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    1941 fruitcake in Ohio sells for $525

    CINCINNATI (AP) — A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company's online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.

    Elite Estate Group sold the cake in an auction on its website. Company owner Larry Chaney says the man, who wanted to remain anonymous, probably bought the cake as an investment. Chaney says he doubts anyone would eat a 70-year-old fruitcake even though it was vacuum packed and contained rum that probably helped preserve it.

    The cake was made in 1941 by The Kroger Co. It was returned unopened to a Kroger store in 1971. The manager took it home and kept it until recently when his son was helping him get rid of some things and gave the cake to Chaney.

     

    47 comments

    • The MeXorcist  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      When I seen "1941 fruitcake", I don't know why I thought of Richard Simmons.
    • robert  •  4 mths ago
      There are a lot of Fruitcakes in Congress.
      • Vladimir Jones 4 mths ago
        Didn't you hear? There'll be one less next year.
      • LadyLove 4 mths ago
        Yea and just as old too
    • IgboNewaki  •  Orlando, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      There is only one fruitcake in the world ... It just keeps getting re-gifted!
    • Bob the Builder  •  Fresno, California  •  4 mths ago
      $525 is a lot of money for a hocky puck.
    • Grim Reaper  •  4 mths ago
      I have a 42 year old fruitcake for sale. Her name is Linda, she is 5'4", 123lbs, brown eyes and hair.
      • hop 4 mths ago
        Short on cash. Will trade 2 cats & 12V Dewalt cordless drill.
      • Grim Reaper 4 mths ago
        Sorry already traded for 2 year old Pomeranian and a Milwaukee Sawz-All.
      • hop 4 mths ago
        I woulda thrown in a Sawz-All if she made good biscuits.
    • Thee  •  Winston-Salem, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      no green cherries...always a good sign!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      im 70 born 41 aint gonna eat it / nope
    • sldfkgjdflkgjfdskjgfdklsj ...  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      seriously. is this fruit cake eatable? what would happen if someone eats it? I hate to see food unopened. Any type of food that comes my house is fully consumed.
    • Bob the Builder  •  Fresno, California  •  4 mths ago
      I have some old fruitcake I got a couple of years ago that I was going to "re-gift". Wonder what I could sell if for instead.
    • Jerry  •  4 mths ago
      Expensive door stop.
    • john_n_swegan@yahoo.com  •  Elkhart, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      If it weren't for the fact that the money was going to help the homeless, I'd say the buyer was a fruitcake. I wonder if it would taste worse than modern fruitcakes.
    • UnderDog  •  4 mths ago
      Whoever invented fruitcake should be shot.
    • MEL  •  4 mths ago
      Surely this can't be the only fruitcake in the US. Seems to me there's far too many.
    • pelacanos  •  Elmhurst, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      What is the fruitcake's name
    • franklin  •  4 mths ago
      Panettone taste better
    • David  •  St Francisville, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      Ah Ha so you dont eat them they are door stops
    • Bobbi T  •  San Francisco, California  •  4 mths ago
      And this is news? Why did I stop to even read this, I am as bad as the journalist who wrote the thing! Shame on me!!!
    • Van Ham  •  Colorado Springs, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      I'll eat it... I've eaten worse...
    • anonymouse  •  4 mths ago
      exchange the fruitcake to iran for the drone aircraft we lost. the iranians would spend years trying to figure out what to do with it.
    • pickenese  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      We have a store near me that sells outdated groceries.
      Some of their stuff is nearly that old. They should AUCTION.
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