100 year old fruitcake found in excellent condition

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August 14, 2017, 02:10 PM

justjoe

100 year old fruitcake found in excellent condition

"Hey, it tasted like shit 100 years ago, so dig in!"

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August 14, 2017, 07:04 PM

callibird

I can still remember, coming home from a vacation in Florida in the late 80's, and using a black rotary phone in our hotel room in Claxton, GA - the fruitcake capital of the world. My parents wanted me to call my grandmother to see if she wanted a world famous Claxton fruitcake - she wasn't home. We were going to compare it to her fruitcake cookies, which I enjoy. The world will now never know whose fruitcake was truly the best.

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August 14, 2017, 07:26 PM

mikeyspizza

I'm with Robert Falcon Scott - I wouldn't have eaten it either.

August 14, 2017, 07:27 PM

Jimbo54

The difference between good homemade fruitcake and store purchased fruitcake is like comparing a 1970 VW Beatle to a new Porsche 911. No contest. That is all folks.

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August 14, 2017, 08:22 PM

agony

I wish I could eat fruitcake, because it smells really good. But I'm allergic to nuts and every fruitcake I've encountered was chock full of nuts.

August 14, 2017, 08:46 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by agony:
I wish I could eat fruitcake, because it smells really good. But I'm allergic to nuts and every fruitcake I've encountered was chock full of nuts.

That's funny.

The first karma I ever won on this forum was some good peanuts. I'm pretty sure that you were the karma donor.

OK, I know that peanuts are not nuts, but ...

August 14, 2017, 08:47 PM

cjevans

...yum, fruitcake.

A thick slice, placed in a bowl of fresh custard. And scooped out with choccie teddys - chocolate coated biscuits.

And before someone says 'biscuits, yuck' I mean cookies.

Or as my youngest cuz calls it, a teddy fruit pool.

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August 14, 2017, 08:49 PM

Dbltap

I'd hit it.

August 14, 2017, 10:28 PM

adobesig

Big Deal. I bought a 100-year-old fruit cake at Walgreen's last year.

August 14, 2017, 10:31 PM

bob ramberg

I thought they were talking about John McCain.

August 14, 2017, 10:56 PM

snwghst

I'd prefer to eat C-rations

I can honestly say, fruitcake would be the absolute last thing I'd eat. Right below Durian

Happy some enjoy it.

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August 15, 2017, 12:07 AM

flashguy

I saw a few weeks ago where some guy ate a piece of Civil War hardtack. He said it didn't taste very good, but he didn't get sick. I'm guessing trying some 100-year-old fruitcake that had been properly stored would not be any more dangerous. (But I wouldn't do it--I don't like "new" fruitcake.)

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