But where have all the crackers gone?

[PointyHairedJedi]

Actually, as it turns out, under the Brooklyn Bridge (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4831530.stm).

Survival blankets and crackers dating back five decades to the Cold War have been found in a long-forgotten storage room under New York's Brooklyn Bridge.

Officials believe the stash, discovered during a structural inspection, may be one of many created in the US in the 1950s amid fears of a nuclear war.

The provisions include 350,000 "Civil Defense All Purpose Survival Crackers", medical kits and now-empty water drums.

So, in case of nuclear war, it seems that crackers do matter after all.

[Gatac]

I don't know precisely how US Civil Defense crackers taste like, but if they're anything like the stuff in German Bundeswehr MREs, you'd probably not want to depend on those caches to feed yourself.

Mind you, if you need to make a fire or lay out a temporary cobblestone road, those crackers are really handy.

Gatac

[Celeste]

I've tried MRE Crackers before... They're not bad.. once you get past the texture. :P

[mudshark]

I still find my self wondering how the sealed tins of crackers ... got mouldy a very long time ago
Must not have been a terribly good seal, I guess

[Chancellor Valium]

Hmmm...I wonder if all the other halves of my odd socks are there too...

[mudshark]

No, those are inside/beyond the Black Hole.



(Yes, that's an Obscure Reference™.)

[e of pi]

I know hardtack is rather robust. Is the recipe for the crackers anything like it?

[Chancellor Valium]

No, those are inside/beyond the Black Hole.



(Yes, that's an Obscure Reference™.)

So they're within/outside/behind the latitude of human minds?

[Gatac]

Not really hardtack, but a similar idea. By all accounts, hardtack was even harder to eat, though.

You'll notice me (and other people who've eaten them) complain about the toughness of those crackers, but they're really not *that* hard, ie you can actually bite them. They are notable harder than almost anything else you've seen passed off as food, though.

Gatac

[Chancellor Valium]

Why are you eating my new titanium pins, anyhow? Thit's whet Oi'd lieke ti now...

[mudshark]

No, those are inside/beyond the Black Hole.



(Yes, that's an Obscure Reference™.)

So they're within/outside/behind the latitude of human minds?
You may be thinking of a different Black Hole. I was referring to this one (http://ourworld.cs.com/WeezelX/rs/blackhole.html).

[Chancellor Valium]

You're right I was (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Harmony) ;)

[mudshark]

Now, for me, that would be truly obscure. Sadly, I am much lacking in Who knowledge, having seen only the Tom Baker-era shows on and off back in the mid/late 70s, when they aired here on PBS, and possibly a couple with the Doctor who followed him.

[Chancellor Valium]

Now, for me, that would be truly obscure. Sadly, I am much lacking in Who knowledge, having seen only the Tom Baker-era shows on and off back in the mid/late 70s, when they aired here on PBS, and possibly a couple with the Doctor who followed him.

Well, at least you saw some of Who's pinnacle :)

[mudshark]

Oh yeah, I quite enjoyed what I did see, though I wasn't really regular enough to make any sort of sense out of it, continuity-wise.

[PointyHairedJedi]

You'll notice me (and other people who've eaten them) complain about the toughness of those crackers, but they're really not *that* hard, ie you can actually bite them. They are notable harder than almost anything else you've seen passed off as food, though.
Ah. Well, they can't have been baked by Dwarves then.

[Chancellor Valium]

Oh yeah, I quite enjoyed what I did see, though I wasn't really regular enough to make any sort of sense out of it, continuity-wise.

Sounds kinda like what the Beeb did with TNG, 'cept worse.