A couple of weeks ago I saw an ad on FaceBook Marketplace for "Mountain House - meals ready to eat MRE"
What the seller was advertising was a vintage Mountain House product from the early 1980's. This was a Mini "Just In Case..." kit consisting of two boxes. Each box contained 6 cases & each case contained six #2-1/2 cans; 72 #2-1/2 cans in this 2-box set.
A #2-1/2 can contains a little less than a third of the volume of the #10 cans that Mountain House sells today.
I contacted the seller and asked a few questions. The boxes had date codes on them that indicated they were from 1982. After some discussion, we came to an agreement on price. I then drove up to north Georgia and picked up these boxes of vintage food. As we loaded the boxes into my vehicle, I asked the seller how he had come to have them. As he described it, he was helping an elderly fellow around his house and this gentleman asked if he'd like to have these things. The older man had apparently purchased this "food insurance" 40+ years ago and had kept it in a cool, dry place. For whatever reason - perhaps he had purchased items to replace these - he no longer felt a need to keep them.
There were a few other miscellaneous items I also purchased as a part of this lot but I will concentrate on the Mini Just-In-Case items for the moment.
Along with these were some literature:
I hope the folks on this forum find this interesting.
More in my next post...
Scott
