cold and uncooked.

anyone done this? it tastes quite good. Now I know I can survive on cold beans if I ever have a sudden inspiration to forsake society and live in the wild like that christopher mccandless guy.

You ever eat beany weenies?you can eat those things cold.

Until you get to that little blob of "pork fat" that they have in the can.


I have eaten quite a few things straight from the can and they are quite good. True most things need to be heated to taste better, but it is not a requirement for consumption. Reason, if it is canned, it is already cooked. Heating it up is just a convention.

Of course. They taste best that way. Reminds me of the old days.

Mojave Survival tips from an old Marine: (trust me, with Camp Twentynine Palms in the Mojave, I've spent plenty of time surviving the place)

1. Place your food in metal or foil packaging just underneath the top layer of sand. It will quickly heat up for a tasty meal.
2. Place your water in a canvas bag. As the water wets throught the canvas, it will evaporate and the caloric transfer will actually cool the water inside the bag.
3. Stay covered up. Direct exposure to the sun will hasten your oncoming heat stroke.
4. Stay hydrated. You may drink many gallons of water a day to keep up your hydration.
5. Check your urine. The darker your urine, the more dehydrated you are. Seriously. This is important [censored] here.
6. Restrict your efforts during the hottest hours of 10am - 2pm. Really. Siestas are your friend.
7. Pack warm clothes. I'm not kidding. The temperature differentials from day to night are drastic. You'll freeze your butts off at night (especially in the winter).
8. Don't get shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave. (Surely, I didn't need to say this, did I?)

-Gunny out.

Yep I have eaten food such as pork n beans out of the can mostly when camping and to lazy to cook it.

Uhhh...some people in the Wasteland are not lucky to have Pork 'n Beans. Think of the kids in Freeside eating the giant rat fresh and raw from the kill

I did that with a can of spinach once and bit down on a large spiked
insect leg of some kind (Grasshopper or Cricket ~I hope)

**Always inspect mechanically processed foods :laugh:

@OP: Did you do this just by chance and/or convenience, or because they did it in Fallout 3/NV?

Aaaaand now I have a phobia for eating canned food as well...

Nope.

I still think Pork n' Beans restore too little health.....like, same as a carrot?

Hey you seem to be forgetting an important part of life :blink: ......................no more playing FO if you forsake society :nope:

bigcrazewolf

You mean they're supposed to be cooked??? :facepalm:

Cooking them just makes it worse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpB3ME_Xem0

What are you talking about? There's nothing better than eating a big blob of pork fat. So juicy with the consistency of phlegm... That's the good stuff there.

In the Aussie army, I opened a can of 'Luncheon Meat Type E' from a ration pack once, out dropped half an ox tongue...kind of went vegetarian that meal. After that deployment, I phoned the military 'food research unit', as it was then, and asked what the Type E was...they confirmed my suspicions - Type E meant 'experimental', lol.

Another time, in 1983, I opened a ration pack and the canned 'meat component' was dated 1944... I saved it, and scarfed up all the other cans that the boys had from that rat pack batch, and gave them to my grandfather, who had been eating the same stuff in WW2. Needless to say, he was a bit chuffed and all nostalgic and knocked up a bit of a feed for us out of it. We didn't get crook, so I guess there's something to be said for food preservation techniques from back then...

Oh believe me, I absolutely haaaaaaaaate bugs.
One time when I was going to the bathroom I saw a spider up on the cabinet above the toilet and every single time I go to the bathroom now a days I need to take a quick look up there to make sure there ain't no disgusting spider or beetle or something.

Heh. Canned foods have a more or less indefinite shelf life as far as being edible. Contents are cooked before going in, the can is sealed under searing conditions. There's no viable bacteria or molds inside the can to cause the food to rot, if the canning process is being run properly. Though even without bacteria to hasten the process, the complex molecules of some foods may begin to deteriorate. What you pull out of the can fifty years later is still okay to eat, but it might taste and look kind of 'off'.

More what kills cans is rust. The cans are just unprotected mild steel and they rust like crazy. You'd have to store them in a way to prohibit rust, if you want your canned goods to be available 200 years from now to post-apoc survivors.

I hate when i see a bug and it escapes. I then can not sleep, I hate being paranoid. :ninja:

I have to kill black widows for my husband, who refuses to go near them. The big wuss.

I think most canned food tastes terrible. But if I was starving in a wasteland, I'm sure I'd change my mind and think it was all nirvana, then. Heck, those canned sardines might even make me drool.

Excellent...and for your next challenge - Squirrel on a stick, or cave fungus.

Your choice.

Canned dog/cat food. It's extremely nutritious.

It's good if you live in a cold climate. Here in my country where it's hot and humid, the cans rust very quickly unless you store them in an air-tight compartment or cabinet.

I wonder how long jarred peanut butter will last...opened or unopened. I can survive on that and water for a good while

MREs (Meal Ready-to-Eat) are really tasty. At least I thought so when I was a kid. My mom would take me to the Army Surplus store once a month to stock up. The new ones are pretty fancy though, they come with little burners to heat the food up. I think the old ones you could boil but I just ate them cold.

Also I agree with Momaw on the dog/cat food. The pet store is my second stop after the apocalypse. How come they never put a pet store full of caned food in a Fallout game?

-JJ

I sympathise with the Do'tirath but doesn't "I've just eaten pork and beans straight from the can" belong on the "you know you've played to much F: NV when,," thread?

Maybe, but you know you've really been playing too long when you actually start thinking about that canned cat/dog food someone suggested as a viable food source. :cryvaultboy:

(of course that would all change if you found yourself in a post fallout type world,.... mmm those tasty vitals might look good with a bit of milk on then.)