ETA: The Aborted Launch and Meteoric Rise of Astronaut Ice Cream
CostCo has been, as of late, carrying some Mountain House freeze dried meals in an ’emergency pack’. This is in addition to a couple other ‘survival bucket’ products that CostCo is carrying. Personally, I’d buy the MH product rather than the other survival food available at CostCo. At least the MH includes some minor degree of real meat…not TVP or ‘chicken flavor‘. (For example, these kits don’t offer ‘chicken soup’. No no no. They offer ‘Chicken flavored soup’ or ‘Beef flavored stew’. Because if you say ‘chicken soup’ then you better have some actual chicken in there or you could be construed as having misled the buyer.
Anyway…
In addition to the Mountain House emergency pack, I noticed that CostCo is also carrying these:
First off, you do not add hot (or cold) water to reconstitute this stuff. You simply eat it as is. I’ve had these before and many people have as well…theyre kind of a novelty in the world of survival food. Does it taste like ice cream? Well, yes. But it gets a bit gummy in your mouth. Still, its pretty cool and a nice treat.
Would I buy these? Nah. I mean, if you want something to hand out to impress your friends at a picnic, yeah. But its kinda expensive. Still, when you’re manning that roadblock after the fallout settles it might be a nice break from the MRE’s and Spam.
Tried one ONCE. Kind of unpleasant how it squeaked against my teeth. I’d eat another if I was starving and that’s all I had available. Only then.
Concur. This product is an excellent example of “normie prepper” impulse purchases that allow the company, whom is well entrenched in it’s own market category, to bring this particular niche novelty type product to market and sell ’em by the pallet load to redoubter consumers. Pretty smart business acumen. Many aspiring survivalists will need these in inventory as well. Think of them as pacifiers for insolent adults. When one finds themselves in the middle of spicy times these will need to be deployed out and given to the complaining land whale wife, and snotty brats, whom are borderline NGMI useless to your current situation. They can be used with the dowry payments to send off that twat daughter to another tribe finally. Also if that ball and chain wife is not silenced up enough by gnawing on these, give two boxes of them to that roving gang passing by your A.O. as payment to take your now ex wife away with them, problems are now solved by a neat product,
winning.
Stay as frosty as ice cream during the spicy.
They are like styrofoam.
They just opened (what someone described as the second largest) Costco up here. I had been looking forward to this for months, thinking “Finally, Ill be able to pick up some #10 cans of the assorted freeze-dried or dehydrated goods you see in your neck of the woods.” No chance. Seems to me that management decided there is no market for that in this area. I may not have looked hard enough, so Ill try again next week. I DID find a large selection of organic and gourmet offerings in every section, though
My CostCo never carries #10 cans of survival food, thats WinCo youre thinking of.
That thought had crossed my mind when I was there, but I didnt even see the kirkland cans o beef, either. I rarely any #10 cans of much i want in any of the warehouse offerings we have here like Sams and BJs, except the nacho cheese sauce.
They don’t have the traditional 25 year shelf life, only a couple years of Styrofoam experience.
they’re pretty tasty after a long day backpacking