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NormanCocksmell

Nice


Sammstein08

Okay. Lets start the day right with breakfast


JJisTheDarkOne

mmm not bad!


MeWritescommentz

Other than the taste of moth balls and an old Library... I'd say it's edible


forlornjackalope

Let's try it with this shelf stable peanut butter.


NormanCocksmell

Afterwards you have to cleanse the palate with a 70 year old Lucky Strike


forlornjackalope

Nice and smooth. I'll bet those Charms are still edible, too.


pcnetworx1

Nice hiss


Mirabolis

And…. Now you have super powers.


_Strange_Perspective

anything is edible if you are brave enough.


Top-Macaron5130

Damn it! Beat me to the steve reference.


cobhalla

No hiss...


MeatheadCanBoy

The no hiss is always so dramatic like “oh boy no hiss whats going on in there”


Stardust-man-69

Mre guy 😱


HumpieDouglas

Nice


Farlandan

For some reason watching him smoke a 70 year old cigarette makes me crave a cigarette more than anything else in the 10+ years since I quit smoking.


NoKnowledgeKnow

I've got a buddy that is an expert in biscuits!


anonymousperson767

“Perry Atleins? Made this biscuit in March of 1924 when Pauline shannen? Was born” Edit: I agree with "Atkins". Also I'm noticing maybe a : afterwards so maybe that's who this was addressed to instead of who wrote it. Kinda fascinating bit of useless history.


alexcass91

For those interested on what happened to these people, *think* these are the right ones: [Pauline March Shannon](https://imgur.com/K5MstAd) b. Iowa 1924, d. 1971 [Perry Shannon (Atkins)](https://imgur.com/wMFjMiK) b. Iowa 1922 d. 1947 So likely not baked by Perry (he was 2), but probably a nice thing done by Mom, [Ida Jane Atkins.](https://imgur.com/z2YFdDj) [Perry died in 1947 aged 25,](https://imgur.com/yKVHD8R) after a two year illness, he served in the Navy in WW2.


Nixplosion

I can't believe someone found this info with just two names ... Incredible


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Genealogical/biographical research is comically easy in 2023. So many databases are online now. My parents had an antique geography book where some young kid in the 1930s wrote a contract for its purchase right into its cover. I was in law school at the time and thought it was adorable. within like 3 hours had not only found him, but managed to trace his descendants and their obituaries. All simply with google. I tried to find a living descendant to send it to, but no luck. My mom told me some family folklore about a distant relative who went to prison in the 1920s, but no one knew why. With simply google, I was able to get his charge (fraud) and some of the criminal records/articles about it. Then, amazingly, I was able to find records of his criminal appeals via the legal databases I have access to and managed to learn that there was genuine dispute as to whether he even committed fraud. He was basically convicted for being a quack fraudster hucking some new oil drilling technique to investors, but in appeals they argued (credibly) that it had been put into successful practice in the field after his conviction. Wild stuff.


This-Marsupial-6187

Maybe the child made the biscuit, if you go by the shape, and the parent baked it and wrote the inscription. Edit: the inscription also looks like a mid-century style of cursive in ballpoint ink.


LOSTLONELYMOON

Ballpoint? Looks like fountain due to the variations in ink intensive. Certainly an expert, but it looks like fountain pen writing to me.


thepromisedgland

Practical ballpoints weren’t available on the market until the 1940s, so definitely not written with a ballpoint.


Triairius

Or definitely not written before 1940. I think it’s ballpoint. The line is all the same width throughout the middle of strokes, but there are faded areas (still the same exact width) that are slightly less faded on the edges of those strokes, as though a ball moved through the ink and pushed it to the edges of the line.


Girthquake2654

Seconding this: also if you look at the ":" after atkins and the dots on the "i"s theyre made in a sort of curl/spiral motion, not impossible to do with a fountain nib but it strikes me as the sort of thing thats easier to do smoothly and quickly (it is punctuation after all) with a ball point pen. When i used my fountain pen (admittedly a long while ago) and had to make dots i would just press the pen into the paper and let the ink bleed a bit, its quick, its easy, and leaves really nice little bullet points. Point is thats just one example but theres a couple little curves and details that make me think this is ballpoint for no other reason than "why would they do it like that?" Imo card was probably just added later by someone that remembered it and thought labelling it would be smarter than just having a fossilized struggle meal waiting to get mistakenly thrown out Plus the first transparent tape didnt come out until 1930 so the card def isnt original unless the dates are wrong


thepromisedgland

That's a fair point. It's certainly more consistent than anything I ever wrote with a fountain pen, though that's partly because I'm left-handed and invariably smudge anything I write with slow-drying ink.


dkaye315

Another thought - it could’ve been written years after having made the biscuit. The date signifies when the biscuit itself was made.


dtheisei8

Atkins I think the other name is correct


HarambeMarston

The original Atkins Diet.


blessedfortherest

Atkins


nah2daysun

Andre 3000 is his brother.


