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1 posted on 07/29/2011 11:31:42 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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I don't buy the Coca Cola statement. I bought a bunch of carton of Coke after they announced that Classic Coke would be replaced with New Coke. Within a month, the (non-diet) Coke had started to ferment. Within two months, it was undrinkable.
2 posted on 07/29/2011 11:39:17 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are dumber than soup.)
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Twinkies made the list? I didn’t think they COME with an expiration date. ;-)


5 posted on 07/29/2011 11:43:21 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Financial Repression.......it answers a lot of questions.....read about it on FinancialSense.com.)
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Coca Cola

Old fashioned Coca-Cola is the ultimate bomb shelter beverage. If left unopened, Heslin says a can of coke will take “an extraordinarily long time” to expire. Diet sodas, on the other hand, expire much more quickly because they contain artificial sweeteners that degrade with heat and time.


6 posted on 07/29/2011 11:43:21 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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Beer doesn’t last very long either with a good taste. If you’ve bought several hundred cases for your ‘bug out’ location, be sure to rotate it out at least every 3 months.

Whiskey would probably last much longer.


10 posted on 07/29/2011 11:50:24 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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I have a gallon of maple syrup that has been in the fridge for at least 5 years and it still tastes great.


11 posted on 07/29/2011 11:52:20 AM PDT by lucky american (I'm tired.)
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Spam has to be #1 on my survival list.


12 posted on 07/29/2011 11:53:16 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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‘The only exception is if the can is dented or rusty, as that indicates the can has been punctured at some point, which speeds up the spoilage process.’——

That’s not true either.
A dent does not mean it’s been ‘punctured’. A bulging or leaking can may indicate it’s been punctured, and a rusty can.. Who would eat from a rusty can? It’s clearly either been in wetness, leaking etc. I don’t know of anyone who would want lockjaw, food poisoning etc.


13 posted on 07/29/2011 11:53:25 AM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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I once read a story that honey found in a ancient Egyptian tomb was still edible. True or not I don't know but I'm sure I didn't dream it.
14 posted on 07/29/2011 11:54:22 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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This article doesn’t talk about vacuum sealing or temperature or light either..

Practically irrelevant article.


17 posted on 07/29/2011 11:55:23 AM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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Hostess Twinkees!

Good for 25 years!


20 posted on 07/29/2011 11:59:30 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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In the military in Germany, I seem to remember eating a K-ration or two left over from WWII.....this was 1970...


27 posted on 07/29/2011 12:09:25 PM PDT by Gaffer
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We began our preperation about 18 months ago when we realized how bad things were getting. We’ve always planted a garden and done some home canning but we’ve gone into overdrive the last 1.5 year.
We now have about 9-12 months of food stored which we rotate to keep fresh. Factory canned goods will last about 2 years, home canned food will last as long as the seal remains unbroken. We planted 3 gardens this year and, dispite a historic drought, have gone through over 300 canning jars so far. We’ve even canned chicken that we raised, the deer I shot last year, and some older beef from the frezzer.
As a source of reference material I’d recommend “Backwoods Home Magazine”, they’re what “Mother Earth News” was before they went environazi.
It can be done quite quickly, however, be prepared to defend what you store or keep it a closely guarded secret. When things implode there will be those who will try to take what you’ve stored if they know it’s there.


28 posted on 07/29/2011 12:12:09 PM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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Uncooked rice....keep in cool and dry and dark area, will last forever. Had a batch I forgot about for more than 5 years, and when cooked, still tasted decent. This is why this is the staple of more than a billion good folks across Asia.


29 posted on 07/29/2011 12:12:28 PM PDT by DecentAmerican
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Fruit cake.


31 posted on 07/29/2011 12:20:47 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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Don’t know about the “frilly” stuff like Twinkies and soft drinks, but my brother, in World War II, in 1945, while sitting in a foxhole on Okinawa, opened a C-Ration can of some kind of chicken concoction, and while “dining” he perused the printing on the can. It read: Product of Omaha, Nebraska 1929.


33 posted on 07/29/2011 12:28:23 PM PDT by Tucker39
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In the 70's, my friend and I went to a flea market where we bought a large lot of various WWII surplus C rations in olive drab cans. At the time that made them about 30 to 35 years old. We ate them several times when we went camping.

Insane, I know, but, no ill effects. The varieties I recall were; spaghetti and meat sauce, canned hamburger, chicken and noodles, peaches and for a snack, crackers, candy and jam. The crackers were like English style biscuits and tasted like an old warehouse. Those did make me gag as I recall.

35 posted on 07/29/2011 12:31:44 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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If there is an item in our fridge that is green and otherwise unidentifiable, it’s usually very old meat or very new cheese.


39 posted on 07/29/2011 12:44:48 PM PDT by C Lee Tolindo
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Every house has food in the pantry that has been there for weeks if not months, but according to food experts, you may want to think twice before throwing those items out. Many common food products last far longer than you might think.

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Every house has food in the pantry that has been there for weeks if not months, but according to food experts, you may want to think twice before throwing those items out. Many common food products last far longer than you might have been conditioned to think thanks to the companies wishing to sell more product by putting on expiration dates.

57 posted on 07/29/2011 1:58:09 PM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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Honey will last forever..

If it starts crystalizing you just need to warm it up.


58 posted on 07/29/2011 2:16:24 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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I’ve had a carton of Dannon live culture strawberry yogurt that was a year past the expiration date. It was still great. It had been at about 35F in the back of my fridge unopened all that time. Of course, acidophilus is a good preservative anyway.


59 posted on 07/29/2011 2:18:53 PM PDT by aruanan
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