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November 2, 2008: Olde Chocolate
Very Olde Chocolate... like 106 years old chocolate.
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Hailing from Scottish town St Andrews, they were made especially to mark the Coronation of King Edward VII - the successor to Queen Victoria - and come in a decorated tin announcing Coronation Day on June 26, 1902. And they have lasted considerably longer than the king's reign, which ended with his death in 1910. Alongside the chocolates is an old newspaper cutting dating back to their 50th |
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It explains that the sweets were presented to schoolgirl Martha Greig in August, 1902. She mustered up the willpower to avoid eating the chocolates, instead keeping them as a souvenir. When she grew up, she handed the box down to one of her children, who in turn gave it to her own daughter, Freida McIntosh. Ms McIntosh also resisted temptation and and has now passed the confectionery into the safe hands of the St Andrews Preservation Trust, which aims to maintain the character and history of the town. |
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elSicomoro Sunday Nov 2 01:54 AM
I'm surprised that they didn't attract bugs...I guess the metal kept the scent in?
elSicomoro Sunday Nov 2 01:58 AM
I'm surprised that they didn't attract bugs...I guess the metal kept the scent in?
newtimer Sunday Nov 2 02:54 AM
I wonder if her kids ate a couple of the chocolates and replaced them with stones.
spudcon Sunday Nov 2 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by newtimer
I wonder if her kids ate a couple of the chocolates and replaced them with stones.
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Clodfobble Sunday Nov 2 09:38 AM
I have a chocolate souvenir-type item sitting in my freezer, but it's only about 6 years old at this point. It was a silly marketing piece for a very big-budget videogame that failed miserably, which was a major reason for the company's spectacular bankruptcy filing shortly afterwards. I've kept it as a humorous symbol of everything that was mismanaged about the game and the company... But there's been no temptation to eat it for a looong time already.
elSicomoro Sunday Nov 2 02:24 PM
We froze the top of our wedding cake and ate it last week on our anniversary. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad.
Cloud Sunday Nov 2 04:00 PM
that's pretty disgusting
Clodfobble Sunday Nov 2 04:02 PM
That's a long tradition, Cloud, you've never heard of it? You're supposed to freeze a piece of wedding cake and eat it on your first anniversary. We didn't, but I know lots of people who did.
Cloud Sunday Nov 2 05:18 PM
yeah, yeah--not that. the chocolate.
Sheldonrs Sunday Nov 2 06:09 PM
I've always thought that if things like chocolate looked like it does when you pass it through, fewer people would eat too much of it.
HungLikeJesus Sunday Nov 2 09:55 PM
I think it does.
Beest Friday Nov 7 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by sycamore
We froze the top of our wedding cake and ate it last week on our anniversary. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad.
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That's 4 1/2 years, no refrigeration
, just kept in a tin in a dry cupboard.(old school fruit cake, loaded with alcohol
)(may not have been the top slice as the rest were chocolate and not strong enough to support the weight
)Edit: it was yummy.
monster Friday Nov 7 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Beest
it was yummy.
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British Fruitcake is somewhat different from merkin stuff, and is the tradition for wedding cakes.
BTW, we had one chocolate layer (because I hate fruit cake) and that was the top one (because it can't be weight-bearing), so we saved the second layer rather than the first.
monster Friday Nov 7 11:45 PM
and lose the "christening" thing (and the naming thing). Fess Up that we just had a party so we could get rid of the cake......
dar512 Sunday Nov 9 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by monster
and it wasn't yummy imo -fruitcake sucks.
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chrisinhouston Thursday Nov 13 02:35 PM
Could be good with a vast amount of really old port.
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