My guess is that the quality is just fine.
I have 700 pounds of Wheat berries and beans, split peas, etc, in #10 cans from that same period that have been stored in terrible conditions, with wide ranging temperatures and temperature rarely, but at times having reached 110, I intend to keep my stuff until I die.
My plan is to buy newer, fresher stores in time, but that old batch will remain in storage as my “Stalingrad” rations or my “Jap POW camp” rations, meaning that if starvation ever did become a reality, then I would like to have those old rations to look over.
In Stalingrad they were peeling off the wall paper for the old paste, and in the Japanese POW camps, our men were eating things that were way past rotten and insect infested, like long ruined and ignored, many years old rice.
You and I think the same way. I don’t throw anything away that is potentially good. I have MREs that I would be embarrassed to say how old they are. But, one day when there is absolutely nothing else, and they look and smell okay, I will have them to eat. I also store canned goods that I have no concern at all about the expiration date.
Thanks.
In Stalingrad they were peeling off the wall paper for the old paste, and in the Japanese POW camps, our men were eating things that were way past rotten and insect infested, like long ruined and ignored, many years old rice.
Which horror testifies to man's depravity, and were it not for God's restraining grace, all the world would be like N. Korea.
Just a hint ... the UN is encouraging people to eat more insects as a source of cheap protein. I’m not sure if the suggestion is to help us or preserve more of the steak and lobsters for the UN officials.