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


It was a box of Masa harina dated 12-23-1987. But I don't know if it
was in the cupboard or the freezer; you mentioned it in a freezer
thread. (I was remembering the meatball mix, but that was just 1999)

Bob