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{{quote|''Even the long loaf of dwarf bread that he carried into battle, and which could shatter a troll skull, was by his side. Dwarf scholars had, with delicacy and care and the blunting of fifteen saw blades, removed a tiny slice of it. Miraculously, it had turned out still to be as inedible now as the day it was baked.''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''', ''[[
Some foods last a ''[[Ragnarok Proofing|really]]'' long time. They'll survive weeks in the wilderness, months under your bed, or even [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. And after all that, they're still edible... well, as much as they ever were, anyway. Which is usually [[Masochist's Meal|"not very"]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[WALL-E]] feeds his pet cockroach a Twinkie that's hundreds of years old. Of course, it's not unlikely that a cockroach just wouldn't care.
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* Dwarf bread in ''[[Discworld]]'' is, technically speaking, edible... but it's more commonly used as [[Baguette Beatdown|a blunt instrument]]. The prospect of actually having to ''eat'' dwarf bread is apparently so dreadful, it keeps people going in hopes they can find something else to eat, like roots and berries. Or their own feet.
** Common dwarf joke: to make a meal of Dwarf bread, soak it in a bucket for a month. Then eat the bucket.
** This trope also shows up in ''[[
* [[John Hemry]]'s ''[[A Just Determination]]'' has a scene in which a New Year's celebration aboard a U.S. Navy spaceship includes firing a fruitcake into the depths of space "as a warning to all the universe of the awful culinary weapons available to the human race." It's also stated that billions of years in the future, the fruitcake will be just as edible and tasty as it is at that moment.
** In ''[[The Lost Fleet]]'' series (written under the name Jack Campbell), [[The Lost Fleet/Funny|Danaka Yoruk ration bars are despised by everyone who's tasted them]], so there're a lot of Danaka Yoruks left because no one's willing to eat them if there's an alternative. One Alliance officer says the Syndicate rations are so foul that they make even Danaka Yoruks seem tasty by comparison, but a formerly-Syndicate officer contradicts this, describing Danaka Yoruk bars as the only "food" she ever tried that's worse than what the Syndicate Worlds offer. "The name is engraved on my guts."
* [[The Lord of the Rings|Lembas bread]]. As long as it's in the original leaf wrapping, it can stay fresh for a long time, and even if you unwrap it, it seems to last quite a while. (Sam kept an emergency ration stashed away somewhere for several months to no ill effects.)
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' takes the Twinkie stereotype a step further when an enraged customer crushes one under his foot before storming out of the Kwik-E-Mart. It quickly pops back into shape after Apu picks it up.
{{quote|'''Apu:''' Silly customer! You cannot hurt a Twinkie.}}
* An episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' involves an auction for a tin of thousand-year-old anchovies. Although everyone else finds Fry's anchovy pizza utterly disgusting when they try it, Fry and Zoidberg don't seem to have any problems eating it, implying they are still at least fresh enough for an anchovy lover to eat.
* The ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' episode "Trout!" had a nut log that was a running joke turned [[Chekhov's Gun]], as the 'foodstuff' in question was hard as, and heavy as, a rock.
{{quote|'''Peter Puppy''': I don't think it was meant to be eaten, Jim. I think it was meant to anchor ships in a heavy storm.}}
* In one episode of the ''[[Pac-Man (animation)|Pac-Man]]'' cartoon, the title character finds Power Pellets in a mummy's tomb. He finds them "a little stale", but they still work.
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