History Main / IndestructibleEdible

* ''{{Zombieland}}'' averts one of the most common targets: Tallahassee is devoted to his hunt for a Twinkie because, as he points out to Columbus, they ''do'' have expiration dates.

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has cooking recipes including Egg Nog, Spice Bread, Hot Lion Chops, Hot Wolf Ribs, Hot Apple Cider and Hot Buttered Trout and purchasable item Ice Cold Milk. The Egg Nog never gets funky, nobody has ever eaten "Stale, Moldy Spice Bread," the milk never turns into "Lukewarm, Curdled Milk," and the other recipes never turn into, e.g. "Room-temperature Wolf Ribs." Not to mention all the other cooked meals that you would expect to go off after a short time or just be totally disgusting if not freshly cooked.

* In DieHard, John McClane finds a Twinkie that he says is years old, and asks what these things are made of.

* CiaphasCain, '''[[MemeticMutation HERO OF THE IMPERIUM]]''' often refers to Imperial standard (emergency?) ration bars as equally unpalatable and indestructible. The bars he abandoned in a life pod during the first invasion of Perlia may still be good during the second... eighty years later.

* One character in ''{{Nodwick}}'' [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2007-04-11 drank]] "five hundred years old [[KlatchianCoffee coffee]]".

* The browser game Improbable Island provides players with Ration Packs, which are "designed to withstand being thrown out of a plane, bounced down a mountain, encased in snow and ice, left out in the sun and/or buried in a swamp for up to three years." They contain all the nutrients you need to survive, but aren't very pleasant to eat.

** The bars can survive several forms of Exterminatus.

* [[http://www.bionicburger.com/ The Cheeseburger Museum]] has burgers from McDonalds that are two decades old and look exactly the same as they day they were bought.

Some foods last a ''[[RagnarokProofing really]]'' long time. They'll survive weeks in the wilderness, months under your bed, or even TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. And after all that, they're still edible... well, as much as they ever were, anyway. Which is usually [[MasochistsMeal "not very edible"]].

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has cooking recipes including Egg Nog, Spice Bread, Hot Lion Chops, Hot Wolf Ribs, Hot Apple Cider and Hot Buttered Trout and purchasable item Ice Cold Milk. The Egg Nog never gets funky, nobody has ever eaten "Stale, Moldy Spice Bread," the milk never turns into "Lukewarm, Curdled Milk," and the other recipes never turn into, e.g. "Room-temperature Wolf Ribs." Not to mention all the other cooked meals that you would expect to go off after a short time or just be totally disgusting if not freshly cooked.

** And in the supermarket, all fruit has gone moldy ... except for the irradiated apples.

* ''{{Fallout}} 3'', the canned goods and other manufactured sweets have survived [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt complete nuclear armageddon]] and are still edible. Slightly [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in that while they can be eaten, they cause radiation poisoning.
* WorldOfWarcraft has cooking recipes including Egg Nog, Spice Bread, Hot Lion Chops, Hot Wolf Ribs, Hot Apple Cider and Hot Buttered Trout and purchasable item Ice Cold Milk. The Egg Nog never gets funky, nobody has ever eaten "Stale, Moldy Spice Bread," the milk never turns into "Lukewarm, Curdled Milk," and the other recipes never turn into, e.g. "Room-temperature Wolf Ribs." Not to mention all the other cooked meals that you would expect to go off after a short time or just be totally disgusting if not freshly cooked.

* An episode of {{Futurama}} involves an auction for a tin of thousand-year-old anchovies. Although everyone else finds Fry's anchovy pizza utterly disgusting when they try it, Fry and Zoidberg don't seem to have any problems eating it, implying they are still at least fresh enough for an anchovy lover to eat.

* In 1908 arctic expedition of baron Toll left a food cache in the permafrost of Novaya Zemlya island, consisting mostly of canned foods that was in Russian Army standard issue rations. A couple of years ago another expedition opened that cache and tested some of the cans -- both chemically... and directly. The permafrost had done its job so well (hey, it's -40C below there!) that the food remained perfectly edible for a full hundred years.

* One celebrity guest on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me claims to have a twinky he obtained at the start of his career that is still and spongy as he was when he bought it. While he's never opened the wrapping, this might indicate that the expiration date on twinkies means about as much as medication expiration dates.

* [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Everlasting Gobstoppers]].

* Plumpy'nut is a type of peanut butter used to fight malnutrition in famine stricken countries by having an extremely high calorie value (a single pack contains 500 calories). They can be stored without refrigeration for up to two years, and requires no cooking or preparation.