I was performing my annual refridgerator cleaning tonight, which usually results in a slumgullion stew. There, back behind the discount gallon can of soy sauce and a mummified greek lambshank was, THE TIN. It was the last of last December's Fruit Cake ( shrieks as our readers decide AOL parental blocking is useless.) Still edible,I was also happy to rediscover a long lost carbon Mora, now beautifully pickled in Damascene colours like Excaliber in the stone. This made me think of our british reader's annual Christmas puddings with prizes and coins inside. And then it hit me! No more messy oils, rattling PSKs or the inevitable voids. I'll merely pour fruitcake mix into my kits, cook and be done with it. No more messy MRE packaging, finding expensive and never used kit rusted, mildewed or degraded. I won't be dropping anything either when I open my PSK Jack -in - the-Box. You heard it here first people, though I'm sure the other websites will be posting this as original genius in a day or so. <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like a winner to me, I love fruitcake!!!

Fruitcake is also Brit Speak for mental.
Not that I could possibly be drawing any conclusions of course. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Swiss Colony has the best fruitcake, in my opinion. Cheap fruitcake is too much cake & not enough fruit. I once read about a comment by an archeologist that scientists of the future will be able to date stuff found in garbage dumps by the layers of fruitcake discarded annually. This is similar to dating climate changes by tree rings.

Chris why would anyone eat something that resembles a few steps below doorstop in the food chain? my kids won't eat it and neither will my dog (hienz 57 breed) What are you thinking?


really though, it sounds like you have the ultimate food supply for hiking and campimg <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Fruitcake can be very good, but you need to get a recipe and make it yourself. The storebought stuff is so full of preservatives the layers of fruitcake thrown out are probably as edible now as they were when bought <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

What about the weight? My understanding is that real fruitcake has approximately the same density as lead. So the benefit of protecting your kit comes with the added price of a 30 lb altoids tin?

"...Fruitcake is also Brit Speak for mental..."

As in "nuttier than a..."???

So what's your point???

hahahaha

Me too. I love the Claxton brand. My late Grandma used to buy it for her and I for Christmas. I'll eat it and think of her this Christmas..

Welcome to the very exculsive fraturnity of Fruitcakes Are Really Teriffic!!! Chris can be, by virtue of his exalted status as moderator, Grand Pooba, you wanna run for Veep???