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Here is a box, a colorful box, wrapped up and ready to open. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today?

FRUIT CAKE!!!

First and foremost, I don't like fruitcake. I don't know anyone that does. They call this fruitcake, but what it is amazing. My parents make the annual pilgrimage to Southern Supreme in Bear Creek NC to pick these up, (45 miles south of Greensboro) and they brought us one today. It's a local family owned fruit cake business which now does mail-order and phone sales on their world famous Scott family recipe of fruit cakes... and they're insanely good.

The recommendation is the Southern Supreme which starts out around $7 for an 8 oz bar. The box warns the cake is "more nuts than fruit fruitcake", which is probably why everyone loves it.

Our old fashioned cake is made in our kitchen with the best of everything a proper fruitcake should have. And, plenty of it too; with rich English walnuts, fresh pecans, golden raisins, dates, pineapple and candied cherries. Each cake is hand decorated and beautifully packaged.

There's no way I can describe this stuff to you until you try it. Please, even if you don't like fruit cake; do not shy away from this one because I can tell you this isn't your crappy K-mart version that gets re-gifted 20 times without opening. This will be gone in seconds after you lay your tongue upon the cake's nuts.

Berta Scott the founder of Southern Supreme realized her dream of operating her business after she delivered fruitcakes to her customers at the beauty salon. "They always bragged on my cakes, so much so, that one day I told em I was gonna stop doing hair and start selling my fruitcake."

In 1984, that is exactly what she did. Soon they began taking the baked goods to craft fairs like the 'Holiday Market' at the Greensboro Coliseum. They then began selling the baked goods all over the world.

This is my new favorite mail order place for unique gifts!

Southern Supreme
1699 Hoyt Scott Rd
Bear Creek, NC 27207
336-581-3141
336-581-4149 Fax

Yep, been getting one for Christmas from a customer for years. None better. It's worth the trip for the store.

"Lay your tongue upon the cake's nuts?"

They're chewy!