Candy anyone?
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 4:29 am
To be more correct this isn't candy, it's "Carbohydrate supplement", part of what you would be eating in a government stocked emergency fallout shelter in the 1960's. These and the emergency ration crackers, plus maybe some spam as you sat in the candlelight listening to the clicks of the radiation detector. This can, now part of my Cold War Cool Shit collection, was packed in October of 1963 and is out of a Newtown NJ fallout shelter in the basement of a bank. The guy who sold it to me opened a can and ate all 32 pounds of hard candy, and several tins of the crackers, claimed they all tasted fine. I saw no reason to point out to him that the red dye used in some of these candy's was outlawed in the 70's as being a cancer causing agent. The can is in surprisingly good condition, and looks like it was made last week rather than 55 years ago. I stored it with the rest of my doomsday supplies, if the balloon does go up I don't think I will much give a shit about the deadly food coloring as I munch candy waiting for the radiation sickness to set in.
For all the kids to young to remember, during the Cold War your government actually gave a shit about helping the ordinary people to survive WWIII. They formed the Civil Defense agency and stocked small and large fallout shelters in small towns and big city's in all 50 states. Well built structures like banks, schools, administration buildings had them in the lower floors. These shelters were stocked by the CD with basic survival rations and things like sanitation kits ( a pail with plastic liner) water barrels and radiation detectors ( Geiger counters ) During the Clinton years these shelters were decommissioned and the CD became FEMA, and you are now on your own should the Bomb drop.
For all the kids to young to remember, during the Cold War your government actually gave a shit about helping the ordinary people to survive WWIII. They formed the Civil Defense agency and stocked small and large fallout shelters in small towns and big city's in all 50 states. Well built structures like banks, schools, administration buildings had them in the lower floors. These shelters were stocked by the CD with basic survival rations and things like sanitation kits ( a pail with plastic liner) water barrels and radiation detectors ( Geiger counters ) During the Clinton years these shelters were decommissioned and the CD became FEMA, and you are now on your own should the Bomb drop.
I can't find anyone to let me In there now. The ball on top of the flagpole is supposed to have a 1911 packed inside it. 
