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#238608 - 01/04/12 03:30 AM Re: Fruit Cake Secrets [Re: bacpacjac]
dougwalkabout Offline
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Must have been a slow news day at the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20111218-worldwide-weird-colorados-annual-fruitcake-toss

Worldwide weird: Colorado’s annual fruitcake toss


The 17th Annual Fruitcake Toss, on 14 January, offers a full day of dessert-disposing competitions. The original event, the basic “Fruitcake Toss”, gives contestants the chance to physically throw a one pound fruitcake as far as possible.

The “Fruitcake Launch”, a separate competition held on the same day, allows contestants to use mechanical devices, pressurized air guns and cannons to launch a two pound confection across an empty field in hopes of earning the coveted trophy and bragging rights for farthest travelling fruitcake. A team of Boeing engineers holds the current record of 1,500ft, breaking their own previously set record of 1,450ft just last year."

Spinoff competitions include “Catch the Fruitcake” ...


(Hopefully they're not catching the ones from the Boeing boys. Talk about weaponized fruitcake! A prototype crowd control device perhaps? We have fruitcake and we're not afraid to use it!)

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#238762 - 01/06/12 02:53 AM Re: Fruit Cake Secrets [Re: Hikin_Jim]
leemann Offline
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Originally Posted By: Hikin_Jim
Originally Posted By: hikermor
With all the alcohol that apparently is a key ingredient, is there a possibility that fruit cake could also be fuel?

"Throw another fruit cake on the fire, honey..."
lol.

I'm going to design a fruitcake stove. wink


HJ


I tried the stove idea using pound cake. Results the alcohol burns quickly not getting the 16 oz of water to a boil.
The pound cake burned real good and would have the water boiling had I not put it out.


Lee
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#238819 - 01/07/12 01:40 AM Re: Fruit Cake Secrets [Re: leemann]
Hikin_Jim Offline
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I think you need to put the fruit cake in a smaller diameter tin. This will concentrate the flames, facilitating boiling.

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