116-Year-Old Orange Goes On Display
AN orange belonging to Joseph Roberts is on display. Roberts was injured in an explosion at a Stoke-on-Trent colliery in 1891. He died from his injuries. The fruit was unharmed. It has gone on show at the Potteries Museum.
Says Jamie Oliver: “I have seen kids of the ages of four or five, the same age as mine, open their lunchbox and inside is a cold, half-eaten McDonald’s, multiple packets of crisps and a can of Red Bull. We laugh and then want to cry.”
Would the contents of today’s lunchboxes survive detonation? And will our ancestors a century from now be looking at up at a petrified Wotsit in silent awe - ruminating on pieces of dried fruit.
That’s progress for you…
October 30th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
That orange skin is quite cute.
People really give Red Bull to their children?
October 31st, 2007 at 12:29 am
and so unwrinkled,all the anti wrinkle cream companies will want to know its secrets - pentapeptides? or a new buzzword?
October 31st, 2007 at 11:39 am
Red Bull?
My kids were deranged enough without cans of liquid speed to encourage them.
I was hoping someone would come up with orange juice with valium in it.
Now, of course, I watch their children doing the same thing to them and laugh darkly.
Maybe I should give Red Bull to the grandkids
Woo haa haa haaa (evil laugh)