American Profile Flinging Fruitcake
Flinging Fruitcake
What to Do with Leftover Fruitcake by Pam Grout December
13, 2011 Holiday desserts sail over Manitou Springs, Colo. http://americanprofile.com/articles/fruitcake-toss-manitou-springs-colorado/
Wearing military-style fatigues and an aviator cap, Jerry
Pokorny, 64, stuffs a frozen fruitcake into a long, slim tube attached to an
exercise bike. He checks printed satellite maps, twists the valve on a
10-gallon tank of compressed air and–kaboom!–the fruitcake sails across the high
school football field in Manitou Springs , Colo. (pop. 4,992), past the goalposts and into the
distance toward Pikes Peak .
Calling himself "a retired engineer with too much time
on his hands," Pokorny built his wacky "Fruitcake of Mass
Destruction" out of parts from a junkyard to join 75 contestants in the
2011 Manitou Springs Great Fruitcake Toss. The annual event celebrates the
world's most reviled and underappreciated holiday dessert by challenging
contestants to toss, hurl and fling fruitcakes through the air, occasionally
obliterating the sugary artillery in the process…http://americanprofile.com/articles/fruitcake-toss-manitou-springs-colorado/
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