Thieves Take the Cake 91
Two very hungry German couriers ate a fruit cake destined for a German newspaper and in its place mailed a box of credit card data. The data including names, addresses and card transactions ended up at the Frankfurter Rundschau daily. The mix-up triggered an alarm, and police advised credit card customers with Landesbank Berlin to check their accounts for inconsistencies. Fruitcake must be different in Germany for people to want to use it as something other than a paperweight.
Stollen! (Score:5, Informative)
It wasn't fruitcake, it was Christstollen. And no, that's not the same, despite what Wikipedia falsely claims.
This wasn't fruit cake. (Score:5, Informative)
If you read TFA, it was stollen [google.com], a whole different thing. And while stollen may have its own problems (it's something like five hundred calories fora small slice) it's damn tasty.
Re:Whatever. (Score:3, Informative)
The stuff that passes for 'fruitcake' in the US/Canada is just sad, half the replies to this story are just stating how sucky that artificial insubstantial crap is.
This stuff was the ultimate fruit cake, German Stollen:
Stollen > British Fruitcake > North American Fruitcake