"‘Cake mummy’ survived WWII bombing of Lübeck" Topic
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Tango01  | 25 Nov 2021 9:03 p.m. PST |
"A hazelnut cake complete with swirls of frosting carbonized in the bombing of Lübeck in 1942 has been discovered in a cellar in the city's historic old town. No food preserved in the firestorm of the bombing has been discovered before in Lübeck. Nor are there any comparable survivors from Hamburg or Dresden, two other German cities that were famously devastated by Allied firebombing. City archaeologists unearthed the cake in April during an excavation under a house on the Alfstrasse, a street that leads from the Trave river to Lübeck's iconic 13th century St. Mary's Church. Built in 1159, barely 15 years after the city's founding, Alfstrasse is one of the oldest streets in the Lübeck located in the very heart of the city's founding district. Lübeck was bombed by the Royal Air Force the night of March 28-29th, 1942, and the fires that resulted destroyed large parts of its medieval city center. St. Mary's was all but levelled (it was reconstructed after the war), as was the merchants' quarter. The house on Alfstrasse was destroyed in the bombing, but by a miraculous cake-preserving fluke, a cavity formed under the rubble that insulated the dessert from annihilation in the fires or from being crushed in the house's collapse…"
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| Frederick | 26 Nov 2021 5:52 a.m. PST |
If it was a Twinkie it would still be soft |
| Oddball | 26 Nov 2021 6:45 a.m. PST |
"Believe it or not, Twinkies have an expiration date" – Tallahassee. YouTube link |
| Tango01 | 26 Nov 2021 3:14 p.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 26 Nov 2021 10:13 p.m. PST |
We found some perfectly carbonized cherry pies in the top shelf of an oven at a bakery where I once worked… |
 Legion 4 | 27 Nov 2021 10:14 a.m. PST |
So are these like "zombie" pastries ? 🧟♂️🍞🥐🥯🥧🍩🍪🎂🍰🧁 |
| Tango01 | 27 Nov 2021 3:18 p.m. PST |
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| Heedless Horseman | 27 Nov 2021 7:50 p.m. PST |
:) Yeah, an 'overdone' cake… we've all seen one sometime! :) But… step back a little… and imagine the sad stories that 'could' have gone along with that cake? I do not believe in 'apologies' for acts of War… but sometimes 'poignant' artifacts can deeply sadden. :( |
| Legion 4 | 28 Nov 2021 9:56 a.m. PST |
My sister made some bread and the yeast didn't rise. So they were a bit more like bricks. After being baked. The woodland creatures in my backyard didn't seem to mind. 🦔🐇🐦🦆🦝 |
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