The Original Rock Dinner

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Original page here.

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

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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!

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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!
     Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 26, 2013
     Category: Eccentrics | Collectors | Food | Regionalism | 1930s | 1940s | Natural Wonders





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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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