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Canned Goods, Dystopian, Expiration Dates, Food Preservation, Future of Food Storage, Spoilage, Survivalists, Writing Science Fiction
The media has had a field day lately with the possibility that Twinkies will go by way of the passenger pigeon. For those of you who are praying for a miracle, you can take comfort in the likelihood that a white knight will ride in to save the cakes from extinction, even though the cakes themselves, will remain edible until the actual apocalypse. In my latest dystopian story, I toy with the concept of a time when over 95% of the world’s population is killed off in two years. I won’t get into the challenges survivors face with cleanup activities, but it sparked a question as to what happens to all the manufactured foodstuffs in a supply chain for 300 million?