The Original Rock Dinner

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In 1939, Kent Knowlton of Randsburg, CA, assembled a curious meal of petrified food for his amusement and that of others.

We have a record that it was still being exhibited a year later. Then, the "Original Rock Dinner" vanishes from history--until this very year!

An article on the "ghost town" of Randsburg features what appears to be a photo of the petrified food, nearly 75 years after its debut. I'd recognize that "cauliflower" anywhere!

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Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over forty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. Contact Us

Comments

I will make no comments about eating "hard wood" as I'm trying so "very hard" to behave once again.

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 02/26/13 at 06:48 PM

This would be perfect for a practitioner of mineralarianism:

http://users.bestweb.net/~bennetc/mineral.html

Posted by Alex on 02/26/13 at 11:48 PM

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