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Re: [OM] Friday Humour: 135 Shopping Days Until Christmas

Subject: Re: [OM] Friday Humour: 135 Shopping Days Until Christmas
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:05:51 +0100
Yes, but you miss my subtlety, ChrisT.  There is another meaning to 
“fruitcake”, over here at least :-)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fruitcake

I’ll leave that lying there . . .

Chris

> On 12 Aug 17, at 18:17, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     Very close to the truth.  Fruitcakes here tend to have candied (ie - 
> fake) fruit and lots of sugar, often laced with brandy.  They are a scourge 
> and more often than not end up being regifted at the earliest opportunity.
> 
>     When I see food porn from Nathan and others from Europe I can only wish 
> that we had such healthy fare over here.
> 
>> 
>> Perhaps you don’t have real fruitcakes in the USA.
>> 
>> Oh wait, I think that I know of one . . . ;-)
>> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
>     - Hunter S. Thompson

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