Savvy Investment

Of ox and luncheon tongue, six hundred pounds;
     of Wiltshire bacon, seven-tenths of a ton.
Seventeen hundred miles they walked, and it was
     pony meat that saved them. But one biscuit, this one
Of thousands, baked by Huntley & Palmers, a special formulation
     fortified with milk protein, survives - the men
Long dead, and the ponies, whose live flew through 
Bullet holes easily over the frozen labyrinth of the Fortuna Glacier, 
     all gone to powder. Found a century later in the wrecked
Larder of one of Shackleton's was stations, it remains
     perfectly nutritious, and sold at Christie's auction
is worth a thousand-some sterling. We had seen God in 
     His splendors; we had reached the naked soul of man,
He wrote. And: This biscuit, said a Christie's director
     is an object that really catches the imagination.




Shackleton's Biscuit, by T.R. Hummer


True story.