In England, they found a chocolate bar made in 1900

A long-inedible 121-year-old chocolate bar has been found in the attic of the Bedingfield Baronets' home in England. The chocolate in its original packaging appears to have belonged to Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfield, 8th Baronet, who served in the Royal Liverpool Regiment as a major. The baronet fought in South Africa - at the beginning of the last century, the conflict between the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Republic on the one hand and the British Empire on the other was raging here. After the death of his father, Henry Paston-Bedingfield returned to his homeland, taking chocolate with him.

These chocolate bars became a New Year's gift from Queen Victoria to British soldiers who served in South Africa. Three large companies, Fry, Cadbury and Racentree, have released more than 100 thousand servings of chocolate with a profile portrait of the queen and her New Year's wish. For all three manufacturers of sweets, such an order was not entirely convenient, since the leaders, devout Quakers, wanted to adhere to pacifist principles and not get involved in the war in any way.

Gifts from the queen were popular among military personnel, who kept metal boxes as keepsakes. From time to time, such items are found at auctions, sometimes together with chocolate, which, of course, by this time already becomes unusable. The found tile is especially valuable because it is known who it belonged to.