Smugglers caught trying to sell 36-year-old meat

[Liberal_in_LA]

Smugglers caught trying to sell 36-year-old meat
January 12, 2010 • 2:27 pm
By Diana FasanellaUkrainian smugglers were busted by Russian police trying to supply markets in Moscow with 36-year-old meat.


A truck carrying 22 tons of meat that was “deep frozen” since 1974 was seized by the Interior Ministry’s economic security unit, Bloomberg reports.

The shipment worth $68,000 came from a “strategic reserve” of American meat in an unidentified Latin American nation. It had been kept in freezers until authorities decided to sell it because its consumption period was over.

The meat was brought to the port of Odessa, where it was divided into small consignments, which were later delivered from Kharkov to the Belgorod Region. It was delivered by trucks to Moscow and other regions, where it was sold under forged documents.

http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2010/01/12/smugglers-caught-trying-to-sell-36-year-old-meat/

[Luciferous]

1. EWWW

[babylonsister]

2. Not like wine?

:shrug:

[dysfunctional press]

3. why did i think that this was about middle-aged hookers?

[Hello_Kitty]

5. Wow. Considering your commentary in that thread in the Lounge

I'm not surprised.

[dysfunctional press]

9. wow. i've got a stalker.

:scared:

[Hello_Kitty]

13. You wish.

Trust me, you'll never get a PM from me and I've got a boyfriend.

He's a VERY nice guy, BTW.

[dysfunctional press]

16. everything seems to be about the pursuit of sex in your world...

is it a hormonal thing? :shrug:

[slampoet]

21. wrong reply. self delete

[Luciferous]

10. LOL

[Odin2005]

22. OMG. get your head out of the gutter!

:rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

4. What's the problem here?

When I was in Vietnam in 1967-68, we got C-Rations in cases with WWII dates. Like 1942.

[MercutioATC]

7. Agreed. Packed right, the meat should be fine.

As part of my long-term-storage food reserves, I have a case of #10 cans full of steaks. Dry-frozen and nitrogen packed, they have a virtually unlimited shelf life.

[Berry Cool]

14. 1974 was an excellent year for meat.

Not so much pop music, unfortunately. Too much "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," "Seasons in the Sun" and "The Night Chicago Died." But meat? Oh yeah.

[MercutioATC]

15. The stuff I have is only about 12 years old.

I retire in 6 years, so I'll probably open a can then and fire up the grill.

[slackmaster]

8. I have MREs that are in the neighborhood of 15 years old

They all seem to be safe to eat.

[jaysunb]

19. Ate them like a slave...

:rofl:

[HubertHeaver]

20. By 1969 we had worked our way up to Korean-war vintage

C-rations. Most of it was alright. The chopped-ham-and-eggs were not alright.

[Jackpine Radical]

27. Can't say I have good memories of the Ham & Limas either.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Wonder if it would go with some hundred-year-old Napoleon brandy

??

[ThomWV]

11. Or that fake 11-year-old McDonalds hamburger you see pictures of about once every 6 months.

[NYC_SKP]

12. I got some 52 year old meat.

I'm givin' it away!

:P

[jaysunb]

18. ROFLMAO !

ASS ! :rofl:

[galileoreloaded]

24. Beef jerky is more like it!?!?!? n/t

[Occulus]

25. .

:spank:

[Canuckistanian]

17. A "stratgeic reserve" of American meat from 1974 ?

From an undisclosed Latin American country?

Yum, my favorite!

[Hekate]

26. And it's so well-traveled! Whoever thought of taking 22 tons of the stuff from a shadowy...

... Latin American location by boat to Odessa and then all over the former Soviet Union -- genius, sheer genius.

Uck. Imagine all the opportunities along the way for that meat to partially thaw, refreeze, partially thaw.... It got cut up into smaller batches -- bet that was a sanitary process too. I wouldn't use that meat for dog food at this point, and these yokels were selling it for human consumption using forged documents.
:scared:

No conscience involved.

Hekate

[pinniped]

23. Meat of this vintage must be more profitable than black market caviar.

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