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The 'Bomb-proof' Lubeck Cake

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    Hard to swallow in more ways than one, but apparently true.
    "Archaeologists in Lübeck, northern Germany, discovered a very well-preserved hazelnut cake in the basement of a house destroyed during a World War II raid.
    The cake, with its fragile icing, ornate edge and spray-painted decorations wrapped in waxed paper, survived for decades because pieces of rubble did not unravel it, but only surrounded it.
    The cake has blackened over the years and has shrunk to about a third of its original size. In addition to it, archaeologists have found a complete coffee service. The raid destroyed the house on May Sunday in 1942, and scientists believe that the cake and coffee should have been served that day.
    “To reveal the secret of the cake even more, we sent samples of the filling and icing to the lab,” said Dirk Rieger, head of the archeology team."
    In Lübeck they found a cake that has survived since the bombing of World War II - Earth - Science and Technology
     

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