Reading a paper last night and found out they discovered a 3,000-year-old honey jar in Georgia that was still edible, which is wild lol.

Has anyone else come across a find that just seems impossible to preserve?

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That honey thing is nuts. Salt is a big one too. They find ancient salt mines where the stuff is basically still good. It just doesn't go bad. Dry caves can keep stuff for ages.

mitchell.nancy6d ago

Hold on a minute, that's not quite right about the salt. While it's true that pure salt itself doesn't go bad, a lot of the ancient salt they find in those old mines has absorbed moisture and picked up impurities from the surrounding rock over the centuries. It's probably not something you'd want to sprinkle on your dinner. They can still use it for things like de-icing roads or industrial processes, but that stuff from the caves is usually pretty messed up compared to the clean, dry salt you buy at the store. So it's not exactly "still good" in the way we think of it for cooking.

richardh442mo ago

Man, my leftovers from last week are a biohazard. That honey's outlasted empires and my fridge cleanouts.