52 Year Old Top Tier Of Wedding Cake
Decorating By navywifetrat Updated 16 Mar 2009 , 2:23am by summernoelle
Today on the front page of our local paper there was an article about a couple who had been married for 52 years and they actually still had the top tier of their wedding cake. They got it out of the freezer and unwrapped it. The buttercream (once white) was now covered with bits of silver. She cut it and actually tasted it - she said it didn't taste like it was baked yesterday but it isn't bad and asked her husband if he wanted a taste, he said yes he would take a bite. He ate that and asked for more.
There is no way that I would even think about taking a bite out of that cake! What about you?
Blech! It's a very sweet story but no, I wouldnt' eat that cake!
we must be in the same area... front and center of my paper...
it was wrapped in a gazillion layers - but the closest one to the cake was aluminum foil, which had disintegrated. Kind of a neat story.
Yes we are in the same area - it was a neat story - the last sentence of the story was "The color and texture had changed, but the taste was still sweet, like a long and enduring marriage."
Still wouldn't have taken a bite - just want to gag thinking about it!
YUCK!!! I wonder what prompted them to keep it for that many years? I mean...how wierd is that?
Hmmmmmm .... didn't Seinfeld do an episode about Elaine eating cake that was decades old?
Yes it was inspired by the real life auction of the belongings of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. One of the auctioned items was a slice of their actual wedding cake (61 years old at the time of auction). In the episode Elaine purchased it on behalf of J. Peterman, ate it, and tried to replace it with Entenmann's! lol
I think that's SO romantic.....but then you have to consider, how many power-outages and defrostings would a freezer get in 52 years?? Bleh! 
It reminds me of an adorable bride/groom I had a few years back who brought me a slice of her parents' actual wedding cake. It was 35 years old! They wanted it actually placed inside their wedding cake to symbolize their marriage being built upon the strength of her parents' marriage. Here's the pic and what I did....
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=77043
Gross and sweet at the same time. 
Hope they didn't get sick.
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