Hints from Heloise

Dear Readers: Recently, I asked you what is the oldest thing in your refrigerator. Wow! Did you reply, and my, oh my, what interesting things lurk in the backs of those shelves. We had lots of fun and many times would shake our heads reading your letters! Thanks to all the readers who took the time to drop us a line.

Dr. Charles H. Luedtke of New Ulm, Minn., says: “I think I take the cake with the oldest refrigerator item. I have a couple of bottles of 74-year-old dandelion wine! My mother and grandmother made it.”

Dorothy Trevethick, who reads the column in The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee: “I have a 56-year-old unopened bottle of beer. This bottle was the last one of a case that was sent to me from Munich, Germany, shortly before a friend whose enlistment was up was due to come home. When he got back, some friends and I had a welcome-home party, and all but this one bottle was consumed.”