matty01

Anyone know what food has the longest shelf life of anything freely available?
thanks

eClaire

I would have thought Corned Beef (if that's what you're talking about!)

matty01

Yeah,foods available in the local Tesco etc...

gsm1

Fruit cocktail in syrup, I would have thought. It sits in the cupboard for ages and no one ever eats it!

Jerome

I would imagine anything tinned, eg: baked beans, soup etc.

Why on earth do you want to know? Are you setting up a nuclear bunker or something???

ChrisB

I think Claire is onto a winner there - just looked in the fridge whilst getting a beer and a tin of corned beef is stamped Dec 2008.

bluto22b

I once bought some Cheddar cheese and kept it in the fridge for 4 years. A mate gave me a block of it 5" x 9" from his dairy farm. I had to keep scraping off the greenish blue coloured mold but it tasted as fresh as a daisy underneath and had a bite to rival a rottweiler I discovered the phrase "matures with age" with that cheese

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Helen Mirren ?

matty01

NO,no,no,there's definitely not a huge state of the art nuclear bunker under the back of the garage by the wall,absolutley not ,so don't bother coming round if it all 'kicks off' 'cos my bunker is not there,and it's not packed with food,water and carbon dioxide scrubbers either....

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

You have Scrubbers, tell me more....

imlach

I've got a nuclear bunker in my back garden!!! Honest!
Sadly, it's not stocked up....

what would scooby do

buy a baby tortoise, cook it for 2 hours at a moderate temp when it is 120 years old

fast bloke

cooking sherry

eClaire

WWSD!

hedgehog

Honey.

Honest. They recovered some from the Pyramids that they considered was probably still OK to eat. It doesn't go off etc. though I think under some conditions it can rot or something.

Anyhow, honey is the stuff for your nuclear shelter.

fast bloke

[builds shelter with 1 pot of honey and 233419 cans of beer]


well how is the beer suposed to know?

S.B.

You buy corned beef

NotoriousREV

corned beef legs?

eClaire

Oi!!! Don't diss the corned beef, nasty as it is it tastes marvellous on a buttered roll!




And don't even start with this chav nonsense, ok!!

Poor Guy

good chocolate shouldnt go off. too much sugar for the mould or something. maybe the same as honey ?

Chip

Isnt that what grannies get when they've sat in front of the fire for too long.

Chip.

yoza

Bottled water.

Brit_in_Japan

Pickled stuff
Dried/dehydrated stuff (provided it's kept dry)

yoza

What ever is in my Mums fridge.

I always check the USE BY date, its all to do with her age, I think.

She has a caravan we use every now and again, to get away from the rat race. She will say, ' Help yourself to whats in the cupboards ', FFS theres stuff there in tins which are nearly rusted through, and the labels have faded to the extent that you cant read whats in them.

I opened a dodgy tin of beans, and the top half of the tin the beans were almost white, and the bottom half of the tin the beans were orange.

They cost 2d whatever that means......

misty

Honey that was found at the site of the pyramids, was over 2k years and still edible!!!
dave

Chip

I ate a cake that was made in 1944 in about 1980 making it 36 years old. It was a Mackeson cake.

Chip.

SideShowBob

What about pickles? as they're stuffed in vinegar they should last some time, or, wait, ive got it!! Biltong!!
If you dont know what biltong is, its sold in Africa in normal shops, and is dried meat similar to what they used on the old sailing ships, lasts ages, although I suppose being meat maybe pickles would have the edge.

Edit: Brit in Japan got there first, never mind, ill go with Biltong then...

MartinM

Golden syrup - never, ever, goes off - allegedly...