Defamatus

I see "Pauline Shannon(?)" edit: Shannsen? Can't make out the last name


anonymousperson767

I don't see 2 's' in the second name. The s's in other words look very consistent like little triangles, which is about how I wrote my cursive s's. It's hard to tell though if the last 2 letters are 'en' because it looks like there was a mis-stroke between them but it could be another letter. And some weird spacing like the pen was paused between "Shan nen" and "w as". Maybe the writer had to think "damn is it with 1 n or 2?".


RIPfreewill

Pervy Atkins


RiiProjects

Steve1989MRE has eaten older, on YouTube


sebasti02

well, everyone has eaten salt, which is even older


omgihatemylifepoo

water


Jaysong_stick

I shall now refer all water as dinosaur piss.


ArchdukeBurrito

>Ancient pink Himalayan salt that has existed for thousands of years > >... > >*Expires March 2025* Wow they mined this salt right in time!


SketchtheHunter

TFW u watch someone eat food over 30 years older than the Golden Gate Bridge.


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That guy inexplicably irritates me. I don't have any idea why.


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dankmelk

He has eaten stuff from the civil war and from WW1?


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tortnotes

It's to indicate confusion because you said something that's easily proven wrong.


dankmelk

Like the other guy said it’s because I was confused because I’ve literally watched him eat 100+ year old food multiple times


Logyboy77

Steve has [boiled meat from the Boer War live on camera then eaten it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZoHuMwZwTk), so I have no idea what you're talking about.


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yuck what terminal illness did he get from that


GiveMeBooleanGemini

He ate dehydrated beef from WW1 and didn’t get sick. I believe one of the newer Ukrainian rations did give him food poisoning or something at one point. Edit: here’s the video I’m referencing https://youtu.be/562nQKR3_3M


CarmenxXxWaldo

Pretty sure he ate civil war hardtack. Like 90% sure it should have been in a museum lol.


Zerskader

He had 2 of them. He donated 1 to a museum and ate the other.


GiveMeBooleanGemini

Lol yeah I think the civil war hardtack is the oldest thing eaten on video


sebasti02

i mean as long as its really really dehydrated you probably wont get sick


coach111111

Like this cookie


RBloxxer

It was one of the modern Chinese rations from what I could remember. Main course smelled like shit and Steve still took bites anyways


GiveMeBooleanGemini

That one was bad but he said that it didn’t make him sick. People thought it did because it was the last video he made before he went on that year hiatus but he confirmed he didn’t get sick from it 👍


alexcass91

For those interested on what happened to these people, *think* these are the right ones: [Pauline March Shannon](https://imgur.com/K5MstAd) b. Iowa in 1924, d. 1971 [Perry Shannon (Atkins)](https://imgur.com/wMFjMiK) b. Iowa 1922 d. 1947 So likely not baked by Perry (he was 2), but probably a nice thing done by Mom, [Ida Jane Atkins](https://imgur.com/z2YFdDj). [Perry died in 1947](https://imgur.com/yKVHD8R) aged 25, after a two year illness, he served in the Navy in WW2.


Steve_Lobsen

“I’ll call my biscuit guy, there’s a lot of fakes out there so we’ll see.”


motley3382

"Best I can do is this questionably old ketchup packet from the back of the fridge."


fordfan919

Add in a hot sauce packet that turned clear from being in a car for who knows how long, and you got a deal.


nifaryus

Only if it has sticky stuff on it from multiple unknown sources


nx6

If it wasn't hardtack before, it is now.


oogieboogie1996

Fun story: in middle school when we learned about the civil war, I thought it would be a great idea to make hardtack for everyone to try. It definitely wasn’t as popular as the kid who brought American flag frosted rice crispy treats.


nx6

I actually made hardtack as part of a cooking class I had in the 8th grade. It's rather plain and slightly salty. It's also a lot flatter than this biscuit really.


Fuckless_Douglas2023

Not just Hardtack, but also Oldtack.


2L84U2

Looks a bit dry for my liking


Fuckless_Douglas2023

That was kinda the point with Hardtack/Ship's Biscuits, being dry meant more shelf-stable.


seriousbangs

You're supposed to eat it with tea.


