Ancient Mysteries--Timelost Fruitcakes

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

No-no-no.

I don’t refer to Von Daniken.

No I mean this–

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060419/D8H2QSKG1.html

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake - he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother’s attic. Nesta couldn’t resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.

Oddly, I used to live in Waukesha.
Anybody else ever find a mummified fruitcake?
Can we push the fruitcake chronology back to, say, 1899?
If we can come back, bring pie, we can surely radiocarbon date a fruitcake.

While looking at the cake’s container this week, he noticed the listed ingredients included rum and brandy.

“If I had known back then that it had rum and brandy in it, I would have eaten it,” he said.

Slightly fruity archaeologists & rum-soaked histrorians, reply!

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@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

Can we push the fruitcake chronology back to, say, 1899?

Not a fruitcake, but the chronology can indeed be pushed back to 1899 with the 107-year-old hot cross bun.

[Greywolf73]

This just reinforces my theory that when the world ends there will only be two things left: cockroaches and fruitcake. Of course, the cockroaches will all die out because they will refuse to eat the fruitcake…

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Any other Paleo-Fruitcakes in evidence?