I think I’ve told this story already, but let me repeat it anyway. I was in the Soviet Army from 1979 till 1981. The standard army (I believe any army) practice is that you use the stored supplies and replenish them with the new, fresh products, meat included. Well, so was the practice then anyway. Meat came on the base as a whole cow stamped with a date when it was frozen. Guess what date that was. You’ll never guess. Okay, I’ll add the best supplies went to elite battalions, the ones that did real rigorous training; I was in Engineering battalion, so no real fighting or even training. Did not even see the gun, did a lot of shoveling though. Anyway, back to meat. Have you guessed the year yet? I’m going to post an answer a bit latter, see if anybody will guess, in the mean time I want to tell you just one thing, your beef is fine.