LeEnfield
Active member
When I was in the Middle East all our rations were kept in the open under the desert sun. The dates on the cans indicated that the stuff was made in 1940, yet 16/7 years later we were still eating it. The chocolate had turned white from age, but every thing was still eatable, well most of us are still here. Now I wonder what sort of shelf life the government would put on all this food if it was in a supermarket. Still they didn't believe in spoiling you in those days.