ISSUE 43, CHRISTMAS, Part 6: Fruit Cake
The Most Dreaded Holiday Treat
The Most Dreaded Holiday Food Tradition of All
They came like some radioactive terrorist device wrapped in aluminum foil that my mom unwrapped, speaking words of thanks to the neighbor/aunt/elderly woman from our Methodist Church, who handed it to her. Our family received two or three a year. The ones made by neighbors or relatives might be sodden and sm…