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US military creates indestructible sandwich
New Scientist ^
| 10 April 02
| Duncan Graham-Rowe
Posted on 04/10/2002 2:39:53 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: SamAdams76
12 - "Now if only we had a "pocket" beer to wash it all down. "
Actually, about 10 or 15 years ago the japanese invented dried, instant booze. Just add water and you got an alcoholic beverage drink, cocktail. It seems They developed some way to encapsulate the alcohol, and make it like 'tiny little time pills', pour a dried packet into a glass and add water, which 'melted' the coatings and freed the alcohol.
But after a brief flurry, and a campaign by MADD, in addition to various do gooders and the booze companies, it got 'buried'.
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posted on
04/10/2002 5:52:28 PM PDT
by
XBob
To: aculeus
It seems to me that it was about a year or 2 ago that one guy went to and old camp site he had been to as a boy in the mid-1950's, and when digging a garbage hole found his old garbage from nearly 50 years before, including a normal, apparently undamaged hot dog.
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posted on
04/10/2002 5:59:09 PM PDT
by
XBob
Indestructible sandwich? My mom should sue for theft of patent.
To: XBob
I remember reading a remarkably similar article in the newspaper. This group of people was digging at a sanitary landfill (for what purpose I'm not aware}, when they came across half a hot dog. Their explanation was it the preservatives it contained.
To: aculeus
Is that a sandwich in your pocket......?
To: aculeus
Super heros for American heros!
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posted on
04/11/2002 12:42:00 PM PDT
by
JAWs
To: aculeus
I see the Army hasn't changed any. High tech shite is still shite.
Thank God I'm a Navy man. Lord knows, the food on the ship wasn't good, but at least it wasn't pepperoni and humectant. Yuk...
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posted on
04/11/2002 12:55:09 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
To: seamole
This article has been indexed to the following Bump List folders: cheesewatch: Inane/Incoherent posts, usually vanities.
I am profoundly insulted. :-(
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: XBob
i saw that in alien resurection.
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:10:52 PM PDT
by
ffusco
To: LibWhacker
Now to figure out how to store cereal in milk without it getting soggy.
You just need some of that " non nutritive cereal varnish " developed by Clark Griswold of "Vacation" fame...
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:11:43 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: aculeus
which they added substances called humectants, which stop water leaking out. The humectants not only prevent water from the fillings soaking into the bread, but also limit the amount of moisture available for bacterial growth. Sounds like a 'Depends' diaper.
The sandwiches are then sealed, without pasteurisation, in laminated plastic pouches that also include sachets of oxygen-scavenging chemicals. A lack of oxygen helps prevent the growth of yeast, mould and bacteria
Seriously, isn't that asking for an anaerobic bacteria aka. Botulism?
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:12:36 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: SamAdams76
To: aculeus
Will they issue the laxative in the same packet or separately?
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:22:11 PM PDT
by
Junior
To: aculeus
The Navy's had an indestructible sandwich for years: "Horsec**k and cheese," a.k.a. bologna with a slice of American!
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:28:06 PM PDT
by
quark
To: aculeus
Back in 1983, MRE's were just being introduced. We had a 5 day op at Camp LeJeune. We had C-Rats part of the time and MRE's part of the time. The last night the colonel came by and gave a short talk about our upcoming deployment to Okinawa. Afer the colonel left, the company gunnery sergeant stood up said he had enough C-rats to issue every Marine two meals.
They cheered! Bottom definitely looks like up when you have to cheer C-rats.
Walt
FYI,
Discovered fellow church member last fall was the comptroller at the major MRE manufacturer for the DoD. Been after him ever since to let me buy a truckload (or two) of new production MRE Entree's for re-sale. Half just came in yesterday and the rest comes in tonight. If interested, see/read...
www.ki4u.com/mre.htm -Shane
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posted on
04/11/2002 1:50:59 PM PDT
by
shanec
To: B-Chan
Humectant, wasn't that the stuff on Monica's blue dress?
or was that presidue?
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posted on
04/11/2002 7:34:01 PM PDT
by
tet68
To: LibWhacker
"Now to figure out how to store cereal in milk without it getting soggy. "
There is a Nobel Prize waiting for the person who figures that one out.
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