2000-Year-Old Butter

Listen to and read the following:

Name: Date:
Have you ever been in the situation while you are cleaning out your
fridge and you find a half empty bottle
of milk which was hiding behind the
cheese? You quickly look at the date and
you realize that it had expired weeks
ago. You immediately throw it away &
add milk to your shopping list. If you
think that was bad, can you imagine
finding a packet of butter that was 2,000 years old? This is what
happened to Jack Conway in June, 2016. He found a ten-kilogram
block of butter buried four meters in the ground while he was
working. On another occasion, someone also found butter buried in
the ground. The ground in Scotland and Ireland is usually wet and
cold, which is an excellent environment to keep it fresh for a long
time. Imagine, this discovery, which now smells like cheese, is
about 2,000 years old. Is it possible to eat butter this old? Yes!
One chef, Kevin Thornton, said he tasted butter that was
thousands of years old.

Circle T (True) or F (False).

1 We sometimes find expired things in the fridge. T F
2 Expired means fresh. T F
3 Two people found buried butter. T F
4 Scotland’s ground is dry. T F
5 The butter now smells like cheese. T F
6 Jack Conway was a chef. T F
7 One can’t eat old butter. T F
8 Mr Thornton found butter in the ground. T F
9 These days, supermarkets make shopping easy. T F