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xoxoxoBruce 11-02-2008 01:30 AM

November 2, 2008: Olde Chocolate
 
Very Olde Chocolate... like 106 years old chocolate.

http://cellar.org/2008/oldchoco1.jpg

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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
http://cellar.org/2008/oldchoco2.jpg
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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.
I wonder at just what point resisting temptation ceases to be a problem anymore?:greenface
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elSicomoro 11-02-2008 01:54 AM

I'm surprised that they didn't attract bugs...I guess the metal kept the scent in?

newtimer 11-02-2008 01:54 AM

I wonder if her kids ate a couple of the chocolates and replaced them with stones.

spudcon 11-02-2008 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by newtimer (Post 500094)
I wonder if her kids ate a couple of the chocolates and replaced them with stones.

Or something more organic, as a prank.;)

Clodfobble 11-02-2008 08:38 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 11-02-2008 01:24 PM

We froze the top of our wedding cake and ate it last week on our anniversary. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad.

Cloud 11-02-2008 03:00 PM

that's pretty disgusting

Clodfobble 11-02-2008 03:02 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 11-02-2008 04:18 PM

yeah, yeah--not that. the chocolate.

Sheldonrs 11-02-2008 05:09 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.

:D

HungLikeJesus 11-02-2008 08:55 PM

I think it does.

Beest 11-07-2008 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sycamore (Post 500190)
We froze the top of our wedding cake and ate it last week on our anniversary. Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad.

We ate the top slice of our wedding cake at the nameing ("christening") of our first child.
That's 4 1/2 years, no refrigeration ;) , just kept in a tin in a dry cupboard.
(old school fruit cake, loaded with alcohol :thumb: )

(may not have been the top slice as the rest were chocolate and not strong enough to support the weight :D )

Edit: it was yummy.

monster 11-07-2008 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Beest (Post 502223)
it was yummy.

dude, that's such a ghey thing to say... and it wasn't yummy imo -fruitcake sucks. But it was edible and probably better than when we got married if you like fruitcake, because of the alcohol. it did get eaten, so maybe some don't share my opinion.

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 11-07-2008 10:45 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 11-09-2008 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 502373)
and it wasn't yummy imo -fruitcake sucks.

Then you haven't had good fruitcake. You should see if Ali would send you a slice.


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