Actually it was just the bad weather: Because it was too cold for her to go on a trip the weekend before last, a Canadian woman and her son used the day to clean out their freezer - and in it she came across her frozen wedding cake from 1968. » She looks really good and smells delicious," Rochelle Marr told CBC.
It was a fruit cake that was lying at the bottom of the chest.
The words were written under the pastries: “not opening until 2018”, i.e. exactly 50 years after the wedding to her husband Brian, who died in 2023.
However, this did not happen because the existence of the pastry was forgotten in the family, said Rochelle Marr's son Travis.
According to the family's research, the cake was baked by the mother of one of the bridesmaids.
The report does not mention exactly which month the Marrs were married in 1968, but the cake is consistently referred to as "55 years old."
Marr further told CBC that she and her son carefully defrosted the cake after finding it.
In a video that can be seen on the broadcaster's website, Marr can be seen handling the cake with a knife.
It is not clear whether she also cuts into it.
The older woman is quoted as saying that she knows that many people are skeptical about the age of the cake.
Still, she's not worried.
“I love fruit cake.” But this should only be eaten later: namely when Travis and his two siblings and their families can come to their mother.
CBC reporters addressed the question of whether it is safe to eat such a cake by interviewing a food safety expert.
The cake is high in alcohol and high in sugar and fat, said Keith Warriner, a food safety professor at the University of Guelph.
It was also in the freezer.
"There's obviously no microbial growth." He wouldn't eat it himself, but it should still be safe.
There was a similar case in Germany around two years ago: Archaeologists found a mummified cake that was apparently 79 years old in the basement of a house in Lübeck that was destroyed in an air raid.
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