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Old Tinned Food |
atomictonytiki
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Joined: May 14, 2002
Posts: 1272
From: Bangkok
|  Posted: 2006-02-08 09:05 am Permalink
A man celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by eating a 50-year-old tin of chicken.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4693520.stm
So whats the oldest food you've ever eaten?
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pablus
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From: www.crazedmugs.com
| Posted: 2006-02-08 4:12 pm Permalink
I have a friend in South Africa who makes what she calls "hundred year old bread" and uses yeast that has been in her family for generations now. So I guess technically that there are still living organisms within that mixture that would be around a hundred years.
I wouldn't eat tinned chicken even if I watched it get canned.
I used to eat that awful "chicken spread" in a can. Ugghh. What were my parents thinking?
Can you imagine the preservatives engaged in an operation like that? <shudder>
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cynfulcynner
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Posts: 1800
From: Ocean Beach, San Francisco
| Posted: 2006-02-11 12:39 am Permalink
Here's an article about 150-year-old sourdough bread -- it even survived the 1906 earthquake!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/10/09/MN78494.DTL&hw=sourdough+anniversary&sn=001&sc=1000
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mbonga
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Posts: 556
From: La Mesa, California
| Posted: 2006-02-11 01:20 am Permalink
Have you all heard of the yeast found aboard an 1825 shipwreck that was used to recreate an authentic old style porter?
http://www.liquidsolutions.biz/main/
Or the Norwegian brewer whose stirring stick supposedly still contained yeast from the age of the Vikings?
http://www.pierssen.com/beer/ffb.htm
Or the yeast recovered from a submarine sunk in 1915?
http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-001589.html
I thought I read some living yeast was recovered from an ancient Roman shipwreck, and used to recreate their beer, too, but I can't find any online references for that.
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