Posted on 02/14/2014 1:30:35 PM PST by Kartographer
They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat.
Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations — known as meals ready to eat, or MREs — replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.
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Sorry, not enough life span. Think Mountain House freeze dried goods that lasts 30 years if stored correctly - just add water. If you want it cooked, look at Sun Oven for those who have the Sun. If no water, you're going to die any way. So what's the point?
Right. You "preppers" out in rural areas MAY have the water. Let me ask you "preppers" something: If the world goes crazy nuke, or comet/meteor, or Yellowstone blows, do you really want to survive in a world that is destroyed. I say kiss your loved ones good-bye and take it like a man. We all die.
Personally, I wouldn't want to deal with a post apolictic world where the few are roaming hoards to victimize the few.
But then, just depends on how bad the situation is. Think 870, 9mm, and revolver. I'm not afraid to defend against riots and other situtations, but the "preppers" who see an apocalypse are fooling themselves. They will never have enough stores to last through a nuclear bomb winter or a large meteror strike.
Just keep focused on our own growing tyrannical Fedgov. Think how to deal with them.
Some of the best MREs I’ve had are halal from the Indian Military menu. Also, the veggie US MREs are quite tasty. I haven’t tried Kosher yet.
/johnny
An old trick used by frequent flyers was to order Kosher meals.
Ain't gonna happen, I have IBS.......
It will last for three years?
Yes, but does it have an exit strategy?
Hell of a FReepername....🔥
And ham & eggs was the best of the C-rats
at least my “favorite”It looked kinda strange tho.
Better than being hungry anyway.
Think those things were made for Korean War troops.
I could open a can with that little p38 faster
than with a electric opener today.
C-rat ham & eggs w/Tabasco weren’t so bad. Heated w/C-4 was even better.
Spaghetti/meatballs in the large can were good. Pound cake was to be fought over. Ham & MoFo’s, uh...not so much.
If you could locate LRP rations, that was good eatin’. The original freeze dried.
Later MRE’s: much much better than 1980’s MREs which stood for “Meals Rejected by Ethiopians”.
Now that I’m retired, I cook w/fresh food every night. Only wrapper I open now is a 3 Musketeers.
Having worked as a research assistant on a small part of an army project to prolong the shelf life of foods, I can pretty reliably guess that the primary reason for the unrefrigerated long shelf life is...irradiation. Worked well in the early 70s, is still used without any advertising in some chicken processing plants, and I sure has been perfected.
Man, I can hardly wait to tuck into a heaping serving of ham and lima bean pizza...
Looks like Stouffers French Bread Pizza on a Matzo Cracker.
Word going around my battalion at the time was that Ralston-Purina made the chopped eggs and ham and they did it without cleaning the vats from making dog food. Of all the C's chopped eggs and ham and ham and lima beans were my favorites when sprinkled liberally with tabasco. I never had any trouble trading the other stuff for these two. Also the mess hall would occasionally make scrambled eggs out of powdered eggs. Tabasco made them edible.
And pound cake really was the best. It created a dilemma though. Enjoy it yourself or see all the stuff others would trade to get it?
BTW, the USS Midway Museum canteen has chipped beef on toast. That took me back . . .
But that is special circumstances. (And you hope, rarely!)
I just want a decent pizza to start with the process.
The article is not clear (to me) if the pizza is specially made, or the packaging alone on any pizza will preserve the pizza for three years.
Perhaps not an "end of the world", but perhaps a social collapse like the Argentine Great Depression (1998-2002), or the German Weimar Republic economic collapse after WWI.
Widespread bank failures, a wipeout of assets, EBT going "Tilt!" -- something like that happening in the US would cause an social explosion, with the urban underclass rioting, widespread unemployment, food shortages, etc.
It might take a year or two or three before things got back to normal. In the meanwhile, preparations could reduce your family's suffering, and reduce the probability of being killed by desperate criminals.
I don't store anything I don't like to eat anyway, so three years is plenty. Anything will be eaten by then, and new stocks stored. Of course MREs are too pricy for me anyway, and I don't expect I'll be stocking up on this.
Our mess hall served chipped beef on toast
about twice a week it seemed like.
Stuffed peppers at least once a week.
They were pretty darn good.
Ummmmm Pound Cake, mix some sugar packet w cream packet / with a little H2o and you have icing for your pound cake!
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