I hope everyone had a festive and fun holiday season and is happily ensconced in the new year!
Before moving on to items of 2009, I wanted to share some fun facts about the beloved holiday FRUITCAKE....Doesn't that word just make your mouth water???
I'm not sure I've met anyone who likes, much less eats, fruit cake. Do you or anyone you know like fruitcake?
Here's some facts about the doorstop-food:
- 47 percent of the average human population say they would toss a holiday fruitcake in the trash without delay.
- 11 percent say they would make time to re-gift a fruitcake. (Why would you re-gift a fruitcake to some other poor soul? On second thought, I wonder how many of the fruitcakes that are floating around are just re-gifted?)
- A fruitcake that has the right preservatives and is stored in a tightly closed tin can STILL be enjoyed after 25 years. (I guess you could have this gift on hand for years, just in case you need a last-minute gift for someone....)
- 2,952 pounds of fruitcake were delivered to U.S. troups in Iraq for the holidays last year. (In my opinion, this is a sad, sad gift for the brave men and women in our military! Oh wait---they are the BRAVEST of all in our country. Maybe they are the only ones brave enough to eat that much....)
Anyone want a fresh slice (by fresh I mean less than 10 years old) of fruitcake????
6 comments:
I think I will pass, but thanks for the offer! I DO think they are interesting as art projects though! :)
Didn't someone used to give us fruit cake in California? I remember it, but don't know who. I wonder who ever came up with the idea, since no one likes it. Can't you just see the mom who invented the receipe trying it on her family. I would think the complaining etc. would drive her to throw the recipe away.
Well Joyce, I have to tell you...Shane's family eats/loves fruitcake. It is because of the candy stuff in it. I say just give the kid a bag of the candy and skip the cake part!
i feel so lucky to have these gems of knowledge imparted to me. Finding out the shelf life of a fruit cake is making me rethink my food storage. Canned fruit? Naw, just get fruitcake!
I had a delicious fruitcake while in the army. I even asked for a second piece! My army buddy said, "I know why you like it so well---it's been soaked in rum!" I almost spit it out, but contained myself inasmuch as I would have made a big mess! It was Iku Ikeda who gave us fruitcake in Redwood City. (The un-soaked kind!)
It was not Grandma Safsten who posted the last comment--it was Grandpa Safsten!
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