A GERMAN pensioner who had kept a tub of lard in his
cupboard for 64 years, took it to authorities who pronounced it
very much fit for consumption - if a little tasteless.
Hans Feldmeier, 87, shows off his 64-year-old tin
of Swift's Bland Lard. Yum. Picture: AFP
Retired chemist Hans Feldmeier, 87, said he had
received the pig fat as a student in 1948 near the northern city of
Rostock as part of the post-war US aid program.
He said he had been given the tub together with two tins of
noodles and some milk.
"I just didn't want to throw it away," he explained.
Finally, after 64 years, he took it to food safety agents and
was astonished at their appraisal.
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"There is of course a slight lack of smell and taste," sniffed
Frerk Feldhusen, from the office of agriculture, food safety and
fisheries in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania.
Moreover, the lard was "of gritty consistency, difficult to
dissolve and looked a bit old," the officials added.
However, "all in all, given its level of freshness and its
material composition, the product is assessed as satisfactory,"
Feldhusen said, adding it would stand up to today's definition of
being fit for the dinner table.
