My late great grandmother kept a box of melted nails from her house as a memento from the Great Chicago Fire
forbidden rice krispy treat
@copperbadge, this just seemed like the kind of thing that you might find Neat
Oh, this is super cool! You don’t often see actual relics of the fire – I mean, for obvious reasons, but still. Generally speaking, because it was so complete and so long ago, there’s no physical evidence out kind of, you know, in the world, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any kind of book or exhibit about the physical remains – just photographs that don’t mean much because they’re literally photographs of nothing, of “Where something once was.”
[ID: Sitting on a wooden table is a square block made of nails; they are all pressed together and intermingled, and the effect is indeed not unlike that of a rice krispy treat made of old timey nails.]