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During the Men's Health Retreat (May 15thish) I was in Oklahoma visiting my brother. While there (on the army base) for breakfast there were Hilltop Hearth Thaw & Serve Plain Bagels. It is all wrapped in a single serving wrapper, pre-sliced. No one ate it so I grabbed it for the road, just in case. A week later, I went to throw it out but it was still fine looking, same thing even later. It has now been a month and a half and it still has no mold. JP thinks it is a little harder but I don't agree.
It isn't vacuum sealed or anything, I can squeeze the wrapper and air comes out. How is this thing still edible looking? How was this thing made? Am I the only one freaked out by this kind of stuff?
I couldn't find out anything on the net about this kind of thing. Any bets on how long it will last?
This reminds me of Morgan Spurlock's experiment in "Super Size Me!" where he put various McDonald's foods in bell jars and left them to decompose. After more than a month, the fries were dried out, but no mold or other organic breakdown had occurred. (I believe this section was cut from the regular version but it's in the DVD extras).
Seeing as this is from military rations, I'd bet it's designed to be shelf-stable indefinitely. Probably the laboratories at the factory had a military contract to develop this kind of stuff.
I'd bet it lasts at least a year!
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Originally posted by RacerBill: This reminds me of Morgan Spurlock's experiment in "Super Size Me!" where he put various McDonald's foods in bell jars and left them to decompose. After more than a month, the fries were dried out, but no mold or other organic breakdown had occurred. (I believe this section was cut from the regular version but it's in the DVD extras).
Seeing as this is from military rations, I'd bet it's designed to be shelf-stable indefinitely. Probably the laboratories at the factory had a military contract to develop this kind of stuff.
I'd bet it lasts at least a year!
I saw that movie and I wonder why he didn't include that in it. It really shows what most American's are putting in their bodies: processed trash.
These are regular people food, not military food. It is like going to a continental buffet at a hotel and there are individually wrapped foods to take back to your room. This just happened to be on a base.
I have always been a big proponent of not eating processed food and this has really convinced me.
Egg & Cheese wrapped in a hashbrown? EEWWWWWW! There were hard boiled eggs, peeled and wrapped - now I wish I had grabbed one to see how long it could last.
Nothing on the wrapper about the tons of preservatives it must have?
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