In 2015 a buyer from Los Angeles paid £500 in a UK auction for a slice of 68-year-old cake.
Not everyone’s cup of tea perhaps but presumably its appeal was enhanced by its provenance as the sole surviving remnant of wedding cake from the marriage of Philip Mountbatten and the future Queen
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