So you're lost and desperately hungry, and come across an old trapper's cabin with a tin of 1940s lard in the cupboard. Dare you eat it?

ROSTOCK - A German pensioner who had kept a tub of lard in his cupboard for 64 years, took it to authorities who pronounced it very much fit for consumption - if a little tasteless.

Retired chemist Hans Feldmeier, 87, told AFP he had received the pig fat as a student in 1948 near the northern city of Rostock as part of the post-war U.S. aid program.

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