70-Year-Old Fruitcake Sold for $525

1941 was a pretty crazy year for America. FDR was running the country and the United States had just entered into a second world war. But even in the midst of all that, people were still doling out fruitcakes to one another during the holidays, much like today. And just like today, people were still avoiding them like the plague.

That’s more or less what happened to one Kroger Company fruitcake made in 1941. The fateful fruitcake returned to a Kroger store still sealed where the manager kept it for years in its original packaging. It wasn’t until the manager’s son stumbled across the exiled dessert and handed it off to an Ohio company that auctioned it off on the internet.

The 70 year old fruitcake sold to an Arizona buyer who wished to remain anonymous and the money earned from the auction went to the homeless in southwest Ohio.

(via The Huffington Post)

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