Survival and Long Lasting Foods

[Anonymous No.5978135]

Hardtack. Have you ever had one /ck/? Does it taste good?

Also, survival foods thread.

[Anonymous No.5978140]

>>5978135
OMG fuck yes

[Anonymous No.5978143]

>>5978140
what? why isn't my image loading?

[Anonymous No.5978148]

Pic of tack. it was hard an Asian mother's resolve to force the piano upon her offspring.

[Anonymous No.5978153]

>>5978135
>worm castles

Laughed.

Yes I had one on a field trip in like first grade. I remember it being salty and hard. Just like Mr. Thompson.. I hated first grade.

[Anonymous No.5978156]

I sure wouldn't want to survive if I couldn't have one of these every once in a while.

[Anonymous No.5978173]

There was a moment in time where Twinkies couldn't be the ultimate survival food because of Hostess's bankruptcy

[Anonymous No.5978179]

>>5978148
Oh my god, how did that taste?

[Anonymous No.5978190]

>>5978135
Tastes like you're right on the road to flavortown!

[Anonymous No.5978198]

>>5978179
Like a small brick that tasted like flour that you could eat. Absolutely wonderful.

[Anonymous No.5978515]

Honey and salt. They last.

[Anonymous No.5978519]

>>5978135
I guess its kinda weird but I really like the taste of hardtack. Probably cause I don't eat much bread.

Also the hardness is nice, gives you something just to nibble on

[Anonymous No.5978530]

>>5978135
You can still see where the worms burrowed through. Even the worms gave up on it.

[Anonymous No.5978541]

hermit bars

never had hardtack. Looks like dwarf bread.

[Anonymous No.5978573]

>>5978153
Mr. Thompson tasted salty and was hard anon? Did you ever talk to anyone about it?

[Anonymous No.5978595]

>>5978135
When I was in eighth grade my US History teacher brought in a bunch of these for the class when we were discussing the Civil War.

I thought it was pretty good for what it was. Apparently she got pretty angry later on that day when this one student of hers tried taking a whole handful.

[Anonymous No.5978598]

>>5978595
>a whole handful
>real hardtack is larger than a big man's hand

[Anonymous No.5978601]

>>5978598
Well the teacher didn't make them in huge chunks like OP's pic, they were maybe slightly bigger and thicker than a Triscuit. So maybe it wasn't "real hardtack" but whatever.

[Anonymous No.5978603]

Hardtack tastes like a brick made of flour and salt mixed with water because that's all its made out of. It would only taste good to you if you like the taste of flour and salt.

[Anonymous No.5978605]

>>5978603
Basically a big saltine.

[Anonymous No.5978606]

The taste isn't awful, it's just really plain. It's like eating a fucking brick though.

[Anonymous No.5978679]

>>5978135

[Anonymous No.5978683]

Hardtack is the lesser of two weevils

[Anonymous No.5978688]

These count under survival food right?

[Anonymous No.5978691]

>>5978688
I had no idea they were that big

[Anonymous No.5978693]

>>5978688
White bread snack is the devil

[Anonymous No.5978697]

>>5978693
What?

[Anonymous No.5978698]

Hardtack, salt beef, limes and rum sound awesome. I wouldn't eat it every day though.

[Anonymous No.5978705]

>>5978697
I am not sure if its in MRE's any more but there was this gummy bread cracker thing in them a while back called "White bread Snack"
It tastes really odd and off.

[Anonymous No.5978707]

>>5978705
I guess its called "What snack now"
still looks the same

[Anonymous No.5978708]

>>5978705
I don't think it is.

[Anonymous No.5978714]

>>5978707
I think I remember something like that from an MRE I ate once. It was the chili with beans if I remember correctly. Can't remember much else from the MRE. Kept the spoon though. Good spoon.

[Anonymous No.5978736]

Anybody ever tried Tsampa balls? If mixed with honey, they're actually pretty tasty.

[Anonymous No.5978740]

>>5978135
Yes, no, but I make some annually because it amuses me.

[Anonymous No.5978776]

>>5978135
>Have you ever had one /ck/?

I made some a few years ago. I still have one left. They are just super hard and rather bland (salty) like a super hard cracker. Not fun to eat really. A bit worthless because they are not something I normally eat.

