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Default Fruitcake as Gifts: A Plea


"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:44:52 -0600, Katra >
> wrote:
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> >Steve Wertz wrote:
> >>
> >> On 22 Nov 2003 16:35:07 GMT, (Naomi Darvell) wrote:
> >>
> >> >Maybe you should just be happy to have people giving you presents.
> >>
> >> My posts mostly implied that I am happy receiving gifts. Just not
> >> happy about havein them go to waste. And I wouldn't dare re-gift a
> >> fruit cake for the same reasons.
> >>
> >> -sw

> >
> >
> >You could always varnish it well and give it away as a doorstop... ;-)

>
> Probably no need to varnish it.
>
> I've got a 12 year old, unwrapped Twinkie that looks as good as new
> (it's wrapped losely in a paper towel to keep it clean, though.
>
> The cream coming out the holes in the bottom is still soft.
>
> -sw
>


Fruitcake has a half life of 1,500 years. Put it in a time capsule and
future archaeologists can see how disgusting we really were.

Jack Time