How long does fruitcake last ?

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Somehow, 44 years doesn't come as a shock.....

Fruitcake from ’62 as good as new

But recipient of gift still won’t eat confection found stashed in attic

Updated: 5:41 p.m. ET April 18, 2006

Associated Press

WAUKESHA, Wis. - Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake — he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic.

Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.

"I was amazed that it hadn't changed at all," he said.

Nesta's two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army.

"I opened it up and didn't know what to do with it," Nesta said. "I sure wasn't going to eat it, and I liked my fellow soldiers too much to share it with them."

As best he can remember, he packed the cake with the rest of his belongings and shipped it home to Waukesha when he left the military a few years later.

He recently rediscovered the boxed fruitcake in the attic of his mother's home in Waukesha.

[Remember585 815]

If only we could get our Air-Packs to work off of fruitcake instead of batteries...

[Ladder44 73]

Amen to that!!!

[SRS131EMTFF 471]

And that is why I will never eat another fruitcake. I refuse to eat something that will last longer then most home appliances.