Good until August 2013!
At the beginning of the year, we were all issued these bright red 'emergency' backpacks, which include 'emergency food rations.'
And, since the beginning of the year, I have been wondering what they tasted like.
(Note the 'apple cinnamon flavoring.')
Because there has been a pretty constant influx of people moving in and out of our room, J and I have ended up with FOUR bright red backpacks, and (in theory) four emergency food rations, so I didn't feel guilty at all breaking into one.
(Because, I mean, if one brick equals three days worth of food, then we could each survive six days! Twice the average! Supposing that we don't get sick of apple cinnamon flavoring by then.)
Also, they are good until 2013, so we have a while.
Unfortunately, if I had just survived some sort of apocalypse, I would either want my emergency ration package to be easy open or come with scissors. As it stood, I wasted precious crumbs on my pants. (It might be worth mentioning that I was doing this, taking pictures AND talking on the phone at the same time. It takes skills!)
Also, this brick, while pre-scored, is not actually broken down into bricks, meaning that I could devour more than I meant to and not get my three days out of it. Fail.
Surprisingly, it tasted pretty decent! Like a really crumbly apple cinnamon flavored pie crust, or possibly just apple cinnamon flavored dried dough. The package says that it doesn't cause thirst, though, and since I wanted a piece of gum almost immediately afterward... Hmm.
But! Our backpacks also have water! Which I didn't try. Again, hmm.
Overall, I am going to give it a C for taste/texture and an F for not being pre-chunked. Also, I wonder what other flavor varieties these come in.
The handiwipes (seen in the first picture), however, I am giving an A, because if there so should happen to be an apocalypse, we must remember what country we're from. Also, there is more than one, but they did not make it into the picture, for some reason.