[Sca-cooks] A final word on fruitcake....

[Sue Clemenger]

A friend of mine sent me this "Ask Dr. Science" bit....
Someone wrote in, asking "What are the actual contents of fruitcakes?"
The response follows:
> Most of the ones I send out are radioactive. I've received some which
> seem to have rare earths interspersed with halogens. They go well
> with a strontium egg nog. One of my colleagues insists that eating
> fruitcake is the key to longevity. The more tissue you can displace
> with fruitcake, the less there is to go wrong later. He uses as proof
> the fact that there are fossil fruitcakes in the pyramids which are
> indentical to ones sold today. The Egyptian ones are just dustier.

So there we have it! <g>
--maire