The best survival foods are those foods you normally eat. Long lasting foods are a bit different unless you normally eat those anyway.

You can dehydrate most foods and either rehydrate them or eat them as is.

Bilatong
Jerky
Pemmican
Dried fruit
Hardtack
Soup powder packs (i.e. instant ramen)

Then there's canning. You can make your own homemade stuff too.

But, seriously, if you want food for survival situations, it had better be stuff you normally eat for 2 reasons. 1, because in a survival situation you don't need the possible GI upset a whole new diet can cause. 2, you need to know how to effectively prepare, ration, eat your foods, and know specifically how it affects your body and energy levels. If you are in a survival situation you don't want to be worrying about your health due to improper diet or diarrhea.

[Anonymous No.5978795]

Anyone ever had this stuff?

[Anonymous No.5978813]

>>5978795
I've heard of it but I've never had it. Thats the stuff they give to the starving African kids right?

[Anonymous No.5978814]

>>5978795
Peanuts are not nuts.

[Anonymous No.5978824]

>>5978813
Yeah, they started to use it in 1999 as that, but now it apparently is free on the market and has been stated as 'surprisingly tasty'. It's a mix of peanutpaste, sugar, oil and milk. Holds 500 kcal a bar, but I'm just really curious how it tastes and if it's a good 'meal-replacing' thing.

[Anonymous No.5978829]

>>5978824
Stop looking for Soylent in bar form.

[Anonymous No.5978917]

>>5978135
That just looks like a cream cracker

[Anonymous No.5978964]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZ3UbgyQP0

[Anonymous No.5979032]

Yo /ck/,

Me and the fam live in Earthquakeville. Of course, we would like to have a week or two of survival food stashed away for that difficult time between "Apocalyptic Earthquake" and "Trader Joe's Reopens".

Problem is, I'm seriously allergic to wheat and Barley, in all it's forms. And I don't want to survive a shaker just to poop myself to death.

Right now I have a stash of instant rice and freeze-dried refried beans. I'll be adding a #big can of dried fruit, but even then this is gonna suck should I have to live off this stuff.

All the official survival foodz have wheat. I am seriously considering plumper-nut at this point.

Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.5979302]

Canned high-fat meat products are pretty much eternal. Most people are not aware of this, but they can usually be eaten 40 or more years later. They will lose in flavour, but that won't be an issue if you're ever in a situation to eat 40y old meat.

[Anonymous No.5979314]

>>5979302
I read somewhere about divers who brought up 100 year old corned beef from a shipwreck and althrough the texture and appearance deteriorated, the tests showed it was "safe" to eat.

[Anonymous No.5979324]

>>5979314
I've heard that done with wine but the conditions on the ocean's floor are kind of unique.

[Anonymous No.5979333]

>>5978148
It looks like literal paving tiles

[Anonymous No.5979342]

>>5979302
>>5979314

Almost all canned food is safe to eat after decades if not longer. It's sealed in a sterile environment so it cannot spoil, assuming of course that the integrity of the can is maintained. It might taste bad or look bad but it won't spoil.

[Anonymous No.5979390]

I have experience with pic related.
It's pretty good, and I prefer it to very fine ground beef in things like stews or taco filling because it's got more resistance to the bite.

I would never dream of using it to replace larger cuts, though.

[Anonymous No.5979409]

>>5978595
Sounds better than a retard japanese English teacher I had that tried to tell us that the USA caused the japs to attack Pearl Harbor.

She didn't do too well in our class.

[Anonymous No.5979418]

>>5979409
I think she commited suicide rather than deal with our class at Stuyvesant. Some jap pushing jap shit on us wasn't gonna work out well.

[Anonymous No.5979451]

>>5979390
At first I thought it was corn flakes or a chicken flavored cereal.

[Anonymous No.5979458]

>>5979409
>the USA caused the japs to attack Pearl Harbor.

But they did though. The US placed an oil embargo on Japan, which prompted the attack from Japan.

[Anonymous No.5979461]

This stuff got me through the battle of New York.

[Anonymous No.5979464]

>>5979409
I heard something like that on a documentary on tv one time but I forget their reasoning. Basically they believed the US could have prevented it with better management of the Pacific.

