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Fruitcake: eat it, 'regift' it or toss it on January 3?

Reporter's note: In case you missed it, National Fruitcake Day was celebrated, as usual, just a few days ago on December 27. National Fruit Cake Day got me thinking: it's probably been 25 years since I had fruitcake at Christmas. For about the first 25 years my wife and I have been married the company my father-in-law worked for would ship him a fruitcake, in a metal tin, every Christmas. He would put it under the Christmas tree. When my wife and I would arrive for Christmas, my mother-in-law and I would have fruitcake. We were the only two of the family who would eat it.

Years ago fruitcake g...