Russian Emercom IRP

[Synthpeter]

I think and hope this really is an Emercom IRP.
It's got the same blue colour like all the other Emercom IRPs but it actually doesn't say Emercom or have their logo anywhere on the bag.
Guess it's just how it is.

Short review: Way too much fat in the main entrees to be enjoyed fully for a lazy indoor reviewer like me, but then I'm not in the intended target group either.
I can imagine they are fantastic for someone desperate for calories and energy. That's not to say they were bad, quite the opposite actually. An amazing amount of REAL beef in there, just delicious. It's just the fat saturation that I felt was a bit too much in the end. The Ikra (not caviar, but vegetable "mash") had a fresh and juicy root vegetable flavour.
Crackers were.. the most boring crackers I ever had in any ration (and ever in my life I think) but with the spreads they were nice (thanks to the spreads of course).
The raspberry beverage was amazing, though very sweet. Real sugar though. Good stuff.
The whole video got a bit longer than I hoped for, weighing in at just over 40 minutes, but I was still trying to be very aggressive with the editing and I wanted to keep it to one video instead of splitting it.

Blablabla, no photos, here's the video:

[sourwes]

As someone who has eaten ALOT of IRPs(my favorite ration), I can assure you Your Emercom (Russian FEMA) ration is indeed genuine. All my new cases are identical to yours and have the embossed bags. The ones with best-by 2017 and earlier were slightly darker with stick on labels.

Older version

The contents are pretty much the same with some minor differences. Yes, the IRPs contain a lot of fat calories but they use fat and salt as preservatives instead of a lot of chemical additives. Gives them a more home style quality and flavor, but a shorter shelf life. And in an emergency situation, you want all the calories you can get. They are also slightly heavier at 2 kilos as opposed to 1.92 for the older ones. And calorie count is higher.

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed the review. In my humble opinion, on a cost per calorie and quality basis, the IRP is one of the finest rations on the market.

[thortof]

Fine review Peter

[SNiiP3R]

You read pretty well in Russian, and almost with no accent. Where did you learn to read cyrillic ?
Nice review by the way!

[Synthpeter]

Thanks guys.
I agree the IRP rations seem more like "home-made" and natural.

You read pretty well in Russian, and almost with no accent. Where did you learn to read cyrillic ?
Nice review by the way!

Thanks My girlfriend is from Bulgaria and while we've been together since 2004 I haven't bothered trying to learn the language, though I did at least try to learn the alphabet.
Like most languages that share a common alphabet, there are minor variations. Bulgarian vs Russian is no exception. They're similar enough for me to be able to barely "read", and not understand anything
So most of the time I can try to pronounce the words but I don't really know what I'm saying unless it's similar to a word in a language I know (i.e. Swedish and English basically)
Obviously I was using Google Translate a lot

I think it's interesting to find those words, such as the "Farsh" in Russian vs the Swedish "Färs"
Also noticed the word "Galeta" (crackers) in Russian is almost identical to the Spanish "Galleta" (though not in pronounciation) printed on their crackers.