Offbeat: A retiring soldier eats 36-year-old cake, lives to tell about it
- I would eat it any chance I could get, but not all of the meals came with pound cake.
- Retiring Army Col. Henry Moak • Describing the cake in a can he ate at his retirement ceremony. It was a military-issue cake he loved eating. Moak, who was issued the cake in 1973, wasn’t trying to get sick by eating the cake – “I won’t eat it if it’s black and moldy,” he said – but the delicacy actually held up OK. “It’s good, it’s still kind of moist,” he said. • source