MDDM23: The Sacrament of the Eating

[Dave Monroe]

Thnaks.  Am forwarding this one around.  This is a
very important breakthough, indeed ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LONDON (Reuters) - Picnics and packed school lunches
> may never be the same again, thanks to the latest
> breakthrough by military science -- the non-soggy
> sandwich.
> 
> Spurred on by rather unappetizing U.S. battlefield
> fodder known as Meals Ready to Eat, scientists at
> the Army Soldier Systems Center in Nantick, 
> Massachusetts, have devised a vacuum sealed sandwich
> that stays edible for up to three years.

[...]
 
> Using an array of chemicals to seal the meat and
> inhibit bacterial growth, the scientists have
> already produced pepperoni and barbecue chicken 
> indestructible sandwiches, which have been given a
> cautious welcome by soldiers who agreed to try them.

Reminds me of how for years I had the idea that cooked
poultry simply did not spoil because a
fourteenth-century encyclopedia of sorts claimed that
cooked peacock wouldn't--gotta find that reference now ...

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