One Fruitcake thinkin about another one!Originally Posted by RICHARD
I was thinking about fruitcake the other day ...
extra points awarded for a intact loaf amongst a Christmas buffet.
Reminds me of the first neighborhood where we lived in Mt. Lebanon ...
Dad insisted there were 6 Fruitcakes that were in constant circulation
as "gifts" over the Christmas Season. We'd get one, re-wrap it with a
new card,and *I* would be sent out to re-gift it to one of the neighbors.
You could *spot* the Fruitcake Delivery Kid a mile away - doing a slow shuffle
and trying to hide a brightly wrapped cake-sized BRICK.
We went to a neighborhood *gathurin* at someone's house ... lottsa yummie cookies
and finger foods, as well as TWO Fruitcake Bricks on display - both virgins
with not a knife mark on either one. Dad jumped into action ...
He grabbed the knife and sawed off a corner of each Brick and set the pieces on
Mom's plate, two more (smaller) pieces went on his plate, THEN he carved
off some "larger" pieces which he left beside the now "used" Fruitcakes.
He >smirked< for hours and kept bragging to Mom that he "taken two Bricks
out of the gift rotation that year"! And he kept *hinting* to the other
guests to "Try the Fruitcake, they're delicious this year."
Good Ole Dad!
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