The time is 1994, the place is Montreal. Daniel Bitton is 19 years old and loves to wear this jacket made by his tailor grandfather. "He sewed this coat in 1947 and it's a very cool coat," Bitton, now 40, told BuzzFeed Canada.
This Christmas he was at his parents' house and he went looking for that old coat.
"I thought my mom threw it out and I was very angry," he said. "Somehow I found it in my parent's closet. There was my sweet 1947 coat, which I pull out. And what’s in the pocket? A 1992 Aero Orange bar, which was my favourite bar at the time."
Bitton took the chocolate bar out and discovered two hard pieces inside. "I was like, 'What is this?' And then it hit me: holy fuck this is the actual chocolate."
DeGrasse Tyson may know physics, but this required different expertise. We turned to Dr. Dérick Rousseau, a food scientist who runs the Rousseau Labs at Ryerson University. "You've got some funky looking chocolate," is the first thing he said after seeing it.
Let's pause for a moment during our scientific investigation and remember what the inside of an Aero Orange usually looks like. Burn this into your memory.
And here's what the inside of the 1994 bar looks like now. Rousseau works with chocolate every day and said he's never seen anything like it.
First, let's get the big question out of the way: could you eat it and not die? "You could totally eat it," Rousseau said. "I will add a word of caution that I've not physically seen the chocolate, but I have eaten old chocolate and I'm still here today."
And now here's the science of why those pieces of chocolate look so crazy. Rousseau says the chocolate bar is suffering from an extreme case of "bloom."
