Death of A Fruit Cake

Forget about Twinkies, HoHos and other scrumptious delights we had grown to know and love from the now defunct Hostess. The real gem in their product line was one we very rarely hear about and I am sure not many were not aware of. All that fuss and muss about those other superfluous goodies ignored the Hostess holiday item that graced the grocery shelves at Christmas time. It is the Hostess Holiday Fruitcake.A fruitcake so chock full of all those ingredients that make a fruitcake what a fruitcake is supposed to be. A stick to your ribs, mouth watering delight that brings back memories to every WW2 and Korean vet. Nuts and candied fruit populated the brick like form that was infused with a rum flavoring. The weight of it was something that pushed the cost of the Christmas postage over the top. Sent all over the world to show how much we cared about our heroes in uniform.

If diamonds are forever so is fruit cake.There was no shelf life to worry about with this product. Hostess fruit cake as with other fruit cakes bought or created with a mothers touch or a neighbors well wishes. Seemed to be there when everything else was consumed. It was the stuff that dreams were made of and prays answered long after Christmas, New Years, Easter and Fourth of July came an went. It filled he need for something to fill that aching call of hunger. Alas, it is gone with the the other tasty treats that made the Hostess product line part of our daily lives. If anything can be said about the unions that dammed the Hostess Company to go under. That made Twinkies a thing of the past. It is that they took a part of Christmas away. They killed and buried a part of the holidays for themselves and the rest of us.That will live on in our hearts and minds forever. I happen to have one of the last ever made.I plan to keep that brick of good stuff unopened. Heavy enough to be used as a warehouse door stop. I will pass it on to future generations. With instructions of do not open till Christmas 2030. I am sure it will be as edible then as it is now. So when all is said and done. It was the demise of the Hostess Holiday Fruitcake that made me so mad at the union leadership.Who,with not a wit of consideration took away part of my Christmas cheer and the jobs of  18000 employees of the Hostess Company. One Friday morning in Nov. 2012.