This is old news already, but hey, the fruitcake is way older. Reported April 18 by Breitbart.
Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake _ he set it aside, only to rediscover it 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.
Nesta's two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army.
"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."
His mom had given him advance warning of the fruitcake back in 1962.
"She knew I hated the damn things, but she said she didn't have the heart to tell my aunts, who had already mailed it," he said.
"If I had known back then that it had rum and brandy in it, I would have eaten it," he said.
Heartwarming.
2 comments:
So now we can suspect all fruitcakes of being unwanted gifts from ages past. Perhaps they all are. Did they have printed "out-dates" and "sell before" back in the 50's? Evidently fruit cakes don't need them.
Chris,
There's no such thing as an out-date on a fruitcake. They're the gift that lasts forever.
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