National Fruitcake Day

National Fruitcake Day

This holiday is celebrated every year on December 27. Supposedly, people get together to honor and eat the fruitcakes they’ve received for Christmas. The Great Fruitcake Recycling Project  challenges you to act more responsibly this year. Use the national...

Interview on The Pete and Brenda Show

Pete and Brenda interview the Managing Director of The Great Fruitcake Recycling Project, Barbara Bailey, about the environmental impact of fruitcake, and the importance of recycling. You can listen to The Pete and Brenda Show weekdays 3-6pm on...

Fruitcake Toss

I’ve mentioned the Manitou Springs Great Fruitcake Toss before. It’s a fabulous event held in January of each year, to treat the fruitcake with the respect it so rightly deserves. Find out more about this event. I’ll be...

Can a Fruitcake Stop a Bullet?

This is exactly the type of solid investigative reporting The Great Fruitcake Recycling Project likes to get behind. I’ve talked a lot about the dangers of fruitcake, and how indestructible it is. The folks at https://www.zug.com decide to put that...
Misguided Soul

Misguided Soul

Ripped from today’s Headlines: Broomfield Enterprise Online Broomfield baker rallies for the real fruitcake Below a photo, the caption reads: DEFENDING THE FRUITCAKE: Broomfield resident Nicole Hedlund, owner of A Grande Finale Patisserie in Louisville, shows...

Possibly the best use for fruitcake

The city of Manitou Springs, Colorado has an annual fruitcake toss in January. Each year thousands of people enter the event to food for the charity while treating fruitcake with the respect it deserves. Thankfully, the food that is collected is not the fruitcakes,...