Oldest cooked food you have eaten?

Mammoth

I have some fig preserves my grandmother canned 30+ years ago. Once in a while I'm tempted to risk the botulism but so far have resisted pulling the trigger.

6 day old Big Mac

I mean I generally Age my steaks for a month, sometimes more.

vintage cake from King Edward VIII's wedding

My colleagues will tell you that if there’s not something growing on it, I will eat it.

Just give it the old smell test. As long it doesn’t smell rotten it’s good to go

My grandpappy said Thanksgiving Day 1945 on Okinawa they had turkeys that had been slaughtered in Chicago in 1926

My dad and uncle would eat anything no matter the age. I guess growing up in the middle of nowhere and poor they couldn’t be too choosie. At the hunting cabin it almost seems like a competition of who can eat the oldest most expired food.

Contrast this from my gated community where I heard a girl tell her mother that she couldn’t eat the leftover spaghetti from last night because it probably went bad and they probably shouldn’t give it to the dog.

I just watched the movie Rescue Dawn and researched Dieter Dengler a little further and ran across this snippet

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Dengler had trained in escaping and survival at the Navy SERE survival school, where he had twice escaped from the mock-POW camp run by SERE instructors and Marine guards and was planning a third escape when the training ended.[11] He had also set a record as the only student to gain weight (three pounds) during the SERE course; his childhood experiences had made him unafraid of eating whatever he could find and he had feasted on food the course instructors had thrown in the garbage.

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I'm the only one in my house who eats corned beef, so when I make one it'll last close to 2 weeks.