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| Freethinker |
I found a couple of packets of Mountain House turkey tetrazzini in my camping supplies dating from well before we moved to our current house 24 years ago. I prepared them a couple of days ago and they were just as good and tasty as I remembered from my backpacking period. ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | ||
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Truth Seeker |
Good to hear. I have a few weeks worth of Mountain House just in case. I have a good amount of MREs that are at 10 years so I am thinking of giving them to a homeless shelter and replace with new ones once they are available again. NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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| Member |
This is a little bit ambiguous, were they "good and tasty" 24 years ago?  Ken | |||
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| Freethinker |
Yes, they were. Especially at the end of a 15 mile hike with a 40 pound pack.  ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Salt doesn't deteriorate. | |||
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delicately calloused |
Which is to say that after a long day of hiking with a 70 lb pack through brush, wasps, heat, cold, water, dust, sweat, blood and tears.........tastes pretty good. lol You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Old Turkey: Around Thanksgiving a few years ago, radio commentator Paul Harvey shared a true story of a woman and her frozen Thanksgiving turkey. The Butterball Turkey Company set up a telephone hotline to answer consumer questions about preparing holiday turkeys. One woman called to inquire about cooking a turkey that had been in the bottom of her freezer for 23 years. That's right—23 years. The Butterball representative told her the turkey would probably be safe to eat if the freezer had been kept below zero for the entire 23 years. But the Butterball representative warned her that even if the turkey was safe to eat, the flavor would probably have deteriorated to such a degree that she would not recommend eating it. The caller replied, "That's what I thought. We'll give the turkey to our church." Make someone else sick!   41 | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
I had a several dozen various back packing freeze dry from 1978 in my personal collection of 'stuff too good to throw away'..... Finally dug into the stash, even took some to the Freeze Dry factory outside Albany, for advise. They feigned lack of interest. Granted they were only 37 years past date. Factory advised against consuming. I carefully tasted a couple. Didn't like the taste of mine, contributed to the local dump transfer site. Now for them 20 year old MREs..... **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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| Non-Miscreant |
My dad had some 1950s C-rats. He smoked the cigs and said they were awful, but better than nothing. He offered me the cookies, but I wasn't interested. When we moved here in 1995 we had some Campbells soup that had gone out of code in the mid 1980s. I considered donating it to the local homeless shelter, hoping to lower the population. Those bums have so much alcohol in them it would purify sewage. But my wife tossed them before I could. My grandkids treat MREs as a treat. They like the opening ceremony and inspect each of the packages as a special event. Then trade stuff to each other. Gotta watch them closely or they'll get the cherry/blackberry cobbler before I can steal it. Unhappy ammo seeker | |||
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| Member |
WTF is wrong with people? If I am not willing to eat it myself, I'm certainly not going to give it to someone else!!!!!! They probably paid $8 for that Turkey 23 years ago. | |||
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| Freethinker |
And glad I am of it. When the halophobes come around after the pock o’lips, they won’t be after my stash. “Come on, Moonbeam, let’s find us some healthy food to beg for.” ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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| has a low threshold for bullshit  |
Good to know. Thanks for posting. | |||
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Drug Dealer |
I'm gonna try to work that into conversation next week. When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Corgis Rock |
I have some 25 year freeze dried food. It's all vegan as the meat would go bad. Actually not bad meals. Then there were some MREs I had. Opened the hot dog packet....no. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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