EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES

摘要

When food supplies have been designed and manufactured for long-term storage and have been stored right, their usable life may be longer than most people suppose. I have eaten Civil Defense survival biscuits (the ones that looked like po' boy graham crackers) that were more than 40 years old. They tasted a little flat, and although they were not the best thing I've ever eaten, they were the best thing I had to eat at the time-and for them I was thankful. In the Army in the early 1960s, every Thursday cooks would cycle through a dinner's worth of WWII canned rations, and nobody ever got sick. Well, they might have if they hadn't opted to eat at the snack bar or in town on Thursdays, but you get the idea: the WWII "rats" were still edible.