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摘要：
美国一名男子近日在他母亲的阁楼上找到一块40多年前的水果蛋糕，这块“古老”的蛋糕是年轻时亲戚寄给他的，没想到它现在依然完好无损地“躺”在包装盒中。
Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake — he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother‘s attic. Nesta couldn‘t resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
美国一名男子近日在他母亲的阁楼上找到一块40多年前的水果蛋糕，这块“古老”的蛋糕是年轻时亲戚寄给他的，没想到它现在依然完好无损地“躺”在包装盒中。
Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake — he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother‘s attic. Nesta couldn‘t resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
据美联社4月19日报道，家住威斯康星州瓦克萨的兰斯·内斯塔回忆说，这个水果蛋糕是他的两位姨妈在1962年寄给他的，当时他正参军驻扎在阿拉斯加。内斯塔说：“我还记得我打开蛋糕盒，不知道该怎么办，真的不想吃，也不愿和战友们分享这个东西。”他便将蛋糕和其他物品一起打包寄回了老家瓦克萨。没想到的是，40多年后又在母亲的阁楼上看到这盒蛋糕，“我太吃惊了，它根本没有任何变化”。
"I was amazed that it hadn‘t changed at all," he said.
Nesta‘s two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army.
"I opened it up and didn‘t know what to do with it," Nesta said. "I sure wasn‘t going to eat it, and I liked my fellow soldiers too much to share it with them."
As best he can remember, he packed the cake with the rest of his belongings and shipped it home to Waukesha when he left the military a few years later. He recently rediscovered the boxed fruitcake in the attic of his mother‘s home in Waukesha.
内斯塔说，母亲当时就“知道我讨厌这种东西，但是她说她没有心情告诉我姨妈，既然她们已经寄了这个蛋糕”。蛋糕盒是棕色的包装纸，用来包蛋糕的蓝色锡纸上写着“老式水果蛋糕”。内斯塔说：“现在它可真的老了。”内斯塔发现，这个蛋糕的原料中有郎姆酒和白兰地，“如果早知道蛋糕里有这些东西，我当时可能就会吃了”。
His mom had given him advance warning of the fruitcake back in 1962. "She knew I hated the damn things, but she said she didn‘t have the heart to tell my aunts, who had already mailed it," he said.
The cake arrived wrapped in brown paper with a red "fragile, handle with care" sticker on it. The cake itself was contained in a round blue tin printed with the words "Old Fashioned Fruitcake."
"Now it‘s just old," Nesta said.
While looking at the cake‘s container this week, he noticed the listed ingredients included rum and brandy.
"If I had known back then that it had rum and brandy in it, I would have eaten it," he said.
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