As Smithsonian magazine noted, a 3,000-year-old, three-foot-wide barrel stuffed with 35 kilograms of bog butter was found in 2009. Bog butter is just that: butter made from cow’s milk that’s been buried in a bog, though, after thousands of years, it often has the consistency of cheese. He was chopping turf at the bog when he came across a 10-kilogram chunk of butter, The Irish Times reported. People have actually been stumbling upon bog butter for at least two centuries. Irish celebrity chef Kevin Thornton, who owns the Michelin-starred Thornton’s Restaurant in Dublin, claimed to have tasted a 4,000-year-old sample of bog butter.

Source: National Post June 14, 2016 16:07 UTC