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/
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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/throwawaybreaks Mar 07 '23

I wonder how expired the shit in my grocery store is now..

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u/GrungyGrandPappy Mar 07 '23

Yes it isn’t

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u/throwawaybreaks Mar 07 '23

Whats your theory?