blog #7

Who would have ever thought to have kept a fruitcake thats 97 years old. I definitely wouldn't have. The article titled, Hear the one about the fruitcake made in 1911? It's still a holiday joke, by Bill Ward is a popular article being read. This cake was baked just a few months before the Titanic sank, and was found in St. Louis Park closet shelf while doing an estate sale assessment in 1992. The resident had passed away and Pierre Girard inherited the gift from Staber and Scheimo. The cake came in a box labeled "Xmas cake Baked in dec. 1911" on the top, and "Xmas Cake baked by my mother's brother Alex died Dec. 27 was operated on Xmas day". Girard decided to keep the cake surprisingly. The cake is hard as a rock and has a slight scent of spice with knob-like mints on the sides. Most people responded to it saying, eww im not touching that or why would you keep that in your house! I would react the same way. This is a very interesting story and amazing that one would keep a cake thats 97 years old.