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12-17-2018, 08:04 PM | #1 |
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Collins Street Bakery Fruit cake
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12-17-2018, 08:48 PM | #2 |
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There is a huge difference between average grocery store fruit cakes and Collins Street.
I love their cakes.
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12-17-2018, 10:07 PM | #3 |
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Several years ago I made a remark that I liked those fruit cakes.
Come Christmas I received four of them. The oldest was around ten years old, so I sampled it first, and ate it all. Gradually went through the other three, no side affects except appreciation. BTW, I still like those fruit cakes in a can that are wrapped in cellophane. |
12-17-2018, 11:13 PM | #4 |
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Holy sheeit, They are proud of those. $50 bucks for a 2 lb
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12-18-2018, 07:10 AM | #5 |
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12-18-2018, 08:55 AM | #6 |
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I love fruitcake. Too bad nobody ever gifts one to me.
My wife keeps saying she will make one for me, but then she got laid up with her last surgery. Maybe I can get her to make it early this coming year and let it "age" in brandy or rum.
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12-18-2018, 09:10 AM | #7 |
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If I was on a lifeboat at sea and all their was to eat was lima beans, grapefruit and fruitcake? I would starve to death.
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12-18-2018, 09:41 AM | #8 |
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I score mine @ the local Albertson's/Randall's cheaper then if I bought it direct. You might want to check if Albertson's own anything in your area. Could just be a Texas thing.
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12-18-2018, 10:21 AM | #9 |
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Heck, I even ate the C rat variety. People thought I was nuts.
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12-18-2018, 10:38 AM | #10 |
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12-18-2018, 10:46 AM | #11 |
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I would mash up the beans and mix it with the grapefruit and use it for frosting.
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12-18-2018, 11:28 AM | #13 |
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I actually liked creamed lima beans the way my dad would make them. I like grapefruit too, but it tears me up even when used to mix with booze.
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12-18-2018, 02:14 PM | #14 |
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I dug some up downrange at Ft. Carson in '85. You couldn't read the outside of the cans, anymore. Since they weren't bulged out, I opened them up and one was a can of tuna fish. It looked and smelled okay, but I didn't taste it. The other was fruitcake. I ate that, and it was pretty dang good!
I think 4th must have buried them there back in the day. |
12-18-2018, 02:15 PM | #15 |
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