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The fire never reached Pepys house. I thought the cheese was recovered without problem.
by kybernetikos 7y ago
The fire never reached Pepys house. I thought the cheese was recovered without problem.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoIndeed, the article is not quite correct that the cheese was lost. We know that Pepys buried this cheese, along with other items, because he wrote about it in his diary [1]. It was not mentioned again (or was it?). So based on evidence we don't know what happened to the cheese, but Pepys most likely dug it up along with the other items he had buried (he had also buried wine and office papers). [1] https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/09/04/ https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/09/04/
- Spooky23 7y agoWe hope. 400 year old cheese would not exactly be a treasure!
- Filligree 7y ago400? Try 3200, and this one was actually dug back up. :D https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45233347 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45233347
- simonh 7y agoLook up bog butter. Yum!
- poulsbohemian 7y ago"It depends." We opened a 7 year old cheese for Thanksgiving that was perfect as it is a cheese deliberately packaged to age and allow tyrosine development (which people seem to like for its bite). I've had a 30+ year version of the same cheese which was very edible and enjoyable, though you had to like a cheese with some bite. Pairs nicely with a white wine. Would 400 year old or older cheese be good? Main thing I'd worry about is brucellosis or other contaminants.
- baud147258 7y agowhat kind of cheese was it? And how is it kept for all this years?
- poulsbohemian 7y agoCougar Gold, from the Washington state university creamery.
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- frobozz 7y agoIt doesn't say that the cheese was lost. It says that it was buried in a time of crisis. It is a comment on the practice of "burying goods with the intention of recovery", which is part of the definition of treasure.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoThe article explicitly claims that the cheese is still lost: > It is still at large, buried somewhere under modern London.
- frobozz 7y agoSorry, I evidently skipped that paragraph. I only saw the bit where the cheese burial was mentioned.