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Thread #125968   Message #2795896
Posted By: Alice
24-Dec-09 - 04:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: It starts again the seasonal FRUIT CAKE
Subject: RE: BS: It starts again the seasonal FRUIT CAKE
Joe, is your Trappist fruitcake from Gethsemani Farms?

This is what the Mondofruitcake reviewer says about their fruitcake:

"The cake against which all past and future fruitcakes will be judged. I'll try to stay objective but I'm disclaiming right now that this is the one I've grown up with, the one I look forward to every holiday season, and the one that comes to mind when someone says "fruitcake." It's also why I don't have the anti-fruitcake bias—I've grown up on good fruitcake. I suppose out of full disclosure I should mention that my brother is a monk and has visited and stayed at this monastery. But he's Benedictine, not Trappist, and our family had been eating this fruitcake many, many years before he became a monk, so that did not influence my opinion in any way."