Posted on 08/12/2017 7:32:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Antarctic dessert was found wrapped in paper in a decrepit tin. But despite its rotting container, the cake was said to be in "excellent condition."
"There was a very, very slight rancid butter smell to it, but other than that, the cake looked and smelled edible," trust program manager Lizzie Meeks said.
Conservators believe British explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott probably brought the cake, made by the British biscuit company Huntley & Palmers, to Antarctica during their ill-fated 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition.
The expedition's Northern Party took shelter in the Cape Adare hut, which had been built by Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevink's team in 1899, and left the fruitcake behind.
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After you, Lizzie.
Probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between it and a 106-hour old fruitcake.
Very funny!
It beats the fruitcakes in DC which are nauseating and filled with $hit.
This has got to be fake news as there is no such thing as an edible fruit cake.
Fruitcake is never edible whether day 1 or day 38,690. On the positive side, I don’t think that it decomposes, though.
Give it to Mikey...he'll eat ANYTHING!!
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“Let’s get Mikey to try it. He’ll eat anything...”
Can we surmise only a fruitcake would try to eat a 100-year-old fruitcake?
“I told you, Irma, these things live forever...”
Fruitcake is never edible whether day 1 or day 38,690.
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Mostly true, but I have a neighbor that makes one with fresh fruit and liqueur that is really good.
“Mama mia! Thatza spicy fruitcake.”
106 year old Fruitcake? Just add another gender identity to the list.
Fruitcake, formerly a favorite, is now on my list of forbidden foods—as it is indicated in kidney stone production!
Just wrap it up and give it away again at Christmas.....
Some relative probably gave it to Capt. Scott after it had already passed through a number of families at Christmas time. Probably thinking we’ll never see this bloody thing again. Could make a good sci-fi/horror movie out of this. The Return of the Fruitcake.
What does traditional fruitcake and conservative patriots have in common?
They both get an undeservingly deplorable bad rap.
Call Lubeck, he is the world’s foremost appraiser of vintage pastry.
I bet this was from the failed Scott expedition around that time.
So, even faced with starvation and death, people still won’t eat fruitcake.
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