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the dessert so dense and immortal it doubles as a doorstop with a birth certificate
means A dense cake packed with dried fruit and nuts, often soaked in spirits and kept for ages — or, in slang, a person who's affectionately or insultingly considered crazy.
from A straightforward compound of "fruit" and "cake," in use for the dried-fruit confection since at least the 19th century. The "crazy person" sense is a 20th-century American coinage, likely built on the older idea of being "nutty" — and what is a fruitcake but a thing stuffed full of nuts?
- shelf life
- can last decades soaked in alcohol
- oldest survivor
- 126-year-old fruitcake found in Antarctica, nearly edible
- recycling joke
- theory says one fruitcake circulates endless regifting
- space flight
- flown aboard Apollo missions as astronaut rations
- density
- weighs more than its volume suggests, defying baking logic
for instance
claxton fruitcake — georgia bakery making the same recipe since 1910, ships worldwide
mcvitie's dundee cake — scottish fruitcake with almonds on top, been sold since 1880s