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Idea for luxurious and expensive food (for people, who have too much money): thousand years old honey.
by krzrak 10y ago
Idea for luxurious and expensive food (for people, who have too much money): thousand years old honey.
- Kristine1975 10y agoIs it actually possible to verify that the "1000 yo" honey is actually 1000 years old? Because if not I'm totally relabeling honey I bought at the supermarket and disrupting the luxury food sector.
- gruez 10y agoNot really "disrupting". More like fraud.
- Kristine1975 10y agoDisrupting is all about challenging antiquated regulations :-)
- MichaelBurge 10y agoOther ways to disrupt established business are to visit their parking lot and slash everyone's tires, cut power and internet to their company buildings, slander them on public television, drive by their building and honk a really loud horn, find their business partners and spread false rumors, DDoS their website, make false tips to the SEC that they're scamming investors, etc. That's the image that appears in my head whenever I hear about some startup disrupting an industry; like they're a criminal with poor impulse control.
- legulere 10y agoDisregarding all regulations to be cheaper than all competitors certainly is missing from your list.
- tehrei 10y agoNot really. Just label it as "Vintage Honey", write "Experience the taste of honey taken from Egyptian tombs" and add in very tiny letters at the bottom "From 2016 harvest". As long as you don't claim it's actually taken from an Egyptian tomb, you can just spin it however you like. If you want to be somewhat more honest, make sure the bees only drink nectar from flowers that would have been grown during the time of the pharaohs.
- anilgulecha 10y agoCarbon dating would work?
- Olap84 10y agoSimples, market it as 1946 honey, no carbon dating after that! 70 year old honey coming at you
- lozf 10y agoIt's not old, it's "mature".
- whamlastxmas 10y agoWhy 70 years, or why 1946? Tried Googling but didn't see answer. I had thought carbon dating was pretty inaccurate anyways, didn't think it worked on such small time scales. Maybe this is a joke that went over my head.
- mpitt 10y agoI think it refers to the background radiation increase due to atomic bombs, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel Edit: a nice plot https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radiocarbon_bomb_spike.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radiocarbon_bomb_spi...
- ascorbic 10y agoWhen archaeologists give a date in years Before Present (BP), they measure from 1st January 1950. I guess that makes today -66BP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present
- whamlastxmas 10y agoI wouldn't have guess such small amounts of radiation in the atmosphere would interfere with carbon dating, but I know literally nothing about how it works. Seems like solar radiation and such would be a bigger contributor?
- Shivetya 10y agoWell they can verify butter that is thousands of years old http://www.sltrib.com/home/4004975-155/man-finds-22-pound-chunk-of-butter http://www.sltrib.com/home/4004975-155/man-finds-22-pound-ch... Now of course the butter is only preserved because the bogs keep it cool enough yet it apparently is still edible I can verify it keeps ten plus years and works just fine having bought two two quart containers of sage honey that long ago and having about a fourth of one container left. Sage doesn't even crystallize but for those that do I think a little heat fixes it
- jkot 10y agoAround 1910ties there was 20K years old steak from frozen mammoth served in Paris.
- treerock 10y agoSeems it was a joke. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/science/explorers-club-mammoth-dinner.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/science/explorers-club-mam...
- jkot 10y agoI read it was served in Paris before WW1. I also read in Russian book that in Siberia locals fed mammoth meat to their dogs.
- knodi123 10y agorelevant anecdote shamelessly stolen from reddit: About 10 years ago I was on an archeological dig in northern Israel where we uncovered two sealed earthenware jars full of pre-Hellenistic honey (about 2200 years old). My dig leader told us the same thing, and then offered us the opportunity to taste it. Only a few people dared, me being one. It tasted like honey. We then sent the jars off to be examined. Back in the states, we were in a lab with most of the people who were on the dig, and the results of the tests came back in. My professor/dig leader read the opening few lines and then slowed. He said, somberly, "Now some of you took me up on my offer to try the honey. If you are one of those people, I offer you now the chance to leave the room." No one moved. "Ok...you asked for it. In the bottom of the jar of honey there remained the blanched bones of an infant child," he said. "What maybe I should have told you is that often pre-Hellenistic cultures would offer their stillborn children to the sun god in earthenware jars of honey. It seems over the last two thousand years all but the bones have disintegrated and been absorbed by the honey." TLDR: I've eaten 2000 year old dead baby.
- coldpie 10y agoThanks for sharing! You should provide a source for your quotes :)
- knodi123 10y agohttps://m.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/h9q1u/til_honey_never_goes_bad_and_archaeologists_have/ https://m.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/h9q1u/til_hone...
- euyyn 10y agoIf that's true, the professor is an asshole.