Should we tell them about our forum? Nah!

DETROIT (AP) -- Jay Leno was warned he may need a doctor, but went through with eating a 125-year-old fruitcake anyway.

"Is it crystalized," Leno said before eating a small bite pried from the cake with a pocketknife.

"It needs more time," he said after a deliberate chew.

Morgan Ford, 83, of Tecumseh, was Leno's guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." He brought his great-grandmother Fidelia Bates' fruitcake to Burbank, Calif., to share a piece with Leno for Tuesday's night's show.

Ford is the caretaker of the fruitcake, which has been handed down through generations.

Ford's daughter, Julie Ruttinger, of Tecumseh, e-mailed "The Tonight Show" recently about her family's antique fruitcake after seeing "The Fruitcake Lady" on the show. She wanted to tell them "we've got the real fruitcake."

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Too funny!!!

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), December 24, 2003

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I heard about this on the radio as I was driving to appointments the other day. I had the same response - should I tell them about our forum? Nah :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), December 25, 2003.