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Yes Dear Readers Fruitcake Has A History by Kevin Dayhoff
Yes, Dear Readers, Fruitcake Has A History
December 26, 2012 Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5537
Labels: Annual
Christmas, Annual
Christmas Food, Food, Food
Fruitcake
The holidays are upon us and I can only be sure that many thoughts
have turned to getting together with family and friends – and of course, the
wonders of fruitcake.
Yes, fruitcake. Yeah! I know it is a rather heavy subject
for the Christmas season, but fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I’ve
been called many things over the years, but “Angel” is not one of them, so here
goes.
Seems nothing stirs the passions of many like the subject of
food. I’m still nursing the bruising I took several years ago when I commented
on the virtues of squash: “As much as I like vegetables, one food that does not
exist on the Dayhoff's Nutrition Pyramid (DNP) is squash. God created the
squash as a joke. The word "squash" is Native-American for "mud
disguised as plant."
Moving along; your intrepid writer here has observed that
first among equals on the holiday food passion meter seems to be the topic of
fruitcake. After all, nothing warms the cockles of one’s heart like fruitcake
on a cold Central Maryland night. I have been
told that fruitcake burns – forever – in the fireplace at a rather high
temperature; and it adds a brilliant display of holiday colors to the flames.
The subject of fruitcake arrived when I was recently asked
as to what was my favorite food during the holidays. To which I answered,
“Yes!!!”
Fruitcake has gotten a bad rap over the years. That’s
probably because people haven’t had homemade dark fruitcake with icing – a
Southern tradition.
According to various learned commentaries on the virtues of
fruitcake, the concoction of chopped candied fruit, nuts, and spices – and
plenty of alcohol – was quite popular at Victorian teas in 19th century England , where
many know it as “Christmas Cake.”
Another variation of fruitcake – or “fruit bread,” …http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5537
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American Profile Flinging Fruitcake
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Annual Christmas Food,
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Flinging Fruitcake
What to Do with Leftover Fruitcake by Pam Grout December
13, 2011 Holiday desserts sail over Manitou Springs, Colo. http://americanprofile.com/articles/fruitcake-toss-manitou-springs-colorado/
Wearing military-style fatigues and an aviator cap, Jerry
Pokorny, 64, stuffs a frozen fruitcake into a long, slim tube attached to an
exercise bike. He checks printed satellite maps, twists the valve on a
10-gallon tank of compressed air and–kaboom!–the fruitcake sails across the high
school football field in Manitou Springs , Colo. (pop. 4,992), past the goalposts and into the
distance toward Pikes Peak .
Calling himself "a retired engineer with too much time
on his hands," Pokorny built his wacky "Fruitcake of Mass
Destruction" out of parts from a junkyard to join 75 contestants in the
2011 Manitou Springs Great Fruitcake Toss. The annual event celebrates the
world's most reviled and underappreciated holiday dessert by challenging
contestants to toss, hurl and fling fruitcakes through the air, occasionally
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Sozra - #717 “Coping with Unexpected Growth” May 21, 1993 by Kevin Dayhoff
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John and Debbie Sosnowsky
Sozra - #717 “Coping with Unexpected Growth” May 21, 1993 by
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