Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for December 22, 2023

Here we go again – all those who love or hate ‘em, here’s your spot to post. I’ve had good ones and Kevlar equivalents.

Anything from ACME hast GOT to be a superior product. Right?!

Somewhere is the debate: Which came first?

Funny

A fruitcake found in an Antarctic shelter in 2017 (106 years old at the time) was described as “almost edible”. It was left by the Scott team, possibly because it was “almost” edible even in 1911. From a National Geographic article:

The expedition’s Northern Party took shelter in the Cape Adare hut, which had been built by Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevink’s team in 1899—and left the fruitcake behind. A team has been excavating artifacts in the hut since 2016.

I’m enjoying a couple of slices of Claxton fruitcake with my coffee right now. Merry Christmas!

Holiday Fruitcake – that´s a terrible thing to call your Gran!

Must take a few loafs to make one…..

My wife makes a concoction that she calls soup. Soup does not have the specific gravity of concrete. I call it vegetable slurry. It is extremely delicious and has enough vitamins in it to keep an adult going for three weeks. No two batches has ever tasted the same.

But the material is impervious to radiation. You could use this stuff to shield nuclear reactors.

I was the guy you did not want to be behind in the break room in the office. It is nearly impossible to heat it in a microwave and most office kitchens do no have a blast furnace.

I would heat the bowl for a 30 second blast on a phaser “kill” setting, don my asbestos gloves and remove it. The outermost millimeter was about the same temperature as the surface of the sun while the remainder remains at refrigerator temperature. I am sure this defies the laws of thermodynamics.

I had to take it out and stir it to mix the lava-like layer with the rest of the soup. I had to repeat this process about as often as a blacksmith working a piece of metal: into the fire, beat it on the anvil, quench it, back into the fire: time after time.

It was worth the effort and the dirty looks I got from the queue of coworkers now waiting to use the microwave.

Pecans still in the shell?

When will they come up with a fruitcake-proof vest!?

I like them but they’re not diabetic friendly.

No, they just found a source of income by reselling them, annually.

Ha! I prefer unleaded Christmas cake.

Now that’s responsible repurposing.

It’s a great company to in vest in.

I’ve had some I liked and some I didn’t. YMMV.

I love the Swiss Colony fruit cake.

I wasn’t able to comment on 12/22, but I feel I must: Fruitcakes do not deserve all the insults.