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zxcvbob > wrote:

> That's a tough one to answer because I routinely dig *something* out of
> the deep freezer that is older than anything mentioned in this thread so
> far, and pay little attention to it.
>
> I know I've had frozen pesto that was over 10 years old. It was still
> good. And I probably have frozen chickens in the bottom of the chest
> freezer that old. And some frozen peppers from 1997... I recently
> thawed and made emergency chicken soup with a game hen that I had bought
> sometime in the 1990's; I didn't look at the label to see when it was
> packaged. It was in it's original shrink wrap, and it was still perfect
> when I thawed it.
>
> I think Barb recently posted about thawing and cooking something that
> was about 20 years old, but I might be mistaken.
>
> I'm trying to empty the freezers faster than I'm restocking them, but
> I'm not very good at rotating the stock. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Bob

Man, we take our shots, don't we. Friends can do that. :-)
The meat in question was only 3-1/2 years old and it was cooked and
frozen in its cooking broth. :-P
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-Barb
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