best thing that happened to the army since the beginning of time. No more japanese “itchybutty” syndrom

As a polish guy- im proud You call us czech and dont mind at all
Cheers to all slavic brothers.

Greetings from Poland! Really liked your video.  
The small meat package is something like a chopped pork / luncheon meat, you can heat it but it's usually eaten cold as a spread on bread / crackers.
You can buy the fruit drink "pellets" in a bigger package (at least in Poland), children often eat it as candy instead of making the drink, at least that's what we did :)
And not sure how it's usually in US, but when you check calorie content, it's often listed per 100g and not per package.

Greetings from Poland. Besides, Czechoslovakia has not existed as a single country since January 1, 1993. Since then, we have two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

"Suchary" is a kind of crackers and the name comes from "suchy" that means dry. Nothing common with sugar, saccharin. They should be eaten slowly, apart from other meals, through all day by scraping little by little with teeth. It gives catching taste and fed feeling. No jam, butter or dive into tea, it`s not bread or roll

The mint gums contain Xylitol, a sugar substitute that is effective against caries causing bacteria….

As a pole, it is so fun to watch you guys try to read polish writing and try to figure out what it's saying 😆 great review!

The Polish SR is a mighty fine ration. Try to get your hands on an SRG too, it's a 24hr.
Glad to see you eat a new one, for once.

lot of fun, when someone is trying to read foreign names in own language, here polish names by english speakers :D

Czechoslovakia? Dear God guys im begging you 😅...FYI theres no country like Czechoslovakia from 1992. Great video keep going. BTW Polish MRE have 20 main dish kinds... try those which are more traditional 🙂

P.s
Next time soak those crackers in coffe or tea 😄

As a Pole I love to watch these kind of videos where you taste our stuff :D

Much respect from Poland. Thank you for your service!