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Default Geezers and fruitcake

On 11/13/2016 11:54 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-11-13 10:11 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 11/12/2016 6:34 PM, wrote:
>>> On Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 3:50:51 PM UTC-6,
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12 Nov 2016 21:04:22 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've come to the conclusion that once you qualify for Social Security
>>>>> (age 62) yer "fruitcake mode" suddenly switches on and you can
>>>>> instantly tolerate fruitcake.
>>>>
>>>> Yer rong nb - I luved it all mi life !
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Me, too!

>>
>> Maybe I was 10 or 12 when my cousin got married and everyone got
>> a little box of cake to take home. I just loved it and that was
>> my first memory of fruitcake.
>>
>>

> In my 20's I went to a lot of weddings and they usually has a small
> piece of wedding cake, which around here used to mean a dark fruit cake.
> I usually ate mine right away. Most often I would end up with a couple
> extra pieces that others at the table could not get rid of fast enough.
>

I didn't even eat my own slice of wedding cake. I did the obligatory
thing, cut the cake then put that first slice in the freezer for a year.
At which point I threw it out. In the trash.

Jill