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vanlassie

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6. Dad was in the cottonseed oil business. Every year he received gifts from

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Sun Dec 11, 2022, 12:20 PM

Dec 2022

companies he did business with. Every year there came a fruitcake shaped like the state of Texas. No one in the family liked grandma’s fruitcake, so we automatically dumped Texas. Until one year my sisters and I discovered this cake was filled with sweet cherries, pecans and chocolate chips. OMG. It was tragic how we had disrespected that cake.

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I've never had fruit cake. Niagara Dec 2022 #1

dense sweet bread. lots of butter Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #5

Your very lucky. jimfields33 Dec 2022 #9

I love good fruitcake. Bad fruitcake can be inedible, but that's true of highplainsdem Dec 2022 #2

Good fruit cake is very good and very rich .... you can not eat too much at one time Botany Dec 2022 #3

Depends on the fruitcake. 2naSalit Dec 2022 #4

Dad was in the cottonseed oil business. Every year he received gifts from vanlassie Dec 2022 #6

Ahh a wasted youth! Haha. MLAA Dec 2022 #8

"Love" might be a little strong, but I do like it on occasion... hlthe2b Dec 2022 #7

I have a recipe for fruitcake cookies without the citron woodsprite Dec 2022 #11

I like the cake part but not KarenS Dec 2022 #10

I make fruitcake as my mother taught me Easterncedar Dec 2022 #12

I make it every year before Thanksgiving. Phoenix61 Dec 2022 #13

My mom started her fruitcakes before Halloween. rsdsharp Dec 2022 #14