Food Science & Cooking · Recorded milestone
Retort pouch meals
Recorded year1968
Otsuka Foods sells Bon Curry in a heat-sterilised plastic pouch that keeps without a can or a fridge, later the basis of army and space rations.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.