"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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An elderly neighbour has kindly given us a couple of cans.

One contains 4 Goblin "Hamburgers With Onions and Gravy", with a 49p
price sticker still on it.



I used to find it amusing that Aramy rations have no manufactured or sell by
date on any of the 24 Hr ration packs.

There was chocolate bars that when you opened has a white coating all over
the bar ... same with packets of Rolos .... and surpringlky for UK army
ration packs, much of the detail was in Arabic ... sell by date was always
blank.

On 03/11/11 17:17, Rick Hughes wrote:

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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An elderly neighbour has kindly given us a couple of cans.

One contains 4 Goblin "Hamburgers With Onions and Gravy", with a 49p
price sticker still on it.



I used to find it amusing that Aramy rations have no manufactured or
sell by date on any of the 24 Hr ration packs.

There was chocolate bars that when you opened has a white coating all
over the bar ... same with packets of Rolos .... and surpringlky for UK
army ration packs, much of the detail was in Arabic ... sell by date was
always blank.




White bloom on chocolate is usually a sign of it having been put in a
refrigerator.


--
djc

In message
"Rick Hughes" wrote:

...
An elderly neighbour has kindly given us a couple of cans.

One contains 4 Goblin "Hamburgers With Onions and Gravy", with a 49p
price sticker still on it.


A few years ago the Horizon programme features a tin of bully beef
that was 103 years old. After exhaustive tests on the can and then
then contents the Professor in charge of the project tasted it.
His comment was that the flavour was excellent and he suffered no ill
effects. Dates on tins are a soporific to the nanny state brigade.

If the tins are in good condition, especially the inside then the
contents will ok.

--
John Bryan

In article ,
John Bryan wrote:
In message
"Rick Hughes" wrote:

...
An elderly neighbour has kindly given us a couple of cans.

One contains 4 Goblin "Hamburgers With Onions and Gravy", with a 49p
price sticker still on it.


A few years ago the Horizon programme features a tin of bully beef
that was 103 years old. After exhaustive tests on the can and then
then contents the Professor in charge of the project tasted it.
His comment was that the flavour was excellent and he suffered no ill
effects. Dates on tins are a soporific to the nanny state brigade.

If the tins are in good condition, especially the inside then the
contents will ok.

on the other hand, in Collector's World some years ago the panel tasted the
contents of a bottle of 100 year old wine. Clement Freud (one of the
panelists) said "I don't like drinking mushroom ketchup."

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From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

On Nov 3, 5:17 pm, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:

I used to find it amusing that Aramy rations have no manufactured or sell by
date on any of the 24 Hr ration packs.

There was chocolate bars that when you opened has a white coating all over
the bar ... same with packets of Rolos .... and surpringlky for UK army
ration packs, much of the detail was in Arabic ... sell by date was always
blank.

There were also the famous Iranian Mars bars. Arrsepedia;

"Originally produced as part of a contract for the Shah of Iran in
the late 1970s, these Mars Bars were never delivered and, instead,
made their way into Compo 24 hour packs where they were to be found
well into the early 90s, by which time they had developed an outer
layer of fine white powder. In 1988, one of these Mars Bars was fed to
chickenpunk's dog by a Royal Marine Captain in HQ 1 Bde in Tidworth,
causing it to fart so virulently that the entire G2 office had to be
temporarily evacuated.

Seen and eaten mid-late 90s, complete with white dusting"

40 year old tinned cake was edible, allegedly.

http://www.mreinfo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3162

On Nov 3, 10:55*pm, Tim Streater wrote:
Tins used to be soldered dint they (perhaps they still are). Did that
solder include lead and did that matter?

--
Tim

Not for a very long time. Franklin's 1845 lost expedition to discover
the North Wets passage took soldered tinned provisions, which may
have been a cause of the deaths of the crews. Exhumed bodies had very
high levels of lead.

On Nov 3, 10:44*pm, charles wrote:
In article ,
* *John Bryan wrote:

In message
* * * * * "Rick Hughes" wrote:
...
An elderly neighbour has kindly given us a couple of cans.

One contains 4 Goblin "Hamburgers With Onions and Gravy", with a 49p
price sticker still on it.

A few years ago the Horizon programme features a tin of bully beef
that was 103 years old. After exhaustive tests on the can and then
then contents the Professor in charge of the project tasted it.
His comment was that the flavour was excellent and he suffered no ill
effects. Dates on tins are a soporific to the nanny state brigade.
If the tins are in good condition, especially the inside then the
contents will ok.

on the other hand, in Collector's World some years ago the panel tasted the
contents of a bottle of 100 year old wine. *Clement Freud (one of the
panelists) said "I don't like drinking mushroom ketchup."

somewhat different to canned goods though


NT