[Sca-cooks] Re: pantry foods was Cooking Spam

[Jennifer Whitbeck]

--- "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
wrote:
> You used canned potatoes anywhere fresh potatoes are
> hard to come by.  Forty
> years ago in Alaska, potatoes could be difficult to
> find during the winter
> so we used canned potatoes when we couldn't get
> fresh.  They and other odd
> canned goods are also fairly common in remote field
> camps where regular
> resupply and available refrigeration are issues.
>
> Bear

Thanks, Bear! I guess I'll just have to go to the
horse's mouth to find out why one would eat them in
the 1980's in suburban New York State... ;->  I think
my mom had a thing for stocking up.

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