FruitCake

[AZTB]

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Fruitcakes???????...I would not touch your post with a ten foot pole. Bunny Lou

Or a 10-foot Hungarian...or a 10-foot Lithuanian...or in Sealy's case, a 10-foot Italian!

[Sealy]

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. . . or in Sealy's case, a 10-foot Italian!

A ten-foot Italian is a sub, a grinder, or a hoagie (depends on where you come from) and has nothing to do with fruitcakes, except the reference to me. Try to stay on topic.

[Southern]

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Generally speaking, when I meet a ten-foot Italian..I call him sir.

[AZTB]

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...Try to stay on topic.

...like you're an expert on that.

[Sealy]

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...like you're an expert on that.

One does not have to be a practicioner to be an expert.

On topic . . .

A woman with shorn white hair is standing at the kitchen window. She is wearing tennis shoes and a shapeless gray sweater over a summery calico dress. She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen; but, due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched. Her face is remarkable- not unlike Lincoln’s, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind; but it is delicate too, finely boned, and her eyes are sherry-colored and timid. ‘Oh my,’ she exclaims, her breath smoking the windowpane, ‘it’s fruitcake weather!’

Great short story on the subject.

[JAB02LHS]

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I'm not fond of traditional mass produced American fruitcakes as they lack the one ingredient that makes a fruitcake delicious-----Alcohol!!!
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Just got thisr catalog in the mail today

Figi’s
3200 S. Central Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449

Grandma’s Fruit Cake
The finest ingredients mellowed with premium liquor have made Grandma’s Fruit Cake a must-have treat over the holidays.
Enhanced with 100 proof bourbon, premium dark rum,
and 84 proof brandy.

[SixPac]

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Got a package in the mail from our bank today. It's Christmas time so we figure another fruit cake. Before we opened it we decided that we would put it back in the mail and re-gift it to Chuck way up North. But, after reading the label on the beautiful round tin with a Christmas scene, we decided to keep it.

The tin did not contain a fruit cake, but it did contain 5 pounds of whole Cashew nuts. Sorry Chuck, this is a keeper.

[bob andersen]

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I like fruit cake and would try them all.

[Gobird]

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Makes a good boat anchor.

[Chuck]

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Geez Charlie, I'm reading your post and was getting psyched. Was 'can't believe he's sending me one", then of course the big deflation, thanks for the thought though

[Mark501]

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I think there's only one fruitcake in existence and it keeps getting passed around.

[pinkilee]

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I think there's only one fruitcake in existence and it keeps getting passed around.

Good theory... makes me wonder what the oldest Fruit cake is. I hear that some people hold to this FOREVER.

[merlot4]

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My students unanimously said that only their grandparents had them and that they would make an excellent door stop -I assume the fruitcake and not the grandparents...

[Ski]

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My students unanimously said that only their grandparents had them and that they would make an excellent door stop -I assume the fruitcake and not the grandparents...

For one, I would make an excellent door stop!

[Bruce]

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Here you go Chuck, voted the best Fruit Cakes:

http://www.kitchendaily.com/2010/12/07/best-fruitcake-taste-test/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk1%7C189948