Food item in Virginia woman's freezer was 84 years old, stuns family: 'Quite perplexing'

A household successful Virginia was near amused — and a small spot confused — erstwhile they recovered an 84-year-old biscuit successful the freezer of a precocious deceased relative. 

"Granny passed past month, September 2," Andy Wiseman of Staunton, Virginia, told Fox News Digital successful a Zoom interview. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.) 

His grandma was 90. 

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Wiseman received a substance from his mother, who was successful the process of cleaning retired his grandmother's home. She said she'd recovered thing interesting: a frozen biscuit dating backmost to 1940.

"She really recovered it with a clump of different worldly successful the freezer," helium said. "It's rather perplexing." 

The biscuit shown supra was recovered portion a household was cleaning retired the freezer of their deceased relative.  (Linda Wiseman)

Wiseman took to Reddit and posted a representation of the find connected the "Mildly Interesting" leafage — wherever it received a batch of attraction and comments. 

But questions remained arsenic to who made the biscuit – and wherefore it was kept for astir a century.  

There was, however, a clue. 

Sealed successful a container with the rock-hard biscuit was a enactment reading, "Biscuit made by Mrs. Dara L Chambers successful August 1940 astatine the Blankenship home."

"I conjecture my grandma conscionable couldn't propulsion it away."

While the enactment was meant to pass the scholar astir the biscuit's origins, each it did for Wiseman was spark further questions. He did not cognize the names "Chambers" and "Blankenship."

"We talked to my grandmother's sister, Sally, and she gave america immoderate accusation astir those names, due to the fact that they're not household names we were acquainted with," helium told Fox News Digital.

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"It turned retired to beryllium my grandmother's brother, Harold," Wiseman said. "It was his archetypal wife's family's biscuits." 

His grandmother's sister, Wiseman said, recovered a paper clipping announcing Chambers' decease successful 1940, the aforesaid twelvemonth the biscuit was made.

The enactment states: "Biscuit made by Mrs Dana L Chambers successful August 1940 astatine the Blankenship home." Those names did not instantly ringing a bell, Andy Wiseman told Fox News Digital.  (Linda Wiseman)

"We judge it's precise likely, maybe, from her past batch," helium said. Wiseman and his parent judge that the biscuit is "probably an aged soda biscuit," but helium is unsure of the nonstop recipe that was used. 

"I've been learning much astir biscuit history," helium joked. "I ne'er knew this overmuch astir it." 

Wiseman inactive does not cognize wherefore his grandma kept the biscuit for arsenic agelong arsenic she did oregon erstwhile she adjacent acquired the item. 

"She wasn't 1 to save," helium said. "She had downsized, and we truly don't know" wherefore she kept it, helium added.

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Wiseman believes his Uncle Harold had held onto the biscuit for the bulk of its lifespan. After Harold's death, Wiseman's grandma apt picked it up and stuck it successful her freezer — wherever it stayed until its find astatine the extremity of September. 

"I conjecture my grandma conscionable couldn't propulsion it away," helium said. It is besides improbable the biscuit was stashed and forgotten about, helium said, arsenic it was recovered "right successful the door" of the freezer.

The biscuit was recovered "right successful the door" of his grandmother's freezer, Wiseman (shown here) told Fox News Digital. (Linda Wiseman; Fox News Digital)

"It's conscionable a unusual biscuit with nary discourse astir it," Wiseman said. He added that it is "petrified and stone hard" and "smells similar freezer." 

Wiseman and his parent bash not person definite plans for what they program connected doing with the 84-year-old biscuit.

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The "immediate program is to permission it successful (his mother's) freezer," helium said. "And past my brothers and I tin find it." 

The find of the biscuit, however, had an unexpected metallic lining for Wiseman and his family: It's kept his grandmother's representation live arsenic they woody with their grief, helium said.

"It's been a batch of amusive to speech astir my grandmother. We each truly loved her, and we miss her a lot."

"It's been benignant of cathartic, I guess, oregon healing," helium said. 

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"It's been a batch of amusive to speech astir the household history. It's been a batch of amusive to speech astir my grandmother. We each truly loved her and we miss her a lot." 

Wiseman's grandmother, helium said, would instrumentality the full household retired for pizza each period for a large household dinner.

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Oct. 7, helium said, "was the 2nd 1 she'd missed. And she was precise generous, and we each loved her and miss her. And it's been a batch of amusive talking astir this."