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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.misc,alt.fan.fruitcake
- Subject: Re: Fruitcake
- Message-ID: <BzuKxJ.C9z@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 03:41:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.190428.21649@Virginia.EDU>
- Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)
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- In article <1992Dec25.190428.21649@Virginia.EDU> blr3r@Virginia.EDU (Brian L. Rust) writes:
- >
- > You want the truth about fruitcake? The real story?
- > I work at the Rising Sun Bakery, a small, hippie-owned
- >place popular with upper-middle-class, party-giving types.
- >Last week, I assisted the head baker in making (the horror, the
- >HORROR) 120 POUNDS of fruitcake. We then charged $7 a pound
- >for it...and it all sold.
- > Why? To Who? I have no idea. Maybe it's a bizarre
- >southern gentry thing. Maybe it's a stoic, Hemingwayesque
- >test of how truly you're in the holiday spirit- if you can
- >still smile and say thank you and mean it when you've unwrapped
- >your third cake, you get a plaque somewhere? All I know is, I
- >start to shake whenever I see dried fruit now. And
- >cherries...dont get me started about the cherries...
-
- I'm still waiting, people. No fruitcake's showed up at my post office box
- yet. If I don't get any, I'll be forced to conclude that the readers of
- alt.folklore.urban and rec.food.misc actually eat all the fruitcake they
- receive and just carp about it for the heck of it.
-
- For the record, that's:
-
- Joel Furr
- P.O. Box 601
- Christiansburg, VA 24073.
-
- Joel "I'm a graduate student. I'll do anything for food" Furr
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
-