Remarks by an Archaeologist Excavating Ruins, or by Your Dad While Clearing Out the Fridge for Thanksgiving?
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2 min readNov 24, 2020
It’s really cramped in here.
- Do you know where the trowel is? Or maybe some tongs?
- What do you think we’ll find in this box?
- Just because we can’t tell how old this is, doesn’t mean it’s not worth keeping.
- This growth here…that’s probably fungal. Let’s scrape it off and take a look. What’s underneath may be useful.
- With some hot sauce, that could still be edible.
- A little-known fact is that most food never really goes bad. It just becomes alcohol.
- Shake that off that so we can see what we’re dealing with.
- Yes, it’s all very sticky, but honey is a natural preservative.
- This here looks like it may have been…pickles? Something fermented. Took some real digging to find it!
- I wouldn’t worry. Anything inside there is probably dead.
- In some parts of the world, a smell like that would mean you’re about to enjoy a great delicacy.
- Can you read the writing on this jar?
- That’s a lot of mold, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t food. Throughout civilization, humans have eaten a…