Found an 84 year old biscuit in my grandmother's freezer

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While cleaning out the freezer of their late matriarch, one family discovered a little (and debatably edible) piece of history.

In late September, Reddit user Andy Wiseman posted in the subreddit /r/mildlyinteresting that his family found something curious while cleaning out the apartment of his recently deceased grandmother Phyllis Nicholas Porter: an 84-year-old biscuit.

The photo in the now-viral post shows a normal-looking biscuit sitting below a piece of paper that reads: "Biscuit made by Mrs. Dora L Chambers in August 1940 at the Blankenship home."

Which means, if the note is accurate, the biscuit was created during World War II, and that it was baked before the polio vaccine, color television and the Slinky came into existence.

"We were just dumbfounded because the names aren't familiar to us either," Wiseman tells TODAY.com. "So, it was like this mystery, and it became this search we had."

He says that his family, who live in the Staunton, Virginia area, contacted his grandmother's last remaining sister to inquire about the names in the note, and she revealed who actually made the biscuit: the grandmother-in-law of his great-uncle Harold.

"My grandmother's sister found Dora Chambers' death notice or obituary, and it was dated 1940," he says. "So we believe that my great-uncle's first wife would have saved her grandmother's last biscuit."

Wiseman says that his grandmother, who loved to throw pizza nights on the first Monday of every month, must have held on to the biscuit for one simple reason: nostalgia.

"My great-uncle and his first wife would have had it at their house in the freezer forever," he says, adding that he later remarried and never had children so his grandmother became the executor of the estate 10 years ago. "My grandmother, for whatever reason, decided to keep the biscuit for the past 10 years."

He was "very close" to his grandmother, so he understands the desire to hold on to something made by a loved one. In fact, the family is continuing the tradition: The biscuit is still sitting pretty in his parents' freezer.

In the comments section of the post, Redditors replied with jokes about the surprising discovery and their own experiences with old food found in the homes of loved ones.

"Put that back in the freezer," commented one Redditor. "It will be valuable to archaeologists."

"Please tell me you tasted it!" wrote another, while others noticed a "bite mark on the side" — perhaps someone in 1977 "had the munchies" after an Electric Light Orchestra concert.

"This reminds me that for years my grandpa kept a microwaveable macaroni that I overcooked because it looked like a hockey puck lol," commented someone else.

"I have a pie in my freezer my mom made 11 years ago," wrote another Reddit user. "She passed 8.5 yrs ago but had a tough battle with cancer so that was one of the last things she baked. Just can't throw it away."

Wiseman says the most common question he has been asked, by far, is if he plans on eating the biscuit — even just tasting a little piece.

"None of us are interested at all in doing that," he says with a laugh. "It smells like freezer, like, the deepest ice you can smell."

!goyslopenjoyers you eat the biscuit? Reddit thread:

https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1fnxjc4/found_an_84_year_old_biscuit_in_my_grandmothers/