Question

The Cold War: Civil Defense at Home article at achieve 3000
Read the following passage from the article:

Years later, the USDA's claims about the indefinite shelf life of those crackers were put to the test. In 2006, New York City inspection workers stumbled across a stockpile of Cold War rations. Among the supplies were more than 100 boxes of survival crackers. Iris Weinshall, NYC's former transportation commissioner, took a bite. How did the snacks taste? "Like cardboard, but with a nasty backbite that stayed in your mouth for hours," Weinshall reported.

Why did the author include this information?


To suggest that the companies that made the crackers did not follow the recipe
To criticize the government for wasting food that hungry people could have used
To prove the crackers were not as nutritious as the government had hoped
To demonstrate that evidence of the past recommendations can still be found

Answer 1

To demonstrate that evidence of the past recommendations can still be found — the discovery of the crackers shows physical remains of Cold War civil defense supplies still exist.