The Gun Counter

If you liked the cactus-diving idiot-

Here's a guy who drinks a 20-year old bottle of Crystal Pepsi.
I don't think corn syrup ages like wine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwibPdEOVk

When we moved house last year, I had divided stuff in the pantry/cellar into "to-move" and "to-bin" items. The movers helped themselves to some bottles of old, old Coke, not knowing they were on the to-bin side. The results were explosive and predictable.

I couldn't help a little laugh, since had they asked me, I would have given them cold drinks fresh from the fridge. The fact that I heard the first of my bottles of beer being surreptitiously emptied around 08.00 hadn't helped my mood (or their tip) either...

My brother-in-law retired from Coca-Cola and has a rather extensive collection going back some 50 years. He and I were drinking some of Adolphus Coors product the other day, and I asked him how old some of his collection could be before it was considered un-drinkable. He didn't know if soda had a shelf life, but didn't recommend opening any of the bottles in his collection.

I watched. After the swallows, I just HAD to see it through. I've got some 1980's dehydrated LRRP rats....Hmmmmnn, I wonder....

Got a bicentennial bottle of coke and a can of Billy Beer. Don't think I would care to try either after all this time.

Old Grafton wrote:I watched. After the swallows, I just HAD to see it through. I've got some 1980's dehydrated LRRP rats....Hmmmmnn, I wonder....

I still have some Vietnam-era C-Rats out in the garage, but they're probably STILL edible - which is FRIGHTENING on its own!!!

308Mike wrote:

Old Grafton wrote:I watched. After the swallows, I just HAD to see it through. I've got some 1980's dehydrated LRRP rats....Hmmmmnn, I wonder....

I still have some Vietnam-era C-Rats out in the garage, but they're probably STILL edible - which is FRIGHTENING on its own!!!

Or at least no less edible than they originally were...

As long as they're not Ham and Motherfuckers, I'd be game to try the C-Rats. You do know that the hardtack issued during the Span-Am War of 1898 were produced for the Civil War?

308Mike wrote:I still have some Vietnam-era C-Rats out in the garage, but they're probably STILL edible - which is FRIGHTENING on its own!!!

Rod wrote:As long as they're not Ham and Motherfuckers, I'd be game to try the C-Rats. You do know that the hardtack issued during the Span-Am War of 1898 were produced for the Civil War?

While going through basic training at Fort Knox in 1973 I found myself in the field, exploring the gourmet qualities of the standard C ration. Sitting in a foxhole, overlooking a small river valley, I was eating something called Pork Patties in Gravy when my drill sergeant wandered by. As Drill Sergeants do, he verbally attacked my military demeanor, casting aspersions on my general heritage, then opined that I'd probably die, not in heroic combat but from eating Pork Patties in Gravy. He recommended that I finish eating, then check the date stamp on the bottom of the can. I did so, and learned that that can had been sealed and boxed in 1944.

I took great solace from the fact that the pig in that can had been dead longer than I had been alive. Yet he continued to serve those long years sitting in a warehouse, then moved to Fort Knox, yet to sustain a poor, honesick boot sitting in a foxhole.

Back in 1970, I was stationed at NCS Kodiak and living in a WW2-era barracks. The chow-hall was a half-mile away, and rather than walk through the snow and wind I turned to eating C-Rats that were sold by the commissary. They cost me fifty-nine cents per meal and I collected dozens of them. Somewhere along the line, I discovered that the meals were WW2 surplus with hand-painted cans and little packs of dry unfiltered cigarettes. My favorite was the ham-and-egg breakfast; the pigment in the ham invaded the eggs and made the whole thing look like strawberry pudding. My room-mate smoked all the cigarettes.