Oh, Dotise,
My husband loves those and I have seen them everywhere this year even in Watson's Garden . Husband did not want one this year needs to lose some weigh and so do I . They are so yummy . Saw a lot of fruit cakes in Harry and David's in the maill and they smelled so good .

I wonder why Harry and David don't add the fruitcakes to their catalogs. I ordered their fruit, nut and candy towers for several relatives etc. and would have tried the fruitcake for myself if they'd have offered one....drat!

We finally found out fruitcakes - we bought one several weeks ago from a charitable organization and it was so good that we wanted more. After much searching and emailing, we found a member of that organization who still had a few left. So we bought four 1.5kg (don't know what that is in pounds) boxes, 2 for Christmas gifts (they actually asked for them) and 2 to serve for dessert over Christmas. They're chock full of nuts and fruit. mmmmm. With 12 days to go I hope we can restrain ourselves from opening and eating one before then!

Chatty, great idea. They should. People would definitely buy them. I just sent one of those towers to the wife of a dear neighbor who lost her hubby. DIfferent, but they loved to cook and serve others, so I chose to send food instead of flowers. We also received one yesterday as a gift. I love their pears!

Chatty,
Why don't you give Harry and Davids a call or I will buy one for you and send it to you if you want . Letm me know or email me your address if you like ,

Renee

I just got the invoice confirming my order from them today so I'll give them a call tomorrow and see if they ship fruit cakes. Thanks so much Renee for you offer, I really appreciate it.

I can share the same offer chatty. I can walk to Harry and Davids. I think Renee and I go to the same one!

I have a fruitcake story to share....My dad was a traveling salesman and often people would invite him into share their evening meal or dessert while he repaired something for them or sold them something new. Once he had a homemade fruitcake that was wonderful. He asked for the recipe and came home raving about it. When Sat. came he made the fruitcake (all by himself) and invited all the neighbors in for this marvelous fruitcake. Mom set up the big table, tablecloth, made coffee and had whipped cream to put on it. It became a neighborhood event! I remember all the neighbors and their kids gathered around the table, hearing the story of this wonderful dessert and waiting anxiously for their piece. Once we all were served, we all took our first bite together.....it was terrible! Dad was embarrassed and flustered, he ran upstairs to doublecheck the recipe. He came back down and apologized...he had put in too much of something (baking powder comes to mind)

Anyway, we all laughed and had a great time and ate a ton of whipped cream to politely finish off the fruitcake!

I don't remember dad ever attempting to bake that recipe again.......

Dotsie,
We do . down the mall the one right outside of Macy's store . Oh, I love that place that have the most wonderful jar cranberry sauce with walnuts in it yummy . Moose mix that son-in-law just loves I get him for Christmas time .
I use to love there bottled rootbeer , but have not seen that lately only pears and more pears in the store . Yikes ! There pears are wonderful to eat . Oh, getting hungrey now .

Daisy and I were at Bark Park and the dad of a something or other water dog??? said his wife slaved over his favorite dessert, a fruit cake - no humans will touch it at his house, but him. The wife spent her lunch hour at home and accidently left the cake out on the counter. The dog ate the entire cake. They couldn't believe he wasn't in misery! It just happened today.