Fruitcake for survival food?
 

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I wouldn't risk it. Nobody eats fruitcake.

Their must be fruitcake out there that is re-gifted year after year.

That fruitcake sitting on your counter could be 20 years old! Think of the children!

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I like this guy.:D

I have a phone call into the makers, will get back to you.

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I never have understood why it's popular to hate fruitcake. I guess for the same reason it's popular to hate anchovies, which aren't bad either.

In the old days a wedding cake was a fruit cake and you saved a portion of it till you had your first children. A real fruitcake will keep, which is probably the whole reason it was invented in the first place. The stuff you buy at most stores isn't the same thing but rather the fastfood equivalent. Some of the older women in my family can still make the real stuff and if anybody tasted it and told me it was bad I'd say they need to get their tastebuds realigned.

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The hell with saving fruitcake as food, use it as a biological weapon when TSHF. :aetsch:

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The fruitcake is an essential item for any survival shelter. It should be kept in the back of the shelter in a glass case. When all hope is lost and you are being overrun by zombies mutated by radioactive fallout, take the easy way out. Break the glass and eat some of the fruitcake. While the taste may be wretched, the end will come quickly. :Sorry:

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"Some of the older women in my family can still make the real stuff and if anybody tasted it and told me it was bad I'd say they need to get their tastebuds realigned."

I remember by grandmothers. Just too Good. People would fight over it!!

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I love a well made one......the Claxton brand the civic clubs sell is one of my favorites.....doesn't last long around this household.

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:cool1: Actually never considered fruitcake as a survival item.

Some cooks make fruitcake with rum,vodka,crown royal,etc.in place of water in the recipe. Once heard of a lady who used Nyquil in all her cakes and pies to calm down her husband and children.Probably turned them into zombies...be careful of Aunt Bertha's apple cobbler.

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Those illegal bootleg fruitcakes if kept sealed in a cool,dark space might last a hundred years or more...sounds possible.Sort of like VSOP,only by the slice.

:D :D :D

But Mama...Jerry got six big pieces and I only got this one dinky slice.

Shut it up kid...I got enough problems with your sister who ate that entire Vodka watermelon we had stashed back for hard times.

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I thought real fruit cake should be put in a can an periodically drenched in liquor (rum I think) which should prevent spoilage. It contains everything needed to provide most vitamins nuts, fruits, carbs, liquor :) etc which is why it used to be used as a food on the trail.

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My mom (the family baker, wedding cakes, christmas cookie etc) doesn't make them anymore. She used to make them as gifts. Everytime I hear someone knock fruitcake I think, "they never had one of mom's."

Her youngest sister has the knack too, and makes some Italian stuff also. She was married to an Italian (passed now) and learned from his mom who was an Italian immigrant.

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Better fruitcakes for survival food than survival food for fruitcakes!

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You guys missed Good Eats with Alton Brown, and yes, Fruitcake was and still is Survival food.http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...00.html:ARMS1:

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"In the old days a wedding cake was a fruit cake "

Must be why the tradition of the Bride & Groom force feeding each other got started.

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I once saw a fruitcake, made by my wonderful mother, sit quietly and patiently in the freezer, wrapped in tin foil like Woody Allen in Sleeper, for over two years. On eday, in a fit of hunger and curiosity, I unwrapped it and let it thaw. It was a little dryer than normal, but otherwise unchanged from it's storage. Freaky. It tasted the same also. Blek! I ended up throwing it in the back woods (unwrapped). 3 days later it was still there... nothing had come by to claim it, including the family of raccoons living in the back woods. It was gone on day 4. Amazing. Why do people make fruitcake anyway? I have not ever had any that actually tasted good...

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Damn, you guys got me hankerin for a fruitcake. That claxton brand Andy mentioned is good stuff. I havent had one in probably 5 years.

Anybody got any good fruitcake links?




NOOB

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Ammo for a homemade mangonel or other projectile weapon!

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The devil made me bump this one...

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The hell I did!
don't believe this fruitcake bumping nutjob, folks.....
you guys know the kind of people that come out of TX....

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lol :bear_tongue:

A lot of good older threads getting bumped lately.

I'm not a big fan of fruitcake either, though I am not sure how long it actually lasts. I have relatives that make it from scratch but I wonder if they use recipes designed for long term storage.

