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Yes Dear Readers Fruitcake Has A History by Kevin Dayhoff
Yes, Dear Readers, Fruitcake Has A History
December 26, 2012 Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5537
The holidays are upon us and I can only be sure that many
thoughts have turned to getting together with family and friends – and of
course, the wonders of fruitcake.
Yes, fruitcake. Yeah! I know it is a rather heavy subject
for the Christmas season, but fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I’ve
been called many things over the years, but “Angel” is not one of them, so here
goes.
Seems nothing stirs the passions of many like the subject of
food. I’m still nursing the bruising I took several years ago when I commented
on the virtues of squash: “As much as I like vegetables, one food that does not
exist on the Dayhoff's Nutrition Pyramid (DNP) is squash. God created the
squash as a joke. The word "squash" is Native-American for "mud
disguised as plant."
Moving along; your intrepid writer here has observed that
first among equals on the holiday food passion meter seems to be the topic of
fruitcake. After all, nothing warms the cockles of one’s heart like fruitcake
on a cold Central Maryland night. I have been
told that fruitcake burns – forever – in the fireplace at a rather high
temperature; and it adds a brilliant display of holiday colors to the flames.
The subject of fruitcake arrived when I was recently asked
as to what was my favorite food during the holidays. To which I answered,
“Yes!!!”
Fruitcake has gotten a bad rap over the years. That’s
probably because people haven’t had homemade dark fruitcake with icing – a
Southern tradition.
According to various learned commentaries on the virtues of
fruitcake, the concoction of chopped candied fruit, nuts, and spices – and
plenty of alcohol – was quite popular at Victorian teas in 19th century England , where
many know it as “Christmas Cake.”
Another variation of fruitcake – or “fruit bread,” …http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5537
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American Profile Flinging Fruitcake
American Profile Flinging Fruitcake
Flinging Fruitcake
What to Do with Leftover Fruitcake by Pam Grout December
13, 2011 Holiday desserts sail over Manitou Springs, Colo. http://americanprofile.com/articles/fruitcake-toss-manitou-springs-colorado/
Wearing military-style fatigues and an aviator cap, Jerry
Pokorny, 64, stuffs a frozen fruitcake into a long, slim tube attached to an
exercise bike. He checks printed satellite maps, twists the valve on a
10-gallon tank of compressed air and–kaboom!–the fruitcake sails across the high
school football field in Manitou Springs , Colo. (pop. 4,992), past the goalposts and into the
distance toward Pikes Peak .
Calling himself "a retired engineer with too much time
on his hands," Pokorny built his wacky "Fruitcake of Mass
Destruction" out of parts from a junkyard to join 75 contestants in the
2011 Manitou Springs Great Fruitcake Toss. The annual event celebrates the
world's most reviled and underappreciated holiday dessert by challenging
contestants to toss, hurl and fling fruitcakes through the air, occasionally
obliterating the sugary artillery in the process…http://americanprofile.com/articles/fruitcake-toss-manitou-springs-colorado/
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Taneytown man armed with hammer shot and killed by local police Christmas evening
By Kevin E. Dayhoff, December 26, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-police-shooting-1226-20121226,0,6149880.story
The peace and tranquility of a white Christmas in Carroll County was shattered Tuesday evening as word spread quickly through the community of a deadly shooting in Taneytown involving a police officer.
The news comes at a time when many have grown weary of bad news. Not even the unexpected late snowfall on Christmas Eve could overcome the heavy hearts of many just weeks after the December 14 shooting death of 26 people, most of them children, in an elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
Then on Christmas Eve, much of the local news media reported that a gunman in upstate New York allegedly set fire to his house and ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two more who were responding to the fire.
Bad news involving firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical personnel always travels quickly in Carroll County that has long been understood as being the home of many of Maryland’s first responders.
Late in the evening on Christmas Day, Greg Shipley, a spokesperson for the Maryland State Police confirmed the incident and released additional details that a Taneytown police officer had shot and killed a man who had threatened the lives of several police officers in the otherwise peaceful northwestern Carroll County community.
Police say that Edward L. Becker, Jr., 26, of the unit-block of Commerce Drive, Taneytown, Md, was pronounced dead at the Carroll Hospital Center, as a result of the incident.
According to Shipley, “A Carroll County man armed with a hammer and acting disorderly was fatally wounded by a Taneytown Police Department officer when he failed to surrender and advanced threateningly at the officer.
The state police say that shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Christmas Day, “the parents of Becker called 911 and reported he had been drinking and was acting disorderly. Becker’s father reported his son was smashing windows out of his truck with a hammer…”
Three Taneytown police department officers responded to the area of the address on Commerce Street, according the police report. At the scene they “saw Becker walking down the street toward them.
“They exited their vehicles and began shouting commands to Becker to drop the hammer and surrender. Becker continued to approach. The officers, who were all in uniform and marked patrol cars, retreated down the street and positioned themselves behind their police cars.
“The investigation indicates the officers continued to shout commands to Becker to drop the hammer and surrender. Becker ignored the commands and continued to approach the officers…
After Becker got to within approximately an arm’s length of an officer and raised the hammer, one of the officers fired his service weapon, striking Becker.
Police at the scene administered first aid and called emergency medical personnel to the scene.
“The officer involved is a four and one-half year veteran of the Taneytown Police Department…,” say police. The Taneytown police officer has been placed on routine administrate leave by Taneytown Police Chief William Tyler, “which is procedure in police-involved shootings.”
Tyler “requested the police-involved shooting be investigated by the Maryland State Police homicide unit and troopers from the Westminster Barrack responded to the scene to conduct the investigation, according to Shipley.
The investigation is continuing. Upon completion, it will be forwarded to the Carroll County State's Attorney's Office for review... Taneytown man armed with hammer shot and killed by local police Christmas evening
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Christmas at Belle Grove Square by George Welty December 24, 2004
Christmas at Belle Grove Square in Westminster, Maryland; photograph
by George Welty December 24, 2004
[20041224 Welty Christmas at Belle Grove Square]
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