Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for December 20, 2013

My dad had a word for people like Adam…Garbagegut

necco wafers…want…some…NOW!

Yeah…what’s wrong with Necco wafers? I could put away a sleeve or two myself.

Nothing up my sleeve…

I make a fruitcake, but not with those disgusting red and green candied whatever-they-are. I use a pound of honey-dried pineapple and a pound of Australian-honey-dipped apricots, which I soak for a few weeks in a mixture of rum, brandy, and bourbon. Then I mix together honey, butter, flour, a dozen eggs, leavening, and a little cinnamon, add a pound of dates, the booze-soaked fruit, and a couple pounds of walnuts, and bake it. (It makes 10 5-inch loaves) Then I pour a quarter-cup of the drained alcohol blend over each loaf, seal it up tight in plastic and let it mellow for a few weeks. Yummy! (However, I do have to caution people that it is only to be eaten by those over 21!)

I did back then and I still now love NECCO Wafers especially the chocolate ones [but I hated the licorice ones, couldn’t get me to eat them on a dare].

I really like reading about how bad fruit-cake is. I’d be willing to bet that at least 70% of these haters have never even tasted one. Still if you have one that is at least a year old please send it to me, I really love them and besides they’re $10 for one at the WalMart*.

Hold on now, Necco Wafers are a real treat. I wouldn’t call them food, or consuming them as eating, but they’re still a treat.

My dad used to buy Necco Wafers for us; I thought they were called “Nickel Wafers”.

A few years ago I tried a made-in-the-USA fruitcake and it was pretty nasty. The rest of the world makes really nice cake but NOT the USA…

“I’m not gonna try it—you try it!”“Let’s get Daddy Newman!”“He likes it! Hey, Daddy Newman!”

I love both fruitcake and Necco Wafers!

(I was once driving around somewhere in the Boston area and noticed an old building with the words “New England Confectionary Company”. Cosmic understanding came to me! Or was it comic understanding? Whatev.)

Frankie gonna get eaten! Eaten real good.

This is oddly sweet, somehow.

okay he wants to be eaten? fruitcake.

fruitcake from Claxton bakery in GA is great. so are nickel wafers.

Never had fruit cake, but I do like Necco Wafers. They were my grandmother’s favorite candy.