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Re:100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest buil... by nsxwolf on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:28AM (#14989954)
I'm glad someone made a classic fruit cake joke. I haven't heard one in many years. I haven't seen a fruit cake in many years, either.

Jokes about fruit cakes used to be common. I fear the jokes were too successful and killed off the fruit cake.

I love fruit cake. I wish someone would give me a fruit cake as a gift they way we used to get them when I was a kid.

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Re:100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest buil... by chrisseaton on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:10PM (#14992048)
> I haven't seen a fruit cake in many years, either.

Don't you see them at every wedding?

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Re:100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest buil... by khedoros1 on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:02PM (#14992586)
Fruit cake at weddings seems like an English tradition. I don't remember seeing one at the dozen-or-so American weddings that I've attended over the last 10 years. The closest that comes to mind was at my wedding, where one layer of the cake was flavored with lemon, with a stripe of Raspberry jam in the middle. But that cake was light and fluffy, in contrast to the dark-colored mass of nuts and dried fruit that I think of as "fruit cake".
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Re:100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest buil... by chrisseaton on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:15PM (#14992691)
Oh I didn't realise it was something only we did. Here cakes for weddings are always the very dark and dense fruit cake that this thread is talking about. Then covered in very thick marzipan and then icing.

https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/7576569_f520.jpg

You keep a slice for the first christening.

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Re:100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica's oldest buil... by nsxwolf on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:48PM (#14992453)
Sadly, no. Although, I haven't been to one in awhile. I reached that age where there's fewer weddings and the divorces are starting.
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