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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 15, 2017, 12:08:52 pm
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Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
12 August 2017
Ice-covered Antarctica is one of Earth's most hostile natural environments.
But a new find by the Antarctic Heritage Trust suggests it's no match for a 106-year-old British fruitcake.
Conservators found the elderly cake on Cape Adare, and believe it belonged to British explorer Robert Falcon Scott - known as Scott of the Antarctic.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40907084
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Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
12 August 2017
Soon to be regifted by Aunt Gertrude and under somebody's tree December 25, 2017.
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Was it being used as a doorstop down there in Antarctica? I thought that was the purpose of fruitcake.
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Only a fruitcake would eat that fruitcake. :whistle: