Our disaster cookies have expired. What's a disaster cookie? It's a ready-to-eat survival item that you can pack away in your disaster kit. Vacuum packed, the survival cookies are a small hedge bet against running out of food in the event of a massive disaster. After a few years in storage, the cookies might begin to lose their nutritional value: they contain protein and vitamins, but mostly carbohydrates and lots and lots of calories. A single bar is equivalent to a meal, give or take. The other day, my wife and I bought a pack of fresh cookies to replace the old ones.
When pondering the block of disaster cookies in the kit, I always think of Tolkein's lembas bread, the fictional concoction of his elves, wherein a single nibble of the cake sustains an elf for what seems to be close to an eternity both in the books and in the films. Since our old cookies have "expired", my wife and I have slowly been eating them over the last month. I can report that they taste good, very sweet and remarkably filling. The cookie seems like a rather heavy shortbread with a pleasant rich fruity-plum flavour and so much sugar that you can feel crystals grind against your teeth when you bite.
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