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What South Pole Crews Eat for 8 Months Locked in the Dark
Can't Clock Out

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When the last plane leaves the South Pole in February, nothing new arrives until November. The forty or so people who stay eat food ordered years in advance, count down every fresh egg, grow one salad a week in a tiny greenhouse and bake against the altitude. Once, in the middle of the polar night, fresh food fell from the sky. Here's why.