microrobert
12-19-2012, 05:56 PM
Apocalypse chow: food for the end of the world
If the world ends on Friday, what food and drink would you want in your survival kit?
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'Protect and survive' kit as recommended by HM Government.
A shop in the Siberian town of Tomsk has recently started selling what they call "apocalypse kits" (http://tv.ibtimes.com/shops-begin-selling-apocalypse-kits-vodka-and-medicine-needed-mark-end-world-7590) – a package stocked with the items they suggest you might need for the impending Mayan-predicted armageddon (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/bugarach-french-village-survive-mayan-apocalypse) on the 21st of this month. Including vodka, sardines and buckwheat however, the Siberian kit reads more like a hermit's shopping list than a collection of the provisions necessary to survive the end of the world.
The obvious choice of rations when preparing for such an event are those with long shelf lives: canned goods, staples such as wheat, rice and corn, and preservative-laden pseudo food like Twinkies (who despite their supposed ability to survive a nuclear attack are struggling for their own survival (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/twinkie-icon-american-capitalism)).
Apocalypse chow: food for the end of the world | Life and style | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/wordofmouth/2012/dec/19/apocalypse-chow-food-end-world)
If the world ends on Friday, what food and drink would you want in your survival kit?
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/12/7/1354896220614/Survival-kit-as-recommend-008.jpg
'Protect and survive' kit as recommended by HM Government.
A shop in the Siberian town of Tomsk has recently started selling what they call "apocalypse kits" (http://tv.ibtimes.com/shops-begin-selling-apocalypse-kits-vodka-and-medicine-needed-mark-end-world-7590) – a package stocked with the items they suggest you might need for the impending Mayan-predicted armageddon (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/19/bugarach-french-village-survive-mayan-apocalypse) on the 21st of this month. Including vodka, sardines and buckwheat however, the Siberian kit reads more like a hermit's shopping list than a collection of the provisions necessary to survive the end of the world.
The obvious choice of rations when preparing for such an event are those with long shelf lives: canned goods, staples such as wheat, rice and corn, and preservative-laden pseudo food like Twinkies (who despite their supposed ability to survive a nuclear attack are struggling for their own survival (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/twinkie-icon-american-capitalism)).
Apocalypse chow: food for the end of the world | Life and style | guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/wordofmouth/2012/dec/19/apocalypse-chow-food-end-world)