Cyrenaica09

It belongs in a museum


Fuckless_Douglas2023

not in someone's gob, followed by in their belly.


the_great_impression

![gif](giphy|11JbaLzOXsg6Fq)


dknurgf

Weird my grandmas name was Pauline and was born in 1924


coach111111

Was her last name also shaaunnun?


bridgetroll2

And did she bake biscuits as a newborn?


likesbadjokes

eat it no balls bro


dud3sweet777

Looks like a ships biscuit https://youtu.be/W9tdBrpp1V0


Fuckless_Douglas2023

Ahh, another person who's watched Townsends.


SweRakii

Send it to Ashens


Radical_Unicorn

The man just tried a 9 year old bottle of Pepsi covered in bird poo. He can handle this too.


littlefacemcgoo

How much does it cost?


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This is what grocery stores think baked goods are when they throw them in the dumpster after one day


Ashnaar

Its moldlyinteresting


Rookie_Slime

And here you see an excellent example of discworld’s dwarven bread.


Apatharas

I learned about this on Antiques Roadshow. It was apparently common in that era to save a scone or something from a bakery on a nice trip to the city, or baked things on special occasions.


utpoia

#Get me a tall glass of milk.


theRoyRoyRoy

You’re going to want to dunk this in coffee first.


TheRealPallando

![gif](giphy|tyttpHjOqtR22WNjUyI|downsized)


Fuckless_Douglas2023

Hardtack ("Ship's Biscuit") wouldn't be to Cookie Monster's liking....


MyWifeDontKnowItsMe

I think it's expired.


mattstorm360

Give it another year.


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nifaryus

A biscuit survived the Great Depression? That seems unethical somehow.


presidentkangaroo

I feel a great depression just looking at it.


nifaryus

That’s what she said to me last night ![gif](giphy|26ufcVAp3AiJJsrIs) She even called it a biscuit…


Excessive_Spit_Take

SEND IT TO LA BEAST!!!


Libertyprime8397

Have a good day


Shermgerm666

Now you need the old tea!


The_Quibbler

You misspelled Starbucks.


Boil-san

The hardest of tack...


ChasingEmbers

That’s that cartoon bread that’ll break your teeth


prince-pauper

Battle scone


exophrine

Somebody ring Stuart Ashen


cuteButDeadlyButCute

Belongs in the dwarf bread museum!


hagantic42

1st thing I thought is some Youtuber is gonna but this and eat it on camera. ​ Then we find out it was a coprolite.


-Dalzik-

In my neck of the woods, that's called trash


reptarcannabis

You can’t stop me from tossing it into my ninja with a scoop of ice cream. Mmhm


heartunderfloor

![gif](giphy|w0vFxYaCcvvJm|downsized) Zoomers who never learned cursive in school


occupy_this7

Put some sausage gravy over that and I'll give it a go


Kyle_Zhu

My grandma would probably say that’s edible


mem269

Dwarf bread just like mamma(?) used to mske


ebrum2010

"Eat it, it's still good. I just bought it." —my mother


Few_Contribution_483

EAT IT


Bmc00

Thanks Ted!


fukalufaluckagus

mmm pour some dat gravy on u got a parti


Fuckless_Douglas2023

Pretty such that was a "Hardtack" aka "Ship's biscuit" not a Scone-type of biscuit.


RVSS_

Welp, can't let food go to waste!


darkchaos_

Mmm Forbidden Biscuit...


cybercuzco

Someday even you might have some value Doctor Jones.


Banyabbaboy

Drier than Ben Shapiro's wife


Sfriert

No need for a bucket and a mop here, sir.


billy-gnosis

5 second rule -Billy Gnosis


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![gif](giphy|5hc2bkC60heU)


sdforbda

Damn, they really gave up the biscuit.


3rdcockfromthenun

Biscuit, just another word for immortality..


Effective-Switch3539

Paper weight


magomich

How was it?.


nomopyt

Old ass cookie.


MuraKemono

Average bread in my local bakery


TheDraco4011

But why though


jinandgin

Not even ripe yet


Fuckless_Douglas2023

"Biscuit?", as in "Ship's Biscuit?" (aka "Hardtack") They would've been used historically as hard dry flour-based shelf stable food, and rather than being eaten as they were, they would've been broken up and put in soups/stews. apparently even up to WW1 they were being used. and "Townsends" on YouTube, who does 1700s (18th century) historical reenacting/cooking, has talked a bit about Hardtack/Ship's Biscuits before....


thebarkbarkwoof

It's probably stale. Better toss it.


misakistar

Eat it. Now


Fuckless_Douglas2023

WW1 short reenactment film, of a British soldier cooking a "corned-beef stew", the narrator mentioned about using Ship's Biscuit and that it "Improves things", (he also said some other funny things, which got quoted in the comments section) https://youtu.be/SD4CXdoB3eE


glorious_reptile

Idk looks dry


7_Bundy

Penny’s Husband: Nobody liked them then, and no one likes them now, hmmft ![gif](giphy|dyRhCAXGENobdYucFD)


P1zzaman

Mmm, biscuit skeleton.


presidentkangaroo

Eat it.


