Eating Icy Old Candy Bar Would Be Very Dicey
From Times Wire Reports
A Hershey chocolate bar buried 60 years ago in 2 1/2 feet of South Pole ice by Adm. Richard Byrd’s third expedition is headed back to the company in Hershey, Pa., to be put on display.
And while chocolate that old probably isn’t good to eat, it was only designed to taste a little better than a potato in the first place.
The Hershey Chocolate Corp. 1937 Field Ration Bar, manufactured as a test for the military, was buried by Byrd’s team sometime from 1939 to 1941. It was found by an explorer in January.