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And you my friend, you are sitting where?? :biggrin:

And I like the collins street bakery fruitcakes,

Iptuous, Corsicana is not that far from you. what 50-75 miles max????:yes:
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Nut job????:s15:


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Edit: How is the new radio doing?



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If kept cool ,, I know for a fact 10 years...

Was not bad at all...

Still living..

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I predict that fruitcakes will be the key building material after TSHF.

The nearly indestructible squared loafs do not perish, are stackable, are toxic to most mammals (rodents), and can be collected from every (now defunct) freezer in the US.

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I love that show. I learn a hundred new things from every episode.

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Plus it's the 'green' thing to do, as it uses recycled material with a high thermal mass for passive cooling purposes...

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FruitCakeIsMoney

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And Dollar Positive..!!


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i would starve. or at least some weight before i got desperate enough.

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"Fruitcake as survival food" means inviting your crazy neigbor into your shelter so you can later kill him and eat him.

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Somebody dug in the archives through two years of threads and decided to bump THIS ONE?

I demand a congressional investigation!

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The neighbor east of us is an 85-year old window lady. All winter long, I shovel her sidewalk. And all summer, I mow her grass. Because I know she's on limited income and cannot pay cash for those services.

And all year long she cooks and bakes for my household. Cherry cheesecake. Fruit salad. Pineapple upsidedown cake. Apple pie. Cookies and brownies. Cherry pie. Fruitcake!

As survival food, I have no idea. None of it lasts long enough to find out. But, if there is one really good thought to come out of this thread, let it be that the best survival strategy is to look after your neighbors. They look back to you.

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Yeah but those 85 year window ladies are hard to find.. :yippee:

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They're all over my neighborhood. You should have seen the turnout at the Elvis Tribute Concert last night at the Main Square Park! Blue hair everywhere.

I'm glad you're feeling better, TechGuy.

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My parent's housekeeper likes to make me food and bring it to me. (I have 2 sisters and a brother and she has never made anything for them) :)

One year she brought me a fruitcake. I was eating it (just to be nice) when she told me how she made it. She would take the base ingredients and mix it and then add one item per week (fruits, nuts, etc) for the next 13 weeks (until Christmas). In the meantime she kept it in a cabinet.

It wasn't the worst but definitely not the best.

Her husband passed 2 years ago and hasn't made it since although I always ask her about it. She still brings me a plate of the other food on holidays.

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I'm sorry your experience was not like mine. So sorry.

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Well, I had to add something to this old dinosaur...hey, some old friends on this thread. Seems appropriate somehow. Surprised there aren't any pictures.

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I love fruitcake, it should be considered it's own element, that stuff never seems to go bad. Probably becuase all the fruit and nuts is dried and it usually had 1/2 a cup of rum in it.

Very low moisture + alcohol

I always take it hiking, will keep your entire trip even in hot weather.

Add honey to the recipe instead of sugar and it will keep even longer

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I have eaten it when it was 10 years old and it was still good
there are some studies of it being still edible at 20+ years..

I think adding honey to it may make it good to go for hundreds or thousands + years!!

I can see it now..

Man destroys them selfs and in a million years or so some alien star traveling race comes to earth and finds small traces of man's existence.

And on a dig they find a fruitcake.

Still edible!!:yes:




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LOL, you people must never have had GOOD fruitcake!

Definition, mostly FRUIT and a little cake. Rum or Cream Sherry required.

It doesn't last because it all gets eaten.

DOH!

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I like fruitcake a lot , with hot coffee and or milk...

Like you I do not understand why people do not like it..

But I will hold to the belief that it will (almost????) keep forever!!


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My mother-in-law made the wedding cake when I married my first husband. They were Brits, and she said it was a traditional recipe. The cake was a heavily alcoholic fruitcake, and you could break your teeth on the frosting. I remember cutting the cake. It took both of us putting our weight on the knife to get it through the icing. Needless to say, we didn't shove the cake in each other's faces! Anyway, we didn't refrigerate it, just put it in a Tupperware container, and it kept for years. We'd take it out every anniversary and eat a little for at least the first five years. (I think the cake might have outlasted the marriage!)

Sure, fruitcake gets a bad rap, but just think of it as a big ol' sponge full of booze. :coolbeer:

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You can also use it to torture captives into giving you information!

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Or we could offer it to people when they come begging for food ATSHTF. Hell, offer it to enough people and they might start bringing US extra food out of pity. Personally, I love the stuff so would be hard pressed to give any away.