A Virginia family was amused and a little confused when they found an 84-year-old biscuit in the freezer of a recently deceased relative.
“My grandma passed away last month, on September 2nd,” Andy Wiseman of Staunton, Virginia, said in a Zoom interview with FOX News Digital. (See the video at the top of this article.)
His grandmother was 90 years old.
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Wiseman received a text message from her mother, who was in the middle of cleaning out her grandmother's house. She said she found something interesting. It's a frozen biscuit that dates back to 1940.
“In fact, she found it in the freezer along with a bunch of other stuff,” he said. I'm quite perplexed.
The biscuits shown above were discovered by a family when they were cleaning out a deceased relative's freezer. (Linda Wiseman)
Wiseman posted a photo of the discovery on Reddit, drawing a lot of attention and comments to the “moderately interesting” page.
But questions remained: who made this biscuit and why it had been preserved for nearly a century.
But there were clues.
Enclosed in the bag of rock-hard biscuits was a note that read, “Biscuits made by Mrs. Dara L. Chambers at the Blankenship home in August 1940.”
“I guess Grandma couldn't abandon her either.”
The note was intended to inform readers about the biscuit's origins, but for Wiseman it only raised more questions. He didn't know the names “Chambers” and “Blankenship.”
“We talked to my grandmother's sister, Sally, and she gave us some information about those names, because they're not surnames that we're familiar with,” he told FOX News Digital told.
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“It turned out to be my grandmother's brother, Harold,” Wiseman said. “It was his first wife's family biscuits.”
Wiseman's grandmother's sister said she found a newspaper clipping announcing Chambers' death in 1940, the same year the biscuits were made.
The note reads, “Biscuits made by Mrs. Dana L. Chambers at the Blankenship home in August 1940.” Andy Wiseman told Fox News Digital that the names didn't immediately resonate with him. (Linda Wiseman)
“We believe it is very likely from her last batch,” he said. Wiseman and his mother believe the biscuits are “probably old.” soda biscuit'', but the exact recipe used is unknown.
“I'm learning more about the history of biscuits,” he joked. “I didn't know about that before.”
Wiseman still doesn't know why her grandmother kept the biscuits for so long, or even when she got them.
“She wasn't saveable,” he said. “She was downsizing, but we don't really know why she kept it the same size,” he added.
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Wiseman believes his uncle Harold continued to eat the biscuit for most of its life. After Harold's death, Wiseman's grandmother apparently picked it up and put it in her freezer, where it remained until it was discovered in late September.
“I think my grandmother just couldn't get rid of it,” he said. He also said the biscuits were found “right next to the door” of the freezer, making it unlikely they were hidden and forgotten.
The biscuits were found “right on the doorstep” of his grandmother's freezer, Wiseman (pictured) told FOX News Digital. (Linda Wiseman, Fox News Digital)
“It's just a weird biscuit with no context,” Wiseman said. He added that it was “petrified and rock hard” and “smelled like a freezer.”
Wiseman and her mother don't have a clear plan for what to do with the 84-year-old biscuits.
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“The immediate plan is to keep it in (my mother's) freezer,” he said. “Then my brothers and I can find it.”
But the discovery of the biscuits provided an unexpected ray of hope for Wiseman and his family. The memory of his grandmother dealing with grief lives on, he said.
“It was so fun talking about my grandmother. We all really loved her and we miss her so much.”
“I think it was a kind of catharsis, a healing,” he said.
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“It was so much fun talking about our family history. It was so fun talking about my grandmother. We all really loved her and we miss her so much.”
Wiseman said her grandmother would take the whole family out for pizza every month for a big family dinner.
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On Oct. 7, he wrote, “It was the second time we didn't see her. And she was so generous and we all love her and miss her so much. And to talk about this… “It was a lot of fun,” he said.
