PHOTOS: 'Almost Edible' 106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found In Antarctica

**hunter63** · 08-14-2017, 06:17 PM

Talk about a Fruitcake Toss.....Found this today...
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Fruitcake is known to stay fresh for an inordinate amount of time.

But Antarctic conservators say they recently came upon a specimen that tests the limits of the treat: a 106-year-old cake, found in one of Antarctica's first buildings.

This particular cake is believed to have been brought over in 1910 during the Terra Nova expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. According to the Antarctic Heritage Trust, "it has been documented that Scott took this particular brand of cake with him at that time."<Quote

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-in-antarctica

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**Rick** · 08-14-2017, 07:00 PM

I read that a couple of days ago. 'Almost' edible. That's not a lot of warm fuzzies for me. I can think of a lot 'almost' things that just don't quite make it. Your car almost started. You almost got the job. You almost won the lottery. Yeah, not so much. On the plus side. It just proves no matter what you do you can not kill fruit cake.

**Phaedrus** · 08-14-2017, 07:18 PM

Fruitcake starts out at "almost edible" so I'm not sure what the article is trying to say!

**rebel** · 08-14-2017, 08:02 PM

Lol. I've had recently made ones that were inedible. Nowhere near almost.

**hunter63** · 08-14-2017, 08:07 PM

Yeah....I thought it was humorous........
Cool old pictures.

**crashdive123** · 08-14-2017, 08:42 PM

Sooooooo.....even on an Antarctic expedition over 100 years ago where members of the expedition were likely starving to death.....those people wouldn't even eat fruit cake. No wonder it gets re-gifted every year.

**randyt** · 08-14-2017, 10:33 PM

should go good with the whisky they found from the other expedition, just drink the whisky first.

**Fixit** · 08-14-2017, 10:49 PM

I suspect that the almost edible was because it had dried out. So just soak it in above mentioned whiskey .

**hunter63** · 08-15-2017, 12:02 AM

I say ...Drink the whiskey.......drink the whiskey...burn the fruit cake to keep warm.....LOL...If it will burn......

**Faiaoga** · 08-15-2017, 01:11 AM

It looks like some cakes we have received as holiday gifts

**LowKey** · 08-15-2017, 03:03 AM

I think you guys would like the "Christmas cake" my mom made.
No crappy citron. Just candied cherries and white raisins - soaked in bourbon for a week (you had to have an extra container of cherries in there cuz after a day or two, they were downright tasty, and seem to vanish mysteriously.) Two more cups of bourbon went into the cake batter. After cooking and cooling, they were wrapped in bourbon soaked cheesecloth, then in plastic wrap, then in tin foil and put in the fridge for a month. We always made them the weekend before Thanksgiving.

**rebel** · 08-15-2017, 05:38 AM

Yea, my mom used to make rum balls. I didn't like them as much as everyone else seemed too. Let's just say that you wouldn't want to be blowing out any candles.