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Monks hope consumer cutbacks don’t include fruitcake
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| December 3, 2008
| Adelle Banks
Posted on 12/03/2008 10:11:41 AM PST by NYer
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To: Lorianne
Switch to rumcake and Im in! The Abbey of the Genessee may well have what you're looking for. One of their products is a Rum pound cake.
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posted on
12/03/2008 10:50:56 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: the long march
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posted on
12/03/2008 10:53:52 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: Red Badger
I love Claxton Fruitcake. My parents took me to the factory when I was a kid - hooked ever since.....C
To: the long march
I’ve heard that theory -
there’s really only one fruitcake in the entire world,
and people just keep passing it around as a “gift”.
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posted on
12/03/2008 10:56:26 AM PST
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: bikerman
I don’t know. I pick them out and throw them away............
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posted on
12/03/2008 10:56:57 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: Trailerpark Badass
There’s a Trappist monastery 15 minutes from my home. A couple of years ago the PETA freaks did an “undercover sting” concerning the monks treatment of the chickens that the monks raise for eggs. The monastery decided not to defend themselves and stopped with the egg production.
Now they’re going to produce...mushrooms. Blech!
To: NYer
Poor monks, they just don't get it. It's not that we don't want fruitcake. It's that in the coming administration we're going to have more fruitcakes than we can possibly handle.
Thanks for the addresses. I LOVE a good fruitcake. I mean, uh, not the kind you elect or see in a pride parade.
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:02:30 AM PST
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: Carpe Cerevisi
undercover sting
—
LOL!!
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:02:47 AM PST
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
To: NYer
Does anyone still eat that stuff?
As a child fruitcake was the only bad memory I have of Christmas. I thought they would have quarantined the stuff as a bio-terrorist threat.
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:03:58 AM PST
by
E. Cartman
(If Citigroup is too big to let fail, then break it up.)
To: ccmay
Six are in Belgium and one in Holland. I have sampled the ones in Holland. Quite good.
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:12:49 AM PST
by
OSHA
(framing it as though you've magically neutralized any potential negative eventuality)
To: Red Badger
That is the ONLY fruitcake brand in the Universe that is worth eating.
My sister thinks that the ‘Georgia Fruitcake’ brand is better, but, she has been known to be wrong. Georgia Fruitcakes are also baked in Claxton.
Claxton IS the fruitcake capitol of the World.
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:18:56 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Brookhaven
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:21:12 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
Claxton IS the fruitcake capitol of the World. And here I thought it was San Fransicko..............
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:22:31 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: NYer
More to the point:
Consumers hope monks dont include fruitcakes.
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:25:25 AM PST
by
Notwithstanding
(Obama/Biden: the "O" stands for Zero Executive Experience & Zero Accomplishments)
To: Conan the Librarian
I’ve been there........Claxton, GA that is.....
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:26:24 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: colinhester
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:27:07 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: Conan the Librarian
I used to think Claxton was the best as well, but it seems they have gone *seriously* downhill taste wise.
Look at the ingredients on Claxton fruitcakes sometime. Typical synthetic cost cutting stuff. Where's the real butter? Real sugar? I'll stay away, thank you...
The best are still made by the Trappists, particularly one I tried that was made in -- Texas.
Anyone know the one I'm taking about?
Anyway, as a kid I *hated* fruitcake, now I pine for it 11 months out of the year (but by family honored tradition can't indulge ;)
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:27:38 AM PST
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: I still care
I love fruitcake too. My wife refuses to have one in the house. I am going to smuggle one in this year and hide it underneath the paint cans in the garage.
I going to go rogue this Christmas!
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To: Conan the Librarian
Ha! And all this time, I thought it was San Francisco...:)
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posted on
12/03/2008 11:35:42 AM PST
by
derllak
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