What's the strangest thing you've found in your lockers?

[Simondjuk]

Whilst emptying our previous boat just after purchasing her and prior to refitting her, in one of the storage bins behind the saloon seat backs, we found a pack of king size Rizlas and a couple cigarettes which had been partly torn open for their tobacco.

The mental image of the previous owners quietly at anchor somewhere sharing a reefer was marvelous. They were nearing their 80s.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Does this also apply to FB pies?

Yes, they remain just as edible as they ever were indefinitely.

Joking apart, no - the fat content will degrade with time, giving a strange taste.

 

[[70521]]

Some really, really, cr^p French spirit! I used it to pour over the bow when I got her in the water.

 

[prv]

Joking apart, no - the fat content will degrade with time, giving a strange taste.

Cheers - that might answer my curiosity about a tin of "confit de canard" that a previous lodger left in my cupboard. It's several years past its BBE date, but I haven't thrown it out as I thought that being tinned it may still be ok (it's a massive tin, like a round biscuit tin, not a normal 450g can of beans). You hear about decades-old tins from arctic expeditions etc being opened and still fine. But since confit de canard is mostly fat, I guess it will taste funny by now even if not harmful.

Pete

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Cheers - that might answer my curiosity about a tin of "confit de canard" that a previous lodger left in my cupboard. It's several years past its BBE date, but I haven't thrown it out as I thought that being tinned it may still be ok (it's a massive tin, like a round biscuit tin, not a normal 450g can of beans). You hear about decades-old tins from arctic expeditions etc being opened and still fine. But since confit de canard is mostly fat, I guess it will taste funny by now even if not harmful.

Pete

The stuff from old polar expeditions is edible, but I gather that few people would regard it as palatable! ISTR that the problem is that fat in the presence of water and absence of oxygen eventually saponifies, giving a soapy texture and aforementioned strange taste. This reaction is how some bodies have been preserved (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocere).