Soup Seventy-Five Years Old Is Still Fresh in Bottle
Reported in 1936:
Seventy-five years ago Pasteur, the noted French scientist, bottled some soup in his experiments to prove that germs live in the air. That soup, still in its original bottle, and still fresh and edible as the day it was sealed, is now owned by Dr. Louis La Place of Philadelphia, to whose father Pasteur presented it after the elder La Place had studied under Pasteur. The faded, yellow inscription on the container reads “Prof. La Place. Veal bouillon. Pasteur.” By his experiments Pasteur demonstrated that germs do not generate in matter which is not exposed to air.
That soup must now be nearly 150 years old. Still fresh?
Thu 13-Mar-08 | Posted in: History, Created in France
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