30 years old MRE freeze dried POTATO PATTY

[mreheater72]

Hi guys,

yesterday as a snack during a little walk I opened a nearly 30 years old freeze dried POTATO PATTY packed by RIGHT AWAY FOODS CORPORATION . See the pics:

The closed, dark brown POTATO PATTY pouch


Close-up of the closed POTATO PATTY pouch. The condition of the wrapper was not the best, but is was tight and vacuum was there (there was a little "zzsss"-sound after opening)


View into the opened pouch


POTATO PATTY still in the clear plastic pouch for reconstituting beside the outer wrapper


POTATO PATTY still in the clear plastic pouch for reconstituting, front side


POTATO PATTY still in the clear plastic pouch for reconstituting, back side


POTATO PATTY out the clear plastic pouch for reconstituting, PERFECT


Close-up of POTATO PATTY out the clear plastic pouch for reconstituting, front side


Close-up of POTATO PATTY out the clear plastic pouch for reconstituting, back side


View to the "inside" of the POTAT PATTY, broken in two pieces


No the taste test : The smell was perfect, a little bit spicy and with the flavor of potatoes. Because it was freeze, dried food I was not afraid of testing it: I did that as I did it often 30 years before, without reconstituting, only dry : Nearly the same taste as in former, good times, just like compressed potato sticks . The taste test was yesterday, about 30 hours ago, and I’m still ok : BTW, I ate the whole patty !

So long mreheater72

[housil]

Hagen, you are a food geek

Great it was still in this good shape after 30 years.

I can remember having this patties, they were not like real mashed potatos but like what we would call "Kartoffelpuffer" (Reiberdatschi) - something like hash browns, right?

[Name_not_found]

Yes looks like what we would call a hash brown here in the states.

These go very well on a porkroll egg and cheese sandwich

Amazing the shelf life on these , keep the reviews coming Mreheater72 !