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I’ve just been reading an article on the best nine foods to stockpile if we want to survive WW3.
I’m not exactly sure that this is helpful as, with computers, AI, hybrid warfare and all the other modern horrors, we are probably going to have to faceup to life without water and electricity. Burning the furniture and using the contents of the water butt are short term fixes but after that I’m not sure where we go.
Rice, it seems, will last a long time, but without water and fuel it’s going to be a bit crunchy. Powdered milk will also be pretty useless without water. I note that tea does not make the list. I’m not sure they have thought this through. Why do you need powdered milk when you have no tea to put it in?
Rufford Abbey, I believe
Honey is recommended too. Not for its nutritional qualities, just for its ability to last a long time. That is, I suspect, of more interest to archaeologists than nutritionists. But never fear, peanut butter is also on the list. It never goes off, according to the list, although after a few years the flavour may suffer. If you eat peanut butter for years I suspect your heart will give out long before the flavour becomes an issue.
I can’t remember most of the rest, though tinned food did feature heavily. Yes, “tinned food” seems to be a food item. I wonder if this journalist is known for their work on details. At least it means we can eat cold baked beans as we see the sun setting on civilisation.
Oliver Cromwell’s House
We laughed, once, at a friend who stocked up on pulses and turned their cellar into a nuclear bunker, we criticised the government for Protect and Survive, and we all secretly thought that Dr Strangelove was over the top, but who’s laughing now?
The good news is that the price of gold is rising again, as it always does in times of global fear, so the billionaires who run the world are unlikely to be feeling the pinch. In fact, with their bunkers and cupboards full of peanut butter, they may actually be doing quite well.
Russian Cannon – taken as a trophy in he Crimean War, now at Ely Cathedral
This, of course, brings me to my next suggestion, that Trump, Putin and all the rest should form teams of three and be set loose in some sort of reality TV programme in the jungle. They can fight it out without risking nuclear war or putting up the price of groceries.
Each nation is allowed to field its President/Prime Minister and two prominent politicians. My money is on the Ukraine team – Zelensky and the Klitschko brothers.
Random photos move on to March in various years.
Goose poem – Anderby Creek
What a great post. I like your idea of driving to the nearest target, may as well get it over with. But I always considered the highlands of Scotland as my wife is Scottish., so I’d get in. Plenty of water and I’m fond of venison. Plus there’s nothing there worth bombing. Even the Romans gave up on the place eventually.
Yes, dehydration won’t be a problem, and there is unlikely to be much competition for fruit and vegetables. 🙂
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Funny, I just read an article about survival food. Yeesh. Yes, water and electricity could be a problem. Hence the tinned stuff. But I do like the idea of these guys fighting it out in the jungle….
I always said the best strategy in time of nuclear war was o drive as close to the nearest target and make sure I was vapourised in the first strike. A world controlled by the sort of people who have access to bunkers has little charm and I am too old to become a hunetr-gatherer. 🙂
Yeah. Nobody would escape the place I live. It would be one big traffic jam. I have friends whose answer to “what’s your go plan” is “A bottle of ” You name it.
It’s a plan with a lot to recommend it. I may look at which snacks have the longest shelf life – may as well party to the end. 🙂
Here in the States, we have this company called 4Patriots. They’re basically “preppers” for the end time. They sell all kinds of dried stuff that just needs….water….to be reconstituted into what they claim are all delicious meals. AND they sell water purifiers, generators, solar panels for generators… You get the idea. If I lived in the middle of nowhere, I might take them up on some of the equipment, but alas, I don’t and don’t want to get on their list either!!
I once wandered into a forum which was discussing the best type of aquarium medication to use as emergency antibiotics for humans. It made me think twice about surviving in a world full of people who would do that.
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I like your TV show idea a lot, but only on the basis that I would not have to watch any of it at all.
That, I increasingly find, is the best bit of many TV shows.
Your suggestion was actually implemented in a TV ad back in the late 60s or early 70s over here, using generic old men characters.
🙂 Which shows that there are no new ideas, just ones that need the right timing . . .
I read that Morgan Freeman always wears gold earrings when he travels because they can be sold to pay for funeral. I don’t know if this is true, but I thought it was a pretty good story
It is the traditional reason sailors used to wear a gold ear ring.
That makes sense
I often wonder whether people just took the ear rings then shoved the body back out to sea, but it’s a good story.
Yeah. I admit I had same thought
Cynics. Shame on us. 🙂
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I always wonder about gold rising….I still don’t get the why. I’d think a can of tuna would be more valuable
Shares in defence industries would also be good. 🙂 I completely agree with you, which is why I bought extra tuna this week. You never know when it will come in handy whilst fleeing zombies or living in a cave. Gold isa traditional thing. People like gold. I wish I’d thought about it more in the past. Actually, I wish I’d just thought more in the past.
You picked a winning team
I think my money would be safe. 🙂