The magnificent history of the maligned and
2021-12-17u2002·u2002Given fruitcake's long shelf life and dense texture, it was a natural for a mail-order food business. America's two most famous fruitcake companies, Claxton's of Claxton, Georgia, and Collin Street of Corsicana, Texas, got their start in this heyday of mail-order food. By the early 1900s, U.S. mailrooms were full of the now ubiquitous fruitcake tins.
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