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Mantas Kačerauskas

“World War I Soup”: 87 Old Products People Found At Home That Prove Some People Never Throw Anything Away

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There are two types of people in this world. Those who throw stuff out the exact moment it expires, down to the second, as if one minute past the date turns it into radioactive material. And those who hold onto things for years, convinced that a bottle of salad dressing from 2011 still has plenty of life left in it.

The latter crowd has found their spiritual home on r/GrandmasPantry. It’s a subreddit where folks post ancient relics they’ve unearthed around their homes, from mystery cans buried in the back of a cupboard to cleaning supplies that haven’t seen the light of day in decades. Scroll down for the best finds.

#1 My Grandma Passed Away In 1982. I Went Back In Her House For The First Time Since That Day

#2 My Dad Bought This Ham Back In 1992. It's Been In His Freezer The Whole Time. He Refuses To Throw It Out And Says "It's Still Good. Frozen Meat Doesn't Go Bad"

#3 Phillip Just Turned 9

#4 My Septuagenarian Mom Still Has Her ‘97 Softsoap Container To Match Her ‘97 Fish Bathroom

#5 Bought These Off A Walgreens Shelf 3 Days Ago

#6 Found This In An Old Hersheys Tin In Grandma’s Pantry. Old Diet Pill From The 80s That Was Banned By The Fda In The 90s. Still Full

#7 38 Year Old Brownies

There’s a sad story to these nearly 4 decade old brownies. My great aunt, who lives with dementia, had a son who tragically passed away at 12 in 1986. Not long before, he baked these brownies for her, and ever since then they have sat in the back of her refrigerator. We found it while going through her fridge. I won’t take off the lid until we decide to throw it out (which surely will be soon) but it seems like they’ve aged without growing mold, which is mildly concerning, but pretty cool.

#8 Pulled This Out Of A Box In My Dad’s Attic Labeled Camping Supplies

#9 I Ate Approx. 20 Year Old Gushers

#10 Found A Relic From 1988 While Cleaning At Work

#11 1997 Miracle Whip Found In My Great Uncles House

#12 Found In My Boyfriend’s Pantry

#13 Found When Cleaning Out My Mothers Closet

#14 I Was Given 6 Bags Of Food, And Nearly All Of It Expired More Than A Decade Ago

A family friend made a big deal all weekend about bringing me six bags of food for me and my wife to go through and dump the rest off at the "blessings pantry".... This is some of it!
The best part: The Ghirardellis mint chips and dumpling mix are so antique they don't even have an expiry date. Exciting, we love old food youtubes!
The sun-dried tomatoes (2009) are congealed into a whole new product, may patent it...
Thought about eating that 2008 dark chocolate because damn! The caviar has no date, not sure if it's even that old, but... no.
The rancid smell coming off that Crisco (2007) was intense. The cheese fantastico bottle was creating a vacuum, may implode one day, may keep for science. And wtf is Molly McButter!!
She even suggested I give all the pouch tunas (2011-2014) to my elderly dog, so basically I'm thinkin she's trying to end us all.

#15 Found Some Coppertone Sunscreen With The Original Logo At My Parent’s House

#16 My Dad Brought Over Some “Never-Opened Baby Powder” To Help With My Twins…

#17 100 Year Old Sandwich Found

#18 A Few Gems From My 102-Year Old Grandmother’s Kitchen Cabinets

#19 Living In My Freezer Since Late 1999

Millennipede! The blue things used to be stuck on its back but it molted.
My mom gave it to me late 1999. It sat on the counter for a while and I didn’t have the heart to throw it away before New Year (you can tell it would taste terrible so eating it never crossed my mind) so I stuck it in the freezer.
On my 3rd freezer, but original Millennipede.

#20 In My Grandma’s First Aid Kit…

#21 Unopened Welches Jelly Jar From 1994

#22 How Groovy Can The Pantry Get?

#23 My Mom’s Full Unopened Coca Cola Gallon Jug. 1966

#24 Chips From '94

#25 Found In My Papas Medicine Cabinet

#26 80's Gatorade

#27 World War I Soup On My Great Aunt’s Fridge

This soup was made for the German Army in World War I. It went unused and sat in the back of a store owned by my great aunt.
When she retired, she put it on her fridge, where it stayed for decades. This is a picture of it in 2017.
In 2022 she passed away at 96 and the house was sold.
Found out today the soup was trashed.