Geezer Test

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Besides.....the crackers tasted like shit.

Indeed. The candy kepy pretty well though. According to an article at that site the crackers were eventually recalled. How long they were speced to last, I don't know.

As for "morbid"...well...in those days the risk of nuclear war was quite real. In fact--although we didn't know it at the time--one Soviet sub sent to break the Cuban blockade was armed with nuclear torpedos. And they had tacical nukes that would have been used in the event of an invasion. It would only have taken one small miscaclulation on either side to light the big fuse.

T'was a very, very near thing. I'd hate to think we might have failed to prepare for what might have happened because it was "morbid". There was indeed a high level of fatalism in those days--one that is probably diffcult for somebody growing up post-Cold-War to imagine.