An unnamed blogger is sharing his account of living in Antactica at the site named brr. He's an IT worker who spent a year at McMurdo Station, then moved to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. He is part of the small crew overwintering at the South Pole, where they are almost to midwinter. The latest post explains how food works in Antarctica. When supply flights stop in autumn, they are on their own until November. They have plenty of frozen food, plenty of dried food, but fresh food will be a dream for another five months.
He even took a picture of the very last "fresh" egg at the station, as it was ceremoniously fried. The food they will eat between now and spring is almost all frozen, sometimes for years. The cold storage is natural, but extreme. A bucket of ice cream stored at -70°F has to be brought inside for days before it is an edible temperature of 0°F. The station does have a greenhouse, but it's small and any salads have to be carefully rationed. Yeah, there's plenty of food, but milk and eggs will be the powdered kind until spring arrives. Nobody said overwintering at the South Pole would be easy. -via Damn Interesting
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I wrote it that way because, while the last egg was refrigerated and not powdered, it was still fairly old. The last supply plane they got was around April, I think.
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"fresh"
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Does anyone else see a face in the grease stain to the left of the egg? Towards the bottom? Looks kind of like the face on a Greek statue.
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