180 Year Old Olives | Ashens

hello well if this isn't the oldest foodstuff ever look at my channel I'll be bloody surprised I've been waiting for the clock to tick over to 2016 so that I could say these olives are a hundred and thirty years old my googly goodness right story goes these were sent into the PIO box some time ago by a kindly person who had gotten from ebay and according to ebay these are from the wreck of a ship called the Stirling Castle and which was run aground 130 years ago and these were retrieved a bottle full of olives from the wreck so yeah a hundred and thirty years old probably not going to be too fresh now hence why I am wearing rubber gloves and you'll notice the table has been duct-taped obviously for when it was being sent because you know on that leaking in the post Frank let's face it you just don't want the postman knowing what they are . so then who likes olives or who likes what olives become after sitting in the sea or whatever around one-30 is these it just looks like a load of black gunge filling up about this much i don't know how much you can make out at home it's a very old fashioned bottle 207 on the bottle and which does fit in with the age of it obviously we have no proper provenance for these but we have no reason to believe they're lying over either they are certainly very very old olives i think we can successfully guess that and well well SAR we going to do except take the other top off and see what's what god yeah it's like a mummified corpse i'm keeping the top of the bottle that's always nice right how do we get this thing open and it was a cool going what here mmm this may prove difficult i think the cork may have swollen possibly due to many years of sea water or something hmm right let's get this oh hang on hang on this looks like masking tape or something that's stuck on years ago out of all these gloves right i've worked it out the bottle ends here and there is the cap so maybe using the power of god mmm how we going to get this open oh bloody hell mmm-hmm and again hmm I think we're gonna have to jump cut folks and jump cut we did indeed and that cut represents over two hours because the corkscrew I had to hand to actually open this with inexplicably disappeared just wasn't there when I went for it so went for the other one in the kitchen that's gone as well and I've got a third corkscrew which attaches to an electric screwdriver thing that I reviewed years ago and that one's missing as well I have absolutely no idea what's going on it's like I've had a very specific burglar just came in nicked my corkscrews and ran off like a bad AI character from oblivion or something anyway the important thing is I managed to find another shop that sells them so now hmm let us enjoy some olivey goodness from far too long ago incidentally this is actually the lip of the bottle not a call because I originally thought we are going to have to go in through the top which should be relatively simple one imagines oh yeah it's going in alright mmm I actually maneuver that a bit more towards the center so imagine this cork is quite old in fact I would guess about a hundred and thirty bloody years old think how much pension they must have been able to draw by now right we're in mmm here goes everything Oh God's coming at oh oh oh oh oh wow look look how the corks gone inside is that just that the bottom is kind of sober it's not turned into some sort of weird disease plasticine excuse me I just thought I'd better clear my throat so I can get a lovely sniff of what a hundred and thirty year old olives smell like I'm gonna say not good kind of meaty and rotten as one would expect all right then can you get them out of the bottle yep here they come well here comes some Brown slides anyway I'm really have to disinfect this plate after this one can I actually get an olive to come out and I don't want to have to smash the bottle with a hammer or something oh there's something is something up the cork there maybe they're swollen horribly over the years the smell is quite astonishing and I'll go try bit but no I'm joking there's no way in God's green earth is going near anybody's mouth or face in any sentence right oh god yeah there are like solid things in it can we get an all about I'm not sure we're gonna be able to do this kind of live rock hard absolutely rock hard oh here we go there are marvelous there we are actually not breathing through my nose now because I think I would be sick the smell is pretty bad gonna be honest with you sort of meaty rot and there's a hint of olives to it but there we are that is what olives look like after a hundred and thirty years have passed which also is about to the amount of time it takes to get served and a lot of restaurants or I've had olives in the past so you know I don't think it'll be the last time I see them oh my god Oh God it really is like somebody with diarrhea took a [ __ ] in a bottle absolutely astonishing well thank you to whoever send that in and happy 2016 to everyone as we continue our wonderful scientific experiments and seeing what old foods if you believe that's a scientific experiment you believe there's prank videos a bloody social experiments good god well anybody want some olives give us a bell [Music] [Music]

Channel: ashens

Views: 2,405,471

Rating: 4.8536019 out of 5

Keywords: olives, ancient, ashens, review, funny, bottle, old, disgusting, rotten, rancid, brown, sludge, filth, olive, shipwreck, 130, 130 year old, 1886, stuart ashen, expired food, 180 year old

Id: OepMwUZCQZc

Length: 6min 0sec (360 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 31 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/hamaar]

I feel like that is an outside project. No way would I open that inside, on a plate, over my couch

[u/Matt_Cryan]

I would have taken the missing corkscrews as an omen and not opened the thing.

[u/onlypostsanuses]

No, not really

[u/HeihachiHayashida]

I honestly expected him to eat them

[u/[deleted]]

nope. but I was, just the other day, wondering what 140 year old olives looked like.

[u/redisforever]

According to Ashens on his subreddit, the ship actually sank more than 130 years ago. So they are in fact 180 year old olives.

[u/Error_UserNotFound]

When my dog is sick that's what her shit looks like.

[u/Dietly]

I think someone let lose a bout of diarrhea into a bottle and sent it as a prank.

[u/tacomcnacho]

I'm almost certain whoever sent that to him actually just found a really old bottle, ate some gnarly Italian, and took a shit in it.