Man Eats Canned Soup 21 years old and lives!

Near where I live there is a flea market.  To those of you in Britian, I think you call these a boot sale.  It's where people come to one spot, with all their unwanted things and try to sell them to each other.  Don't ask me why we call it a "flea market" in the states, no one sells fleas there.

At any rate, some time ago I picked up, for free, a box stamped all over it "Norm Thompson, PO Box 3999, Portland, OR 97208 which advises me to "order toll free 24 hours a day at 1-800-547-1160"

John Lusty "Royal Windsor Soup" circa 1990-1995 ?

Apparently Norm Thompson is, or was some kind of catalog outfit.  At any rate, inside the box, were three 14.5 ounce cans of John Lusty "Royal Windsor Soup".  On the back it tells me that these are "Vegetable Soup in Venison Stock, packed for John Lusty Division, Bender & Cassel, Ltd., Hertfordshire, England"

There is a Wikipedia article on "Brown Windsor Soup" which describes it as a puree of vegetables with meat stock, generally beef or lamp.

There is a Wikipedia article on "Norm Thompson Outfitters" which is apparently this same company.  I really can't be too certain, but it appears probable that, reading that article, they might have been selling this soup between 1990 and 1994.

This article in BNP from 1990 tells us that John Lusty rolled out this soup "a year ago" so 1989 is the earliest possible year that this soup was created.  Curiously under it's "Special Export" label, so I guess you Brits didn't want this soup anymore, but they thought us Yanks might take a hankering to it.  Since it was Royal or an import or something.

Vegetable Soup in Venison Stock

The can does have a UPC on it of 0-9200210300-1 but it has no nutrition information.  So perhaps the year of production can be narrowed down further by that information.

It's a ready-to-eat soup, not a condensed soup, so you don't have to add anything to it, just heat it up.

The list of ingredients is : Water, Venison Stock, Soya Protein, Carrots, Onions, Cornstarch, Turnips, Flour, Celery, Butter, Yeast Extract, Leeks, Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, Wine, Salt, Herbs and Spices, Garlic, Caramel. (Note: I fixed the odd British spelling of "Hydrolysed".)

I think that by eating old canned foods and living, I have proven death to the theory that food in undamaged cans can ever go bad.  Canned Food Never Goes Bad.  That's my theory.