8 Strange Food Artifacts Found Hiding in Plain Sight

Of all the places to find a bag of fries, right next to the toilet is probably one of the least appetizing. More nauseating still would be if that bag of fries were more than 60 years old. Such was the case for the Jones family, who, asNBC新闻今年早些时候报道,found a perfectly preserved进行一些翻新时，在厕纸支架后面的墙壁上的炸薯条和两个空的汉堡包装纸。

The home, which is in Crystal Lake, Illinois, sitsjust 30 miles or so from Des Plaines, Illinois, where Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s franchise outside of California (though this meal likely came from the franchise that opened a half mile from the house in 1959). The Joneses decided to hold onto the pieces of history, keeping the fries in a Tupperware container out of reach of their children so the ancient spuds不要吃掉。

也许在以前的啤酒厂中找到古老的罐头或啤酒瓶并不是最令人惊讶的发现，但是当啤酒的历史可以追溯到1903年时，这非常适合历史研究。2019年，在1988年关闭的丹麦旧奥丁酿酒大楼进行建设，发现了一群隐藏在地板下的啤酒，BBC reported。

The beer was left in a box with a note from CE Pehrsson, the brewery’s master brewer at the turn of the 20th century. The note said that the brewery had just laid down a new floor and “as we don’t know how long it will last, these words and some bottles of the beer that we brew nowadays will be placed under the floor.” There were seven bottles total (in the Prinsens Bryg, Odin Pilsner, and Viborg Pilsner varieties), though only five still had beer in them—the other two were initially corked, but the corks broke down,导致啤酒蒸发。没有人对是否有人饮用任何啤酒。

有东西人们在400年前写杂货清单的方式有所不同, as proven by a spectacularfind from under the floorboards of a historic English home. The beautifully scribed piece of paper dates back to 1633 and was discovered during a multi-million-pound在英格兰肯特的一所房屋翻新according toSmithsonian Magazine。Not only is the handwriting gorgeous, but the list i自行读起来像一首诗：

Mr Bilby, I pray p[ro]vide to be sent too morrow in ye Cart some Greenfish, The Lights from my Lady Cranfeild[es] Cham[ber] 2 dozen of Pewter spoon[es]: one greate fireshovell for ye nursery; and ye o[t]hers which were sent to be exchanged for some of a better fashion, a new frying pan together with a note of ye prises of such Commoditie for ye rest.

你爱的朋友

Robert Draper

1633年十月

Greenfish, two dozen pewter spoons, and a frying pan.What more could you need?

It was only a matter of time before these sorts offinds started ending up on TikTok, and contractor Craig Harrigann shared a doozy last year. While lifting up kitchen floorboards he and his team found a bottle of Glenkinchie Scotch并写在地板本身上的笔记：“杰克和梅住在这里 - 三个孩子和一只狗。厨房在2001年4月和2001年5月完成。一切顺利，在我们身上喝一杯！”据哈灵顿说，最终对房主来说是一个感性的发现。

“I called the customer in to show her and she said it was her mum and dad’s old house that she recently bought and the note was written by her dad. She was one of the three kids,” Harringtonsaid to the日志。“So we cut the section of floor out and gave her it to keep along with the bottle.” Thanks for the drink, Dad. Cheers!

Back in 2010, an entire tomb was being excavated during construction on an extension of the airport near China’s ancient capital of Xian,BBC reported。在那个坟墓里？密封的青铜烹饪容器，里面装满了骨汤。考古学家认为汤至少有2400年的历史，还有另一艘密封的船只，里面装满了葡萄酒。

Scientists ran several tests on the soup to determine the ingredients, conclu丁that it was in fact the first discovery of bone soup in Chinese archeological history.

Who among us doesn’t search around inlibrary stackslooking for the book that might reveal a secret passageway or other mysterious clue? Well,if you don’t, maybe you should start, because back in 2020a whole stash of Hamm’s beer was found当华盛顿的Walla Walla进行了一些翻新时，藏在堆栈中。尽管我们今天所知道和喜欢的Hamm的徽标与过去的罐头并没有太大不同，但这些Brewskis真正约会的是伴侣小吃：Godzilla Heads Gum。那东西只在后来’80年代，可以肯定地说整个藏匿处已经存在了一段时间。

在主要城市之下，埋葬在主要城市之下，尤其如此，在古代文明曾经蓬勃发展的地区尤其如此。在2018年，NPR reported在发现一个看似永远的ending collection of ancient ruins in Rome when work on a subway expansion began. But instead of sending the items off to a museum or leaving them buried, archeologists incorporated them into the subway line so travelers can reflect on the history built into their commute—essentially, the subway itself is the museum.

保存的物品中有一些通常的嫌疑人：marble busts, frescoed walls, intricately painted plates. But perhaps the most unusual items getting the curatorial treatment are several ancient peach pits from a Roman fruit vendor.

There’s finding an old fast food wrapper behind a wall,然后找到了一家整个最新的快餐店。后者发生在特拉华州的购物中心en an HVAC worker spotted a perfectly in1980年代的Tact Burger King隐藏在墙后，似乎只不过是存储或废弃的店面，TODAY reports。There was even still trash in the trash cans that could have been from as far back as 2009 when the location closed.

A photo of the fast food location’s interiors went viral, hitting the nostalgia factor hard among those who remember the very distinct designs, rightdown to the too-long message on the flap of垃圾桶。It’s only a matter of time before the mall cashes in and revives it as a cool, Instagrammableretro Burger King. At least, that’s what we’d do.