By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo
As I continue to evolve into my father, with great anticipation, I bought a fruitcake today.
My ol’man would excitedly exclaim, “Man, cut that up! I LOVE fruitcake!” to no one in particular, because no one else would eat what I assumed was rotten dreck.
Well just now, I ate a quarter of this thing between taking the photo and writing this. Dad would be proud of my broadened holiday palette… but if I ever get a 
taste for that shrinkwrapped Hickory Farms sausage he also loved— please just put me out of my misery.
Fruitcake is plenty tasty. I think my distrust for it stemmed from its resemblance to another of one of my dad’s favorite processed meat products– olive loaf.