On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
> 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

We didn't have a wedding cake. Instead, we had a big bowl of fresh
strawberries. We're still going strong 27 years later, so the
symbolism/superstition of the wedding cake appears to be not
100% necessary.

Cindy Hamilton