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Today I opened for dinner a 2003 #23 Chicken w/Cavatelli.


I took the pouch out of the card board box and to my surpries

it wasn´t "tight" than usually


it had something like an "air bubble" in


you could move thrue the pouch


as the whole pouch seemed suspicious (swollen) to me, I decided better not to eat to avoid a possible botulism intoxication

i use to splitt open the cardbord to see if there have been any leaks.
fat makes staines,this have helped me a few times

cheers ken

No leaks, nor any little wholes etc. The pouch was still sealed and air proof. I pressed it together to make sure.

Today I opened the Pretzels from that spoiled Cavatelli Chicken.
The first thing I noticed, was a rancid smell out of the pouch.


Rancid pretzel sticks?!


From what?!

It seems as 1g of fat can spoil food...

housil wrote:Today I opened for dinner a 2003 #23 Chicken w/Cavatelli. [...]
as the whole pouch seemed suspicious (swollen) to me, I decided better not to eat to avoid a possible botulism intoxication

Did you open the pouch? I´m interested if there was a bad smell!?

So long mreheater72

mreheater72 wrote:
Did you open the pouch? I´m interested if there was a bad smell!?

Holy crap - NO

Just as well that you did not try to consume any of the ration housil, I recall my horrible experience with the old brown MRE "turkey diced w/gravy" and I was severely dehydrated from it. ("medic down!" ) Tiny pinholes in the pouch and the stuff was not even leaking out, but our Vterinary Services people examined the pouches that I saved and that was the culprit. I guess that is why the cases are marked "do not rough handle when frozen" but pinholes would likely be an error at the packing facility.

housil wrote:

mreheater72 wrote:
Did you open the pouch? I´m interested if there was a bad smell!?

Holy crap - NO

I was thinking the same thing.
That is the first time I have heard of spoiled pretzels though.