Hot Cross Bun Still Around From 1821
According to legend: if you bake a hot cross bun on Good Friday, it will never go bad. And in Britain, one bun seems to prove it. It came out of the oven in 1821, the same year Napoleon died. Nancy Titman, 91, tells reporters it has never gotten moldy. She says it is rock hard but you can still see the shape of the cross.
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