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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I don’t know. I’ve never had it. It just doesn’t look very appealing to me. That pic I posted in 14 is of a fairly typical fruitcake.
Collins Street Bakery makes a good fruitcake. I don’t understand why the bad press for fruitcakes.
Let it be known that I’m a prodigious defender of the most noble and humble fruitcake. Oh tasty fruited rounds, so glorious yet mistreated by the baser lower instincts of unappreciative mankind. Your vaunted place in history is forever and tastily secure. LOL
Ohh, Yummy... My gastrointestinal tract can hardly wait.
Damn... weaponized food.... ugh....
Scurvy caused by lack of vitamin C would have been a serious concern. The candied fruits in fruitcake would have gone a long ways towards helping prevent this. And Fruit cakes are edible for at least a year or even longer if soaked with alcohol which was popular at the time.
Fruitcake would have been very practical on this expedition.
My mother’s Christmas fruitcakes were great. She’d make a couple each year. One was eaten right away...the other hung around awhile and I was usually the only one that ate it. Like a fine wine, it aged gracefully. The older it got, the more it turned into a large, sweet, fruit-filled candy bar. I’m not sure it would’ve lasted 106 years.
I miss Mom and her fruitcakes.
“106-year-old Antarctic fruitcake found”
Normally they don’t live that long.
I wonder how many boyfriends he has had in 106 years?
How long before it joins the Democrats?
“Penguins for boyfriends mostly!”
Good point!
The show up in a tux like Fred Astair!
What’s to complain!
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with Elaine and the hundreds year old wedding cake.
I thought his camp was preserved, even mentioning that the meat there is preserved as well.
I didn’t think his camp was news ?
The Free Range Fruitcake from Alton Brown is pretty good...
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/free-range-fruitcake-recipe-1926833
Oh come on, why not 6 million years old?
How is this fruitcake any different from one found in a store today?
Well, at least it didn’t smell like it was freezer-burned.
Now THAT’S a fruitcake!! People complain about getting them and passing them on but I LOVE them and have never gotten one-much less unwanted ones. The holidays are coming, if any of you are cursed...contact me! lol
And the jokes write themselves.
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