This is so cute and when reading that the dog had no effects from eating the entire fruitcake, I just laughed to myself and said "ah yes, but now he can gave a quite the holiday poop!"

I have a few in my family. Care for a sample?

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Beverly Mahone
Author, Whatever! A Baby Boomer's Journey Into Middle Age
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Sample of what, family, dog, fruitcake or poop?

Oh Chatty, stop, you, ha ha, crack me up.

My 90 year old Mom LOVES FRUIT CAKE! I hate it, always have. I make sure Mom has one every single Christmas season. I have a friend that makes mini ones, perfect for Mom. I buy her the Entenmann's ones too. All fruit cakes are quite expensive. The store bought Entenmanns are $8.99, but worth it for my Mom!

I used to make a complicated fruitcake with cranberries, etc. But gave up a few years ago, when a brother-in-law joked he still had their piece from me 6 months later...

A nicer alternative is the German, stollen. Lighter type of fruitcake. Uses ground almonds.

Ok, I am one of the few who loves, loves, loves fruitcake...and there was no shortage at Christmas for me. Everyone gave me theirs.
Here's something I read at Christmas. Interesting, don't you think?


Man's Fruitcake Found 40 Years Later
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - April 19, 2006 - Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake: He set it aside. Only Nesta rediscovered his more than 40 years later in his mother's attic.

Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
"I was amazed that it hadn't changed at all," he said.

His two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army, he said.

"I opened it up and didn't know what to do with it," Nesta said. "I sure wasn't going to eat it, and I liked my fellow soldiers too much to share it with them."

As best he can remember, he packed the cake with the rest of his belongings and shipped it home to Waukesha when he left the military a few years later. He recently rediscovered it.

The cake arrived wrapped in brown paper with a red "fragile, handle with care" sticker on it. The cake itself was contained in a round blue tin printed with the words "Old Fashioned Fruitcake."

"Now it's just old," Nesta said.

(Copyright 2006 by the Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)