Posted: 5/1/2012 10:05:21 PM EDT
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When it comes to potatoes, I usually don't eat mashed. At home it's either baked and loaded with spices, occassionally I will splurge with bleu cheese or the like, or sliced to go into the pot.
But I inherited a whole bunch of packets from a relative's estate (her kitchen) at the start of the century that have been sitting on the shelf. Normally, stuff that old I wouldn't bother with but I've been reading about NR-1 where in the 80's, they were still using rations from the Viet Nam War. Further, I recall horror stories from the late Cold War where if you were unlucky, they gave you rations from the Korean War (or was it WW I?). At any rate, they were still edible though there was a note about them being purple. So how long do those packets, of add water, milk, butter, last? ________________________________________________________________________ ("What's this crap supposed to be?"––Spunkmeyer "Cornbread, I think."––Frost, (w,stte), "Aliens") |
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: 
Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. _________________________________________________________________________________ ("Waste not, want not."––Gambit torturing the undertaker spy who reuses coffins, (w,stte), The New Avengers, "House of Cards") |
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I've eaten some of those that were over a year old. Didn't taste any different.
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. _________________________________________________________________________________ ("Waste not, want not."––Gambit torturing the undertaker spy who reuses coffins, (w,stte), The New Avengers, "House of Cards") |
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I've eaten some of those that were over a year old. Didn't taste any different.
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. Ahhhhh, but they aren't a year old. As I said in the OP, I inherited them at the beginning of the century and they had been in my Great Aunt's kitchen before then. The packet I looked at tonight was without an expiration date but it did have a copyright year of 2000. So we are probably at least talking about the Clinton administration. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ("She has invited me to dinner......do you think she intends to do me harm?"––1st Roman "I'd take my own wine, if I were you."––2nd Roman, (w,stte), "I, Cladius") |
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. _________________________________________________________________________________ ("Waste not, want not."––Gambit torturing the undertaker spy who reuses coffins, (w,stte), The New Avengers, "House of Cards") Oh shit those are my favorite! Send them on over to me for disposal. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. _________________________________________________________________________________ ("Waste not, want not."––Gambit torturing the undertaker spy who reuses coffins, (w,stte), The New Avengers, "House of Cards")  |
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list.
WHat? I'm suppose to cook it on a grill or "barbi"? Couldn't get one.....in these parts, they insist you show a boys card and I don't have one of those. 
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Quoted: I've got a simple rule for food. If in doubt, throw it out. Nothing in my pantry or fridge is worth getting sick over.  UGH!!! NO D! ... FRIGE!! You would be surprised at how many customers will ask me (after I fix their broken refrigerator) "So do you think my food is still good?" Really? You're mayonnaise is walking away, why don't you ask it? I have the SAME rule... "When in doubt, throw it out!" |
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. _________________________________________________________________________________ ("Waste not, want not."––Gambit torturing the undertaker spy who reuses coffins, (w,stte), The New Avengers, "House of Cards") Eh. Packets like that? Are they dehydrated? If not, no way I'd eat them. If they are, as long as they are still sealed, adding milk and water should be fine. |
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Brand new they are like 50 cents apiece. You are one cheap bastard. Well, it's more of a question of whether they go in the trash or go to the food shelter. My lack of ambition to even think about eating them for the past 12 years isn't likely to change in the near future. ____________________________________________________________________ ("........Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, If it's gettin' cold, reheat it......", lyrics, (w,stte), "Eat It" by Weird Al) |
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Quoted: Quoted: Brand new they are like 50 cents apiece. You are one cheap bastard. Well, it's more of a question of whether they go in the trash or go to the food shelter. My lack of ambition to even think about eating them for the past 12 years isn't likely to change in the near future. ____________________________________________________________________ ("........Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, If it's gettin' cold, reheat it......", lyrics, (w,stte), "Eat It" by Weird Al) If you wouldn't eat it yourself because you doubt the safety of it you probably shouldn't pass it on. |
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Is that really her? 
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Proper mashed potatoes don't come in a box. Peel some russets, boil, then mash with butter, garlic, and pepper along-side a nice steak. These aren't in a box, but a packet. Lots of packets. Like this: http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/44/1f/53/52237263-200x200-0-0.jpg Thank you for the recipe but as said, I don't usually eat them mashed at all. When I am out at a restaurant, then I may have a loaded baked potato with my steak, but at home, I usually cook steak in wine and soft cheese and serve it on a bed of rice.........and a decent bottle of wine. With at least one vote against botulism, I probably will dump the whole kit and kaboodle, but I was curious. Dumping food supplies is not very high on my list. _________________________________________________________________________________ ("Waste not, want not."––Gambit torturing the undertaker spy who reuses coffins, (w,stte), The New Avengers, "House of Cards")
Kind of what I thought when I read that. Box or packet, it ain't worth a case of food-poisoning over. Have a neighbor grill you some rare steaks or something, and try the above recipe with it. Properly done, it should taste like blood and fire. Mashed potatoes exist to absorb excess blood and fat so we don't have to lick the plate. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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They all went into the trash, along with the condiments packets, there was never any question on those, that were in the box.
The shelf box now holds recipe cards and my sunflower seeds for salads. __________________________________________________________________________ ("Down the drain!......With Les Nesman!"––Les cutting in his new annoucement too close to the last commercial, (w,stte), "WKRP") |