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Default what's the oldest thing you've thawed and eaten?

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> zxcvbob > wrote:
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>>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

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> 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



Nope that's not it. I remember you posting a message here about
something that had been in your freezer from back in the 80's. Now I
gotta go see if I can find it, or if I just imagined it.

Bob