Yikes!
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Fun fact: an anagram of āyikesā is ākey isā! The key is what, I wonder.
(just trying to bring this back around to safes for old timeās sake.)
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I was going to say that most sake isnāt aged beyond six months, and is drunk within a year 
ā¦but today I learned that a small percentage of sake on the market is aged, some of it for a number of years. Apparently some of it may taste similar to sherry, or bourbon, or whiskey.
Therefore I think itās safe to say: while one may have some understanding of a subject, never assume you have a lock on it.
(And seriously, donāt humans ageāor attempt to age, or age by accidentāpretty much all foods? I should have known there would be aged sake! I suppose I vaguely guessed there would be, or I wouldnāt have gone looking it up.)
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Wonderful things like beer and cheese would probably not exist if not for some neolithic happy accident. Hurrah for absentmindedness.
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And for having enough to eat that some can be set aside for laterā¦in a safe place, of course.
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The other day I learned that oaks have a three-year cycle for acorn production: two lean years followed by a boom year. The two lean years keep the nut forager population in check; the boom year causes squirrels to go nuts (ha) with hoarding, collecting and hiding so many nuts that they forget about a large number of them. If the oaks always had lean years this distribution wouldnāt happen; if they were always heavy producers the forager population would boom and all the nuts would get eaten too.
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The squirrels are probably hoping for some nice fermented acornsā¦imagine their surprise to find that theyāve got a bunch of little trees instead.
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And of course its always some sloppy guy thatās gunna look at some old food they left out and thinksā¦ maybe itāll taste ok. And eats it despite it looking way past fresh.
Iām not saying this out of experienceā¦ not at allā¦
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Wow, I just discovered this thread. So what did he find in the safe? /s
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Ramen. Oodles of ramen.
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Random squirrel facts.
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A dank carpet of oak seedlings.
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How long did it take you to read through? (Or did you?)
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I didnāt. I was joking. Iāve been aware that this thread is still active, just never participated.
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This guy rates the cheap stuff, and I have to admit heās turned me on to the better cheap instant ramen out there, though my local Asian market doesnāt carry anywhere near as many brands as he finds.
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This. I need this. Thank you.
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Himself. He found himself.
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The opening, from the safeās POV:
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