[Anonymous No.5979471]

>>5979464
prevented in the sense of capitulation, really.

the US was not a neutral party prior to the war. the US did provoke the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the fact is both Japan and the US had strong imperialist interests in the South Pacific and conflict was inevitable.

[Anonymous No.5979658]

>>5978683

[Anonymous No.5979799]

>>5978776
What is that stuff in the picture?

[Anonymous No.5979801]

>>5979799
Looks like potpourri

[Anonymous No.5980906]

>>5979799
Tons of dehydrated vegetables. Basically, a homemade instant ramen noodle flavoring powder minus the massive amounts of sodiums.

[Anonymous No.5980948]

>>5979461
Awesome.

[Anonymous No.5980975]

>>5978135

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgXemt2LofM

Apparently toast lasts for years because it's too dry for mold to grow. I personally have homemade, unseasoned croutons at least a year old. They taste stale, but no mold. I'm going to keep them around to see how long they last.

[Anonymous No.5981085]

>>5978135
Dried date powder
Moringa flour
Spirulina powder
Cacao butter blocks
Pemmican/biltong
Fermented and dried seaweed


Also with hard tack can't you just reconstitute it add fat and flavorings then bake it again it again so it's like a soft and moist loaf or griddle cake?

[Anonymous No.5981160]

Shit now you guys got me in the mood to try some military rations. What's a good place to buy some?

[Anonymous No.5981164]

>>5978140
sounds like a shitty tortilla

[Anonymous No.5981267]

>>5979032
MREs are literally designed for this kind of stuff. Alternatively, all canned foods are good. Costco even sells a fuckhuge survival food kit for this kind of thing

MREs are actually quite tasty for what they're meant for. So long as you can avoid the brutal shits that ensue from eating them with regularity

[Anonymous No.5981278]

>>5978683

[Anonymous No.5981337]

>>5981267
Should I post stories of brutal MRE shits?

[Anonymous No.5981355]

>local WinCo recently started selling emergency food kits
>a pound of dehydrated chicken chunks for like 17 dollars
Just bizarre.

[Anonymous No.5981358]

Pemmican always sounded really good to me.

>The specific ingredients used were usually whatever was available; the meat was often bison, moose, elk, or deer. Fruits such as cranberries and saskatoon berries were sometimes added.

I'm also a big fan of many types of MREs. Chili Mac, Beef Stew, Sloppy Joe, Cheese Tortellini, Chili, etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.5981362]

Hardtack must be pretty harsh coming out.

No beer either, that's just cruel and unusual!

[Anonymous No.5981650]

These things last forever, and all you do is add hot water and the shit makes itself. Quite expensive though, that's the only downside.

[Anonymous No.5981658]

>>5981337
Liked it until I saw the halal stamp

[Anonymous No.5981663]

>>5979032
honeyview is a big supplier for mormonland preparedness food.

they got all kind of freeze dried goodies.

[Anonymous No.5981671]

>>5981362
generally you soften it by dunking it in your coffee or whatever.

[Anonymous No.5981678]

>>5978135
I used to make hardtack. It's a nice thing to gnaw on while working.

[Anonymous No.5981683]

>>5981650
looks like euro version of mountain house.

they are tasty as fuck, especially after hiking innawoods.

[Anonymous No.5982953]

Can beer be considered long lasting survival food?

[Anonymous No.5983000]

>>5982953
The survival kind probably wasn't all that great

[Anonymous No.5983029]

>>5978705
>>5978707
yep
the ones i got were alsways in traditional 'bread' shape

but that mre cheese with jalapenos, god damn I could eat that all day

[Anonymous No.5983058]

>>5982953
any liquid with high enough alcohol content
I'll no doubt get flack for this but my parents keep a few cases of bud in their emergency stash since it keeps, has calories, and is mild

real handy during katrina. for a few days I was living off beer and canned chili

[Anonymous No.5983110]

>>5983058
you must have been happiest guy during that turbulent time.

[Anonymous No.5983351]

>>5978595
Same here. I kept mine in my shirt pocket all day until it was soft enough to gnaw on.

What is it with some history/geography/pol sci teachers always being so based?