As of: February 25, 2024, 7:08 p.m
By: Armin T. Linder
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You can even read the price!
A local person has found something on the Baltic Sea that is fascinating and “scary” – as he calls it – at the same time.
Prerow – nature guide Martin Hagemann leads Baltic Sea visitors on excursions of a slightly different kind: he has been organizing “beach discovery hikes” for many years, including on the northern beach of Prerow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
On the one hand, guests should enjoy nature there, but on the other hand, they should also be made aware of the issue of waste.
He repeatedly shows unusual discoveries on his company's Facebook page.
Same now.
“Crazy find”: Baltic Sea nature guide shows lids from GDR margarine
“There’s another (garbage) second helping!
Great find!” he writes.
Recently, those involved came across the lid of a decades-old margarine tin that had survived the ravages of time almost unscathed.
“Happened again on the weekly beach discovery hike last week,” he writes to our editorial team.
Even the price is still clearly visible.
Hagemann thinks: “If you don't look too closely and stumble upon the price of 1.00 M, you could well think that it is modern, as perfect as the colors and the lid itself are.
It’s scary!”
On the one hand, the fact that the piece is so well preserved is fascinating.
But it should also make people who want to throw something away more careful that it doesn't just disappear into thin air.
But decades later it remains almost undamaged where it doesn't belong: in the middle of nature.
In this case in or on the Baltic Sea.
GDR margarine lids have lasted for decades in or on the Baltic Sea
It is a lid from the GDR brand Cama, delicatessen margarine from the VEB Thüringer Öl- und Margarinewerk Gotha.
Reduced calories, not suitable for frying, all of this can still be clearly read, as can the price at the time of one (GDR) mark.
It is not the first find of this brand, adds Hagemann and shows the Cama lid - which is in significantly poorer condition - and which came into his hands in July 2022.
“Special fun fact: I was just talking to my guests about the fact that collecting trash earns karma points.
Then I got the lid in my hand: Here, have it Cama.”
The Baltic Sea nature guide did a little research on this.
What he claims to have found out sounds plausible, even if one would have to delve deep into GDR archives or speak to experts for final confirmation.
Hagemann believes the lid must have been manufactured between 1973 (at which time the quality seal, which can also be seen, was awarded) and 1980 (at which time there was a design change).
In any case, it can be considered certain that the good piece is decades old.
Despite all the fascination, the message is clear: don't throw anything into nature!
A strange throwaway discovery stunned a city in Baden-Württemberg a few months ago.
(lin)