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Aunt Linda's 15 year old fruitcake finally clicked for me
For years I laughed at my aunt for regifting the same dusty fruitcake every Christmas. I mean the thing had 2003 written on the box in sharpie. But last month she came over and explained she actually bakes a fresh one each year and just reuses the same tin. Said it's her way of keeping her mom's recipe alive since she passed in '02. Honestly that hit different because I never asked why. I just assumed she was being cheap or lazy. Now I feel like a jerk for posting photos of her fruitcake in this forum for the last 5 years. Has anyone else had a family gift you roasted that actually had a story behind it?
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daniel8577d ago
Crazy how we roast first and ask questions way later in life.
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Wait, are we really supposed to feel bad for laughing at a fruitcake with 2003 on the box? Look, I get that Aunt Linda has a sweet backstory about her mom and all, but shes the one who kept the same tin with the year written on it for over a decade without saying a word. Thats on her for not explaining, not on you for making a joke about something that looked exactly like a 15 year old moldy brick. I mean, what did she expect when she handed you the same dusty box year after year? Youre not a mind reader, and half the fun of forums like this is roasting weird family traditions. Shes probably just happy someone actually paid attention to her fruitcake instead of tossing it in the trash like most people do.
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