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08-11-2009, 06:32 PM
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Col. Henry Moak eats a C-Rat pound cake from 1969 at his retirement:
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08-11-2009, 06:36 PM
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ahah! Thats awesome. Kind of surprised it still was good
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08-11-2009, 06:41 PM
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Ah, that's amusing!
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08-11-2009, 09:27 PM
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I think it probably took all 40 years of sitting there for the toxicity of the many many preservatives in that pound cake to degrade to a level truly safe for normal human consumption.
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The "biscuit in a tin" could be used from the c-rations as a weapon! I remember sitting in a warm-up tent at the rifle ranges (1972) and looking at my c-rat box and noticing the date on it was the same year I was born (1952).
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08-11-2009, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Quickened  ahah! Thats awesome. Kind of surprised it still was good | Are you not making an assumption here?
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C-rat brains!
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08-11-2009, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Herald C-rat brains! | They were edible with the grape-jelly-in-a-tin.
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