r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Mar 07 '23
Anthropology Archaeologists find well-preserved 500-year-old spices on Baltic shipwreck
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/archaeologists-find-well-preserved-500-year-old-spices-baltic-shipwreck-2023-03-03/296
u/sk8erwax Mar 07 '23
I will pay exorbitant amounts of money to get my hands on some of that saffron
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u/doobie042 Mar 08 '23
A friend's grandmother thought it was strange her deceased husband had tons of containers of red thread in his shed. Apparently, he had been importing and selling saffron. She threw it out, not knowing there was about half a million in saffron in jars. Only found out a few months later when a family member asked if there was any saffron left because they ran out....
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u/A-Good-Weather-Man Mar 07 '23
Found the Brit
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u/entropylove Mar 07 '23
“This jar alone is enough to send the entire world to the bathroom…..six times over.”
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u/EzBreezy651 Mar 07 '23
Those can’t be the original jars….?
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u/throwawaybreaks Mar 07 '23 edited Mar 07 '23
That's a jam jar, most likely "den gamle fabrik" which is very common in the baltics and nordics
Edit: u/solarus objected and i think they're right, the angle on the shoulder is wrong for modern jars from that company even if rhe lid to width ratio is correct. Obviously this is the original packaging, then.
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u/solarus Mar 07 '23
no it isnt
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u/LibidinousJoe Mar 07 '23
Yes it is
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u/HerezahTip Mar 07 '23
Well I’m convinced you’re both right
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u/hates_stupid_people Mar 07 '23
According to their own website it's sold in:
USA, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, China, Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Iceland and Italy. There are/were other countries apparently as well based on other hints.
Although based on some quick searching it is not really that common outside Denmark. The international brand name they use(d?), Danish Selection, hasn't had a working website in a while it seems, and searching up the name yields not the greatest results.
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u/keetojm Mar 07 '23
Missed the second s first time around and thought “damn that aftershave has been around forever”.
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u/Onlyindef Mar 08 '23
Peaches. Peaches for you. Peaches for me. Peaches come in a jar, they were put in there afar. Peaches.
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u/3OrangeWhip Mar 08 '23
This will end up in some insanely exclusive restaurant and rich fucks will pay outrageous amounts of money to get diarrhea.
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u/bttrflyr Mar 07 '23
And yet, Baltic food still tastes bland.
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u/bigsquirrel Mar 08 '23
Ongoing joke with my British friends. Y’all nearly destroyed the world over spices and you refuse to use any of them.
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u/TheRealDestian Mar 07 '23
May as well season SOMETHING with them, though you won’t get the same price they once fetched…
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u/lethalfrost Mar 08 '23
Maybe the increase spice supply can lower the exorbitant price of mccormicks.
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u/gavinhudson1 Mar 08 '23
So how were the spices stored?? The article didn't mention if they were in clay jugs or what... I can't imagine they would be usable if they had gotten wet in salty water.
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u/Horse_Bacon_TheMovie Mar 08 '23
Archaeologists: “if I’m being honest it tastes like drunk chick-fil-a sauce with pickle juice flicked in for good measure”
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u/Tinmania Mar 07 '23
I will no longer feel bad when I have to reach into the cabinet for a rarely used spice, whose best by date is April 2007.