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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 08:06:11 JST Evan Prodromou

   So, I have a half-remembered story in my mind. It's about a family in the American West, maybe late 1800s or early 1900s, that has a pot of gingerbread marinating in their home. In this story, it's an older kind of gingerbread, more like a soft soaked cake, that ages in alcohol for weeks and weeks before Christmas.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 08:07:08 JST Evan Prodromou

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     In the story, a person in the family gets up in the middle of the night to sneak a taste of the treat, then goes back to bed. But they're still craving the food, so they get up and have another taste again, and again. I can't remember what the consequences are -- maybe they get drunk, or maybe they get busted in the morning because the food is all gone.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 08:09:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I can't find any trace of this story by searching; I feel like it was in "The Great Brain", but searches aren't coming up well. Nor can I find a record of this kind of gingerbread. The description sounds more like a Christmas pudding than any kind of gingerbread I can find, which is usually either the hard cookie or a softer spicy cake.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 08:11:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     So, here's my question: does either this story or the food that plays a central role ring a bell? Or are you more successful than I in finding it through Google, Wikipedia, LLM or other means?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 11:18:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Darius Kazemi
     • Benjamin Fry

     @darius @bluejekyll there's a story in the Great Brain about fruitcake, but it's about Tom trading his mom's fruitcake to schoolmates for favours.

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 11:18:45 JST Darius Kazemi

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     • Benjamin Fry

     @bluejekyll @evan I also vaguely remember the story but I remember it as fruit cake

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     Benjamin Fry (bluejekyll@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 11:18:46 JST Benjamin Fry

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     @evan sounds like fruit cake, my aunt ages it for 1-2 years. Personally, I’d never sneak a taste, I’ve always tried to avoid tasting it in fact.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 12:00:50 JST Evan Prodromou

     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire this is like when a game show contestant buzzes in really fast but then doesn't have an answer ready