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Staff at the National Library of Australia were shocked when they found a box of 120-year-old chocolate bars in the archives of the late poet and journalist AB “Banjo” Patterson, UPI reported.
While studying the Australian poet’s notes, which they recently acquired, officers found a metal box filled with chocolate. The blocks were still wrapped in aluminum foil and insulated with straw, BTA reported.
These boxes of chocolate were commissioned in the name of British Queen Victoria and sent as gifts to British troops in South Africa in 1900, during the Second Boer War.
Patterson is said to have bought the box of chocolates from a soldier while working as a military correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.
“When we unpacked them, there was a very interesting smell,” said Jennifer Todd of the National Library of Australia. “It’s an old box of chocolates that belonged to Banjo, and the chocolate was still packed.”
Patterson worked for almost a year as a military correspondent in South Africa from October 1899, after which he returned to Australia. His archive remained in the family after his death in 1941, and in 2019 it was donated to the library.
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– Newszada (@ Newszada1) December 23, 2020
If you ever wondered what chocolate over 100 years old was like … a sweet story
The National Library finds 120 year old chocolates commissioned by Queen Victoria and owned by Banjo Paterson https://t.co/KGaKz9ykkz– Janani Thillainadesan (@JThillainadesan) December 21, 2020
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