MDDM23: The Sacrament of the Eating

[John Bailey]

An experiment you might like to try at home (or might not). Buy (or better, 
steal) a burger from your local franchise-chain-conglomerate burger joint (I 
won't name names, they're watching) and leave the bun lying somewhere that 
it won't be disturbed. They don't rot. They truly don't. I know someone who 
left one in his car, and six months later was disturbed to find it intact, 
and probably edible. But then, if it don't rot in the air, why should things 
be different in your stomach?

The military is really lagging behind on this one.

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>To: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: MDDM23: The Sacrament of the Eating
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:46:33 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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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