#4373971 - 08/12/17 12:01 AM
106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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Not BS, researchers found it in a hut and believe it likely from Robert Scott's 1911 voyage.
Twitter responses:
" the historian in me says, What a find! ..the rest of me says ewwwww".
"Because even in the most barren place, 100 years ago, people still refused to eat fruit cake."
"100-year old fruitcake 'almost edible', much like fresh fruitcake".
"Honestly if it's 'almost edible' I'd call it a win for the fruitcake".
Last edited by piper; 08/12/17 12:02 AM. Reason: spelling of course
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#4373973 - 08/12/17 12:05 AM
Re: 106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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LOL. Has anyone actually eaten a "fruitcake"? Are they, in fact, meant to be eaten?
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#4373976 - 08/12/17 12:09 AM
Re: 106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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Didn't they eat their dogs ? . Dogs, fruitcake? Fruitcake, dogs? Dogs.
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#4373991 - 08/12/17 02:32 AM
Re: 106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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I thought all fruitcake was 106 years old. Equally effective served to guests you'd rather not return or used as railroad ballast.
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#4374028 - 08/12/17 03:51 PM
Re: 106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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Fruitcake not popular here at SimHQ then? Don't blame you,I can't stand it although my sister makes a fruit loaf that is hard to resist if buttered.
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#4374063 - 08/12/17 09:00 PM
Re: 106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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The fruitcakes you see in stores at Christmas time to me always look like not only something that doesn't look good to eat, but it also looks and is packaged like they are from the 60s and they just keep pulling them out every year in hopes of selling them. I'm willing try it but I'd like it to at least look appealing. These hard, brown bricks infused with mysterious nuts and fruity looking goobers wrapped in cellophane make them appear more like a decoration than a foodstuff. I know a song called fruitcake about fruitcake that would probably make anyone want to eat fruitcake though.
Perhaps they should not tamper with the specimen and leave it in isolation. It could be The Thing hiding in the form of a Holiday treat eagerly awaiting a human host to inhabit.
Last edited by Coot; 08/12/17 09:04 PM.
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#4374138 - 08/13/17 04:18 PM
Re: 106yr old fruitcake found in Antarctica
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LOL. Has anyone actually eaten a "fruitcake"? Are they, in fact, meant to be eaten? Sadly yes on more than one occasion as a kid. Had an iron stomach at the time... Wheels
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