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Thieves Take the Cake
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.
Whatever, fruit cake is delicious. Just don't buy the cheap, sucky grocery store kind and you will be in for a treat or find a recipe and make some...
Is this why DHL is pulling out of the US? If they hire couriers who like fruitcake in Germany, what they must be like in the US!
Okay, seriously: What the hell is the point of idle if you're just going to post fluff in all the other sections anyway?
The cake is a lie.
you're saying that the cake is lie then?
German couriers like to have their cake and eat it too.
Hating poorly made mass market stuff sure; but that's not specific to fruitcake. Anything that's overproduced and sits for too long will be unpalatable.
Fruitcake is heavy and sweet, sure, but that's why it's a decadent holiday treat rather than an all-year item. I love a good fruitcake!
Can't help but think that this is a lie...
It wasn't fruitcake, it was Christstollen. And no, that's not the same, despite what Wikipedia falsely claims.
For what it's worth, the "classic" fruitcake is one from the Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, between Dallas and Houston. Selling points include:
* Hand-picked Golden sweet pineapple and lush papaya, from our farms in Costa Rica.
* Ripe, red cherries from Oregon and Washington State.
* Pure clover honey, plump golden raisins.
* Refrigerated, the DeLuxe stays moist and delicious for months.
Put it in the fridge, you'll get around to eating it... someday.
But the most important thing about a Collin Street Bakery fruitcake is the tin. You've seen it at your grandma's house -- the one with the cowboy on it. Anything else is just a bunch of dried-out fruit.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
If you read TFA, it was stollen, 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.
I actually had to RTFA because I could not figure out what on earth this is about. So, two couriers decide to steal a cake sent to a newspaper. To COVER the theft, they replaced it with a package intended to a bank, without even opening it. That package happened to contain microfilmed (?!) of transactions.
This must be a hoax, the sheer stupidity of "hiding" a CAKE theft with a second theft. Then banks sending around transactions and customer data in MICROFILMS????
Am I missing something, or is this just a hoax?
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What a sweet security breach story!
Aghh!
The cake is a lie!
Well, this should take care of the rest of the German's personal finances that did not get sold to the undercover journalists earlier this winter.
It must of been one hell of a good fruitcake, but I wonder if it was worth the risk for the mail person.
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Fruitcake missing! Non-film at 11. Review of mental hospital institutions at 11:30.
"I *knew* the cake was a lie!"
WTF ./
/. site for the past few years, and I consider it to be pretty cool (declining, but still cool). Does anyone know of any options to /. that are as cool (minus the idle garbage, of course)?
Honestly, are you trying to destroy your rep? How in the F*^% is this related to IT?
And it's not even the stupid articles on the front page (I never even got around to turning idle off), it's WHY... what are you TRYING (and failing) to accomplish? I know sourceforge has stated that they wanted to increase revenues, but they know this will just piss off the users and do nothing of the sort, right... right? I'm a geek, I want to know WHY. Will you answer me, or are you just looking to generate more disagree mail... if you're looking for disagree mail, at least that would have *some* form of logic behind it.
Management can't be that dumb - I mean, they did oversee the expansion of the
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They might be needing one soon.
I have never purchased a actual good fruit cake, I feel so let down by the baking profession every time. You really have to bake them yourself, if you can track down an actual good recipe or have one in your family.
Perhaps this is a translation issue and there was no fruitcake mailed. It is perhaps what the hacker that owned the couriers tracking system called himself.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Well, it may be a funny story at first sight, but don't forget that this stupid behavior by the bank (not the courier, banks shouldn't send critical information by normal courier) led to a serious data leak.
Thankfully, the cake was for the chief editor of a newspaper, so the credit card records didn't fall in the hands of someone who'd make a profit out of them.
Well, it's Christstollen.
It's not even difficult to make.
125gr of currants
100gr of candied lemon peel (cut)
100gr of candied orange peel (cut)
300gr of sultanas (maybe a bit more, but 300 is normally OK)
250gr of rough-cut almods
soak in rum for 1 or two days. Not too much rum, just so that the fruit can soak-up everything.
1.2kg of flour, 200gr of sugar, 4x40gr of yeast, 250ml warm (warm, not hot!) milk
take about one kilo or 900gr of the flour, put it in a large bowl and create a pit in the middle, put the yeast, some sugar (some!) and the warm milk together in that pit. Let this pre-dough rise for 30minutes.
Then, put between 250 and 500gr of molten (but no longer hot) butter (300 or 350gr is OK for normal purposes - it still tastes good, but have some mercy with your figure) + the rest of the sugar to the pre-dough and create a good, compact, non-sticky dough (put in more flour as you need - the more butter, the more flour you will need)
Let it rise again for 30 minutes.
Then, work the marinated stuff from above into it.
Let it rise again for 30minutes
Then, form two loafs, folding-over each in the middle, separate them by baking-paper and let them rise again for a couple of minutes.
Put in a pre-heated oven (200ÂC), for 15 minutes, then cut back to 175ÂC for 50 minutes. I found that ovens don't always do the temperature that is written on the turn-switch - you might want to control it via an oven-thermometer.
Before the 50 minutes are over, melt some more butter and coat the hot loaves with it, applying powder-sugar (a very thick layer) immediately afterwards (so that the sugar can still melt).
Should cool out, then be packed-up and left at a cool place for a couple of weeks.
But can also be eaten the next day already.
See, it's so easy, any kid with a free afternoon could do it. ;-)
Couriers are notoriously paid badly in Germany - but I didn't know that it was that bad ;-)
The translation-error is really in the word "fruit-cake" it's a Christstollen - and that's what this recipe is about ;-) ;-)
It really happened like this.
The Christstollen was not mailed by the bank, but by some other company. The parcel was just at the wrong place at the wrong time
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It's far superior to 'fruit cake'. I get thanked for giving it. I don't ever give fruit cake, it's an insult.
http://www.rejiquar.com/Food/stollen.html
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Police have learned that the couriers have in fact stolen *forty* cakes. According to experts, that's as many as four tens. "And that's terrible," said a spokesman for the German police.
ACH! Mine stollen ist stolen!!!
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Ich hÃtte nicht gedacht, dass sich diese News so schnell verbreitet. Inzwischen berichtet sogar Slashdot darüber. :)
Einfach nur peinlich, was sich die beiden Kuriere erlaubt haben. Man kann nur hoffen, dass jetzt nicht wieder die Vorurteile gegenüber den Deutschen herausgeholt werden. :(
So schnell ruiniert man sich das Image als aufstrebende Wirtschaftsnation im internationalen Wettbewerb.
Yep, I totally agree with you on the one hand but on the other hand it is still a funny story everybody should have heard about. So Slashdot is just spreading the word. There's nothing wrong with it. Or how in German we'd say: "Gute Wort ohne Gunst ist ein Stück von Judas' Kunst." Or what in this context also fits perfectly: "Dem Beklagten gebührt das letzte Wort."
I hope the couriers have learned from this incident and will prevent that anything similar will not happen in the future - and it does not matter whether it is a bottle of cookies and not a fruitcake (I have heard that it was a Christstollen, though) like in this case. Remember, stealing is a crime. You wouldn't download movies from Torrent illegally and violate the law by being a highly criminal pirate.
You mean it WOULD be easy to make, except if your continent almost totally lacks currants! Seriously, currants were grown in N. America but most bushes were destroyed because of some beattle that primarily preyed on ornamental trees, but this blasted bug also could live on the currant bushes.
You could always substitute raisins – or just leave them out. I don't like currants (or raisins for that matter).
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