Georgia Fruitcake Pantoum

I’ve never been much of a shopper. I have friends who live to shop.

Not me.

I’d rather be doing pretty much anything else. I think new coworkers figure it out quickly - I can see their wheels turning as they look in my direction and wonder whether I’ve got day-of-the-week outfits hanging on a rotation schedule in my closet. 

My lackluster shopping habits garner thankful praise from my sweet husband about his “low-maintenance, inexpensive wife” and her simple ways. Until it concerns his food. And we were out of yogurt. 

For Christmas, Dad brought a bag of fruitcake cookies and a Georgia fruitcake for all of us to enjoy. My soul was warmed into holiday spirit when I imagined Aunt Sook of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory announcing: “Oh my…it’s fruitcake weather!” as her breath smoked the windowpane in the cold kitchen. I wondered if, true to the story, she had ever really sent one of Haha’s whiskey-laden fruitcakes to President Roosevelt, whose Little White House in Warm Springs Dad and I had just visited two days before Christmas. I sliced away, setting out the colorful candied-fruit and nut pieces on a plate. 

Trouble is, most folks don’t like fruitcake. You have to have true Southern roots and some serious value upbringing to ever acquire a taste for it. That’s why I was so proud that my Oklahoma-born/Georgia-raised husband took a quick liking to fruitcake and savored some of the brick. Even still, we had a lot left over. His affinity for it came in real handy in the absence of more suitable groceries. 

With gratitude to Felix, today’s Pantoum celebrates our nut-blended Georgia roots! 

Go Dawgs! 

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Georgia Fruitcake Pantoum 

I hadn’t bought groceries

we’d run slap out of yogurt ~

Georgia fruitcake…for breakfast?!?

Dad’s voice: COFFEE TIME  -SANTA

We’d run slap out of yogurt ~

fruit on the bottom vs. fruit throughout

Dad’s voice: COFFEE TIME  -SANTA

Ga. Fruitcake : our nut-blended roots 

fruit on the bottom vs. fruit throughout

only 107.5 calories per ounce! 

Ga. Fruitcake : our nut-blended roots

Santa’s January answer

only 107.5 calories per ounce! 

Georgia fruitcake - for breakfast?!?

Santa’s January answer

I hadn’t bought groceries