# Ancient Mysteries--Timelost Fruitcakes

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**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-mysteries-timelost-fruitcakes/353279 "2006-04-19T12:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-mysteries-timelost-fruitcakes/353279/1 "2006-04-19T12:15:37Z")

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No-no-no.

I don’t refer to Von Daniken. 😃

No I mean this–

[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060419/D8H2QSKG1.html](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060419/D8H2QSKG1.html)

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> 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.

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> While looking at the cake’s container this week, he noticed the listed ingredients included rum and brandy.
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> “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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**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-mysteries-timelost-fruitcakes/353279/2 "2006-04-19T13:26:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]

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

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Not a fruitcake, but the chronology can indeed be pushed back to 1899 with [the 107-year-old hot cross bun](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/15/ncross115.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/15/ixhome.html).

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**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-mysteries-timelost-fruitcakes/353279/3 "2006-04-19T14:02:17Z")

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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…

😛

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-mysteries-timelost-fruitcakes/353279/4 "2006-04-19T17:38:30Z")

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Any other Paleo-Fruitcakes in evidence?