In article .com>,
"Dan Goodman" > wrote:

> Dimitri wrote:
>
> >
> > "Gill Smith" > wrote in message
> > et...
> > > Seeing money's about to become worthless, what foods should we
>
> Dried beans last a long time. Back when misc.survivalism was actually
> about survivalism, someone there wrote about cooking dried beans which
> were about ten years past their pull date. They took a _long_ time to
> cook.

This is why soaking works...

Iirc, there were some 1,200 year old beans from an Aztec tomb that some
college students were able to germinate?
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