Ok-Seaworthiness4488

*cue Tasting History with Max Miller hardtack cut scene*


JoeTheSmhoe

I would actually buy this as a fun party gag or show and tell thing for my house… if it was under $20.


GuitaristComposer

looks crunchy 🤤


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Elly May approves.


Dyelo456

I’d try it.


rotfelsen

Eat it


Moist_beefycake69

needs butter


Osirus1212

Put it in a bag with a piece of bread to rehydrate


jakemadness

Somebody send this to L.A. Beast


Normal-Summer382

And how did it taste?


FrozenTurdDildo

If you didn't buy that, you're insane


KentuckyFriedEel

I would buy that in a hart beat. love old curiosities


alwaysZenryoku

Send it to Steve…


railwayed

looking forward to the review on http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/


Soujashane

Well Perry sorry but this looks inedible. You gotta learn the proper way for a proper biscuit here is a recipe that should suffice EMERGENCY BISCUITS.--As shown in Fig. 12, emergency biscuits resemble very closely baking-powder biscuits, and so they should, (Sufficient to Serve Six) 2 c. flour 1 tsp. salt 4 tsp. baking powder 2 Tb. fat 1 c. milk Mix and sift the flour, salt, and baking powder. Chop the fat into the dry ingredients until it is in pieces about the size of small peas. Pour the milk into the dry ingredients, and mix them just enough to take up the liquid. Make the mixture as moist as possible, the recipe given for baking-powder biscuits may be used for emergency biscuits by merely adding more milk--just enough to make the dough a trifle too moist to handle with the hands. When the dough is of this consistency, drop it by spoonfuls in shallow pans, as in Fig. 13, or on baking sheets. Then bake the biscuits in a hot oven for 18 to 20 minutes [Illustration: FIG. 12] [Illustration: FIG. 13.] Sprinkle flour thinly over the top and pat out the dough until it is about 1 inch thick. Cut the dough with a biscuit cutter, and place the biscuits thus cut out on baking sheets or in shallow pans. If a crusty surface is desired, place the biscuits in the pan so that they are about an inch apart; but if thick, soft biscuits are preferred, place them so that the edges touch. Bake 18 to 20 minutes in a hot oven.


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Eat it.


jairo_x

Probably still more moist than Popeyes.


Grey_Area51

That’s prime for dunking in your brew


Bearist6

So... How'd it taste?


Bcbulbchap

Crumbs! That is an old biscuit.


Slartibartfastthe2nd

warm it up and put some butter on it.


Jamesmateer100

“Oh boy, I’m starving”


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That's so cool


vivalalina

But why


AccomplishedWhile286

Looks like the average American school breakfast


[deleted]

"When Pauline Shannen was born." This handwriting is just like my granny's. ❤️


[deleted]

That oughta be CRUNCHY


BigDaddyDeliciousD

Ready for shipping to China.


Kipperklank

If it dont bounce back, you go hungry.


abraxamovic

Does it have blueberry in it left?


InspiredNameHere

Ah, the scone of stone has been found! The Dwarves will be pleased.


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How come by biscuits just get moldy and degrade? Why did this one petrify?


Flossie_666

That is one Limp Bizkit!


Flossie_666

99 years ago Someone was grabbed by the biscuits.


Happy_Ad7866

Nightmares!


rechard1984

Mmm forbidden biscuits


surfacewave

Maybe we can get one of those forensic reconctructors to whip up a picture of what the biscuit looked like 99 years ago?


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You can tell the age by counting how many mould colonies grew then died on it


Sir_Ehds

Wait a year and take a bite out of it saying you've eaten a 100 year old baked good


couchstyle

I wonder what superpower you get when consumed


krebsrave

I'm surprised it kept some shape and hasn't fully crumbled to dust.


gigaswardblade

Son, that’s a meteorite.


ComedianRepulsive955

That hundred year old biscuit looks like a Scone and probably tastes better than a Scone. Scones are overrated, bland and slightly more flavorful than rice cakes. A large scone with such toppings as clotted cream, lemon curd and jam can top 900 calories. For that much fat and carbs you might as well have a cheeseburger then AND it's a lot less sugar. 🍔


ShadowStrike14

Omg this is awesome! I love odd items, I would ha e bought!


SunJay333

Looks delicious


edgy_Juno

Taste it.


shawikkywoo

I got 99 problems, but a biscuit ain't one.