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Mc Gavin's Princess Fruit Cake
Last edited by Flying10uk; 12-05-2020 at 10:23 PM.
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12-05-2020 10:18 PM
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Nobody actually eats fruitcake. They are simply passed on from family to family. Surprised that tin didn't have it's cake still in it. Often used as door stops
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I'm now imagining fruitcakes at the bottom of the ocean, their tins, long rusted away.
Please don't take me too seriously, I'm not mocking your memory or history, I just can't help myself when it comes to fruitcakes. I can imagine they would have been very welcome. The tin is pretty cool also.
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My Grandfather found that the tins were a perfect size to stretch his ARP beret if it became a little tight. I am happy to demonstrate this because I still have his beret.
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That's a wonderful piece of history, thanks for sharing. To me, the various homefronts during the war are a fascinating time and place, often neglected by historians. I'm glad to see that tin is still maintained in your home; if it were mine, it would at the very least be a treasured Christmas display.
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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
Mc Gavin's
They are still in business of course here and doing well.
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Seems to be an advertising technique now largely forgotten: make your packaging re-useable and attractive in a "general interest" way so that it is kept for other purposes and becomes a sort of in-home billboard advertising your product.
These days the bean-counters would obsess over the cost of the packaging and ignore the advertising value as being impossible to quantify.
"No one eats fruitcake"? I beg to differ sir! Maybe not people who eat rubbish all year round and therefore can't indulge at Christmas without a health crisis?
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Originally Posted by
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Nobody actually eats fruitcake. They are simply passed on from family to family. Surprised that tin didn't have it's cake still in it. Often used as door stops
Shhh! Don't let my wife hear you, it's her "diet" for the month of December!
Russ
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