When Hans Feldmeier received a tub of lard in 1948 as part of the the United State's post-war aid program, the German student knew he'd probably never crack the lid. Nevertheless, his instincts told him not to throw it away and he kept the tub in his emergency food stash for the next 64 years.Now Feldmeier, an 87-year-old retired pharmacist from Rostock, Germany, has discovered his intuition was correct: He recently took the lard to food safety experts, who deemed it safe to eat, Agence France-Presse reports."There is of course a slight lack of smell and taste," food safety agent Frerk Feldhusen told the AFP, adding that, "all in all, given its level of freshness and its material composition, the product is assessed as satisfactory."Read More...
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