Age of C-Rations ?

Post by **kman** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:40 pm

Good work, mreheater72 - at least you figured out the datecodes for the peanut butter and jams.

mreheater72 · Post by **mreheater72** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:04 pm

mreheater72 wrote:Peanut Butter and Jams (Kern Foods): (I checked about 50 cans!) e.g. AX 21029, A 30019, D 01059, JX 30070, D 27030. The letters, no idea. With the numbers is like that: The first two successive numbers never exceed the value of 31, therefore it must be the day of the month. The second two successive numbers never exceed the value 12, therefore it must be the month. The last number is by all cans I own, always 8, 9 or 0. I think that stands for 1978, 1979 and 1980. This is in agreement with all my Cracker cans, they are from 1978, 1979 and 1980. E.g. AX 21029: 21. February 1979

Today I checked all the stamps of my "cake-cans", produced by "EUNICE KING´S KITCHEN, INC.", the Fruit Cakes, the Cinamon Nut Rolls, the Chocolate Nut Rolls, the Orange Nut Rolls: The dating works the same way as decribed above!

So long mreheater72

rjmeylan · Post by **rjmeylan** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:52 pm

This is so obvious, it's dumb. Can the Defense Dept. help out with the date stamps? They hold on to everything.