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Default Stocking a bomb shelter


Puester wrote:
>
> Lou Ravi wrote:
> > Burt Morgan wrote:
> >> With Russia spending many -billions- on rearmament and new nuclear
> >> weapons, I think it's time to clean out and make good the bomb
> >> shelter so that it's ready for the inevitable nuclear war. I'm now
> >> restocking it with new food.
> >>

>
> Isn't the stuff you stocked in the 50s still good?
> Granted that food tastes have changed, but the
> old stuff should be as good today as it was then....
> And just about as useful.


No. Figure a max of 10yrs shelf life for the most shelf stable items.

>
> (If civilization DOES come to an end, do you really
> want to be around to see it?)


Yes, absolutely.