On Tue, 10 Oct 95 22:32:28 CDT thom fitzpatrick said:
>When I was a kid, our next door neighbor, Wendell, a bus guy, looked just like
>St. Muir, (who actually got me into busses) gave me 2 tins of "survival
>biscuits" dated 1956.  I actually tried some.  The most rancid stuff I ever
>ate!  They came in big 5 gallon tins...

whoa, now! THAT was the civil defense stuff ... that crud was packed away
in schools and public buildings back in the "cold war" ...those biscuits and
the sugar-candy stuff was TERRIBLE!!! (we busted open a 5 gallon tin of the
stuff once :) ... i guess it was designed to make you think that radiation
poisoning was something to look forward to. :(  anyway, the army/navy/marine
stuff was MUCH better than the Civil Defense Emergency Rations.

joel
("is it safe to come out now?")