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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Big deal - they’ll be finding old preserved mcDonalds food 100 years from now.
FR is slipping. It shouldn’t have taken 19 posts to get to fruitcake. LOL.
True. The Luftwaffe flattened Warsaw. But still the Germans complain Dresden was a ‘’war crime’’.
To quote Harris “They sowed the seed, now let them reap the whirlwind’’.
They didn't fight the Germans in the Mediterranean or North Africa or Sicily or the Italian mainland. They didn't posses an airforce that bombed German war industries or cities, they didn't have a navy that ended the U-boat threat in the North Atlantic and they didn't fight the Japanese through all the islands of the Pacific. And they sure didn't develop and deploy two atomic bombs that bought Japan to the surrender table. And they don't dwell on the fact they were allies of the Nazis until June of 1941 when Hitler decided he didn't need a partner anymore.
Exactly. Well put. They were perfectly happy splitting up Europe with the Nazis until they Nazis weren’t.
Lake Meade is nearly dry, so ............................
The Germans also flattened Coventry, England. They bombed London every night for seven months. Anyone who thinks that bombing anything in Germany was a war crime just doesn’t know much or is morally misguided.
The poor civilian who baked it is probably nearby — also burned to a crisp.
The cake is a lie.
That looks like Sleep All Night Cake.
My roommate made one once.
Bill Clinton would hit it.
I hear he likes them mummified.
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