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Blackened mummy cake found intact 79 years after WWII air raid
https://www.livescience.com ^
| October 22, 2021
| Mindy Weisberger
Posted on 10/22/2021 11:15:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Fires from incendiary bombs burned the cake to a crisp..
A 79-year-old nutcake lies on a table in the workshop of the Department of Archaeology for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Historic Monuments Protection Authority. (Image credit: dpa picture alliance/Alamy Live News) Archaeologists in Germany are salivating over a hazelnut-and-almond cake that was baked 79 years ago and was recently dug up in a cellar in the German town of Lübeck — as a blackened, mummy-like relic.
Though the charred delicacy hasn't been edible for a very, very long time, it's still recognizable as a cake, representatives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck said in a statement. The cake's overall shape, nut fillings, details in the sugar icing decorations and even its wax-paper wrappings remained intact after the pastry was burned into a crisp, cake-shaped charcoal briquette during a World War II air raid.
Archaeologists have previously discovered the burnt remains of long-ago meals, but they rarely find food that's as whole and well-preserved as this cake was, according to the statement. It offers a glimpse into a dark moment in Germany's history and illuminates the fragility of life during wartime, Lübeck representatives said.
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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs; hanseaticleague; mummies
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To: Red Badger
Boy! Those supply chain issues really are something!!!
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posted on
10/22/2021 11:47:46 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: knarf
Dats Raciss!.................
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posted on
10/22/2021 11:48:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Can’t be eaten according to the three second rule. But maybe this is a special case?
To: Red Badger
It's bloody awful!
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posted on
10/22/2021 11:56:24 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
To: llevrok
Boy! Those supply chain issues really are something!!!
If you were to buy a cake for curbside pickup at Wal Mart....
To: Yardstick
Why are there no ‘British Restaurants’?....................
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:02:52 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
There are probably some 79 year old Twinkies on some shelves somewhere.
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:07:07 PM PDT
by
political1
(Love your neighbors)
To: political1
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:10:25 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Send it to these guys
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:14:48 PM PDT
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: Salamander
............ oh, wait..............
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:16:41 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Why are there no Irish Cookbooks?
I actually saw one in a used bookstore, once.
It was about 12 pages long and the pages were 70% filled with a photo of the tragically Irish food.
How many ways can you prepare soda bread, potatoes and turnips, really?
/our ancestral cuisine is starvation
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:18:21 PM PDT
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:21:29 PM PDT
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: Red Badger
A 79-year-old nutcake lies on a table in the workshop of the Department of Archaeology
—
AKA Biden
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:24:14 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The future is a quiet world)
To: Red Badger
That’s nothing! In 1967,8 we ROTC guys ate WWII C-Rations. We were eating something that was dead ten years before we were born.
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:31:32 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: GingisK
We were still eating them in USMC Boot Camp in 1973!.............
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:32:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
I wonder when they finally used all that old stuff up? The B-2 unit bread could absorb all of the water from Lake Meade.
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posted on
10/22/2021 12:41:52 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Red Badger; mylife; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
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posted on
10/22/2021 1:40:57 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: gov_bean_ counter
I was waiting for fruitcake references.
My brother and I have been giving each other the same fruitcake for Christmas for the past 30 years.
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posted on
10/22/2021 1:47:21 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
To: Larry Lucido
Was it a butter 🧈 based frosting?
It’s an Entemmann’s!!!
They have a case at the end of the aisle
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posted on
10/22/2021 1:47:59 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: Red Badger
Just pass the whipped cream and gimmy a fork!
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posted on
10/22/2021 2:05:12 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(I speak to be precise and refusing to change doesn't mean you can assign imprecise labels.)
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