Talk about long shelf life.....Found this today...
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Fruitcake is known to stay fresh for an inordinate amount of time.
But Antarctic conservators say they recently came upon a specimen that tests the limits of the treat: a 106-year-old cake, found in one of Antarctica's first buildings.
This particular cake is believed to have been brought over in 1910 during the Terra Nova expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. According to the Antarctic Heritage Trust, "it has been documented that Scott took this particular brand of cake with him at that time."<Quote
There was a point in time that I did notice that, so I don't buy it anymore. Have you ever heard the term "food-like substance" I think I learned that one from Michael Pollan's Food Rules
Quote from the same source........
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But tragically, explorers on Antarctic expeditions were often hungry. Scott himself starved to death while on the return journey from the South Pole.<
Bhohahaha....They would rather starve that to eat that as well.
As I sat in my window last evening,
The letterman brought it to me
A little gilt-edged invitation sayin'
"Gilhooley come over to tea"
I knew that the Fogarties sent it.
So I went just for old friendships sake.
The first thing they gave me to tackle
Was a slice of Miss Fogarty's cake.
There were plums and prunes and cherries,
There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too
There was nutmeg, cloves and berries
And a crust that was nailed on with glue
There were caraway seeds in abundance
Such that work up a fine stomach ache
That could kill a man twice after eating a slice
Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake.
Miss Mulligan wanted to try it,
But really it wasn't no use
For we worked in it over an hour
And we couldn't get none of it loose
Till Murphy came in with a hatchet
And Kelly came in with a saw
That cake was enough be the powers above
For to paralyze any man's jaws
Miss Fogarty proud as a peacock,
Kept smiling and blinking away
Till she flipped over Flanagans brogans
And she spilt the homebrew in her tea
Aye Gilhooley she says you're not eatin,
Try a little bit more for me sake
And no Miss Fogarty says I,
For I've had quite enough of your cake
Maloney was took with the colic,
O'Donald's a pain in his head
Mc'Naughton lay down on the sofa,
And he swore that he wished he was dead
Miss Bailey went into hysterics
And there she did wriggle and shake
And everyone swore they were poisoned
Just from eating Miss Fogarty's cake
The first fruit cake ever made originated in Babylon 3583 BC. Tru dat. I tripped over it a couple days ago. You may be next, reader. Big toe will have revenge.
Did you notice..... they are gonna take it back when the study is done:
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The objects recovered from Cape Adare — including a watercolor painting of a Tree Creeper bird by scientist Edward Wilson — are undergoing conservation treatment and will be returned there, because the huts are deemed an Antarctic Specially Protected Area. That will happen after restoration work is finished on the buildings themselves.
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I another 106 years will probably just a slightly less edible .....Bhohahaha
What I would really want to try is the whiskey that was found in Antarctica that was left by ill-fated the Shackleton expedition. I'm thinking that Scotch improved with age.
I must say I do like fruit cake. well I like my own but I use very little fruit and lots of rum. about the bread that doesn't go bad. many years ago a guy who had worked at one of the bakeries told my father they used embalming fluid or something similar. not sure if that was true or not. ~Georgia
Most likely pulling you leg....they just taste like it......LOL
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