[Kartographer]

Canned food is one of the best value for your dollar you can get for your food storage, but you need to monitor it. I myself recently went through my storage and found 3 cans of Spam two cans were sollowen and the third sound like an oil can when squezzed all three can were lest than a year old. I sent information from the cans to Hormel and they sent me coupons to replace the bad cans. Thunbs up for Hormel on standing behind their product!!

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[ansel12]

Which version of Spam was it?

[ansel12]

I have had so many cans of tomato products like tomato paste, or crushed tomatoes that spew when I open them, that I just started using them anyway, so far I haven’t gotten sick.

[ClaytonP]

[yarddog]

I had a jar of Kraft mayonnaise go bad on me a couple of days ago. It was just reaching it’s “use by” date. I first noticed it did not taste quite right so I smelled it and sure enough it was bad. The thing which makes me a bit concerned is that my refrigerator is very cold. I had used about two thirds of it.

I called their toll free number and they are sending me a coupon. Still it should not have happened.

[bigheadfred]

sollowen

stealing that for my book

[discostu]

And watch out for acidic foods. I’ve had sauerkraut eat its way out. Kind of smelly.

[Godzilla]

[Yaelle]

It was probably filled with botulism, so rub the contents into your wrinkles.

Jk.

[Tijeras_Slim]

At training camp for officers before WWI, my Great Grandfather noticed that the canned foods looked familiar from his experience in the Spanish American War (and they hadn’t been new then), so he got some guys to load up a belt fed machine gun (Colt Potato Digger?) and proceed to the nearby wetlands where he proceeded to hose down about 500 ducks at dawn.

[IYAS9YAS]

Hey Kart, being at 6,000' in altitude probably contributes a little to that. I know everything I open here wants to explode.

My dog's ball stays nice an inflated here. When we visit the folks in Idaho, the ball tends to go a bit flat. The first time it happened, I thought she'd finally punctured it, but we brought it back home and it firmed back up.

[vetvetdoug]

I lived off of rations (1974-1977) that were canned in the late 1940's before, during, and after the Korean War. As a veterinary food inspector we had to statistically sample and evaluate rations in Class 9 storage and either pass or fail them. I always had plenty of cigarettes, crackers, coffee, sugar and P-38s on hand. The citrus items were just about all condemned in the storage but the meat, cakes, crackers, and dehydrated items passed the wholesomeness tests about 90% of the time.

In 1983 I had the honor of condemning the water, crackers, and canned foods stored in fallout shelters in and about Knoxville, Tennessee, that were stored before 1953. Even then some of them were still wholesome and edible.

[Arrowhead1952]

We had some tomato products go bad as well. I decided to get rid of several sliced tomato cans and several tomato sauce cans as well. Only one was swollen, but all had the use by date within a couple of weeks.

[clearcarbon]

I don’t believe the newer food containers, including cans, last as long as they use to. I’ve saved a few intact pop cans in which the contents leaked through the seal. About half the distilled water jugs I’ve purchased leak before their “Best by” date. Some of the house brand peanut butter jars I’ve bought recently have had a very short shelf life.

[Starstruck]

I recently decided to replace my long term tomato sauce needs with powdered tomatoes. My wife and I prep for the our children and grandchildren in mind and have a tough time rotating all the tomato sauce requirements.

[bgill]

They aren’t packaging foods as well as they used to. Some cans now have pull off tops like coke cans. Some are as thin as coke cans. Some are paper with little bits of tape securing the opening. Some come in plastic tubs with foil tops and others in foil bags which can easily be punctured or come unglued. I got some foil bagged tuna for free or I wouldn’t have brought it home. It isn’t going into the pantry because I don’t trust something punching a hole in it. Despite rotation for expiration dates, this is going to be eaten first.